This talk of pan fried chicken is starting to bug me, man. I was thinking about it recently, how that was just about the only way I had chicken in the first however many years of my life. I can remember the large frying pans or skillets, and later, electric skillets, absolutely sizzling with it.....usually on Sundays, but other times, too.
While I enjoy the occasional national chain fried chicken meal as much as anyone, I'd thought recently about how, as tasty as they are, not one of these places serves an actual piece of fried chicken like what I knew as a kid. The modern processes just don't equate. I LOVE Colonel Sanders' secret herbs and spices, the extra-crispy, etc., and in the '80s I used to love taking home Pioneer Chicken from the place on Sunset Blvd. (unfortunately, I have no real memory of what theirs tasted like, but there was something about the place and the menu selections that I just really liked a lot). I have managed to have Popeye's all of twice, since they have no outlets local to me, so I have no real sense of their variety. And a lot of people swear by Roy Rogers chicken, but now there are none of those around here, either.
So where was I going with that? Anyway, the idea of ordering fried chicken somewhere just never occurs to me, other than the very occasional take-out from KFC. I've never been one for trying to fry chicken myself, either. I would just like someone ELSE (as DR John G. noted) to do it for me!
One nice but brief childhood memory is from one of our family car trips between Ohio and Florida, in the days just before you could drive it all on interstates. This time, we went through Corbin, Kentucky, and stopped for lunch at the large and bustling original Colonel Sanders restaurant for a sit-down fried chicken meal. I'd like to do that again, right now.
http://www.corbinkytourism.com/sandersKFC.htm
