yeah, this. factory raised chickens have been bred for ever-increasing breast muscle, just like domestic turkeys. Kenji at Serious Eats did a clone of the Chik-fil-a sandwich and recommended cutting a standard boneless breast into two thinner cutlets since a whole one would be way too damn big for a sandwich.
I predict the next generation of these wars will feature vegeburgers made of chickweed.
I had one tonight (the spicy), and it was pretty good. I wouldn’t have stood in a long line for it, but we waited less than 10 minutes. It wasn’t “make me want to slap my grandmother” good.
Not kale?
Chickweed grows in chicken poop. There will be chicken sandwiches to kill for as long as there are chickens, and when there are no chickens, there will be no chickweed.
You scream and leap. Avoid the unnecessarily verbose challenge.
:eek:
Popeyes employee brutally body slams woman on concrete.
For a sandwich?
WTF is the matter with people?
I have no interest at all in getting near Popeyes anytime soon. Not until the frenzy is over.
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winner winner, chicken (sandwich) dinner…
We buy a whole roast CostCo chicken for the price of what? 1 or 2 chicken sandwiches? We tear off and devour the main limbs, leaving slabs of flesh to be sliced off, nuked or fried or sauteed, and used in, y’know, SANDWICHES, or quesadillas or tortas, or kebabs or whatever. Popeye and the Colonel and the fundy jeezoids running Chick-Fill-Lay are irrelevant if one has a few extra minutes. But do what you must when time is short.
I predict a future of autonomous cars run by McFood franchises. Take a TacoSmell or CrapInTheBox or PolloLoko wagon to and from work, eating guess-what along the way.
Let’s not forget…
Keep your smug snootiness to yourself, at least until you understand that a whole, bone-in rotisserie roasted chicken is in no way similar to breaded/fried breast cutlets.
I was going to say, I like those rotisserie chickens fine, but they in no way satisfy a fried chicken craving.
Chicken sandwiches are so easy. The secret is to butterfly the breast and separate into two pieces. That ensures they cook through evenly.
Double dip in seasoned flour and egg. Pan fry in olive oil and butter. (YouTube has DIY videos)
My wife and I work together. I butterfly and she dips the chicken. We alternate cooking the breast and assembling the sandwiches.
We can make sandwiches quicker than driving to & from Chick-Fil-A or the other fast food places.
I’ve read Chick-Fil-A marinated in pickle juice. I need to give it a try. Maybe for a hour?
The pickle juice thing I heard is false. Pickle juice does make a nice marinade, though. I make fried chicken sandwiches at home about once every six weeks, and they are nice and crispy, but I can’t quite get that light crunchy coat you get at Popeye’s or a lot of places. I think it’s probably a single dredge instead of a double. That gets me closer to the texture I like. Double coated is nice and crispy, but a bit thicker than I like. One of my favorite fried chicken places batters their chicken, producing a very nice, lightly crispy coating. I need to play around with that, as well.
Same here. Our extended family likes the chicken sandwiches we make at home.
They aren’t a exact copy of the fast food restaurant sandwiches. It would be very difficult without the exact recipe and equipment.
I still buy chicken sandwiches for lunch. There isn’t time to drive home, cook, and eat during my break.
I’ve eaten at a Popeye’s once. I ordered my food and while I was waiting for it, I noticed a Health Inspector’s report hanging on the wall. It was two full pages long and listed at least a dozen health code violations. I’ve never seen such a poor report before. The food was good (yes I ate it), but I couldn’t get that report out of my mind. I haven’t eaten at a Popeye’s since, even though I assume the problems were likely limited to that particular restaurant.
Understandable; self-cannibalism is highly taboo. 
Yeah, I hate eating the right wings of chickens. Too tough. Glad to hear that there’s a restaurant chain using the much more tender left-wings for their sandwiches. 
Of course not. So hack off some slices to fry. They’re already cooked through so you can concentrate on searing them JUST right.
Dude, it’s not the same. Look, I know how to fry a chicken. You can’t get a deep fried chicken from a rotisserie chicken.
No. The whole “I can make it better and cheaper at home” shtick is just lame. No, you can’t. Give it up.
I’m not much of a chicken fan when it comes to fast food; I’m more of a burger or sub man. I very occasionally eat at KFC, and before today I had eaten at Popeyes once, back in the late 1970s, and at Chick Fil-A once sometime in the 80s, before the owner’s politics became an issue. In recent times, boycotting Chick Fil-A has been no hardship for me, because I have no interest in, or desire for, their food.
Furthermore, I’ve always found the concept of a sandwich of breaded fried chicken to be rather over the top: bread on bread on chicken? I just didn’t see the appeal.
But after hearing about this fuss, and watching the video of the two young women trying all the fast food chicken sandwiches and practically having an orgasm over Popeyes’, I couldn’t resist, and tried one today.
Meh.
Didn’t do anything for me. I’d rather have any fast food burger, or a KFC two-piece meal, any day.
I have had some great fast food fried chicken recently: Hattie B’s in Atlanta. Probably the best chicken I’ve ever had. Unfortunately, there are only seven stores in the country, three of which are in Nashville.