Fried Chicken Day

National Fried Chicken Day was held on July 6th. You say you didn't know that, that you were  busy eating fried chicken that day? Well, fried chicken may be the international food favorite. It's done many ways with many seasonings and with many people claiming there fried chicken favorite is the best.  Fried chicken was an expensive delicacy up until World War II, but thanks to mass production techniques that made chicken the people's affordable meat, we're now able to indulge ourselves on the cheap in almost any city in the world.

Fried chicken is the cook's favorite experimental food. I've seen Ramen covered fried chicken, fried chicken marinated in tea, fried chicken corn dogs, kosher fried chicken, coconut fried chicken, even chicken and waffle cupcakes. You can have them all. What I like is the simple flour battered, slat and pepper seasoned and fried in oil chicken. It makes me an extremist because today fried chicken is hard to define.

In Gainesville, Georgia, a woman was nearly arrested for trying to eat fried chicken with a fork. Apparently because of a very old law still on the books, it is only legal to eat fried chicken with your bare hands there. Any other method is illegal. I think I agree with the old law. People who eat fried chicken with a fork are the same ones who put ketchup in eggs. They should be shot. Oddly enough, that Georgia law is enforced from time to time. The law describes fried chicken as “a culinary delicacy sacred to this municipality, this county, this state, the Southland, and this republic.” Well, donuts are sacred, but chicken is almost that.

I once say in a grocery store that it was selling a canned vegetarian fried chicken. There should be law against that! Yuk! I can't write any more about noble fried chicken after remembering that. I wonder if KFC is still open....