Snopes Beclowns Itself

I've never been impressed by Snopes; they seem to cherry pick what needs to be investigoogled and what doesn't deserve scrutiny.

In this article, they examine the claim that Colonel Sanders of KFC fame stole his recipe from a black woman named Miss Childress, who is shown in a picture.

Now, despite the fact that Snopes managed to track down the picture (which appears to have been painted for a 1921 advertisement), and despite the fact that they cannot find any mention of Miss Childress or the notion the Colonel Sanders stole his recipe from a black woman, they rule the claim "unproven" although in the subhead that accompanies the article they say "alludes to a deeper truth."

What is that deeper truth, you ask?

Other black women have had their recipes stolen by whites:

Quote:

However, Williams-Forson emphasized that a history does exist of white entrepreneurs and chefs taking recipes from African American women and men, without giving them proper credit. She pointed to the example of Idella Parker, who was a long-time maid to the white cookbook author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and later an author in her own right.

Basically, although there is zero evidence for it in this case and lots of evidence the other way (which Snopes does cite), gosh it's unproven and if you don't read past the headline you'd think there was some truth to the claim instead of just "truth."

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2I8fv5W