Awwwwwwwwwww shit, Steezo. I will try these and see what happens. Thanx.

If it doesn't work out, there's always Popeye's.

Steezo,

Do they have Popeye's in Alaska? I've always enjoyed the seasoning of their chicken more than KFC.

Yes. There used to be 2 of them in town, but they shut down the one that was right next to the military base. I believe there is a Church's chicken, but it is actually on the military base itself, so I can't eat there. The old Church's chicken was my personal favorite. KFC sucks. It's barely better than the shit they sell at the grocery store.

I remember I went to Popeye's on election day, 2008. I lied to the guy working the drive-thru when he asked if I voted for Obama. My reason for going was that I thought if Obama lost, I probably wouldn't be able to get good fried chicken for a while due to the inevitable riots. The only other memorable occasion was when I got to Popeye's right before they were about to close and the employees loaded up every fryer with chicken so that they'd have free shit to take home.

I think it's pretty rude to ask people you don't know who they voted for. Hell even for people you DO know. It's kind of a personal thing and some people don't like talking about politics anyway.

Voting will change so much. Like almost everything. Politics will never be the same.

Tritone,

There are a few Popeye's in Alaska.

Church's chicken is a chain aimed straight at the ghetto market. As black folks are expert in fried chicken, I always look for a Church's if I can't find a legendary local black restaurant. It's not dangerous for white people to go to these places; even the gangstas give you a knowing look, because fried chicken is delicious, motherfucker. Usually at the legendary local black restaurant, though, you'll find the place is filled up with working black professionals (they have money and tend not to disrupt business with violence) just like you and me. I know that will bring some people on this board down, but it's the truth.

As for chains, I like KFC. Those fake mashed potatoes and gravy rule.

Never had Popeyes, but they're commercial sucks me in. What's the difference in the seasoning between them and KFC?

Tell you the truth I've always preferred Church's over KFC or Popeyes.

Grilled a couple of cheap steaks tonight over charcoal, I made a wet rub for them with my new (food) crack, Tabasco brand chipolte pepper sauce.

Popeye's is "cajun" fried chicken vs. KFC "southern" fried chicken. When I get Popeye's, I always order it spicy. The breading is lighter than KFC's. I don't know what they fry Popeye's chicken in, but everything they serve seems incredibly unhealthy. They biscuits (which are great) are super buttery. I don't know if they still sell do this, but they used to sell their fries by weight. A large was 1 lb. After a big meal at Popeye's, you kind of feel like your blood has turned to sludge and you are sweating out grease.

Popeye's also had some kind of MSG-based seasoning to put on your pound of fries. Cajun Sparkle FTW!

^^^Ahhh, Cajun Sparkles. That brings back memories. I was at college in eastern Washington and there weren't any Popeye's nearby so we had a friend from back home send us a package of Cajun Sparkles. My best friend's black and he missed the delivery so he had to go to the post-office to pick it up.

Our friend back home for some reason had decided to address the package to "Tar Baby & Snowman." So my black friend was standing there in the post office when the post office lady screams out, "Do we have a package for TAR BABY & SNOWMAN?!?" But in the end, we got our sparkles.

Gia and Gen probably would have interesting things to say about this branch of fast food. Besides being solid thinspiration for one.

All I know is now I feel like eating some fucking chicken.

Sorry if this is Panzer-esque, but we needed a pic of some chicken after all of this talk. All I had was some frozen Tyson 4-piece Honey Stung that I fried up and added some spicy spices to.

Fucking priceless. I had to read it out loud to all and sundry.

Fries by the pound? Oh, my God. No discipline for fries. I would explode.

That looks awesome Steezo. How was it?

Since I worked at KFC for about two months in high school and have witnessed the horrors firsthand, I only eat homeade fried chicken, and if we're still talking biscuits, Popeye's are great, but I believe Hardees/Carls Jr. has the best made from scratch biscuits out there.

We should have a fried chicken contest. Everyone fry some shit, list their recipe, post pics and we'll judge which looks/sounds the best. We can even get Tritone in on this noise.

My order of preference

1. Popeye's
2. KFC
3. Church's

While we are on the subject of chicken. I ate at a steak house on the far edge of town earlier this week that had the tenderest chicken gizzards I have ever had in my life. They were like a filet mignon of gizzards. I don't know if I have ever had gizzards before where I didn't expend more calories trying to chew them than I took in by digesting them. Not only were they delicious but for $7.99 I got a dinner plate that was filled with gizzards on one half and fries on the other and then underneath the fries were more gizzards. There must have been at least a pound and a half on this plate.

This is a Southern chicken chain that is pretty darned good. There is a Lee's Famous Recipe in a nearby town that's been there for years. The have a Friday night buffet that is locally famous for it's fried fish of all things. I've had it a couple of times and it's a well deserved rep. The chicken is better than KFC. The best chicken in town is at Ryan's steakhouse though.

The best fried chicken from a chain restaurant is Roy Rogers' chicken.

Roy Rogers went out in my area back in the 90s. Usually I prefer Popeye's spicy, but sometimes go with KFC for old times sake, although the best fried chicken in town comes from indies, Chuckie's at the Hollins market followed by Park's at the Lexington market.

Farty, which horrors? Chicken heads and shit it the frier for some special aroma?

Roy's had a near-death experience after being bought by Hardee's. The Roy Rogers chain had 2250 mainly Mid-Atlantic locations in 1990, and was left with something like 25 by 1996 as Hardee's converted or sold off locations. They're up to 50 or so, mainly in the DC area.

Did any of you guys have a Kenny Rogers chain around ? They used to cook the chicken over an open wood fire. [not fried obviously].

I've never been to a Kenny Rogers Roasters in the US. Oddly enough I've stumbled across Kenny Rogers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, and Angeles City, Philippines. The Malaysian franchisee bought the chain from the US franchisor, and has done really well expanding it here in Asia. Malaysia, in particular, is positively crawling with Kenny Rogers restaurants.

Malaysia is a wonderful place to visit. Better hurry, though, as Malaysia has a very large and rapidly-radicalizing Muslim population who are eager to fuck everything up. Woe to the 35% Chinese minority there. All the Chinese live for is pork, white-lightning alcohol, gambling and whores. Islam is not so big on those.

I'll be happy to comment, but as far as cooking is concerned, I can do spaghetti, chili (with a pre-made kit), and frozen dinners --that's it!!!

And with those words, "Huey" Tritone founded the Black Panzers...

Are you capable of ordering a pizza or some other delivered food, either over the phone or online?

I loved Kenny Roger's Roaster, particularly their side dish of garlic red potatoes.

Getting back to fried chicken, sometimes a really good piece of fried Chicken is whatever a Chinese restaurant serves on their appetizer platter. It's usually just wings & drummettes, but it can be really tasty. I know that Momofuku restaurant in NYC is supposed to make some of the best fried chicken around.

Come to think of it, some of the best meals in a restaurant can be the items that aren't within their signature cuisine-type. Like the most popular Mexican restaurant up here used to sell the best BBQ beef sandwiches and Prime Rib. One of the best steaks in town is at a downtown Chinese restaurant. And when I was a kid, my parents would always yell at me when I'd get a cheeseburger at their favorite Chinese place. It was amazing. Mostly because it tasted like they fried the entire hamburger bun in butter.

My gripe with a lot of Chinese places is that they make me feel like they hate/mistrust their customers. One place always waits until I show up and pay for the food before they even start to cook my to-go orders. And every time I order, I ask when it'll be ready and they always say the same thing: "10 Minute!" But it's never ready when I get there.

I think there is one Roy's left on the NJ Turnpike. It may have switched to Burger King by now though, like the rest did. Ah, fond memories of the Fixins Bar.

Well, all of the preparations and precautions were up to health standards, but the laziness and atrocities of the crew are what scared me off of KFC. We were supposed to push the guts out of the thighs, and nobody did that. We were supposed to rinse the bloody chunky shit off the birds thouroughly, and we just dunked it in a bucket of murky water on the workstation. "What, I just dropped a whole tray of Extra Tasty Crispy on the floor? Fuck it, i'm not making all of that shit again." And so forth.

It didn't help that the whole crew was complete and total fuckoff clowns that all went to the same Catholic high school who would rather smoke weed in back and taint the food then do real work. That's the truly frightening thing about fast food. While they may upkeep health standards, they just don't pay their already worthless employees enough to not fuck with the food.

Those are good. They taste like the fryer grease. Chicken wings with a hint of eggrolls, wontons, and rangoon.

I've only ever seen Kenny Rogers Roasters in KL. Never eaten there though because the curry houses are so much better. There are a lot of A&W burger joints too. Can't beat a root beer float on a hot equatorial rainforest day.

KFC is probably the chain I've seen the most of when over seas. Even in places never touched by a McDonalds, you can usually find a KFC.

The place for rotisserie chicken in my home town in Rico's on Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown. Roasted Peruvian-style over charcoal. Good stuff.

I never knew there's such a massive potential in talking about conventional fast food chicken to such a detailed extent LOL!

To fuck with the food. Some guy told me about a guy he knew working at a pizza joint. Some hot chick went in and ordered a pie and it took a bit longer than usual. The pie spinner had to jerk on the special topping and she left with some of his best. True story, according to the guy. DNA topping pizza.

See what all those years as a pw does to you ? You're undersocialized and deprived of true American fast food heritage. Too much caviar and champagne ! :o)

Rear Admiral wrote - Malaysia is a wonderful place to visit. Better hurry, though, as Malaysia has a very large and rapidly-radicalizing Muslim population who are eager to fuck everything up. Woe to the 35% Chinese minority there. All the Chinese live for is pork, white-lightning alcohol, gambling and whores. Islam is not so big on those.

That's what we need. The muslims pissing the Chinese off would be a major fucking mistake.

Steezo wrote - My gripe with a lot of Chinese places is that they make me feel like they hate/mistrust their customers. One place always waits until I show up and pay for the food before they even start to cook my to-go orders. And every time I order, I ask when it'll be ready and they always say the same thing: "10 Minute!" But it's never ready when I get there.

We have 3 Chinese restaurants within about 5 miles of me. My fave is the one where the lady that ran it for about 25 years almost never charged me more than 5 bucks for a meal. Even when supper was going for 11.95. She also let me eat free often. She knew how to treat customers right. She's retired and is happy as a pig in shit now. The other two are always nice to me. Seems to me if you go in with a smile and a joking attitude most of the time they are pretty good to you. I have seen them be a little rude and dismissive at times though. But the rednecks they have to deal with here makes it understandable. The one that's mostly takeout lets you call ahead , of course, and it's always ready in about 5 minutes and waiting on you piping hot if you get your ass in gear. One of them has the best poached fish I've ever eaten. Butter and fennel I believe. Maybe a touch of dill.

It would be a godsend. Let them be China's problem for a while.

youve been cracking me up consistently this afternoon.

The only food we intentionally fucked with for lulz was the policemen's food. They got a piece of biology in some form from every person working, be it a pube, a loogie, etc.

That extra folicle on the pubes. Savour the moment. Savour the aroma.

A little late in to the party, but:

1. Roy Rogers was bought by the sons of the guy who developed them for Mariott Corp. back in the 60's, & they're making a comeback, but very slowly. They're based out of Maryland, & they own all of them except for the ones that are franchised by the successor of Mariott Corp (ironically their biggest franchisee now), which are located mainly in full service rest areas (the franchised ones are that is).

2. Kenny Rogers Roasters are owned by the same people who own Arther Treacher's Fish & Chips & Nathan's Hot Dogs, and they were down to 1 in the U.S., & that was/is at the Ontario Mills Mall in Ontario, CA. But, as was pointed out, they have a lot of them in foreign countries though. I think what hurt them is the fact that everybody (stores) started selling rotisserie chickens, & the novelty wore off. I remember they had good chicken, & corn muffins/bread....& I don't even like corn muffins/bread usually.

3. When I was a kid, there was a chain out of the Baltimore area, that got all the way up to where I lived in PA named Gino's. It was founded by Gino Marchetti & some of his Baltimore Colt's teammates. Anyway, they actually had the regional deal to sell KFC when they used to sell it out of other existing restaurants, & they retained it until they went under in 1982. Back in 2010, the original founders revived Gino's as a more upscale fast food restaurant (I think they are up to 3 now....mainly in the King of Prussia, PA area), but gone is KFC of course....now they sell chicken fingers.

0. Even when Wikipedia's down the fast food section's still here in a moderately abridged version.

See I'm a good boy these days, a "mild" heart attack at 38 will do that to you. Tonight I'm cooking salmon, brown rice, & steamed broccoli. It's not easy when there's temptations all around, but it's just not worth it. Eating right really isn't THAT hard. You can still eat right AND eat good/tasty things too.

Doing a pork stew via the crock-pot. It will be ready when I am.

Ah, if that's true with your however mild heart attack there, Rocky, you probably met the four-ho in some online platform for solid whine and coping and shit. Very social.

I'm probably being brain dead here, but if by "met the four-ho" as hit 40, that still hasn't happened....though I can definitely see it on the horizon now. Actually before the heart attack, I didn't spend any time in online forums. It wasn't until the "rehab phase" when I had so much free time, they I did that. Now days I spend most of my time at the gym & out in the REAL world fortunately. Next step.....going back to work.

Anyway, I still have the blockage (it's in a narrow/tricky area...the risks outweighed the benefits of s stent even) that caused the heart attack, so if I didn't/don't change my ways, it's not a matter of if I'll need a bypass, it's only a matter of WHEN. Mild or not, it WAS the "real deal." That's why eating right is so important to me....it's literally a matter of life or death. Hey, at least I didn't/don't drink or smoke.....that's something....and lots of salmon in my diet isn't exactly a bad thing either....plus I get to carry nitro tablets around with me now (though I've never used them....YET).

Go have a cruller. Please.



Kinda looks like a whore's bunghole.