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😃🇺🇸🍗🧇🗓️❗️Yummy😋 or Yucky🤢❓ (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Oct 20
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radical noodle
(8,581 posts)1. Yummy!
And if the waffles are cornbread waffles, it's even better.
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,904 posts)6. 🤗
marble falls
(62,052 posts)2. Both. Where's the strawberry preserves? ...
The Explosion Of Chicken And Waffles Began In 1870 Thanks To The National Railway System
By
SouthFloridaReporter.com -
Oct 20, 2024
Savory and sweet collide for a soulful celebration of flavor on October 20th as we celebrate National Chicken and Waffles Day. Imagine a world where ingredients of every spice and spirit find their way into the honeycombs of thick and crispy waffles. Well, that day has arrived.
6000 BC Waffles are an ancient food dating back to the rustic hotcakes cooked on stones in the Neolithic Age (6000BC to 2000 BC).
500 AD Fried chicken shows up in its earliest form as a fricassee chicken pieces braised in a sauce. Fricassee was popular in the Mediterranean basin during the medieval period.
14th Century Waffles have been eaten since the 14th century.
17th Century Chicken and waffles first appeared in Pennsylvania Dutch country. During this time, cooks made waffles topped with pulled chicken and gravy.
18th Century conventional wisdom has designated the American South as fried chickens native home. Southerners have made it a mainstay of their regional cuisine claiming that the dish was developed by the African slaves who were doing most of the cooking in Southern kitchens.
1700s The exact origins of the dish are unknown; there are several versions of its origins. Food historians have unearthed chicken and waffle recipes in cookbooks as far back as the late 1700s after Thomas Jefferson returned from France with a waffle iron.
1800s Chicken and waffles have been around for more than 150 years. And while no one knows who first put chicken and waffles on the same plate together, we do know the meal was a staple of both African-American cooks and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
1870s The big, nationwide boom in fried chicken and waffles began in the 1870s mirroring the rise of a national railroad system that mitigated the strain of long-distance travel.
1917 A Chicago restaurant advertised a Southern chicken dinner with waffles and real maple syrup (35 cents each!) Today, Metro Diner serves more than 1,300 orders of fried chicken and waffles every day!
1938 a different version of the combination appeared in Harlem, NY at the Wells Supper Club. Known as Wells to the regulars, this was a favorite of late-night musicians who arrived too late for dinner and too early for breakfastso chicken and waffles was the perfect compromise.
2019 Metro Diner sold more than 485,000 orders of our Fried Chicken & Waffles thats nearly two million pieces of fried chicken!
2021 Roscoes House of Chicken N Waffles in Southern California founded National Chicken and Waffles Day in 2021
The dish is most commonly made by serving fried chicken with a waffle, the waffle then typically being covered with butter and/or syrup (as is common practice among those who eat waffles for breakfast in the United States). This unusual combination of foods is beloved by many people who are influenced by traditions of soul food passed down from past generations of their families.
There are myriad of ways to eat this dish: Some people go right for the chicken, saving the waffle for dessert. Others do exactly the opposite: They start with the waffle because they want to save the chicken for last. Some shred the chicken, put it on the waffle, pour the syrup over the whole thing, and nosh away.
The combination became increasingly popular, spreading to Los Angeles when Harlem native Herb Hudson opened a restaurant dedicated to the pairing. The restaurant, Roscoes House of Chicken and Waffles, is a staple for music industry professionals and performers in the LA area.
Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri is a big fan of Metro Diners Fried Chicken and Waffles he featured them on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network.
It takes 48 hours to brine and marinate the chicken to give it maximum flavor and juiciness before we pour even one drop of the sweet and spicy sauce that so perfectly complements the delicious dish.
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,904 posts)7. 🤔
underpants
(186,640 posts)3. Never had it. Seems odd to me.
justaprogressive
(2,447 posts)4. Sorry..The greazy chik'n
dumped on a sickly sweet, corn-syrup laden waffle turns my stomach...
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,904 posts)9. 😬
Polly Hennessey
(7,453 posts)5. Doesn't look good. Too much, just too much. Ugh! 😣
Floyd R. Turbo
(28,904 posts)10. 😬