Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Juicy, crispy, crunchy…fried chicken is undoubtedly delicious. But it’s also complicated, in ways that go far deeper than the science behind that perfect crust. From slavery to entrepreneurship and from yard fowl to Gospel bird, the story of fried chicken is filled with challenging contradictions. Grab a drumstick and listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.8	I think fried chicken nuggets are an abomination.
1:02.1	I think they're a food product, not a food.
1:05.3	I think to call something fried chicken in my book, there needs to be a bone.
1:10.9	And a human hand should have been involved in the preparation of said bird and nuggets
1:16.2	don't qualify by either of those measures.
1:20.4	Those are fighting words.
1:22.0	You might have thought that fried chicken is just chicken that's been fried, but it's
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