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[Professor Snuggles]

It's the best food, right? Like, just undeniably in the upper echelons of deliciousness that exist in the history of human culinary brilliance. It's not complicated, but seriously. So fucking good.

[Candle]

yeh

[Professor Snuggles]

[Candle]

are we going to make racist jokes soon, or can i put away my wifebeater?

[Professor Snuggles]

The board will now hear arguments from the board about this fact. Additional topics of discussion include the dominance of KFC vs Popeyes, and whether spicy, crispy, or original chicken is better.

Obviously homemade is the best, so don't be a dick.

[Professor Snuggles]

Additionally, discussion of proper side dishes, and beverages to accompany them.

[Ozymandias]

I offer that while fried chicken is indeed delicious, I find the bones to be pointless and prefer my fried chicken to be made of boneless breast meat.

In addition, applying the same methods to a cow is also amazing.

[Candle]

it's all about the fucking drumsticks guys


Oooooooooohhh lordy

[CardinalFang]

I think I prefer KFC to Popeyes. I need to go to Popeye's more for a better comparison.
I'll take a local place Pollards over either of them though.
If KFC then it's going to be crispy.

[Patrick]

Obviously homemade is the best, so don't be a dick.

My mother's is the Only Good Fried Chicken. I mean, yeah, fried chicken is the best goddamn dish on earth, but my mom does it better than anybody else, making everybody else's fried chicken taste like ass. Well-spiced, properly cooked, tender ass, but ass all the same.

Also, mashed potatoes and sweet tea are the only acceptable additions to a fried chicken meal. Potatoes may be served with gravy, and must always be covered in lethal amounts of butter and salt.

Your breakfast on the day you eat fried chicken must always consist of scrambled eggs, biscuits with Jimmy Dean sausage gravy, and grits. FUCKTONS of butter and salt in those grits god damn it I don't want to taste any ground up corn at all.

[TheFuriousWombat]

KFC is really no good. I tend to stick to local fried chicken joints. They tend to do it right at places like that. Franchises don't seem to have special family recipes like the little fried chicken shops.
As far as bones vs. no bones go, I do think eating the chicken sans bones is easier and cleaner and it's how I usually cook chicken but the fact remains that bones add flavor to meat when cooking. That's just how it is. So when it comes to good friend chicken, bone in tends to get the best results.
Also, I'm awful partial to a heap of really good coleslaw on the side and maybe a Dr. Pepper or some other soda with a little more kick to it than normal coke.
I like my fried chicken a little drier, not dripping with grease at all and I certainly won't complain if it's on the spicy side. A good batter made with flour and/or mashed up plain cereal (corn flakes!) is nice but throw in a decent amount of cajun spices (and obviously salt and pepper) and, if you really want to make things interesting, some cinnamon or the like for a unique little flavor kick and it tends to push it over the top. When I make my own (and it sometimes comes out OK and sometimes not) I tend to experiment and try out various spices in various combination. Also, a butter milk wash is basically essential. None of this dry rubbing spices on or shit like that. Even eggs and/or regular milk won't do, as far as I'm concerned.
Those are my theories anyway.

[BlahBlah]

I have never had homemade fried chicken.

KFC is pretty much the only place to get it here, although there is a TASTY FRIED CHICKEN now, but I've been too scared to enter it. KFC is alright I suppose, it kinda lacks flavour.

Also, what the hell is a grit? Is it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grits ?

[TheFuriousWombat]

If you've never had grits, you are missing out! They are so good. Of course, the only good ones I've really had are in the south so I rarely waste my time with them up here. But Patrick is correct, fried chicken and gravy with grits and biscuits at breakfast is basically perfect and an experience all should have. It might just kill you but hell if it isn't worth it.

[Candle]

Dixie fucking Lee
And some good gravy
Relieves my hunger pains when
Krispy KFC
Is unsavory, although,
Exquisite fried chicken is
Surely home-made

Lest we forget
Of this American dish
Lavished in grease and goodness

[sean]

If you've never had grits, you are missing out!

My arm has been burned against a giant tub holding incredibly hot grits. The mark is still visible (it is kind of heart shaped). Therefore I have a vendetta against grits. I will not eat them. they have it out for me

Also fried chicken is only alright. KFC and Popeyes are incredibly terrible and I cannot eat there. I think it is even worse than trying to eat mcdonalds. And even the tasty homemade stuff makes me feel a bit gross. Not a fan.

[onewheelwizzard]

Well-spiced, properly cooked, tender ass

How did people miss this?

[Emaline]

Here is the breakdown of fast food fried chicken:

KFC is for white people who wear polos and loafers, and have yachts and wouldn't know good southern food if it bit them on the ass.

Popeye's is as close to middle of the road as you're gonna get. It's greasy enough to be some alright fried chicken, but not so greasy that lame as white kids in polos find it alright. You best get some red beans and rice when you get this shit.

Church's motherfucking fried chicken. This is the shit. Do you like real southern food? Are you black? Did you grow up in the south? Did you grow up in the ghetto? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you will like Church's chicken.  If I remember correctly, you can get greens here as well. Shit is good. I haven't been to a Church's since I moved out of the city. Edwardsville is filled with stuffy white people who wear polos with their colars popped, and kakhis. All we have here is a KFC. Fucking lame.

Also, the greasy a fried chicken restuarant is the better the chicken is. I am serious.

[tania]

homemade fried chicken is wonderful but kfc fried chicken is for people who just do not enjoy living.

[Josefbugman]

Is fried chicken any good? Must admit I have never had any myself.

[The Voice]

Fried chicken is a tasty and easy food to cook yourself.  Chicken dipped in flour dipped in egg then dipped in panko bread crumbs fried in oil = happy people.

[Elizzybeth]

Surprisingly good.

[CardinalFang]

I think I prefer KFC to Popeyes. I need to go to Popeye's more for a better comparison.
I'll take a local place Pollards over either of them though.
If KFC then it's going to be crispy.

KFC is for white people who wear polos and loafers, and have yachts and wouldn't know good southern food if it bit them on the ass.

WHERE IS MY GOD DAMN YACHT?
You can keep the fucking loafers and polos but as a white person who goes to KFC I want my GOD DAMN YACHT!!!!!
And why are these grits, collards, okra, and chicken fried steak trying to bite my ass?

[Ozymandias]

Fried okra,

[Emaline]

Oh my god fried okra. I should make some of that shit tonight.

[pwhodges]

Deep-fried batter should contain fish - specifically, haddock, though several others will do.  Eaten with proper twice-fried chips, loads of salt and vinegar, and a ball of battered mushy peas on the side.  Tartar sauce is poncy, but actually rather good with it.

[Professor Snuggles]

Fried Okra is seriously so good. Okra in general is one of the most underrated vegetables.

Chicken Fried steak is also delicious, but keep that bourgie shit out of my thread.

[Jawshooah]

Meh, I've never been a fan of KFC. Bojangles is my fast-food restaurant of choice when it comes to fried chicken.

[Jace]

Popeyes is clearly the best fast food chicken because you can get jambalaya right there in the drive through. Drive through jambalaya. DRIVE THROUGH JAMBALAYA.

[Emaline]

Man, I made a delicious jambalaya the other day. It was god damn tasty. God I love cooking.

[Slick]

I am with ozy, I think it is best boneless. I will just buy a chicken, de-bone it, and do it that way though, so I've got boneless chicken bits and soup bones.
Instead of an actual batter, I dip chicken in egg-wash with seasonings, then roll them in bread crumbs, and pan-fry then bake them. If I am feeling decadent I pan-fry them in butter.
I know I am neither a southerner nor a 'merican, so this is the way I have come to do it in my wacky culture.

KFC is OK. It was a big deal when it first came to my tiny town out on the far-side of nowhere, I used to like their popcorn chicken a bunch. I think my metabolism could no longer deal with it, though.

Obviously homemade is the best, so don't be a dick.

My mother's is the Only Good Fried Chicken. I mean, yeah, fried chicken is the best goddamn dish on earth, but my mom does it better than anybody else, making everybody else's fried chicken taste like ass. Well-spiced, properly cooked, tender ass, but ass all the same.

This was not funny?

[Alex C]

KFC is for white people who wear polos and loafers, and have yachts and wouldn't know good southern food if it bit them on the ass.

Totally untrue where I live. If you have the money to buy a yacht here, you have the money to not eat at KFC. Srsly. The only people I see at KFCs here are rednecks and Hmong.

[tragic_pizza]

Church's motherfucking fried chicken. This is the shit. Do you like real southern food? Are you black? Did you grow up in the south? Did you grow up in the ghetto? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you will like Church's chicken.

Q, F, muthafuckin' T.

The problem with boneless chicken is, simply put, flavor. I mean, it's fine, but the bone adds depth of flavor to fried chicken. If I'm going to drown my chicken in buffalo sauce or some such, boneless is fine, since the point isn't chicken flavor anyway. But if I am going to get on the outside of some fiiiiine muthafuckin' Church's, don't play me no boneless shit, now.

Oh, sides. Dude. Okra and mashed taters. Truly Southern people understand grits to be a breakfast food. And, admittedly, something someone either enjoys or loathes with their entire being. There is no middle ground.

[Slick]

I am a big fan of mashed-potato salad.

[clockworkjames]

Get some fucking hawtsauce up in this bitch.

[jhocking]

I offer that while fried chicken is indeed delicious, I find the bones to be pointless and prefer my fried chicken to be made of boneless breast meat.

I am not a fan of breast meat. Despite how white meat is generally considered the best meat, I prefer dark meat. I'll have a drumstick please.

[Inlander]

Pfft, drumsticks are no fun. If you only eat drumsticks you never get to refer to chicken boobs. (Sometimes in my head I also think of them is chicken tits, but never out loud because that's just crass.)

[Johnny C]

[Johnny C]

Like seriously what do you even say about that

[Inlander]

If they weren't drumsticks I'd be able to say that those mo-fos are chest deep in chicken titties.

[Johnny C]

They appear to be titty-deep in chicken drumsticks.

[Inlander]

I like to think that it's a defensive wall made out of moa drumsticks.

They've made the wall because the moas have returned from extinction in a highly unexpected apocalyptic scenario. Those two gentlemen are the last surviving humans. They're making their last stand behind a pile of their slaughtered enemies.

They've fried the bodies of their slaughtered enemies because just because it's a post-apocalyptic world doesn't mean that you can't have a little treat now and then.

[Johnny C]

They might be the menacing harbingers of humanity's destruction, but boy do they taste great when coated in a batter made with a subtle and piquant blend of thirteen herbs and spices!

[est]

Fuck yeah chicken drumsticks as big as your head.

[est]

I have a place up the street that does fried chicken that is kind of like KFC but tastier and without as much grease.  It's fucking rad.  Anyone who knows Newtown, I forget the name of it at the moment but it's on the corner of King and Brown, across from the book store/art supplies store.

[ViolentDove]

Clems?

Clems is the best.

[Inlander]

corner of King and Brown

Oh man I hope there's a shop that has something to do with snakes somewhere near that corner.

[Reed]

It is the second largest venomous snake in Australia (after the Taipan) and the fourth or fifth? largest venomous snake in the world

And now I know exactly why wikipedia is my first source for solid information

[ViolentDove]

Yeah it's definitely Clem's Chicken. It's a Newtown institution. They fought Chicken Wizard and beat them into the dirt, then kicked their sorry arses out of Newtown. They are the High Lords of greasy hangover food. Clem is possibly some kind of chicken-cooking demigod with two deep-fryers for hands. Man I think I'm going to go there after work.

[est]

Fuck yeah, Clem's.  Deservedly winning their once long-running battle with Hook-a-chook earlier this year.

[ViolentDove]

Hey, pagebreak! Kind of sounds like some kind of chicken shop RPG.

I need to get on the phone to a games developer right now.