"We had people who used to come in just for the flan. I have to tell them, 'Caballero, this is a Kentucky Fried Chicken, not a bakery.'"
Dan Yagoda was proud to own the only Kentucky Fried Chicken in the world to bake its own flan. That it was in Hialeah was a specific source of pride — a reflection of the Cuban community that embraced the city in the 1960s, when Cubans fled the revolution and made this blue-collar town their home.
More than 45 years ago, an immigrant cook, a former chef in Havana, adapted the original 16-quart pressure cookers used to make the Colonel’s secret recipe chicken to bake a perfect flan with a secret recipe all its own.
Even after KFC stopped using those pots, this KFC at 811 W. 49th St. got special dispensation from its corporate office to keep making a flan silky and luscious enough to make any home cook jealous. Customers came with their own containers from as far as Key West and Tampa to buy entire flans around the holidays.
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