There is a two fold irony in the blacks and fried chicken association.
1. Fried chicken is good. I love KFC and so do a whole lot of people.
2. Early in this countries history chicken was expensive. So having a black eat a fried chicken was showing blacks above their proper station in life. IIRC it comes from the movie Birth of a Nation.
Never knew that good food of any kind was racial.
The only bad thing about fried chicken is what eating it does to my weight.
My wife & I wanted to try tandoori chicken. An Indian chef’s youtube vid showed us how but he observed that dark meat is costlier in India because it’s moister & has more flavor than white meat, which is more expensive here. Interesting paradox.