Post by staggerstag on Jan 8, 2021 16:19:09 GMT
I visited the Popeyes at St Charles Ave in New Orleans and yes, the chicken was good. I had never seen fried chicken so thickly coated, not a soft spot to be found. Inside the coating, it was tender and tasty. All we've got here is standard KFC and countless knock-off joints with names like 'TENNESSEE FRIED CHICKEN aka TFC, and the snide FIVE LADS peri peri shack in Leyton, East London.
Some of the names are funny if only for their incongruence along the urban streets of the UK. MIAMI FRIED CHICKEN (in East Croydon) is one example. Some shops don't know what they are so they come up with names like CHICKPIZZ (East London) and some shops just don't care how ridiculous they look in the Yellow Pages, like FERFECT FRIED CHICKEN in Forest Hill. Not Perfect, Ferfect. Best explained by somebody other than me :
American States are not unpopular names for fried chicken joints in the UK. Is yours here?
ALASKA FRIED CHICKEN (how ridiculous does that look in urban Manchester?)
ARIZONA FRIED CHICKEN (in sunny Rochdale, Lancashire)
CALIFORNIA FRIED CHICKEN
FLORIDA FRIED CHICKEN
GEORGIA FRIED CHICKEN
KANSAS FRIED CHICKEN
MICHIGAN FRIED CHICKEN
MISSISSIPPI FRIED CHICKEN
MONTANA FRIED CHICKEN
OHIO FRIED CHICKEN
TENNESSEE FRIED CHICKEN
TEXAS FRIED CHICKEN (I just can't help but see the image of a nervous chicken propped up in the electric chair)
VIRGINIA FRIED CHICKEN (no, that just don't look right, uh-uh)
There is also a MARYLAND CHICKEN in Leicester but this doesn't count because it's not MARYLAND FRIED CHICKEN.
It wouldn't surprise me if all these places got their poultry from the same supplier and they all serve the same greasy horrid stuff that in America is done so much better. I will eat KFC and that's it, I'm afraid. I ain't no food snob but there are limits.
I think my favourite 'chicken shop' name is, funnily enough, FAVOURABLE CHICKEN (alas no FRIED) in Hither Green. I mean, that's a quirky choice, like it was randomly plucked out of a thesaurus page listing all things pleasant; or they ran out of sign letters I, T and E and only had A, B, L and E - but, hey, that'll work. But more importantly, 'favourable' to what? I've never tried to find out.
Some of the names are funny if only for their incongruence along the urban streets of the UK. MIAMI FRIED CHICKEN (in East Croydon) is one example. Some shops don't know what they are so they come up with names like CHICKPIZZ (East London) and some shops just don't care how ridiculous they look in the Yellow Pages, like FERFECT FRIED CHICKEN in Forest Hill. Not Perfect, Ferfect. Best explained by somebody other than me :
That’s right. Ferfect Fried Chicken. This is the only example of this type of brand-copying in South London. Rather than add a word, create a close name, remove a piece of punctuation – just make up a new word. An audacious move really. The ferfect move one could say. It is clear that this was at some point called Perfect Fried Chicken, and either the owners were using the brand without permission or they were at some point a Perfect Fried Chicken franchise and decided to go out on their own. Whatever the reason, the result is utterly ferfect.
ALASKA FRIED CHICKEN (how ridiculous does that look in urban Manchester?)
ARIZONA FRIED CHICKEN (in sunny Rochdale, Lancashire)
CALIFORNIA FRIED CHICKEN
FLORIDA FRIED CHICKEN
GEORGIA FRIED CHICKEN
KANSAS FRIED CHICKEN
MICHIGAN FRIED CHICKEN
MISSISSIPPI FRIED CHICKEN
MONTANA FRIED CHICKEN
OHIO FRIED CHICKEN
TENNESSEE FRIED CHICKEN
TEXAS FRIED CHICKEN (I just can't help but see the image of a nervous chicken propped up in the electric chair)
VIRGINIA FRIED CHICKEN (no, that just don't look right, uh-uh)
There is also a MARYLAND CHICKEN in Leicester but this doesn't count because it's not MARYLAND FRIED CHICKEN.
It wouldn't surprise me if all these places got their poultry from the same supplier and they all serve the same greasy horrid stuff that in America is done so much better. I will eat KFC and that's it, I'm afraid. I ain't no food snob but there are limits.
I think my favourite 'chicken shop' name is, funnily enough, FAVOURABLE CHICKEN (alas no FRIED) in Hither Green. I mean, that's a quirky choice, like it was randomly plucked out of a thesaurus page listing all things pleasant; or they ran out of sign letters I, T and E and only had A, B, L and E - but, hey, that'll work. But more importantly, 'favourable' to what? I've never tried to find out.