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Friday, October 16, 2009

Daily Diversion / Spurgeon Delicious Fried Chicken Taking Over World

Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:38 AM

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Looks like Nashville (and the South in general) is the genesis of a bona fide trend! Fried chicken is apparently all the rage in the civilized world (NYC) and has been extensively discussed by the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. Granted, they citify the hell out of it: One restaurant has the gall to charge $100 (no, seriously) for basically the same meal your poor dirt-farmer grandma somehow managed to fry up every week in spite of not owning a pair of shoes. Another place has dared to bread the chicken with matzo! Oy. Of course, the new fried chicken fans probably try to match it with a nice white wine instead of beer or Coke, or pretend they only like the world's most perfect food if it's Korean fusion. But let them have their fun. I fully support this reverse imperialism. When the South exports a cultural touchstone, it tends to be something awesome like good food or Dolly Parton. What do the supposed sophisticates send down here? Cuddle Parties. Horrifying, nightmare-inducing Cuddle Parties. Eat up, fatties!

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Speak for your own poor dirt-farmer grandma. Mine owned shoes.

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Posted by Billy Joe on 10/16/2009 at 11:58 AM

Kramer and I got hooked on Kenny Rogers fried chicken in NYC a decade ago. The man makes a strong bird.

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Posted by Newman on 10/16/2009 at 12:02 PM

Half that hunnert dollah chikin is covered in seafood seasoning. The other half in Korean hot sauce. Them damnyankees is truly crazy.

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Posted by Emmett Flatus on 10/16/2009 at 1:06 PM

Hey now, what's wrong with coating it in matzo? Granted, I don't know why anyone would want to do that except for one week out of the year, and can't imagine it would taste very good without a ton of salt.

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Posted by GoldnI on 10/16/2009 at 1:58 PM

This is when I miss all of the great hot chicken places we used to have around town; now I think there are just two left. I think my favorite was Mr Boo's. That would certainly set some fancy-pants New York restaurant critics lips on fire!

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Posted by Southern Beale on 10/16/2009 at 5:08 PM

I love how LA residents think "Rosco's Chicken and Waffles" is the epitome of Southern Fried Chicken. It's only average and can't touch Sweatt's, any meat-and-three in town, my Mom's, all of my aunts or Mine. Yet everytime I'm out there, all of my friends insist on taking me to Rosco's. I kinda feel sorry for them being so chicken deprived and not even knowing it.

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Posted by Brice on 10/16/2009 at 5:24 PM
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