Isn’t that just a SOUTHERN “thing”; as is a lot of what is now stupidly called “soul food”.
Nope it came out of Harlem
But it is well appreciated in the South
I just looked it up and IF whats on line can be believed, even Thomas Jefferson at this dish, during a time when Harlem was a vast farm land, owned and operated by a white DUTCH family, who may have eaten waffles ( a Pennsylvania Dutch dish well known in Pa. ), but not with a side of Southern Fried Chicken!
But in the 1930s it was, indeed, being served in restaurants in Harlem for the first time.
It's anyone's guess where or when this dish began!