What's the story that goes on and on about chicken waffles and opening a chain of restaurants making them famous?
I finally found it on the menu at a restaurant and tried them.
They sounded better in the story than in real life.
Probably true with about 95% of stuff on SOL I guess.
Has anyone else tried them? We're you a fan/convert?
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As far as Chicken & Waffles go IRL... well, I find them ok but the waffle itself is more of a detraction to the taste of the fried chicken and maple syrup... Don't get me wrong, I do love waffles and syrup...and I LOVE fried chicken...and thanks to trying Chicken and Waffles, I discovered that I love the taste of fried chicken with maple syrup... its just that the addition of a waffle to that taste combination lessens the impact of the flavors to me. But that is all a matter of personal tastes and preferences. I am perfectly happy with what I like and I am perfectly happy to let others enjoy what they like.
Try breading the chicken before frying. But use the dry waffle mix instead of just flour, or whatever else you us. Use the maple syrup for a dip with it.
Edited: breeding to breading. Though the chicken would probably like to get laid one last time before your dinner.
@Remus2
Try breeding the chicken before frying.
What is the purpose of that eggsperiment?
I think he meant breading, but I'm not certain.
I think he meant breading, but I'm not certain.
In context, I agree. Bread the chicken with dry waffle mix instead of flour.
A regular waffle does, IMO, take away from the taste. A Belgian waffle doesn't, but I also like mixing some of the other tastes from all the different toppings. Peanut butter works well with fried chicken and Belgian waffles. (Smooth, not crunchy.)
Bread the chicken with dry waffle mix instead of flour.
My mom did an oven fried chicken that she liked to bread using buttermilk pancake mix rather than flour.
bread using buttermilk pancake mix rather than flour.
Think I'll give that a try this evening.
A Belgian waffle
What's a Belgian Waffle?
I'm from Belgium...
Even wikipedia doesn't help much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_waffle
We have waffle (Gaufre) named by a city like Brussels' Waffle or Liège Waffle, we also have famous waffle named by the place where they are available, Siska Waffle, Marie Siska Waffle, or Waffle named by a region like Galette Campinoise.
All are extremely different. I must have about 9 different Waffle iron molds for over 200 recipes.
But I would be hard pressed to think of one which would be acceptable with chicken.
dry waffle mix
What kind of abomination is that?
Is that flour with salt, sugar and yeast or is there more to it?
What's a Belgian Waffle?
The difference is mostly in the waffle iron.
A standard American waffle is relatively thin. About the thickness of a slice of pre-sliced bread. Think Eggo toaster waffles. An American waffle iron will produce home made waffles about the same thikness as that.
What we call a Belgian waffle is much thicker, an inch or more thick at the outer edge.
And no, we don't think Belgian waffles come from Belgium any more than we think hamburgers come from Hamburg, Germany.
dry waffle mix
What kind of abomination is that?
Why would you consider it an abomination?
It's a ready made waffle mix. It comes in two forms, regular and complete.
With the regular mix, it contains pretty much the same dry ingredients that you would use to make waffle (or pancake) batter from scratch already combined in a ready to use powdered form. To this you add your own milk (or water), eggs, and oil.
The complete mix contains powered milk and eggs and you just add water to the dry mix to create the batter.
ETA: PS: Do you also consider dry cake mixes to be an abomination?
hamburgers come from Hamburg, Germany.
"Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for 'freeman' or 'citizen' (German Bürger, Low German Börger) and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg". My father's mother's maiden name was May Burger.
If the meat patty in the "ham burger" is made with ham, would you have to call it a pork burger?
If the meat patty in the "ham burger" is made with ham, would you have to call it a pork burger?
That would be a spamburger.
What's a Belgian Waffle?
As is noted on Wikipedia, it's a version of the Brussels waffle. Also note that regular pancake/waffle mix has a different mix of ingredients than Belgian waffle mix does.
I buy the Krusteaz Belgian Waffle Mix, and I have an actual commercial grade Belgian Waffle maker as well.
What is the purpose of that eggsperiment?
To discover if the chicken likes being tied down before breeding. If yes then it would be Henti Chicken & Waffles.
Would that be chicken play or hen tie?
https://noelfashiontees.com/tee/hentai-sexy-anime-chicken-girl-shirt/
Someone was way ahead of you there.
I said Henti, not hen tie.
I googled "chicken henti". The only result on the first page that was actually henti, rather than hentie or hentai, looked like the sort of site that might give my computer a nasty virus :-(
AJ
site that might give my computer a nasty virus :-(
If in doubt ensure your computer is safe inside an (unlubricated) plastic 'bag' and for double safety, do the same to your modem.
For unknown reasons, certain popular adult sites use both Hentai and Henti interchangeably. Since SoL is mostly 'adult' orientated, I chose to use Henti instead of Hentai.
Chicken Henti (Hentai) is basically fowl manga.
What's the story that goes on and on about chicken waffles and opening a chain of restaurants making them famous?
I finally found it on the menu at a restaurant and tried them.
I actually had that in one of my recent stories. Based on a real place I used to eat at back in Inglewood about 20 years ago.
Chicken and waffles is actually a staple in soul food.
Chicken and waffles is actually a staple in soul food.
I've heard of chicken and waffles, but "chicken waffles" makes me think of either chicken shaped waffles or chicken dipped in waffle batter then deep fried.
Has anyone else tried them? We're you a fan/convert?
It sounded quite weird to me when I read it. So once when I saw it on the menu at a Southern restaurant, I ordered it to see what it tastes like. Was not impressed.
It's not a standard southern food. I'd be curious what location you found it in?
My understanding is that it started in the south but it's everywhere now. IHOP has a chicken and waffles item on their menu.
IHOP started life in California. It's not where I'd be looking for southern food. I'll look around my area for it.
IHOP started life in California. It's not where I'd be looking for southern food.
I didn't offer IHOP as evidence of southern origins, I offered it as evidence that it's everywhere now.
I found a wikipidia article on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_and_waffles
Apparently a version with stewed and pulled rather than fried chicken goes back to 17th century Pennsylvania.
There appears to be no good information on the origin point for the pairing of fried chicken with waffles.
Chicken and waffles are obviously cultural appropriation by Yankees. Combining the fine southern tradition of crispy fried chicken and the slightly nauseating Pennsylvania Dutch idea of putting stewed chicken on formerly-crispy waffles seems like a bad idea.
Or to put it another way, I grew up in the deep south. Never heard of the combination until fairly recently.
And just to note, Atlanta's preeminent black-owned restaurant since the 1940's doesn't have it on the menu.
https://www.paschalsatlanta.com/menu
And just to note, Atlanta's preeminent black-owned restaurant since the 1940's doesn't have it on the menu.
I will note in reply that Chicken and Waffles is supposed to be a breakfast item.
The restaurant you linked to does not appear to have any breakfast items on their on-line menu. And looking at their hours, they are only open for lunch and dinner.
Chicken and waffles are obviously cultural appropriation by Yankees.
Nope. Actually, the Pennsylvania Dutch INVENTED it. But not with fried chicken.
Here's a nice, two part article (Part 1 and Part 2) that pretty much explains where FRIED chicken and waffles came from. Which was the deep south.
Most references to it, including wiki quote it as "soul food" susposedly derived from African American and southeast Native Americans.
Growing up in the trust/reservation, I never heard of it.
The soul food restaurants in Chattanooga, Nashville, and Knoxville I am aware of, do not have it on their menu. I did find reference to it from Gus's in Memphis which is a popular soul food chain. I'd probably have to call them to confirm as the reference was secondary.
Most references to it, including wiki quote it as "soul food" susposedly derived from African American and southeast Native Americans.
Growing up in the trust/reservation, I never heard of it.
The soul food restaurants in Chattanooga, Nashville, and Knoxville I am aware of, do not have it on their menu. I did find reference to it from Gus's in Memphis which is a popular soul food chain. I'd probably have to call them to confirm as the reference was secondary.
I have seen it in a great many Soul Food places.
However, it also depends on the owners of the place and what they feel like having on the menu.
And by the same token, Chittlins is unquestionably "Southern" and "Soul Food", but I know more places that will not serve it than will.
by the same token, Chittlins is unquestionably "Southern" and "Soul Food"
Actually, it's not. It goes back to medieval times. If you stuffed the intestines with something, then it became sausage. If you didn't have anything to stuff it with, then you simply cooked and at that. Or, if you were French, you stuffed pig intestines with other, heavily seasoned, pig intestines.
Of course, there's also D.H. Lawrence's recipe, too. Lady Chitterling's Liver ...
ETA: There is more than one supermarket here in Oklahoma City that has chitterlings for sale in the meat department, too, if someone has a hankering to try it.
Actually, it's not. It goes back to medieval times.
That has nothing to do with who first made it. After all, nobody thinks of "Fortune Cookies" as American, or Pizza.
Do not confuse who first made something, with who may later adopt it into their own culture. They are not the same thing.
After all, nobody thinks of "Fortune Cookies" as American, or Pizza.
Actually, anyone who's watched the History Channel and the story of food does ...
On a episode of Diner, Drive-in and Dives they had a great version called the Thanksgiving waffle dinner. It had a waffle made from stuffing mix with sliced Turkey and Mashed Potatoe and gravy.
Also try using cake mix in a waffle maker.