LOL, you have zero clue about the South. You just want to hate on Cick Fil A. Doubt you even ate there. What city was this?
I don't 'do' fast food, other than maybe once a year I'll have some lumps of processed wanna-be chicken with honey mustard dipping sauce in a fit of desperation. And a once annual Arby's RB with cheddar. I tried Chic-Fil-A. Meh. Nothing I'm going to bother with again unless it's what is available for my annual sojourn to fast food. I don't care what religion some business espouses. Do they provide goods or services worth the investment, is it clean with decent employees, and do they treat me like a human.
I've never liked em much either. I think they get most of their business from counter-boycotts. The folks hating on them should just ignore them and let their mediocre food do all the work. But they can't.
Ok, I couldnt find limes during the week. I went shopping this morning and they had fresh limes. I made the marinade a few minutes ago. The only ingredient that was different is olive oil. I dont use canola oil and was not going to buy that type of oil just for this recipe. The marinade smells great. The chicken is marinating now. Ill cook it for dinner tomorrow night. I wont be able to compare the taste of this chicken to Chick-fil-A because Ive never eaten there. Im not sure we even have a Chick-fil-A around here. We dont eat fast food aside from maybe once every year or two, we order pizza and chicken wings from an old school Italian restaurant. I cook every night like my grandma and mom did for the family. Fast food here is something that takes me less than a half an hour to make lol.
LOL! I spent years working all over the South. And btw, fatback is the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. It's just a piece of lard! Sweet tea is disgusting and explains people's teeth and weight. And they serve way way way too much food at the typical restaurant. The helpings are big enough to choke a horse. I tried the place because it was suppose to be so good. And I'm sure as hell not telling you where I live.
I normally don't eat fast food but my gf likes eating crap. LOL . It really drives her nuts is when we order pizza because I am still basically keto and won't eat the crust. I just scoop the cheese and meats off the top with a fork. She always has to voice her objections. I never imagined that people would get so defensive over pizza crust. There was one guy on job that actually got pissed because I wouldn't eat the crust. I kept looking at him thinking he was joking but finally I realized he wasn't. He was actually pissed off. LOL! The truth is, if I ate the crust, I would release too much insulin and crash my blood sugar. If I pigged out on pizza I would certainly pass out and be wiped out for hours. But on the up side, this generally makes it easy to avoid eating crap. Most of it is high in carbs - either sugar, corn, or wheat products.
Growing up we never ate fast food. That's probably why I dont like fast food now. We always had to be home for dinner as a family. The dinner was always something my mom or grandma made. Did you marinate the chicken?
No, the grocery store was too busy so I didn't stop and get the goodies. We rarely ate fast food. For us it was a major treat. My mother had to cook for 6 on a very tight budget. Heck, I rarely got real milk until I was well into my teens. For us it was powdered milk. My mom would dissolve a bit of Coffee Mate into the powered milk to make it seem more creamy. SOS [sht on a shingle], rats and snails and puppy dog tails, lasagna, spaghetti... were typical for us.
As for the OP I have a similar story, I never watched the movie ET for years after it was released. Same with Chik-fil-A. When I finally experienced both it was meh...maybe it was the hype?
I made the chicken. I was true to the recipe aside from olive oil instead of canola oil. I'll cut to the chase. It smelled better cooking than it tasted. I wouldn't make it twice. I think if you fried the chicken and removed it from the pan and then reduced the marinade in the pan and put the chicken back in the reduction sauce it might be better. But that's just my opinion.
Course I guess I may still have to try it just in case she got it right and you just wouldn't like El Pollo Loco! I saw other copycat recipes for them. I will have to compare...
try some licorice or prescription steroids to keep blood sugar leveled, the pizza crust is the best part.
I was hoping you would make it. Im curious if the woman duplicated the recipe. If that is the same taste as the original Chick-Fil-A chicken, its not bad for fast food. Its pretty good for fast food. I just personally didnt care for it. I didnt get any complaints either.
Sweet tea isn't just a southern thing. VERY popular in Massachusetts where I grew up. Do you know where Mass is located? Lol not the south. In fact, many gas stations in our towns in our area served sweet tea with mint leaves for flavor.
El Pollo Loco, not Chick-fil-A They [El Pollo Loco] are technically fast food but the food isn't prepared like fast food. They were always more like getting take out from a chicken version of a place like Outback. But I have to be careful too because I haven't been to one in a very long time. I can say that their chicken was the best I ever had anywhere except that place in Peru.
Sorry, I misunderstood. Ive never heard of El Pollo Loco. That chicken did seem more like a restaurant take out, than a fast food take out. Here is the thing that I keep thinking when I was eating it. The marinade was excellent. The chicken marinated in it for 24 hours was overwhelming for the chicken. I personally would have rather had chicken fried that could stand alone if it had to and was excellent tasting. Then the marinade reduction tossed over it. Two different flavors in one bite. Im odd and freely admit it, so take it for what its worth lol.
Oh I see what happened! You thought this was a dish served by Chick-fil-A. No, El Pollo Loco is a chain found throughout the South West. The name translates as The Crazy Chicken. Back when I was a regular, they had a very limited menu. They only made a few options but they were the best around. That is why it was fast but not "fast food". Chef Ramsey would be proud. PS. Best damned tacos I ever had was in gangland Los Angeles - South Central. It was not a good place to be. But this little hole-in-the-wall taco stand made the most incredible tripe tacos... You had to get in line half way around the block to get any. And my friend and I were usually the only white faces in viewing distance. LOL.
Years ago when I was in the crazy, hazy, days, I would stop in this small variety type store in the heart of the inner city. A friend of mine told me to check the place out for the Jamaican Patties. The place was small but packed with everything you could imagine needing. The owner hand made the Jamaican Patties. You had to get there at a certain time because he only made so many. Delicious. He would not give up the recipe to anyone. The older ladies who would stand in line waiting to buy the patties use to joke about how many years they asked him for the recipe and he politely declined. He probably took it to his grave.
When I was a little kid, there was a Mexican restaurant near our school called El Sarape. It was a small, very plain mom and pop type of place. This was a real hole in the wall that mainly catered to Mexican people. I remember it was often hot because they didn't even have air conditioning, But they had THE BEST salsa and sauces. Even though I grew up around Mexican food, their food had a unique flavor I had never tasted anywhere else. I absolutely loved their food! Then, we went for dinner one night and it had closed. For over three decades I tried to find that flavor again. I had no idea what it was and nobody had anything like it. Then, one day my ex wife came home with some salsa from work that had THAT flavor. OMG!!! THAT'S IT!!!!! Who made this???? I have to know what is in it! It was from a pot luck that day. For two weeks we interrogated people but never could determine who made that salsa! LOL! After all of these years, so close... and then it slipped away and I have never found it since.
this was seen on the food travel channel, he gets the meat fresh from local wild life and uses extra spices.
