Posted on 07/06/2020 5:28:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Believe it or not, some of the best fried chicken in Maryland is at a chain of gas stations called Royal Farms.
There used to be a chain here in Florida called ‘Maryland Fried Chicken’!................
I’ve had breakfast at Frisch’s Big Boy in Columbus, Ohio. The food was pretty good.
Back in the day, when I was music minister of a church that reached out to bikers, the pastor, deacons, and officers of the church would go on our bikes, wearing our colors, to Popeye’s for some serious FRIED CHICKEN.
The franchise, in Ft. Lauderdale, was owned and operated by Black People. The treated us very well and greeted us by name every Thursday. It was a weekly ride that I looked forward to, and now miss very much.
Your posting brought back a nice memory. Thanks!
KFC apparently changed its recipe some years ago and I swear their chicken isn't as tasty as it once was. Could Popeye's be doing the same thing--perhaps to appeal to a wider population as they expand?
Elias Brothers Big Boy was a well known chain in Michigan. It was out hangout. We were so bad, we had out own table that was never given to anyone else after 7pm but us.
I gave up on Popeyes a little over a year ago. I always order their spicy breasts. The chicken used to be a golden color then they started to be really dark. I tried three different local locations and they were all the same.
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For decades, the Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott’s Berry Farm, an amusement park in Buena Park, Calif. has been serving fried chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, and biscuits with boysenberry jam. My mother worked there as a waitress in 1942, and her boss was the wife of the Farm’s owner, Walter Knott. At the time, it was still a berry farm.
In the 1950’s, some of theeir chickens came from my uncle’s ranch, which was, as my mother described it at the time, “way out in the country.” Disneyland now sits on the site.
Knott was a big supporter of conservative causes. His family sold the Farm about 20 years ago, but their chicken is still good, and you can now take it home through their KFC-style takeout service.
With Popeyes
Browns (Chicago area)
and homemade
I could eat fried chicken 3-4 days a week.
Jack's and the Schnitzel are still there, the Jam-In is now a Mexican restaurant, and Taco Bell now serves Korean cuisine, but Bob's and Whirly's have long since departed and so have the cruisers.
Down Whittier Blvd.--Thee Midniters (1967)
True
I now live near Baltimore. I’m not sure if the Big Boy chain was ever here but a restaurant near me with lots of knick knacks on the wall has a Big Boy coin bank on a shelf.
I live in the Cincinnati suburbs, they are all over the place here. My in-laws used to eat breakfast there everyday.
I thought eating fried chicken was supposed to be racist?
Only if you’re white................
That would make then flied chickens ergo Chinese.
Still here.. I know one’s in Plant City. And it’s good!
Fried chicken is a racist dog whistle.
Outlaw chickens.
We had one in Jacksonville when I was a teenager. Closed long ago.................
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