Fast food and grocery store chicken is too uniform for me. I really don't buy much fried chicken because it's so far from homemade. I suppose Publix fried chicken is some of the best around.
Joshua Gillin, general manager of Florida Beach InsiderīEACH, PLEASE: Plan your vacation with Florida Beach Insider But to this day, Publix Sleepy Fried Chicken is for dinner only. Perhaps the grocery store chain would slather the raw meat in some manner of benzodiazepine. I don't know if it was something in the breading. You would immediately become drowsy and, should you have a nearby couch, a bed or even a particularly comfy chair, you would fall victim. But that chicken, it earned a special, extended nickname: Publix Sleepy Fried Chicken.Īll my fellow vampiric coworkers knew that, should you partake of the Publix Sleepy Fried Chicken in the middle of the day, you would suffer the consequences. During that time, the fried chicken at Publix was always ready for a road trip. You can go in at any part of the day and those window boxes are lined up like tiny, fried soldiers, waiting to do battle on your hunger pangs.įor many of my post-college years I worked shifts that lasted late into the night, so my fried chicken consumption often occurred at lunch. The chicken at Publix, as anyone can tell you, isn't so much its flavor, but its ubiquity. That said, I moved south as a younger man, and first experienced Publix while living in Savannah, Ga. Even my part-time job working for several years at a Kentucky Fried Chicken didn't change my preference for Rose's, which unfortunately closed its doors upon Rose's death. Same goes for fried chicken.īoasting massive pieces of chicken coated in a crispy crust that dripped with juices, a half-a-chicken dinner managed to destroy even the most ravenous teenage boy's hunger. It's because Americans are mad for French fries and they aren't going to make them at home. 1 most ordered restaurant food? It's not about a passion for beef patties at all. It felt appropriate to give our first crack at this topic to our food critic, Laura Reiley. We may compile some of your opinions in a follow-up story. Please tell us what you think in the comments section of this story, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. So I decided to crowdsource the newsroom and ask staff how they ranked Publix's fried chicken - and to perhaps share their favorite fried chicken spots if Publix's bird just didn't do it for them.ĭo you have an opinion? We'd love to hear it. There's even a website devoted to alerting people when Publix's chicken tender sub is on sale. (That's three bird puns in this story and I'm stopping). All you have to do is watch the deli counter around lunch or dinner and see those cardboard baskets flying off the shelf.
We have ample evidence that Publix fried chicken is popular. The editor said he was a fowl, er, a fool. The columnist insisted Publix's fried chicken was the best around. I witnessed a flap a while back between an editor and a columnist in our sports department here in the Times newsroom.
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