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America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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Post by samstave »

jeffbee wrote: post #34
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?

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.

+1 for 900 grayson (esp - their version of chicken and waffles)

Giant Chef in concord too.

Re: America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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Post by danans »

miscPerson wrote: post #30
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.

It could be a sustainability thing: If you butcher an animal, you have X lbs of meat now. Maybe you don’t need all of that immediately just to survive. If you only need Y This converts a onetime benefit (killing an animal you have now) into a sustainable way to provide for yourself.

That explanation makes sense, but the author's phrasing still seems clumsy to me.

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Post by Yhippa »

chirau wrote: post #20
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?

Bojangles is the truth. These days whenever I find myself back in Durham once a year, I always stop by CookOut for their tray and Bojangles for chicken and the biscuits and the gravy. Legend has it they put crack in that chicken that's why it's so good.

Biscuitville. Why won't they expand?

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Post by bergeyboy »

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?

San Tung in SF has some incredible chinese fried chicken

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Post by anxman »

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?

I know this is kind of heresy but there isn’t good fried chicken in the Bay Area and I’ve traveled the country in search of fried chicken. I can’t tell you how many times people have said “omigod you have to try so and sos” only to be disappointed over and over.

The best I’ve found in the US is Howlin Rays in LA (obviously) followed by Ms T in Chicago followed by the Gus’s chain.

In the Bay Area, KFC is still the most reliable.

Re: America’s ‘Fried Chicken War’

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Post by selimthegrim »

curiousllama wrote: post #12
koenigdavidmj wrote: post #3

Another Kansas chicken place worth mentioning is the Brookville Hotel. It’s two lies for the price of one—no longer in Brookville (now in Abilene) and no longer a hotel (but they have some old rooms preserved as a museum). But it serves half a fried chicken per person, plus all the fixings (creamed corn, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, and more), at a sit-down white tablecloth establishment, for under 20 per plate.

You want to talk value... Harolds fried chicken in the south side of Chicago has half a fried chicken, a bed of fries, two slices of wonderbread and a shot of coleslaw all smothered in mild sauce for less than 5 dollars. I'm sure some pedant is about to come out with "oh really, the cole slaw is smothered in mild sauce?" Yes. Nothing in that bag avoids the sweet tang of mild sauce shoved through bulletproof glass. It…

It inspired an entire Freddie Gibbs song (after the one in Gary) although from what I hear the farther west you go the better. I’m certainly not going all the way out to Hoffman Estates though, chicken be damned

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Post by tjchear »

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?

Popeyes is a good one. They've got Tuesday's Leg and Thigh for a very cheap price.

I personally like their Chicken Sandwich and 2 Can Dine deal.

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Post by gregw134 »

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?

There are some good Korean fried chicken places in Sunnyvale. It's a bit lighter than normal fried chicken, still just as delicious.

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Post by em10fan »

stronglikedan wrote: post #18

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!

I had it in Atlanta and it was great.
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