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America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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Chicken Mary's is the only place I've ever been offered fried chicken with a side of spaghetti. It's good, too.

Jollibee's also has fried chicken with spaghetti! It's a Filipino thing and it's super good. Not sure where they have locations other than California, though.

It's pretty big in Seattle, too. As another commenter said, the sugar in the pasta sauce is gross though, and entirely an Asian thing.

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I don't know if it is any good by discerning fried-chicken standards, but I would be amiss not to put in a plug for the American fried-chicken destination of my youth: Frankenmuth, MI (AKA Michigan's little Bavaria): https://www.frankenmuth.org/dining/world-famous-chicken/

The blandest chicken you can get. It's such a soulless midwestern plain Jane place to eat (Zehnder's)

I believe you, and I would probably agree if had it again today, but nostalgia has its own flavor, ya know?

These days I guess they'd at least give you Tabasco or Sriracha on the side?

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I moved to SF last year from SC and it has been a royal pain to find a good fried chicken joint. Friends, if you find yourselves in the southeast do your best to get into a Bojangles. Any suggestions for a good chicken joint in the Bay Area?

I did not had a chance to try it myself before quarantine started, but a couple friends of mine independently raved about Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen in Berkeley.

Re: America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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I moved to SF last year from SC and it has been a royal pain to find a good fried chicken joint. Friends, if you find yourselves in the southeast do your best to get into a Bojangles. Any suggestions for a good chicken joint in the Bay Area?

Strongly depends on your taste, so here's some very different styles:

miss ollie's (oakland) minnie bell's (emeryville) 900 grayson (berkeley) lois the pie queen (oakland) hopscotch (oakland)

If you just can't leave SF, try Town Hall.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jollibee's also has fried chicken with spaghetti! It's a Filipino thing and it's super good. Not sure where they have locations other than California, though.

interesting. in the south we have "chicken'n waffles", it's waffles and syrup served with fried chicken. weird, I know, but it is a very tasty combination.

Chicken and waffles is probably my favorite thing to introduce to someone. They can’t believe it’s a thing before they try it, and after they wonder where it’s been all their life.

Re: America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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I moved to SF last year from SC and it has been a royal pain to find a good fried chicken joint. Friends, if you find yourselves in the southeast do your best to get into a Bojangles. Any suggestions for a good chicken joint in the Bay Area?

Hard Knox is pretty great

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> To keep her family from starving, Annie began selling ham and veal sandwiches for a few pennies to miners passing the front of her house. It seems like an editor at the BBC missed something here. This should have probably read "To keep her family from destitution" - if they had ham and veal to sell, they presumably had it to eat themselves.

I don’t think she had a big supply of ham and veal. She used the profit to feed the family. Is that not obvious?

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For those in the SE US, I recommend trying Publix fried chicken, if you haven't already. I get a whole fried chicken for less than $10, and it's better than anything I've had in a restaurant. The trick is to call an hour ahead, and have them make it fresh for you. That's half a fried chicken, plus another half as fixin's!

grocery store fried chicken can be amazing. A local store in my old neighborhood ( SW Dallas ) would cook a fresh batch on Saturday afternoons. so good and very affordable.

Safeway has some of the best chicken tenders.

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Chicken Mary's is the only place I've ever been offered fried chicken with a side of spaghetti. It's good, too.

Jollibee's also has fried chicken with spaghetti! It's a Filipino thing and it's super good. Not sure where they have locations other than California, though.

Jollibee is expanding in the US anyplace that has a large Filipino population, especially NYC and northern NJ (you already mentioned CA). In the Philippines, spaghetti is more sweet than savory, and often has sliced up hot dogs in the sauce—it is what it is, but I've always preferred the savory Italian-American style with lots of tomatoes, sausage, mushrooms, and peppers in the sauce. Culturally, Filipino spaghetti is more associated with kid's birthday parties (there are a lot of these) than grown up food, but adults love it because of nostalgia.
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