Chicken Cottage on CHL

[maximilian ping]

What an odious little prick you really are Max. Was there any need for the 'poverty stricken, fucked up black people' bollocks? - a lovely borderline racist touch.

And with you believing bollocks like fried chicken is expensive (wtf) you're obviously a delusional numbnut as well

 

[tarannau]

Part of the reason is that some chinese restaurants par-boil their chicken bits to ensure that they're fully cooked through. And then the rubbery, overcooked bland bits of chicken nastiness sit around until they're cooked again.

Add to that it's generally the cheapest catering frozen chicken used as well.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Fried Chicken is always a gamble though isn't it - I only eat it when I'm pissed up and feeling lucky.

me too,although i used to think frucky fried or miss millies was a safe bet, but the chicken is full of fat.....maybe im just going off chicken

 

[Crispy]

How about an all-organic fried chicken shop. £6 per piece, but tasty as fuck

 

[tarannau]

 

[maximilian ping]

polishing your head

 

[tarannau]

Clear enough for you?

Can you fuck off the thread now Max? I always thought you were a pillock, but your ' poverty stricken, fucked up black people eat there and die of heart disease' comment in response to my suggestion that many types of folk eat in fried chicken shops marks you out as an unpleasant little trolling turd. Your dodgy racial preconceptions and stereotypes would probably go down better elsewhere....

 

[Sweaty Betty]

How about an all-organic fried chicken shop. £6 per piece, but tasty as fuck

I would

 

[maximilian ping]

I always thought you were a pillock

after all the good times we've had? Sharing ice creams in Acapulco Bay, boating in the Norwegian fjords.

you turncoat

 

[TopCat]

How about an all-organic fried chicken shop. £6 per piece, but tasty as fuck

Economics indicate you would pay £6 a piece but what you actually get....

 

[zoltan]

all this racist/ non racist banter aside, the fried chick shop smell fuckin RANK when yer walking past them at 11AM and they are firing up their deep fat fryers - yes I know it smells great when yer leathered, but..............

the other thing that really fucks me off with them is the detritus trail of bones and grease sodden paper that litters the streets on a sunday morning, all emblazoned with the local chicken emporiums logo.

Still, its satisfies that need for a pretty much instant fat/salt hit that people crave.I do find it depressing the amiunt of Kids who seem to exist on the shit when they come out of school in the evening, in place of a sit down meal - thats very sad

PS - it does tate good when you are pissed and its fuckin cheap when compared to a Kebab or fish n chips - the local on does Chick Burger + chips for £1.29 or soemthing during the week

 

[han]

How about an all-organic fried chicken shop. £6 per piece, but tasty as fuck

That sounds nice....I've never tried fried chicken, mainly cos of the bones (esp wings, skin, etc ) ....can you get breasty bits in Chicken Cottage? !

 

[top_biller]

What happened to the guy who used to sell jerk chicken fresh off the half upturned barrel barbecue outside the leisure centre until about 4am, cleaved into portions in front of you? A tasty alternative on the way back from Plan B.

 

[rutabowa]

i got chased off a bus by a man trying to get me to try his fried chicken, he worked in the shop next door to the one i'd just got my chicken from. what stopped me from trying his was the white gloop on it... it is wierd being chased down the road by a cackling man waving a chicken drumstick i don't mean scary-chased, he was more just harmlessly mad.

 

[Crispy]

That sounds nice....I've never tried fried chicken, mainly cos of the bones (esp wings, skin, etc ) ....can you get breasty bits in Chicken Cottage? !

A fillet burger is basicallly a breast in a bun.

 

[tarannau]

That sounds nice....I've never tried fried chicken, mainly cos of the bones (esp wings, skin, etc ) ....can you get breasty bits in Chicken Cottage? !

<Splutters in amazement>All this time in Brixton and..... You haven't lived.


But chicken breast tastes of nothing. It's the skin and bones which have got all the flavour.

(pssst. I've got a soft spot for KFC Zinger burgers, basically coated spicy chicken breasts. Much better than the bland ordinary versions. One of the pubs I once ran got delivered a box once by mistake. Mmmmm)

 

[Orang Utan]

Fried chicken is BORING

 

[rutabowa]

i usually go for the wrap, even the it is a total ripoff compared to teh other choices.

 

[zoltan]

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(pssst. I've got a soft spot for KFC Zinger burgers, basically coated spicy chicken breasts. Much better than the bland ordinary versions. One of the pubs I once ran got delivered a box once by mistake. Mmmmm)

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


the zinger tower is the one remaining big weakness in my life

ive given up spirts, low quality drunken sex with third rate drunken people, pvc fetishism, cocaine, bongs, aceeed ,3 litre capris........ etc etc etc ............but a zinger causes me to wander from the path of sensibility now and then...............amd they are SO BAD for you

 

[han]

<Splutters in amazement>All this time in Brixton and..... You haven't lived.

I feel ashamed! Bones in batter (as I call fried chicken)- are an icon of Brixton - which I have never had the *joy* of tasting....
They are especially prevelant on the pavement, I find...

But chicken breast tastes of nothing. It's the skin and bones which have got all the flavour.

On its own, I know what you mean. But chicken breast when it's been marinated or has a coating sauce is absolutely yum. Loads nicer than all those bones/skin/fat - ughghg - chicken fat has to be one of the grossest tastes in the world.

(pssst. I've got a soft spot for KFC Zinger burgers, basically coated spicy chicken breasts. Much better than the bland ordinary versions. One of the pubs I once ran got delivered a box once by mistake. Mmmmm)

Now a KFC Zinger sounds like a thing worth trying after a few too many pints. It would take alot of booze for me to enter the place, but that sounds quite tasty - as long as it's not an *eek* reconstituted breast!

 

[Kanda]

I always buy loads more than required and just eat the skin

 

[LDR]

I eat more fried chicken than anyone else I know.
I'm on really good terms with my local Dixie Fried Chicken staff. They often give me meals free as I'm such a good customer. I also think it's the cleanest fried chicken joint I've ever been in.

However, I don't think I've had any fried chicken in Brixton. TBH they all smell a bit unhygienic to me.

 

[Mr Retro]

I love fried chicken, but what I want to know is what do they do to the chicken you get in cheap chinese takeaways, that turns it into a slimy lump of textureless non-meaty-seeming indescribability? Is it actually chicken? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't even imagine how you could go about turning a piece of chicken, however cheap and nasty, into what it turns into...

I've also had this in top class Chineese restaurants. I looked into it ages ago and it is produced by marinating the chicken in corn starch before cooking. It's a process known as 'velveting' and gives the meat this texture you describe.

 

[tarannau]

I've also had this in top class Chineese restaurants. I looked into it ages ago and it is produced by marinating the chicken in corn starch before cooking. It's a process known as 'velveting' and gives the meat this texture you describe.

I'm pretty sure that it's a different process tbh, either that or these people are the most incompetent chefs I know. If done properly velveting should keep the chicken tender and moist - it's basically a short fry in just warm enough oil, adding a seal of egg and cornstarch to protect against the really high heats of a good stir-frying.

Which is a long way away from the rubbery balls of strange tasting greyness I've had served to me in a few cheaper establishments. I've still been very circumspect about eating in Speedy Noodles after they served me quite the worst 'chicken' I've ever had - it honestly chewed and tasted like it was some kind of bizarre genetic experiment between Foghorn leghorn and the Michelin man.

 

[han]

I've still been very circumspect about eating in Speedy Noodles after they served me quite the worst 'chicken' I've ever had - it honestly chewed and tasted like it was some kind of bizarre genetic experiment between Foghorn leghorn and the Michelin man.

Speedy Noodle is absolutely foul. I've eaten there once, never again.

Had exactly the kind of rubbery squishy weird unidentifiable pappy chicken you describe...guuhhhh...like lumps out of Pedigree Chum!

 

[PacificOcean]

I love fried chicken, but getting it from these places is very hit and miss.

Sometimes lovely, sometimes inedible. Dixe Chicken was the worst I have ever had. It was like they hadn't removed the gibblets before frying.

KFC may be evil, but at least you get a certain standard from them.

 

[Idaho]

Fast food fried chicken is revolting. I wouldn't touch it with yours. Overfried factory farmed broiler birds cooked in old oil in some weird coating. Fuck that.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Fast food fried chicken is revolting. I wouldn't touch it with yours. Overfried factory farmed broiler birds cooked in old oil in some weird coating. Fuck that.

*pukes*

 

[Idaho]

Intensive chicken farming is a bad thing. Not only from an animal welfare perspective, but also from a sustainability and public health perspective. These places are disease factories - for the chickens, for us, and for other species. These chickens are drip fed all kinds of shit to get them to remain alive for the paltry 30 days of their existence before being fried up in the aforementioned cheap, over-used oil.

 

[Idaho]

Also those chicken nuggets and chicken burgers are rarely made from a prime cut. Generally they are reconstituted from chicken skin or "mechanically seperated meat" - which means the little lumps and chunks that collects in a mesh over a sluice tray after the filleted carcasses are blasted with a high pressure hose.

Another little trick of the chicken business is to roll chickens around in a big drum with lots of little spikes in the side and a solution of water, sugar and other animal fat to make the chicken gain additional weight.