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So where was it invented? I have been told numerous times it was invented and developed by the African Americans in the south?
Probably England and Scotland. The English in particular have been frying all manner of foods for centuries. They even fry vegetables, cooked grains and bread doughs and cakes. Fried breads such as bannock originated in Scotland and Northern England. The English have been frying battered or floured poultry, rabbit, red meats and fish in pork lard since forever.
African Americans may have brought many African recipes and cooking methods with them to the Americas but frying meats in fats/oils wasn't one of them. They adopted and adapted many other cultures cooking methods after they were brought to the Americas and started mingling with people of other cultures, in particular Scottish methods, mannerisms and language. Like y'all for example - that's of Scottish origin.
We ate a lot of Fried Chicken in Moscow, and Moscow is 95% white. I think USA is pretty much the only place where Fried Chicken is stereotypes as being black food
Deep fried chicken is rather rare here. Marinated buffalo wings have some popularity as snacks, but mostly rednecks and other eat them at restaurants, mainly in Tampere, Pori and in a few other really redneck hillbilly cities.
what is it about fried chicken that would make people who eat meat not enjoy it?
do people actually think it tastes bad (lets use a universal brand like kfc for the example) or is it just like health food nuts that cant get past the whole deep fried/ fried food thing
serious question because i personally never met anyone who didnt enjoy some good fried chicken on occasion
I have noticed more fried chicken is consumed here in the southern US than other places I've lived. I also see a lot more black people buying it than white people. I figure this is because they are native southerners, and not transplants from the north.
Any grocery store deli in the north, does sell fried chicken, but you don't see folks buying it as much. As a child in the northeast we never had fried chicken, just baked.
isn't it mainly the Asians in Vancouver, and Blacks/ Asians/ other ethnic groups in Toronto, who are the MAIN clientele for the fried chicken places there though?
It is regional though for sure, even in West Coast US, it is less common for Whites to eat fried chicken than would be the case in the Middle America or Southern states, but we have transplants with Southern roots who know it's not easy to remove fried chicken from their diet, even when they move to so-called-more-health-conscious regions of the US.
Except for Washington State, especially outside the large cities. Most of rural WA is white and they have fried chicken everywhere! You can get it at gas stations, mainly the mom and pop ones but it's seriously easy to find and whites are the main ones eating it.
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