What Were the D.U. "fried Chicken Wars"?

[unionworks]

I've heard them mentioned, but I'm still not sure.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. Ooh, sounds fascinating, I'd like to know this, too.

Was it some KFC vs. Popeye's vs. El Pollo Loco thing?

[FarLeftFist]

47. How many casualties were there?

[unionworks]

54. it looks like

... about 22.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Something to do with a recipe for fried chicken that called for 'corn flakes"... I think?

But don't know about details.

[EOTE]

6. ^^ This.

To use cornflakes as a fried chicken batter or not, I believe this war was about.

We lost many a good DUer during those fateful few days.

[EC]

11. I still prefer potato

chips as coating.

[EOTE]

15. If it's savory, crispy and covers hot and juicy chicken...

then it's all good in my book.

[Aerows]

38. Sorry, no

Buttermilk and flour. Only way to go.

[Zalatix]

37. We had a war over some BS like that? Seriously?

Society really has become an idiocracy...

[Aerows]

39. Chicken is serious business

It truly is.

[EOTE]

57. I think the "war" was mostly tongue in cheek.

I'm sure there were a few people whose britches were twisted over the scuffle, but I think most made a joke out of it.

[XanaDUer]

3. I've been here ten years

And I don't remember that particular war.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

34. Me too, and I don't remember it either

I guess we really can argue about any subject under the sun here.

[KamaAina]

43. It took place in The DU Lounge

you're welcome to stop by any time. Just don't mention cornflakes, pit bulls, Olive Garden, or Laura Branigan.

[Autumn]

45. Please don't mention breast feeding at the Olive garden

whatever you do, don't go there.

[XanaDUer]

48. Geez I need to hang out there more

I'm missing tons of fun

[SoCalDem]

49. or receipt-checking at Bestbuy

or was it target or maybe Costco..

[nadine_mn]

52. Costco nt

Lol

[taterguy]

53. It was Circuit City

Imbecile

[Greybnk48]

56. I need to go to the Lounge more often.

How the heck did I miss this???

[Hugabear]

4. If there's ever another, I'll gladly volunteer as a judge

I me some fried chicken...just wish it wasn't so damned bad for me.

[abbeyco]

5. I thought they had something to do with Corn Flakes

used in the baking of chicken to provide a crunchy crust. But I could be wrong....then again, it could be something all tangled up in smoking while breastfeeding at Olive Garden - one big recurring nightmare of a theme.

[closeupready]

27. And circumcising the boy - at the same time.

[abbeyco]

44. I'd forgotten about that part -

damn, the whole thing is rushing back to me now!

[Cal Carpenter]

7. I once googled it

after hearing about it. It was a Lounge thing. If you site-google fried chicken corn flakes it will probably come up on old DU2 links.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Hmmmmmmm

But what about "google fried chicken corn flakes"?

Are they any good?

[notadmblnd]

9. It was a long long time ago

Seems one group of DU chickens always cried "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". Then another group of chickens said. "we're tired of all your gloom and dooming around here, could you please stop over reacting"? Well the sky is falling chickens didn't like that- so they went to tell Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders didn't really care, but he decided to give them a bucket full of dark meat. He really didn't think that giving a bucket of chicken to a bunch of chickens would offend them, but it did. Body parts with 11 secret herbs and spices where lobbed all over the place and the empty bucket was used to catch the falling sky. There were survivors on both sides. You can still hear them late at night sometimes, still crying "the sky is falling, the sky is falling.....".

Got it?

[Swede]

10. Here is Skinner regarding the great chicken wars of '05.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3499154

[rug]

13. From that post came the germ of DU3 and juries.

[Lost-in-FL]

17. Wow! Can't believe the # of DUers that were given a pizza!!

Damn!!

[unionworks]

18. Thanks for that!

The comments are pure comedy gold!

[Lost-in-FL]

22. 'We can't post about Turkey? But it's a lovely country(except for what they're doing to the Kurds."

BAWHAHAHA,!!

[Suich]

26. Wow! There's a LOT of pizza in that thread!

I counted 22.

[flamingdem]

46. Mass hysteria?

I'm sorry I miss that one, braaak

[stevenleser]

59. Would love to hear Skinner opine on the whole thing now that it is many years later, but I can

understand why he might not want to do so. It's funny to us but in his position I can see that looking back it might not seem so. It's one thing to have to try to steer DU through a difficult but intellectually understandable time with something like the primaries. The frustration has to be 100 times worse if DUers are trying to verbally rip each other apart over chicken recipies.

[pinboy3niner]

12. LINK:

How Many Ways Can You Fry Chicken?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x961628

[unionworks]

24. freaking hilarious!

Dammit, I'm dying for fried chicken now!

[pinboy3niner]

29. Got CORN FLAKES?

[Lost-in-FL]

32. What a trainwreck!

First time I have ever read it. Things went down quickly.

[unionworks]

14. I do remember reading

That fried chicken threads were banned on D.U.2 - but this thread isn't the same thing. It is an archaeological expedition....

[11 Bravo]

16. It had something to do with corn flakes, breast feeding, Olive Garden and circumcised chicken ...

if I remember correctly.

on edit: It was a bloodbath!

[dipsydoodle]

19. A load of fowl posts I think

Was eventually replaced by a Forum on DU3.

[Texasgal]

20. It wasn't about chicken. Or cooking methods

It was about two groups of people being mean to each other. It was never "really" about chicken.

[unionworks]

35. agree

It started as a North vs. South thing.. I Am from Pa. But once stayed in Northern Va. near Manassus. I found Southerners to be mannerly and gracious.

[Arctic Dave]

21. You initiated the Fried Chicken War PTSD in me.

Time to go fortify my bunker.

[Liberal Veteran]

23. I think this video describes it well.

[trof]

25. I remember those. Hilarious.

The Corn Flaker Contingent vs The Flourers vs The Ritz Crackerers vs The Potato Chippers vs The Corn Mealers vs the Other Weird Stuff to Bread Fried Chicken Withers, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

This may or may not have devolved into The Great Olive Garden War and the Breast Feeding Skirmishes.
Everyone chose up sides, and there were some mighty fine brawls.

[freshwest]

28. Looks like that's been answered, but I thought Bartcop's recipe was involved, too.

[unionworks]

33. I think it was.

I saw it mentioned in the Skinner thread.

[freshwest]

40. It's not a bad one, either.

[unionworks]

30. Clucking NUTS!

JUst read the thread that started it - it was like the Hatfields and McCoys over fried. Chicken!

[Aerows]

31. I don't know what they are

But it sounds delicious to me. Pizza wars, fried chicken wars, taco wars, those are the kind of wars I can really get into I'm a warmonger when it comes to delicious food.

And that yankee shit of corn flakes sounds awful. I love chicken but that sounds terrible to me. Buttermilk and flour is the way to go.

[unionworks]

36. Now, in these more civilized times....

Dammit! Gotta run to the store for some Tysons! I'm SERIES!

[mike_c]

41. ya'll are all a bunch of pantywaists....

Real men and women argue about the one true barbeque!

[unionworks]

42. It's all good!

Back in the 60's my 2nd generation Italian Mom made a fried chicken much like classic southern, egg & flour mixed with spices, but the spices were a little different - you could taste the garlic and paprika elements. I never saw anyone refuse seconds. bbq is an art form unto itself. I prefer mine wet as opposed to dry rub.

[Canuckistanian]

50. You had to ask....

[guitar man]

51. Shhh!!!

It never officially ended it's just at a cease fire!

Let The Great Chicken War be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of DU. Let The Great Chicken War be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time.

[CBGLuthier]

55. Barely remember, but I do remember when Woody Allen asked out a Fat Actress

[unionworks]

58. We Must Remember the Chicken Wars!

The accounts of fallen D.U.ers still roam the fields among the countlesss chicken bones, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Gennesee cans, waiting for the day when our remembering will make them rise to the sky on wings of tabasco and garlic butter!