# Best (large) fried chicken chain **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433 "2010-12-08T17:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/21 "2010-12-08T21:55:05Z")
Voted for Popeye’s, although the best fast food fried chicken, IMHO, was at Wendy’s. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/22 "2010-12-08T22:04:42Z")
Popeyes is usually my favorite unless the server gives me hot & spicy instead of the regular. That ruins the dinner for me. Hot & spicy is ridiculously hot. I always order regular. I suspect sometimes they serve me Hot & spicy if they are out of regular breasts. I wonder why Popeyes is so damn stingy with the sides? They only give one with a dinner. Churchs, KFC, give two. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/23 "2010-12-08T23:21:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I wonder why Popeyes is so damn stingy with the sides? They want you to buy a combo pack, which comes with a soda and two sides. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/24 "2010-12-09T00:42:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Popeyes is usually my favorite unless the server gives me hot & spicy instead of the regular. > > That ruins the dinner for me. Hot & spicy is ridiculously hot. > > I always order regular. I suspect sometimes they serve me Hot & spicy if they are out of regular breasts. > > I wonder why Popeyes is so damn stingy with the sides? They only give one with a dinner. Churchs, KFC, give two. I never bother getting the sides, I can make my own side dishes a lot cheaper than they can. Less sodium and nasty grease too. Besides, Boston Chicken is the only one [I think] that has creamed spinach, and we tend to like new potatoes with garlic butter and freshly cracked pepper. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/25 "2010-12-09T03:49:23Z")
Did anyone else visualize a ChickenZilla running through the streets of Tokyo for just a second? > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Even vegetarianslikeme love Popeye’s beans and rice, cole sla, french fries and biscuits. Oh no, **Annie**! The Beans have pork fat in them! Sorry if that ruined them for you, but veggies gotta look out for that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/26 "2010-12-09T04:59:14Z")
I didn’t vote. The only chicken chain up here is KFC. Actually, there’s a Popeye’s but I haven’t found it yet. I haven’t had Popeye’s in at least a decade, and at the time I liked Pioneer Chicken. The best fried chicken I’ve had was at Aunt Kizzy’s Back Porch, which doesn’t qualify for the poll. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/27 "2010-12-09T05:07:39Z")
Church’s then Popeye’s. Popeye’s for the red beans and rice and Church’s for the biscuits. Both have good chicken. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/28 "2010-12-09T07:25:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I didn’t vote. The only chicken chain up here is KFC. Actually, there’s a Popeye’s but I haven’t found it yet. I haven’t had Popeye’s in at least a decade, and at the time I liked Pioneer Chicken. The best fried chicken I’ve had was at Aunt Kizzy’s Back Porch, which doesn’t qualify for the poll. I did not vote for this reason. Only KFC is near me. Church’s and Popeye’s are in San Diego but they are to far to go for fast food. It is the American west fried chicken desert. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/29 "2010-12-10T00:00:06Z")
With the caveat that I’ve only ever had KFC, Church’s, Lee’s, and Popeye’s, I voted Popeye’s. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/30 "2010-12-10T00:25:40Z")
Incidentally, the OP left out [Maryland Fried Chicken](http://marylandfriedchicken.com/), though I would put it well behind Bojangles and Popeye’s anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433/31 "2010-12-10T00:40:32Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Incidentally, the OP left out [Maryland Fried Chicken](http://marylandfriedchicken.com/), though I would put it well behind Bojangles and Popeye’s anyway. Not enough locations to qualify. Funny there aren’t actually any locations in Maryland. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-large-fried-chicken-chain/563433.md?page=1)