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[est]

Oh man yeah, it was Chicken Wizzzyrd not hook a chook.

But still yeah, their shit got beat down.

[Eris]

Clems' fish isn't that spectacular. But then again, it is a chicken shop, so what would you expect. I wish there was a good fish and chip shop around here.


Also, I used to think of Hook a Chook (it replaced Chicken Wizard, but died pretty quickly) as Hooker Chook, and then got slightly annoyed that their signs had nowhere near enough heavily made-up chickens in fishnets on them.

[Lunchbox]

Holy shit I am going to Clem's for dinner guys, how did I spend six months here without knowing this? This is important local knowledge.

[ViolentDove]

I wish there was a good fish and chip shop around here.

Fish On Fire in Glebe is stone-cold awesome. And pretty cheap, too.

[est]

Lunchy, we are probably talking the place up a bit - it's basically just your average takeaway place.  But the fried chicken there is pretty good.

Yeah but it's all the way up in Glebe.  We used to have a fucking tops fish shop just up the road, but then someone bought it and started renovating it but ran out of money halfway through or something like that, so it's been closed forever.

[Wolf]

Ezell's Famous Chicken in seattle is the best fried chicken around.

Even Oprah thinks so:

Ezell's was made famous when Talk show host Oprah Winfrey called it her favorite fried chicken. There are a number of photos of her on the wall of the original restaurant proclaiming her love of the chicken. It is also said she has the chicken flown to her in Chicago when she has a craving.

Check the picture:



I think I will have some tomorrow.

[Jawshooah]

corner of King and Brown

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

I owned an albino California King Snake not too long ago. It somehow escaped from its cage (regardless of the BRICKS on ALL FOUR CORNERS of the top of the cage) and was never seen again.

[est]

I will never have a snake or a spider as a pet for this reason.  I do not want to be woken up by a poisonous animal biting my face.

[Eris]

i think people normally get ones that aren't poisonous, or not poisonous enough to hurt a human for that very reason. I am pretty sure you aren't allowed to have brown snakes as pets, anyway.

[Inlander]

That's more to do with them being a native animal than because they're dangerous, though. You're not allowed to have any native animal as a pet in Australia unless it's injured and you're someone who volunteers to nurse injured animals.

[Jawshooah]

The vast majority of snakes and spiders are not venomous, or at least not venomous enough to do any damage to humans.

[Inlander]

Unless you're in Australia, which is the only continent on earth in which the elapids, or venomous snakes, are the dominant group.

[Eris]

But Harry, what about people who have blue tongues as pets? I mean they need a reptile license, but they are still native animals, no?

[est]

Yeah but like

[ViolentDove]

That's more to do with them being a native animal than because they're dangerous, though. You're not allowed to have any native animal as a pet in Australia unless it's injured and you're someone who volunteers to nurse injured animals.

Reptiles are an exception to this rule (there are also a few others, though it varies from state to state). There is a thriving trade in Australian reptiles within Australia, though the type of animal you're allowed to keep is controlled by a licensing system. A silly herpetologist friend of mine has a class 2 license, allowing him to keep venomous snakes.

[Darkbluerabbit]

My sister and I saw a python bite a guy like that a few years ago.  I think it is a little funny, but she's now afraid of snakes.

I am pretty unhappy with fried chicken right now.  About forty minutes ago I entered my apartment.  I stepped on something, and when I lifted my foot I saw that it was a chicken bone.  My stomach began to churn as I realized that tiny greasy bones were strewn across my floor.  My cat had discovered them in the trash while I was out.  I picked them up and threw them away while trying not to gag, then washed my hands more than was probably necessary.  I called my boyfriend to inform him that he is not allowed to eat chicken wings in my apartment any more.

[Ballard]

Err, don't pythons choke their prey to death before devouring it? Unless the guy was already dead, I doubt it was a python.

[Jawshooah]

Perhaps it was a confused python?

[Patrick]

Guys what happened to talking about fried chicken

My mom has a deep fryer and it is basically the best invention in the world because it makes it easier to make the best dish in the world.

We do not mess around with fried chicken in this house, that fucker cost like $200 and that is all we do with it. SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.

[ViolentDove]

Err, don't pythons choke their prey to death before devouring it? Unless the guy was already dead, I doubt it was a python.

Pythons bite to get a grip on their prey, then constrict if I remember rightly. The bite isn't generally fatal, though.

[Ballard]

Oh shit, I didn't know that. That is pretty interesting.

On an unrelated note: Man why all you Aussies always gotta make this about you? This is a thread about fried chicken dammit.

[Jawshooah]

Fried chicken is amazing with ranch dressing.

Don't believe me? Try it next time. Your mind will be blown. In a very sexual sense.

[Darkbluerabbit]

I am now wondering if anyone has ever eaten batter-fried snake.

[Inlander]

The venom glands are delightfully tangy.

[Professor Snuggles]

Ezell's Famous Chicken in seattle is the best fried chicken around.

Even Oprah thinks so:

Ezell's was made famous when Talk show host Oprah Winfrey called it her favorite fried chicken. There are a number of photos of her on the wall of the original restaurant proclaiming her love of the chicken. It is also said she has the chicken flown to her in Chicago when she has a craving.

Check the picture:



I think I will have some tomorrow.

This is, in fact, the best fried chicken.

I have eaten rattlesnake in a stir fry, but never batter fried.

[ViolentDove]

What did the rattlesnake taste like?

The closest I've come to eating snake would be drinking cobra wine.

Think tequila, except there's a cobra instead of a worm.

[tragic_pizza]

I once ate eel.

Tasted like chicken...

[Ozymandias]

Eel is the most delicious fish.

Fact.

[McTaggart]

Confirming.

[Inlander]

I once ate eel.

Tasted like chicken...

I once ate eel, at a slow food market in Naples.

It tasted like the sea, and like the dream of a love affair in a foreign city, and like sunshine on a beach on a day that's warm but not hot, when a zephyr toys with your hair like a newly woken kitten playing with fallen leaves.

[Josefbugman]

Thats a lot of taste for one eel. Are you sure there wasn't some MSG mixed in with it?

[pwhodges]

Do not  eat ell at a traditional London East-end pie-'n-mash place - it is disgusting the way they do it (indeed, so are the pie and the mash).  Of traditions that should be allowed to die quietly, those places are top of my list.

[Inlander]

Thats a lot of taste for one eel. Are you sure there wasn't some MSG mixed in with it?

I'm not kidding when I say that the food at that market almost made me cry. There was no MSG, only the absolute joy of life. In a form your tastebuds could appreciate!

[Patrick]

Fried chicken is amazing with ranch dressing.

Don't believe me? Try it next time. Your mind will be blown. In a very sexual sense.

McDonald's does this on the Ranch Snack Wraps.

If you choose grilled chicken, it is because you are a pussy. Crispy, motherfuck.

[Ballard]

Man there is no way in fucking hell the best fried chicken comes from Seattle.

This is the best fried chicken (and waffles) ever taken off a cast iron skillet.

[Boro_Bandito]

Err, don't pythons choke their prey to death before devouring it? Unless the guy was already dead, I doubt it was a python.

As the owner of a ball python, I can confirm by watching my snake eat and my love affair with animal planet that a snake does in fact bite its prey to hold it in place, while it coils around the small animal, not really choking it but more just bone crushingly mushing its insides to death with a lot more force than necessary. This does not in fact ever get old.

I am now wondering if anyone has ever eaten batter-fried snake.

Rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, TX. Tried to go every year as a kid when we lived down there, I've had rattlesnake several times and I agree with pretty much everyone else who eats it, kinda tastes like catfish with the consistency of fried chicken, best when battered and fried.

Also, I refuse to believe that the best fried chicken comes from anywhere in the north 'Gene, it just isn't true and in that dark pit of a New Yorker soul that you have you know it.

[Ballard]

Dude it's HARLEM.

That doesn't really count as the North.

[Emaline]

No more snake posts in this thread. Seriously. Go start another thread.




Right now, I am sitting here eating some KFC, and it is still not nearly as good as Popeyes, or Church's motherfucking fried chicken.

[Josefbugman]

I am still placing bets on MSG, I have never encontered food I care that much for.

[JD]

How has Chick-fil-a not been mentioned?
I do enjoy Popeye's but I think it is mostly because of their fries.

Also, am I the only one who thought this thread would be like the bacon thread we had a while back?

[Boro_Bandito]

no one's mentioned chick-fil-a because while it's okay, its not the best and its more about chicken sandwiches than fired chicken, which I prefer on the bone. Their chicken nuggets are okay as well, and I'll admit their selection of dipping sauces is probably the best out there chainwise.

Also, they aren't open on Sundays, and I take issue to that since Sunday is the best day for eating fried chicken.

[Jawshooah]

Wow, how did I forget Chic-Fil-A? That's easily the best fast-food chicken around.

[Johnny C]

yo i had one of those fried chicken "ranch BLTs" in the states from a mcdonald's and it made me all bloaty and sick as hell, fuck yo chicken's couch america

[dennis]

I have to second Bojangles. The last time I was in North Carolina, I bought a Picnic dinner with double dirty rice, ate half of it right away and then ate the rest later, after a long session of Playstation 3.

BOJANGLES.

In Chicago, the best fried chicken I've had was from Harold's Chicken Shack, which is not convenient for North Siders. It is also not saying much because it's mostly Popeye's and KFC around here. There are a couple of Mexican chicken places, but they're kind of out-of-the-way, too.

[Jawshooah]

KFC<<<Bojangles<<<<<<<<<<<Chic-Fil-A

[MrBlu]

Holy Freakin' Heck.

Fried Chicken is @#$%ing awesome. And I'm not just saying that because I'm Black... OK maybe I am, but I love the stuff.

[Liz]

In honor of this thread, I made fried chicken tonight. Dear lord it was delicious.

[Darkbluerabbit]

I saw an ad on TV today and decided that KFC should probably disappear from the face of the earth for creating THIS:


From their website:  Hungry for all of your KFC favorites and can’t pick just one? Now you don’t have to. Your rumbling stomach doesn’t stand a chance against our new Variety Big Box Meal, which includes a drumstick, a Crispy Strip, an individual box of Popcorn Chicken, two Homestyle sides, a biscuit and a refreshing 32-oz. drink. Fill up on all your favorites!

That is at least twice, if not three times what a human being should be eating in one sitting.  The only person with an excuse for eating that is Michael Phelps.  With the munchies.

[Ballard]

I know that it's generally fun to yell at major fast food chains for their involvement in America's "obesity epidemic" but this is a thread about fried chicken. You can yell about how their chicken isn't tasty but I don't think "too many calories" is a valid point.

[Boro_Bandito]

And to be fair if I ever ate at KFC... I might order that box. I enjoy popcorn chicken no matter where it comes from, they have good sides at least, and their chicken isn't the worst, as long as you get extra crispy, the original recipe does suck. The biscuits just aren't as good as popeyes though.

Strangely enough tonight in honor of this thread I made fried okra as one of the sides to a cajun inspired meal, which also included shrimp and sausage gumbo (sadly minus the file) and collard greens. All that talk about how awesome okra was earlier really made me crave it and I realized I haven't had any in years.