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In fried chicken news

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | Food & Drink | Permalink | 2 Comments |

Popeye’s may be opening a Cedar Bluff location in Knoxville.

This has been the fried chicken report.

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Yoga is to the Baptist Church

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | Home Life | Permalink | No Comments |

(I found this 2004 draft while applying the “fried chicken” tag to some old posts. For some reason I never published it until now.)

Yoga is to the Baptist Church what stretching is to fried chicken. That’s my theory, anyway.

Melissa has been taking pre-natal yoga classes. Thursday was spouse night, so I got to go.

I took yoga classes about five years ago. I liked the exercise, but didn’t like the religious aspect the teacher was pushing. The friend who invited me to the class went to a retreat in Florida, realized that they weren’t just pushing good health, and backed out.

Melissa’s yoga instructor didn’t seem interested in more than a token reference to the spiritual aspects, which was fine by me.

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Word of the Day: Bojangles

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | Word of the Day | Permalink | 1 Comment |

Urban Dictionary:

Fine ass female with nice thick legs, thighs, and breasts, referring to the restaraunt Bojangles.

Damn she got some thick ass thighs and legs. Call that bitch Bojangles…..

And this:

A Rap/Hip Hop song performed by Pitbull

“If you don’t know her name it’s cool call her this:
Jiggy jiggy, call that girl bojangles. “

All I can say is that Bojangles the fried chicken place is it. The thing. Better, even, in many ways than my beloved Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken because of the spicy chicken, spicy green beans, spicy dirty rice and spicy pinto beans, plus the amazing biscuits at the one on Lovell Road in Knoxville.

Previous WOTD - Verklempt

See also:
- Study: Fried Chicken Beneficial to Health

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In Fried Chicken News…

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 | Food & Drink | Permalink | No Comments |

Courier-Journal via Frank, the Colonel is getting a new look:

The new Colonel is younger, better defined, a video-age celebrity chef. And he doesn’t have to share his space with the letters KFC. He’s meant to represent Kentucky Fried Chicken again. His new look is less like your grandfather and more like your cousin.

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The Game of Fours

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 | Blogging | Permalink | No Comments |

Michael Silence tagged me with this meme.

Four jobs you’ve had in your life (other than current, for me): construction in my teens, whitewater raft guide, park service biologist, technical support help desk

Four movies you could watch over and over: The Usual Suspects, Unforgiven, Casablanca, Star Wars trilogy

Four places you’ve lived: Taylors, South Carolina; Cosby, Tennessee; Crossville, Tennessee; Carrizzozo, New Mexico

Four TV shows you love to watch: The Shield, MASH before Alan Alda started producing, Law and Order, Seinfeld

Four places you’ve been on vacation: New York City, Southern California (LA, Hollywood, and points south), San Francisco, Chicago

Four websites you visit daily: Instapundit, SayUncle, No Silence Here, View from the Front Porch

Four of your favorite foods: corn on the cob, fried chicken, duck, peaches, chicken pot pie, and anything with tomato sauce (I couldn’t limit this to just four)

Four places you’d rather be: at a backcountry campsite, on the beach, in the snow, in a car on our next goofy trip

Four albums you can’t live without: My tastes change, so if I rilly rilly had to pick four they’d probably be Christmas albums, but some albums I’ve liked for a long time are The Beatles “Rubber Soul”; John Hartford “Aeroplane”; Flatt, Scruggs, and Watson “Strictly Instrumental”; and X “More Fun in the New World”

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In Fried Chicken News…

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 | Food & Drink | Permalink | 2 Comments |

KFC is experimenting with ditching their initialized moniker and going back to their original name. They’ll have new sides, too. From the Sun-Sentinel via Colby Cosh.

KFC on Wednesday opened a store in Louisville, Ky., that uses the full Kentucky Fried Chicken name and features the new, updated image of Sanders, who’s wearing a red apron over his white suit. The new store is “a restaurant of the future” and will also test new items, including $3.95 entrees such as chicken mashed potatoes and chicken rice, Warschauer said. The new menu includes buttermilk popcorn shrimp and “Kentucky” sides like corn, yams, cinnamon apples, and collard greens.

Those new sides sound good. Hopefully they’ll degrease their chicken while they’re at it. Until then, give me Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken. Lee and Sanders were partners at one point, though Lee’s history page doesn’t mention it.

Alternate History Trivia Question: at what famous Civil War battle did Colonel Sanders fight General Tso?

Answer to last week’s Alternate History Question: Elvis Presley, our 37th president.

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