Fried chicken poll

[Incitatus]

Poll question: Fried chicken poll

:-)

[TK421]

1. I don't get to eat it very often, but when I do, I prefer Popeyes

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. The politically incorrect answer - Chick Fil A

I also like Popeyes.

[Luciferous]

3. Other- my own

:)

I haven't made fried chicken in a long time because I'm trying to lose weight, but I can make some damn good fried chicken...

[SCantiGOP]

32. didn't think of that answer

although it certainly wouldn't be mine, but my dear old Mom who cooked many a iron skillet of fried chicken in the 83 years I had her.

[Luciferous]

36. Using an iron skillet is the best way to make fried chicken

:9

[pacalo]

39. What's your recipe?

[GoneOffShore]

4. Other - My friend, Peggy's

Free range, buttermilk soaked, seasoned flour.

[jmowreader]

5. Oh God...bad war story follows...

When I was in truck driver training my trainer was a guy from New Orleans. One fine day he wanted to talk about how wonderful Al Copeland was, and he was shocked beyond belief I didn't know who Al Copeland was.

Al Copeland, in case you are as clueless as I was, started Popeye's Chicken.

Now let me ask you something: I was born and raised in Idaho. I spent two months in New Jersey, six months in Massachusetts, two years after that in Tennessee, a year in Korea, six months in central Texas, eight more months in western Texas, six years in Germany, two in upstate New York, and sixteen years in North Carolina. How, exactly, would I know who the fuck Al Copeland was?

[MrScorpio]

6. Hey, you...

I, myself, was born and raised in Detroit, spent two months in Texas, two more months in Biloxi, MS, then back to Texas again for two more years, then off to Korea for 21 months, back in the States for seven and half years in DC and Northern Virginia, four years in Germany, nine years in Southeast Virginia and right now I'm back home in Southeast Michigan....

I don't know who the fuck is Al Copeland either.

I've seen a World Cup, a state fair and jet fuel explosion, and that don't beat all.

[jmowreader]

21. On the other hand...

you weren't dealing with a guy who seemed to take it as a personal insult that you don't know who Al Copeland is.

And that's the weird thing: We had a Popeye's Chicken stand in Fayettenam. I ate there. Once. It's shitty chicken, at least at that one store. Even if I KNEW who Al Copeland was, it wouldn't change the fact his chicken sucked.

[amerikat]

7. I think Al was Aaron Copland's brother. He wrote that beef song

and their brother Arnold invented pulled pork.

[21st Century FDR]

13. No, he was Stewart Copeland's dad

Actually, that would be a much better story than who Stewart's dad really was. (One of the old guard at the CIA and a good friend of the Bush Crime Family :( )

[amerikat]

17. Great, now the police are involved?

WTF.

[21st Century FDR]

20. Yeah, but ...

Sting's pulling together a benefit concert to free the chickens.

[ohiosmith]

8. Colonel Sanders.

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[Rhythm]

9. Bojangles!!!

...if i can get it. Popeye's a close second.

[kick-ass-bob]

24. Seconded.

WITH A SWEET TEA DAMMIT!!! :D

[Renew Deal]

10. I'll take good KFC Original Recipe ahead of almost any meal.

Chicken or otherwise.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. Grandma's

was the best.

[hobbit709]

12. In order of preference

Popeye's
KFC
Golden
Terry's Seafood here in Austin.

[emilyg]

14. Popeyes. The best

fried chicken I ever had was at the Holiday Inn at Calloway Gardens.

[GReedDiamond]

15. Other: Los Angeles area: Bill's Chicken in Altadena...

...Google Bill's Chicken, Altadena, they do not seem to have an "official" web site.

For decades, they were located in various locations around the Lake Ave & Washington Blvd area of northwest Pasadena.

They do the best fried chicken but they're soul food too!

Also, Dinah's in Glendale.

A long time ago, there was Green's Soul Food in Hollywood, they were really great.

Edited for clarity.

[Blue-Jay]

16. Meat is murder!

But Popeye's is the yummiest murderer of yummy yummy stupid chickens.

[Bladian]

18. I voted Popeye's, but.

I must say, the Double Down at KFC, utterly disgusting as it might look, sound, and be, is SOOOOO good. I know I'm slowly killing myself when I eat it, but I can't help it. Because I love it so.

[csziggy]

19. Five Points Fried Chicken

But it's been closed for thirty five years. It was a little locally owned restaurant in the south part of Tallahassee that used to have all you could eat fried chicken once a week. That was the best fried chicken I ever got anywhere other than my mother's. Mom's fried chicken was good, but it was a completely different style of fried chicken - pan fried rather than deep fat fried.

It was so good that there was not a KFC in this town until Five Points closed.

[HopeHoops]

22. Other: gross

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Other-- local guys. Once was a woman out here who...

opened a fried fried fish and chicken joint on the bay next to the bar she owned.

Tiny hole in the wall with some tables outside and only open in the summer but had absolutely the best fried chicken and fish&chips you ever had. Cole slaw, potato salad... all the sides were fantastic, too.

Alas, one day she realized she had enough money and how much work it was to run the place, so she closed it down. A dark day that was.

Ain't no Bojangles up here any more, and the remaining little guys aren't so hot, so it's KFC unless we get a Popeye's. A good Popeye's, though-- corporate standards seem to be loose and the quality between stores varies too much.

[BillStein]

25. we hit Popeyes occasionally

trying to cut down of fried food, but Popeye's is too good to miss entirely. The one closest to us is run by some of the nicest people around, and it's always fresh.

[Whisp]

26. I make my own fried goochicken

coat moist chicken in seasoned flour
dip into whisked eggs
coat again with soda cracker crumbs

deep fry til golden and sealed up nice

make a sauce:
base of Bullseye Original
liquid smoke
ginger
cayenne
garlic powder
brown sugar

Dip the newly fried hot chicken in this gooey mess
Put in pan and stick in oven.

[madmom]

27. My mom's, best there ever was!!!

[hifiguy]

28. Popeye's, hands down.

I don't get the craving for fried chicken all that often, but when I do, I head straight for Popeye's and will drive past any and all KFCs to get there.

[applegrove]

29. KFC Poutine!!!

[RZM]

30. I've been avoiding fried chicken lately because I've been losing weight

It's interesting what I miss and what I don't. Probably the biggest thing I miss is Popeye's :)

[sakabatou]

31. Never had fried chicken.

Besides, it's not kosher anyways...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. how so?

[sakabatou]

44. It's the oil they use and the chicken as well

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. ahh. so its fried chicken from these places, not fried chicken in general.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. korean fried chicken. nt

[Kali]

35. yes

I like fried chicken. Hard to go wrong - kind of like pizza - even the bad stuff is still good.

My homemade has a pretty good reputation.

We used to have this Broaster place in the little town nearby - they had some pretty good fried chicken, but went out of business for some reason. It's now a pretty decent hole in the wall Mexican place. In the little town the other direction there is a big truck stop/tourist store/gas station place that has a diner (hard to believe not a chain!) and they have delicious fried chicken - and fresh because it always takes forever to get it served. More of a "problem" is I think they use Cornish hens, as the pieces are tiny, but it sure tastes good.

On into the big city is a local Tucson chain, the Lucky Wishbone - good fried chicken, also Guaymas shrimp and steak fingers. :9

I have never tried Popeyes and have heard good things about it. Someday.

I like KFC original style.

The few times I have had Church's, it was too damn greasy - and that is saying a lot because I love greasy fried.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Popeye's, for flavor and quality control.

They cook the chicken fresh and have a VERY short window in which they need to sell it or throw it out.

Despite the "unhealthy" aspects of any fried food, their chicken strips are not "overly" greasy."

I don't load up on the fat-filled sides.

I get a Jones for chicken, I go to Popeye's and get an order of chicken strips, and all is right with the world.

[trueblue2007]

38. MINE IS BETTER THAT ALL OF THEM

[ccharles000]

40. KFC

[Taverner]

41. None of them: MY Fried Chicken

And it comes out different every time! But it's always good

So many people think you just bread the raw chicken parts and fry. Unless you have a deep fryer pressure cooker, that will leave you with raw chicken. You have two options, and each has its ups and downs:

1 - You could boil the chicken first, then bread and fry

2 - You could fry the chicken first, then bake it for about 20-40 minutes

The first method might make the chicken inside a little rubbery, and the second method might make it dry

I have also heard of a third method, where you deep fry the chicken quickly, then bread, then refry

Haven't tried that tho

[TheCentepedeShoes]

42. United Marketstreet

Local supermarket
We don't get it often, but always for Superbowl

[Solly Mack]

43. Mine

[Arugula Latte]

46. Locking. No chicken threads.

Skinner sez so.

:P

[cloudbase]

47. Popeye's.

You can get it lots of places, but it's definitely Frenchy's if you're anywhere near the University of Houston.

[Odin2005]

48. Make it with corn flakes.