This Stupid Rush In America For Chicken Sandwiches

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Since Popeye's came out with a chicken sandwich a year ago every other funky food chained has joined in on the idea this is something new when in fact the world has been eating fried chicken since the dinosaurs disappeared. The difference is................ a bun!! Small wonder things like pet rocks and spinners sell millions to stupid folks.
 

When I was a young, working single dad, I liked Burger King's chicken sandwich. Served on a soft hoagie bun, if I remember right. Doing the math, that one's been around for eons. Now it's called the "original" chicken sandwich because they started making a "grilled" one during America's fast-food calorie panic of the 1990s.
 
I felt the same way a couple of years ago when Chik-fil-A opened a store in my area.

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My wife and I have never had any sort of food in a bun, not even a hamburger. On a trip to the US a few years ago we went into a place called, "Wendy's," just for the experience. Asked what I would like, I asked for a menu. That got a laugh, I was told to look at the pictures above the serving staff and choose one. "What," I thought, "can't be mutilated." Chicken, that's what. What came up on the plate I can only describe as a carpet burger. There was some pathetic looking fries and some sort of relish that honestly looked like someone had puked on the plate. My wife's choice was no better, we just kept squashing it up so that it filled less plate and looked as though we had eaten some, in fact we didn't touch it, but at least we can say that we have had the experience.
 
horseless carriage said:
My wife and I have never had any sort of food in a bun, not even a hamburger. On a trip to the US a few years ago we went into a place called, "Wendy's," just for the experience. Asked what I would like, I asked for a menu. That got a laugh, I was told to look at the pictures above the serving staff and choose one. "What," I thought, "can't be mutilated." Chicken, that's what. What came up on the plate I can only describe as a carpet burger. There was some pathetic looking fries and some sort of relish that honestly looked like someone had puked on the plate. My wife's choice was no better, we just kept squashing it up so that it filled less plate and looked as though we had eaten some, in fact we didn't touch it, but at least we can say that we have had the experience.
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Wendy's was my favorite because their meat tasted fresh and lively (not to be confused with alive-ly). But I haven't eaten fast food burgers in quite some time, and I suppose Wendy's uses frozen burger now, like all the other chains.
 
I'm sorry but chicken is meant to be served with fresh asparagus, mushrooms, cheese baked in a madeira wine butter sauce. If not that then maybe chicken salad. You need to do something out of the ordinary since everything tastes like it. :)
 
JonDouglas said:
I'm sorry but chicken is meant to be served with fresh asparagus, mushrooms, cheese baked in a madeira wine butter sauce. If not that then maybe chicken salad. You need to do something out of the ordinary since everything tastes like it. :)
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Don't apologise, we will occasionally serve up a roast chicken with sage & onion stuffing plus all the trimmings. The chicken leftovers, and there is plenty of them, make an excellent Risotto or Paella.
 
MarciKS said:
What's wrong with wanting a chicken sandwich. What's wrong with liking them if they're specialty sandwiches? No offense but you guys sure do nitpick stuff to death in this place. I like chicken sandwiches too so I guess that makes me stupid. 😁
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A bunch of grumpy old men (no offense intended). I wonder what they would do if they didn't have someone to cook their meals? Settle for the chicken sandwiches, perhaps?!
 
There is a reason fast food places stopped using this in their ads.

"Good food takes time, yours will be ready in seconds. "

Even dumb people figured it out.

Seasoned & rotisserie BBQ'ed chicken made at home as a snack is really good. Home made rolls obviously are used.
 
What a lot of chicken feed LOL....

Shredded left over roast chicken in a bun with my special salad dressing and green salad, is a lunch speciality in my house.
 
I have made a chicken sandwich at home many times when there's left over chicken from a meal but I have never bought one from a fast food place. The idea just doesn't appeal to me somehow. Burger & fries yes - chicken sandwich ah, no thanks! I have had KFC a couple of times but never anything from Popeyes. I thought Popeye was famous for spinach, not chicken.
 
PamfromTx said:
A bunch of grumpy old men (no offense intended). I wonder what they would do if they didn't have someone to cook their meals? Settle for the chicken sandwiches, perhaps?!
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Ha! Since I am the one who now cooks all the meals, the right to grump, rattle pots and pans and declare chicken as a taste-handicapped bird shall be integral to my reign as king of the kitchen. If not smothered with a good sauce, that flavor-challenged meat should be buried in a salad or drowned in a well-seasoned soup.
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