Long Wait for Taste of Home Guatemalan Fried Chicken Draws a Crowd

Washington Post ^ | 10/17/03 | Annie Gowen

[Willie Green]

The article says that before the chicken is fried, it's injected with marinade.

Mmmmmm... sounds like a tastey way to do it!
I suppose a lot depends on their secret blend of herbs and spices that go into the maranade. I don't know what it is about Popeye's Hot & Spicey fried chicken, though. I like the way it tastes, but the dang stuff gives me the trots.

[nothingnew]

"It tastes like chicken. No kiddin'".

FMCDH

[nothingnew]

..but the dang stuff gives me the trots.

The 'ol green apple two step, huh?

FMCDH

[Modernman]

The best local fried chicken for me is from the deli dept. at a local Copps supermarket

When I was attending the University of Michigan, there was a family-run soul food place down the street from my house. It was awesome- the fried chicken was out of this world, the biscuits were to die for. You would feel your arteries screaming every time you ate there, but it was worth it.

I really need to go and catch a Michigan game next year and see if that place is still there.

[Blue Screen of Death]

When I was in Mexico I noticed that the Asada brothers own almost all the resturants. You see their names everywhere... Carne Asada and Pollo Asada.

[FixitGuy]

Sunbury, Ohio, IGA store, Hot Deli.

Best fried chicken I've ever eaten! Plump, delicious flavor, no heartburn. Always hot and freshly cooked all day..('til about 2:00).

[Cagey]

KRAMER: Yea, yea go ahead. Put the banner up. Doesn't matter to me.
JERRY: Alright.
KRAMER: No Jerry! I need that chicken, I gotta have that chicken, you leave those roasters alone, Kenny never hurt anybody.
JERRY: You got a little problem.
KRAMER: Oh I got a BIG problem Jerry!

[Modernman]

When I was in Mexico I noticed that the Asada brothers own almost all the resturants. You see their names everywhere... Carne Asada and Pollo Asada

Drumroll, please...

[nothingnew]

Best fried chicken I've ever eaten! Plump, delicious flavor, no heartburn. Always hot and freshly cooked all day..('til about 2:00).

Sounds like Jim Morrison's and my girl friend back in 69.

FMCDH

[Alouette]

Neighbors say that, since the restaurant opened, their streets have been jammed with cars and pedestrians and littered with Pollo Campero's crumpled wrappers. Edwards said her driveway has been blocked a half-dozen times by the customers and she has repeatedly called police to complain.

She'll get a faster response if she calls PETA.

[Tacis]

Great business opportunity for all the folks at the Mexican counselates. They can sell all those "extra" matricula cards to the Guatemalans waiting in line for chicken. Golly, it's a win win situation!

[FixitGuy]

Who's Jim Morrison's, and what is FMCDH?

[Willie Green]

The 'ol green apple two step, huh?

Yep, I'm afraid so.
I can't quite figure it out.
The first time I had it, I thought maybe it was just a bad batch of chicken.
But I never had any problems with the regular recipe.
And I eat all kinds of other hot & spicey foods with no ill effects.
So that's why I keep trying the Popeye's hot & spicey.
And it would happen again and again. Same results: regular recipe OK, but the hot & spicey (which I like the taste better) just shoots through me like a goose. I can't figure it out.

[Pyro7480]

[nothingnew]

"i eat more chicken any man ever seen".....DOORS...Jim Morrison...never mind.

FMCDH(fommycolddeadhands)

[FixitGuy]

Thanks..Not a rock fan..

2nd Amendment rocks though!

[nothingnew]

...just shoots through me like a goose. I can't figure it out.

Maybe you're not "logged" in?...sorry, it is FRiday...

FMCDH

[dennisw]

The recipe and cooking method seem easy to duplicate and open up rival store with Hispanic name. And make the chicken better.


---> A: My first thought was the local outlet of the Central American chicken chain Pollo Campero, in the La Curacao department store downtown — it has hourlong lines at all times of day and night. But the chain, as ubiquitous as KFC in Guatemala and El Salvador, really specializes in more of a garlicky, peppery fried chicken, sort of Popeye’s-plus in style, although there is roast chicken too.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Here in Las Vegas, this chicken isn't bad at all!

[B-Chan]

Any Texan could tell you why. The equation is simple:

grease + chili peppers = ANAL THUNDER

Popeye’s chicken features both ingedients.