KFC Nashville Chicken vs Arby's Nashville Fish

[I Should Coco]

It was quite possibly the nastiest, blandest, rubberyist (is that a word? for the sake of this post, it is.) dreck I have ever sank my teeth into.

The one time I went to our local Golden Corral buffet, I figured among the nasty meat loaf, dried out slices of pizza, and germ-infested chocolate wonderfall, the fried chicken had to be edible.

Wrong.

It was as nasty, bland and rubbery as the KFC stuff you describe.

 

[OscarMadison]

I clicked on that link.
For someone who has eaten there, does the spice outweigh the taste?
I've said this a thousand times. I can handle as spicy as it comes, as long as it has good taste.
That's why a place like Bolton's would concern me. It doesn't make two squirts of shirt how spicy the food is if the food tastes like two squirts of shirt.

It has a nice balance of flavor and heat. Prince's Hot Chicken used to be that way until it got to be the destination for Nashville Hot Chicken. One caveat: go early in the day and get medium hot. Anything hotter than that and the spices might drown out the flavor of the protein.

 

[Chef2]

The one time I went to our local Golden Corral buffet, I figured among the nasty meat loaf, dried out slices of pizza, and germ-infested chocolate wonderfall, the fried chicken had to be edible.

Wrong.

It was as nasty, bland and rubbery as the KFC stuff you describe.

Our local Golden Corral here.....or as we call it....The Trough.......just opened back up a couple weeks ago.
Not. On. Your. Life.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Haraold's in Chicago has great fried chicken.

 

[Twirling Time]

There's a Popeyes about 25 steps from work. If I take lunch early I'll hit it when it first opens because if I wait, it'll be jam packed.

I still think the kerfuffle over their chicken sandwich was a test run for something the Russians were cooking up on social media.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

THIS was the best fast food fried chicken. The batter was so forking thick.

Not sure what happened but Pioneer fell off the wagon: The Rise and Fall of Pioneer Chicken, the Last Great L.A. Chicken Shack

There was Arthur Treacher's, a 1970s fish and chips chain (the first in America),started by an actor from Mary Poppins. Three survive on Long Island and four are scattered around Ohio. There were the McDonald's franchises that still sold the McPizza, one in Ohio and one in West Virginia, until corporate made them stop in 2017 (took too long to cook). There was the last Howard Johnson's restaurant in upstate New York, recently closed because the owner was a sexual predator. There was Wimpy, a pre-World War II burger joint that no longer exists in America but thrives in South Africa. Then, there was Pioneer Chicken, a homegrown fried chicken chain endorsed by O.J. Simpson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, that once boasted 270 locations.

Holy Lord, it's still around.

Why did nobody in Los Angeles ever tell me this?

The first thing I learned from Googling was that Pioneer Chicken is all over the place in Indonesia — just look for the outline of Pioneer Pete's iconic chuck wagon. It's called California Fried Chicken there, and it was founded by a group of Indonesian guys who got hooked on Pioneer while in college at USC and wanted to bring it home.​

Just yesterday I found a website selling merch with old SoCal company logos on it and was sorely tempted to grab one of these:

Pioneer Chicken Vintage Style Soft Tee

 

[Scout]

The regional champ where I live. The sides are to die for, too.

https://www.leesfamousrecipe.com/menu

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Had Lee's before. Not terrible.

Everyone's playing for second after Eischen's, tho.

 

[TigerVols]

Just yesterday I found a website selling merch with old SoCal company logos on it and was sorely tempted to grab one of these:

Pioneer Chicken Vintage Style Soft Tee

Why? They didn't have Pup N Taco in your size?

 

[Scout]

Had Lee's before. Not terrible.

Everyone's playing for second after Eischen's, tho.

Oklahoma?

 

[justgladtobehere]

There's a Popeyes about 25 steps from work. If I take lunch early I'll hit it when it first opens because if I wait, it'll be jam packed.

I still think the kerfuffle over their chicken sandwich was a test run for something the Russians were cooking up on social media.

I flew through Charlotte and the Bojangles line was thirty feet long at 11 AM.

 

[Songbird]

Chicken-wise, Popeye's is as close to Pioneer as I've had.

Chick Fil-A isn't all that great and certainly not that much better than KFC.