America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

Post by sevencolors » Tue, May 12, 2020, 11:45 AM UTC

askafriend wrote: post #11

adaisadais wrote: post #10

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?

Get the fried chicken sandwich from RT Rotisserie (they do deliver) - it's the fast-casual arm of the acclaimed Rich Table restaurant. All of the food at RT Rotisserie is incredible (their menu isn't large), but the fried chicken sandwich is especially notable (along with the lamb pita sandwich).

Post by westwooded » Tue, May 12, 2020, 12:24 PM UTC

Post by listentojohan » Tue, May 12, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

II-V-I wrote: post #54

I'd love to choose a side. Sadly, I'm living in Copenhagen after living in the U.S. for many years and there's no fried chicken war and barely any fried chicken. I recently found one joint where you can get a decent fried chicken sandwich, though that's about as far as it goes. It's such a shame because the chicken you can buy here is, to my taste, of much higher quality compared to that in the U.S. The tenderness is…

Post by bluntfang » Tue, May 12, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

westwooded wrote: post #63

Love that they use lard vs. the unhealthy vegetable seed oils that all places use nowadays. Just like how McDonald's used to use beef tallow. Best fried chicken has to be Korean fried chicken at this point. Double frying it gives the inside the tenderness temperature while the outside is perfectly crispy.

Post by rsynnott » Tue, May 12, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

danans wrote: post #13

> 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.