“I see chicken in sweet waffles a lot these days; don’t really get it..”
I have the impression that chicken and waffles was a dish originated in Harlem as a late, late night snack for nightclub performers to have after they finished working.
To me that made total sense. You’d be really hungry, so you’d want that fried chicken, but it would be almost morning, so you’d want that breakfast dish which could also serve as desert.
I too was always like: what?!?! when I’d hear chicken and waffles, but after I heard that story it made total sense.
But I still think I’d only want to eat it at about 4 AM.
This also reminds me of a restaurant sign I saw in Jersey City: BREAKFAST....LUNCH....FRIED CHICKEN
“But I still think I’d only want to eat it at about 4 AM.”
After copious amounts of alcohol.
LOL!
Yes, after your explanation, I ‘get it’.
-JT
RE: Chicken n’ Waffles.
Came across an article that pointed, among a couple of other places, to Amish Country as the source of the dish.
It wasn’t unusual to kill a chicken for breakfast, and since Ma’s already stoking the cast iron stove to fry chicken, why not waffles as the accompaniment, since Pa’s just brought in fresh milk from the cows...
How it got associated with the South, particular Black cuisine, wasn’t covered, iirc.