fried chicken
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Sticky-Fingered Man Holds Pasadena, Calif., Restaurant Employees at Gunpoint Over Some Fried Chicken
All chicken joints in the Southern California area better board up their doors and windows because there is an actual crazy man at large holding people at gunpoint… …for some fucking fried chicken and waffles. According to ABC7, a maskless man walked into a Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles in Pasadena, Calif., and was…
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Tennessee Lawmaker Blames ‘Inner City’ Obesity Rates on Fried Chicken, 7-Eleven Stores
A Republican state senator running for reelection drew criticism this past week over bizarre comments he gave to a local TV station, claiming that high obesity rates in the “inner city” were due to eating fried chicken. “The obesity rate in the inner city is bigger than anywhere else. Because what do they do, they…
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Exclusive: Photos of the Los Angeles Clippers Guarding Luka Doncic During Sunday's Overtime Thriller
Here’s some shots of Reggie Jackson contesting Luka’s game-winning step-back. Here’s a really good one of Marcus Morris getting switched on to Luka in the fourth quarter. Paul George also took a stab at guarding Luka. I got a great shot of that too. Kawhi Leonard was mostly successful when defending Luka, which is why Doc…
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KFC Trinidad Getting Dragged for Celebrating Emancipation Day With a Chicken Drum-Black Fist Image Is So 2020
KFC Trinidad and Tobago is apologizing for its ill-advised decision to recognize Emancipation Day.
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Why Is Fried Chicken Fashion a Thing? KFC Makes Its Bid for Pop-Cultural Relevance With…a Croc?
Just when we thought Crocs had cemented their reputation as the ugliest (but supposedly most comfortable) footwear, the fried chicken industry’s oldest (but least delectable—fight me) fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has told us to hold its beer because these two beloved staples of middle-America (again, fight me; I live there) have joined forces to…
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Pieces of Chicken, Ranked
In the midst of the ongoing hullabaloo about Popeyes’ new chicken sandwich, we decided to settle a separate chicken-related argument that has raged for years. What is the best piece of chicken? We know the answer is subjective, so we decided to assemble a team of experts in the field of chickenology to end this…
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Go Vegan. Get Beyoncé and Jay-Z Tickets for Life. Deal?
Imagine getting to go to Beyoncé and/or Jay-Z concerts for life. All you have to do is… Bitch, you guessed it: Go vegan. The woman who reinvented Coachella posted the challenge on her Instagram this week (which, she’s been way more generous with lately, even dishing out personal captions to the Bey Hive). “What is…
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Yes, a Black Site Is Posting About National Fried Chicken Day
As a black woman, I will never allow anyone to shame me for loving fried chicken, or red Kool-Aid or watermelon. Loving these things are my birthright, stereotypes be damned. I love fried chicken. As July 6 is National Fried Chicken Day, I begged my bosses to allow me to write this post even though…
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On What Happens When Folks Are Denied Their Fried Chicken
Climate change is real, the political discourse is trash, and people in the U.S. and U.K. just want some damn fried chicken to soothe their souls. Which is why we at The Root have not one, but two #TodayInChicken stories to share with you. Let’s begin on the American side of the pond in Marietta,…
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Calif. Restaurant Called Out for Passing Off Popeyes Chicken and Upcharging
One California restaurant has no shame in its fried-chicken game. After a customer in the Long Beach, Calif., restaurant noticed an employee with a couple of Popeyes chicken boxes, Sweet Dixie Kitchen got its spot blown all the way up. But the best part is that the restaurant didn’t deny it. Tyler H. of Los…