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tHa ShIzNiT said:
Anyone ever had raising cane's? I think its only in the vegas area though. But it is decidedly better than all of these places. I declare it.
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Raising Canes is a national chain. They only serve chicken tenders. The OP is talking about bone in chicken.

Of the national chains for bone in chicken. Popeyes is best. Regional I like chicken express for their sheer selection of sides and their product doesn't is usually fresher than say KFC/Popeyes.

Chicken tenders. Its Canes or Chicken Express(again for sheer number of sides offered).
 
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blackdogdeek said:
Anyone like Pollo Tropical? I've only seen them in Florida but several years ago I started seeing them here in New Jersey but then about 2 years ago they all disappeared from this area.

They had yummy chicken that was flattened and cooked on a grill and their white rice was amazing. Now I can only get it when I visit the mother-in-law.

It was crazy cheap, too.
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Its being advertised in the Dallas Fort Worth area but I havent tried it.
 
Wreckem said:
Raising Canes is a national chain. They only serve chicken tenders. The OP is talking about bone in chicken.

Of the national chains for bone in chicken. Popeyes is best. Regional I like chicken express for their sheer selection of sides and their product doesn't is usually fresher than say KFC/Popeyes.

Chicken tenders. Its Canes or Chicken Express(again for sheer number of sides offered).
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That's quite a stretch to call it a national chain. No restaurants in kansas, one in missouri, none in arkansas, one in colorado.. none in iowa.
 
If I eat at KFC I'd rather get their grilled chicken, or some other item like a pot pie or one of their bowls. Church's chicken is a little better than Popeye's, but the one near me is ridiculously slow so I rarely go there. Popeye's has good wraps. I don't think I go to any of these all that often really.

There's a regional chain called Mr. Chicken that isn't bad, although I've only eaten there like twice.
 
This thread inspired me to go to KFC for lunch today since it was close by. I specifically ordered 10 piece mixed chicken for take out, but got only legs and thighs. When I called the restaurant to complain, they told me that they did not make a mistake and to bring it back for proof. I stopped eating and drove back to KFC. Even after seeing the chicken in the bucket, the manager refused to believe that it was the chicken she had packed and said that she wasn't going to do anything about it. Unbelievable!
 
madoka said:
This thread inspired me to go to KFC for lunch today since it was close by. I specifically ordered 10 piece mixed chicken for take out, but got only legs and thighs. When I called the restaurant to complain, they told me that they did not make a mistake and to bring it back for proof. I stopped eating and drove back to KFC. Even after seeing the chicken in the bucket, the manager refused to believe that it was the chicken she had packed and said that she wasn't going to do anything about it. Unbelievable!
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you could send corporate a complaint about the location
 
madoka said:
This thread inspired me to go to KFC for lunch today since it was close by. I specifically ordered 10 piece mixed chicken for take out, but got only legs and thighs. When I called the restaurant to complain, they told me that they did not make a mistake and to bring it back for proof. I stopped eating and drove back to KFC. Even after seeing the chicken in the bucket, the manager refused to believe that it was the chicken she had packed and said that she wasn't going to do anything about it. Unbelievable!
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they gave you the best parts of the chicken, minus wings. white meat = bleh
 
PixelSquish said:
they gave you the best parts of the chicken, minus wings. white meat = bleh
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dark meat is slimy, tendony, and gross--for fried chicken, anyway. White meat is best for Fried Chicken. Dark meat is best chopped up, seasoned, and stir fried, or cooked for filler--like burritos, or tacos or chicken and rice and other such dishes.
 
zinfamous said:
dark meat is slimy, tendony, and gross--for fried chicken, anyway. White meat is best for Fried Chicken. Dark meat is best chopped up, seasoned, and stir fried, or cooked for filler--like burritos, or tacos or chicken and rice and other such dishes.
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wow, your chow credibility just dropped to zero.
 
zinfamous said:
dark meat is slimy, tendony, and gross--for fried chicken, anyway. White meat is best for Fried Chicken. Dark meat is best chopped up, seasoned, and stir fried, or cooked for filler--like burritos, or tacos or chicken and rice and other such dishes.
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You must be white. Dark meat rules.

KT
 
Ns1 said:
wow, your chow credibility just dropped to zero.
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fried chicken, bro. Dark meat...vastly inferior. succulent, juicy white meat fried chicken is tits.

Dark meat is best for nearly all other chicken dishes, though.

Granted, I do like a thigh to complement the breast, but nothing beats a properly fried chicken breast. (legs are pretty terrible--the only redeeming thing about a fried chicken leg is the convenient one-handed manner in which they can be consumed)
 
I've been to two different Popeye's Chicken restaurants...BOTH times I got "OMG! I puked my asshole out" sick from food poisoning. Never went back...never will.

I haven't lived near a Church's Fried Chicken place in about 30 years, and while I never thought it was great...at least it didn't make me sick.

KFC sucks...pretty much always has.

When we first moved to CA in the late 80s, there was a "Foster Farms Chicken Restaurant" chain. They were pretty damned good...but those closed sometime in the 1990's.

I'm not a big fan of yardbird anymore...maybe from having to take cranes into the Foster Farms and Valley Fresh Chicken plants in NorCal, plus into several Foster Farms chicken ranches over the years. Things you see and smell in some of those will make you swear off chicken forever.
 
El Pollo Loco, bitches. I'm pretty sure their commercials are what the Los Pollos Hermanos ads were based on.

I kid, fried > grilled.
 
Ns1 said:
Fat is flavor. GTFO
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It is, and while white meat does have it's own fat, the flavor from fried chicken is in the brine, the batter and the delicious artery-clogging oil that it has been frying in.

the texture of dark meat compared to white meat offsets any fat advantage for fried chicken. fat flavor is pretty much inconsequential.
 
zinfamous said:
It is, and while white meat does have it's own fat, the flavor from fried chicken is in the brine, the batter and the delicious artery-clogging oil that it has been frying in.

the texture of dark meat compared to white meat offsets any fat advantage for fried chicken. fat flavor is pretty much inconsequential.
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GTFO, heathen. I should have known based on your attitude towards mayo.

You're basically a culinary Obama, ie don't know what the fuck you're doing.

I keeed, I keeeed.
 
Ns1 said:
GTFO, heathen. I should have known based on your attitude towards mayo.

You're basically a culinary Obama, ie don't know what the fuck you're doing.

I keeed, I keeeed.
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SoCal native trying to school a real Southerner on Fried Chicken!

😡 You sir, are about to enter a world of pain! (and diabeetus)
 
zinfamous said:
SoCal native trying to school a real Southerner on Fried Chicken!

😡 You sir, are about to enter a world of pain! (and diabeetus)
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lol, southern fried chicken - entering a world of BLAND. No wonder you prefer chicken breasts.

asians are all about the FLAVOR EXPLOSION. 404 white meat not found

chinese:
China-Bee-San-Mateo-Fried-Chicken-Wings.jpg


taiwanese:
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korean:
kyochon-fried-chicken.jpg
 
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