Which of these chicken restaurant chains do you like best?
Which of these chicken restaurant chains are your favorite?
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Hoot Crawford
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I'm a traditionalist so I go for KFC
Beth Gallagher
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We alternate between Chick-fil-a and Popeyes.
I like the original KFC the best, Bobby likes Bojangles, and it is okay, too. It is a ways away, so we seldom go there anymore, but occasionally I get the $10 eight piece special at KFC and we drive down and pick that up . KFC now has specials every day, and the 8-piece one is on Tuesday, and that is the only one we get, and maybe once a month.
Mostly, we cook and eat at home.
Mostly, we cook and eat at home.
KFC just opened a new restaurant in the area called Saucy. It has different stuff on the menu than the regular KFC's, not exactly haute cuisine but definitely haut-ier than fried chicken. Fancy sauces, fancier drinks, rice bowls, brussels sprouts bites, "drip" fries, new names for what is essentially some of the same old things. I might try it one of these days, but only if I'm in the area already.
The site I went to didn't have the prices on anything. That tells you something.....
The site I went to didn't have the prices on anything. That tells you something.....
I've not eaten at most of those, but usually prefer Popeye's to KFC. There are Zaxby's (they have zalads) and Bojangles not real far from me, but I never think to go there when I'm in the area.
I went grocery shopping in the big-ish city today and stopped by Bojangles to pick up lunch on the way home. Just like Popeye's, an 8 piece box with no sides is almost $24. Threw some slaw & potato chips on the side, and had a biscuit with butter & blueberry preserves for desert. It was pretty good. I prefer that dry style to KFC's steamed chicken. I didn't think to ask if they had spicy chicken like Popeye's does.
I've eaten at all of these, although it's been several years since I've been to a Bojangles, Church's, or Zaxby's. I'm not fond of Chick-fil-A, but the others are okay. Popeyes is my favorite.
I've been to Chick-fil-A maybe twice. I was unimpressed. Perhaps all the hype had my expectations too high.
I wanted to like Chick-fil-A, and I can't say that anything I had there was bad; it just wasn't anything special, and I didn't know what all the hype was about. When they opened a store in Bangor, the line for the drive-through was very long, and tends to always be long.
They all seem to be insanely busy.
Hedi Mitchell
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None of any of those even close to us. But in Texas did like Popeyes. Chicken Express had wonderful chicken breast tenders.
Don Alaska
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I guess I have been to a Chick-fil-A in the last 30 years, but that is about it.
Church's is an old school name...been around since the 50s. I recall an old Saturday Night Live skit spoofing them. We have 4 in Virginia, clustered in the southeast part of the state near the Atlantic. There's over 300 of them in Texas! I've never seen one, much less eaten there.
Beth Gallagher
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There are 65 of them in the Houston metro area. Church's has good chicken, rather like the crunchy version of KFC. Just basic fried chicken.
I read that Church's originated out of Texas. It was founded in San Antonio as Church's Chicken, and somewhere along the line became Church's Texas Chicken.
It's interesting than SNL (out of NYC) did a skit on it back in the 70s. I had never heard of it and would never have thought of it being a Texan thing.
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When I lived in California in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a chain of Church's Chicken restaurants, but I don't remember "Texas" being a part of the name. Then, I preferred Church's to KFC, but both were okay.
Beth Gallagher
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None of them around here have "Texas" in the name that I have noticed; they're just Church's Fried Chicken. Of course I don't pay much attention and haven't been to one in years.
It's weird that Wiki uses the two names interchangeably as you read that page. Church's used the name Texas Chicken when they first set up shop in non-Christian Asian countries, where the word "Church" would not have been good marketing. They use that name in all non-US restaurants.
I found a 2019 article that said they were gonna start rebranding globally as Church's Texas Chicken. Their website uses the Church's Texas Chicken logo. Restaurant pics on the web look like they're dragging their feet, at least on store signage. I guess it all eats.
ps: I'm done with this rabbit hole.
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