hey Nicole what’s your favorite kind of fried chicken okay well I’m a Nashville hot sun karagi moon and schnitzel Rising I thought you were a Gemini this is a hot dog is a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah I put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense a hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich Welcome to our podcast a hot dog is a sandwich I’m your host Josh share and I’m your host Nicole anaiety and we’re internet chefs over at the good mythical morning and mythical kitchen YouTube channels and when we are not Dorito crusting Fried Chicken we’re in these seats Nicole and we are breaking down the world’s biggest food debates you are correct no lies detected except I don’t think we’ve ever made Doritos Fried Chicken ever we’ve made Funyun crusted Bloomin onions correct we’ve made Doritos crusted calzones correct we made a lot of flaming hot Cheeto Fried Chicken we’ve done a lot of that we’ve done blue Takis Fried Chicken oh God what a nightmare you did yeah those are blue takis are a sin against God I think this time we’re coming out as a theistic podcast sure uh there’s a food got it and she does not like blue Takis Fried Chicken um you’ve made salt and vinegar potato chip that’s right oven fried chicken when I was in my house during during the pan Pandy yeah you guys remember in the pan it was wild anyways today’s the first time Nicole that we’re doing something very controversial is it the first time it’s the first time no we’re two are taking countries and cultures that all their very proud food traditions that are all beautiful and we’ve decided to just pit them against each other we said we’d never do this but then we ran out of podcast ideas I don’t think I’ve never said I would never do this but I’m really excited to do it because my heart and soul I don’t have an answer off the bat and I didn’t either I didn’t want to come in here with an answer I wanted to go on this Expedition with you hand in hand to find out actually what is the best fried chicken in the world I agree because Fried Chicken is one of the most universal Foods out there very much we’ve talked about if an alien landed right in the United States because they would choose the United States to land in because they’re like well they got America the most Chipotles per capita and we’re gonna land there but like what would you feed somebody to represent the entire breadth of the world into me Fried Chicken is like the most universal food you talk about rice you talk about noodles all that of course not everybody in the world eats meat that’s like damn near every single country has some sort of fried chicken tradition and I think it’s beautiful sure yeah I think we should go through all the countries okay and decide once and for all who Reigns Supreme in the world of fried chicken okay I don’t think I’ve met a fried chicken that I didn’t like if it’s done well yeah crappy Fried Chicken from any culture Chicken Plus grease plus breading equals yum it’s a perfect concoction of flavors in my opinion I actually think Fried Chicken is the best food I was gonna say I could eat it every single day of my life and I could but I would I would probably die sooner I already have such bad genes dude I’m at the point remember when you were talking about how you lie to your doctor about about like drinking habits about lifestyle just anything no just drinking habits but I’m very honest about everything else I started lying about family history of medical disease that’s bad no you can’t do that why I just say like I don’t I don’t think my doctor needs to know that I have like four cocktails on a Saturday like that’s none of their business I don’t think they need to know all the ways in which my close family members have died that might influence the way that I’m gonna die I just don’t want to talk about it want to talk about the heart disease my family about it are you kidding me I’m so honest in that aspect all right let’s start running through countries when I say fried chicken what’s the first image that pops in your head okay I’m closing my eyes right now and the first thing that comes into my head is the scene from The Help where uh one of the characters I don’t remember her name but it’s Octavia Spencer I believe and she’s frying chicken and she used a bag to shake it yes but she’s frying it in a cast iron skillet and it’s just good old-fashioned Southern bone-in skin on Fried Chicken same here like uh an image of a bucket of KFC comes mine right which of course is from that very like Southern tradition of Francine right Kentucky is its own nation and if they succeed from the United States um I feel like they would have a very powerful chicken-based economy but no Southern American Fried Chicken right and like a lot of this does come from the black tradition of course right um the first published recipe ever for fried chicken I believe was from 1700s in the American South uh but obviously it was published by a white lady but definitely cooked by a Blackberry person yeah but it is some people think the origins of it actually come from Scotland and I’m one of those people really I’m one of those people that thinks it’s it was from Jews immigrants all over the world juice juice are there Scottish Jews yeah well okay so every country just like expelled the Jews at some point and then the Jews came circling back if you’re a Scottish Jew write in the comments oi because I’ve never met one and I would love to meet one if they exist there is a bit of a theory that it actually was expelled English or Scottish Jews someone from the British Isles um who worked on ships and they would fry fish and they would fry chicken uh to preserve it for Shabbat that’s right it’s also the theory that I tend to believe in that uh Portuguese Jews invented tempura in Japan not all of this is solely backed up by history but it is what I choose to believe and you must respect my beliefs um and so they think that that may have influenced Southern American Fried Chicken because there doesn’t seem there’s a lot of like southern foods a lot of traditionally black foods that do go back to like West African Roots right of course a lot of kids like gumbo gumbo is literally a Swahili word for okra for okra um and there is some like West African Fried Chicken we made like a Ghanaian fried chicken dish I loved that chicken so much that I think about it all the time it’s a naked fry right it’s a naked fry and I love and respect naked Fried Chicken a lot because in my household we never Fried Chicken like that interesting we were naked fried people if and when we fry yeah I okay so so um let’s talk about just like culinary technique real quick American Southern Fried Chicken right you talked about shaking a bag what you do is you take a bone-in skin on piece of chicken and the way that we break down chickens in the U.S we break it down into a wing a thigh a leg and a breast that’s right multiply by two eight pieces on a chicken that is not the case everywhere different cultures break down animals in different ways which is so crazy I mean there’s like no Universal standard for breaking down an animal I know which is really cool you go to a Korean barbecue spot and there will be like a cut of meat that’s they only have it in Korean and then it’ll say like flour Rose cut and you’re like all of this and then you get it and it’s a muscle that you’ve never seen before very cool tastes great yeah so anyways we break chickens down like that you uh might marinate it in buttermilk milk true right which helps break it down put some salt in there pepper season it up with whatever paprika hot sauce garlic onion all that stuff season up the dredging flour which is an AP flower generally right shake it up let it soak in cast iron fry it you get the my yard reaction from the cast iron so special and we tested that like deep fryer versus cast iron cast iron one cast iron one I wasn’t a believer in it either I was like just get an even fry cook the chicken evenly that’s better the little bit of Browning from the pan contact is the cast iron yeah really freaking special yeah Southern American fried chicken to me there’s I was gonna say there’s a reason that like KFC proliferated all around the globe that probably has more to do with capitalism I’d save the ladder yeah yeah and like America philia and also the you know modern colonialism and the franchise system which is unfettered capitalism at its absolute best I can’t wait to be a franchisor one day oh my God we’re gonna own so many Long John Silver’s franchises dude let’s go let’s bring it back okay but Southern American Fried Chicken do you top it with honey or hot sauce or Ranch my favorite is honey really my favorite is honey but I always have hot sauce on hot sauce is my regular but I prefer honey and I need to ask for honey more often I actually just went to Gus’s Fried Chicken the OG one in Memphis Tennessee oh you went to the Gus’s in Memphis yes and how good was it oh my gosh it was delicious so again there’s American Fried Chicken Southern American Fried Chicken especially isn’t it isn’t a monolith right no it’s not you got so many different varieties and flavors different techniques you’re talking about Gus’s which is from Tennessee but they use a wet batter do they really this is a straight up wet batter yeah shut up is that why it’s so good well that’s where I think Gus’s is so good because it’s so well seasoned and so spicy and like it’s the um those sort of like Cajun Louisiana spices I know they’re from Tennessee but like you get the Cayenne in there you know uh and it’s so aromatic a ton of black pepper but the wet batter it like creates this very thin shattering crunch on it as opposed to the kind of like doughy craggly crunchy yeah which is really freaking great so for me I think my first reaction is like Southern Louisiana style fried chicken I prefer a dry dredge okay but with just like a lot of cayenne in there and then you put extra hot sauce on it um you get the vinegar I need that vinegary bite from it what about Nashville style hot chicken I also had that now we’re good well I was thinking about that too uh and now now we’re getting into some American regionalities right here right it’s fun I go this is gonna be so unfair I don’t love Nashville Hot Chicken okay only compared to all the other styles of fried chicken I really there’s no acid in it it’s too much fat not enough acid okay I had princes which is a very specific type of hot chicken and it was incredible it was an experience in of itself yeah and the different flavors and the just the depth of flavor that was able to be reached from the chicken tender is something that was to be more marveled at I’ve never experienced Chicken in that way it’s a really so natural hot chicken is really unique for a lot of ways because one if you look at the differences in a lot of Fried Chickens it just has to do with the aromatics the flavorings there’s different techniques different flowers different oils different ways to cut a chicken but so much of it is just the spices and the way they’re expressed so good yeah and the great thing about natural hot chicken is you take the hot grease and you bloom the spices yeah you are literally making an Indian taco you’re making a Tarka when you make natural Hot Chicken it’s wild and that’s freaking beautiful yeah it’s a wonderful bite I almost if I were to put Nashville hot chicken and Memphis style fried chicken which one would I eat more often probably the Memphis style yeah honey the natural is special natural style hot chicken is a special type of chicken that you have once in a blue moon you can’t have it every day or else you will die no and it’s it’s such a fun time yeah um the other American style of fried chicken that we need to talk about which one Nicole it’s I know what you’re saying it’s basically Canada buffalo wings dude oh my God that to me is a very American invention I never even thought whenever I think of fried chicken again I I said naked but this is too naked you think Buffalo so not all buffalo wings are naked the OG are naked I prefer a naked Buffalo egg me too me too I just didn’t think about it because it’s a wing but if you think about buffalo sauce that to me is like the quintessential Fried Chicken accoutrement it is you crazy man it’s literally it’s a it’s Nicole it’s like an American lemon bur Blanc it’s beautiful right emulsification uh if you do lemonade lemon juice water butter boom this emulsification of vinegar pepper and butter I know I know that rules yeah spice vinegar fried bird meat bang bang okay but but do you think it’s fair have it aside all these all these flowered chickens I think so okay I think so I think any chicken dropped in hot grease gets to be in the room okay you’re right you know I’m going against my my original saying where I said it was okay so okay because I think once we start going through the international list which we gotta have to list so many of them are pounded out we’re talking about um I love that which I do love or it’s very similar to schnitzel it’s very similar to milanesa from like Spain and Mexico do you think that is any do you think that has any sort of course I mean I mean schnitzel I grew up with schnitzel I love schnitzel so much I love how flat it is and how it could itself be a plate I I do agree with that no 100 incredible plate I like fried chicken where you can like see a lot of technique in it sure and there’s so much technique and a good schnitzel and if you have a really bad schnitzel or like a bad we would just call it a chicken cutlet sure like we had a sandwich We’re Not Gonna name the sandwich place we’re either I think V ordered it it was like a chicken cutlet sandwich and the cutlet was like so overcooked that it was just leathery and no it was it was like so paper thin huh it was fried so hard that it was leathery but if you get a perfectly cooked schnitzel and there are techniques right when you’re pan frying it so this is pound it out uh either dip it in flour egg wash then fine breadcrumb or straight bread crumb flour fine bread that’s right and then you put it in a shallow pan so you get a little bit of Browning on it and you gotta shake that panicle what is chickenpox schnitzel so chicken Farm’s American though right okay whatever it is good it is good it is good chicken parm is like Polo ala milanesa which milanesa literally means from Milan right which is Northern Italy yeah and Milan’s Northern it’s the fashion capital of the world darling I’ve ever been yes I am wearing jords with a black T-shirt that I bought from an Instagram ad I’m very fashionable Nicole uh but chicken farm I was gonna say could be in the running for the best fried chicken dish but it’s also very American so we’re talking about countries America’s got a lot of different regions fine gosh I don’t know that a non-bone in some might call it a bone out Fried Chicken can ever actually compete with like bone-in Fried Chicken easier to screw up bone-in chicken than it is Boneless it is that’s true but I I think that when we argue this it has to be in good faith that any that any chicken you’re eating is done by a good practitioner I never ever debate in good faith you want me to start now what’s it called what’s it called scarecrow art no straw man what other Straw Men exist other than scarecrows what what I’m thinking scarecrow is literally a man made of straw it’s a straw man argument my straw man argument to you would be like with those with those burnt ends know what I call split ends his brain is fried my hair is it I know I was making straw man Arc you look great um let’s look in Europe let’s look in Europe trying to think what other Fried Chickens there are right we got all the Milanese schnitzel Traditions um Ukraine if you pronounce it Kiev people will now get mad at you oh really apparently it’s a Russian pronunciation and people get mad if you say give Chicken not be confused with I I sorry I recently got back from the Ukrainian Village in Chicago where I had uh chicken give um and it is just like an Herby butter it is like it is like a giant Milanese oh yeah except you roll it in like herb butter until it’s like a tube and then you fry it and then Nicole when you cut into it I’ve had it before it explodes I know this Exposition for the camera we’re hosting a podcast it’s really good that beats all other European Fried Chicken no no no no no I think I think German schnitzel actually no I can’t even do German shinsel because it needs to be with veal so never mind yeah that was that’s uh yeah schnitzel oh Jaeger Schnitzel is covered in Jagermeister what what I’m kidding yeah there’s this little thing I I but the thing is I I just love it still so much that I can’t let it go you think schnitzel could legitimately but I I was throwing schnitzel as a uh as like a total non-factor here just to get it out of the way oh man you think schnitzel could actually be in the running for the best no but I think it’s better than chicken kiev really yeah you don’t think you get anything from like a delicious Herby compound but are stuffed in the middle of a gigantic Fried Chicken log no because you can have your schnitzel with ketchup you eat schnitzel with ketchup you don’t eat it with like a nice slice of lemon like the the classic yeah but what the hell what’s wrong with you big chicken nugget Josh chicken nuggets or chicken nuggets fried chicken I don’t know I don’t know that we can well okay so let’s get into it is it let’s get into it screw you up wait hold on really quick I have to Google Serbian Fried Chicken because I think it’s a thing that isn’t a thing in Serbia but it became a thing in Ohio or something hmm yeah yeah so uh Barberton Ohio it’s something called Serbian Fried Chicken it’s just giant chicken tenders they look pretty bad and they may or may not have anything to do with the country of Serbia people don’t exactly know if anybody from Ohio knows anything about Serbian Fried Chicken please let us know because I remember looking this up a couple years ago and I was just like I don’t have the mental faculties to deal with this right now Ohio has so many weird food things going on I don’t want to go with the with the Skyline Chili and the Johnny Marzetti I want to go and eat all those things I would love to go as well um what do you want chicken nuggets I like chicken eggs they says that chicken nuggets right McDonald’s claims to have invented the chicken nuggets actually I think the same guy who did the McRib which was all a thing from the pork science yeah it’s using hot nasty badass science to sling more animal parts so they couldn’t unload um they say that the invention of chicken nuggets it’s a tempura batter McDonald’s right yes we talked about this we made chicken nuggets yeah it’s a wet batter you also see that in Chinese little cut up chicken pieces that especially in Chinese American food thinking about General shows chicken orange chicken cashew chicken all that yum oh yeah that’s a fried those are fried chicken orange chicken is fried chicken and it’s good fried chicken 100 and orange chicken of course is a very very Americanized dish Raw it’s broad yeah but there are a lot of very legit Chinese versions of fried chicken that are very similar like the general shows chicken is based off of a legit I believe it’s hunany’s recipe um but my favorite fried chicken and very very much in the running Nicole for best fried chicken in the world is like Sichuan on they’ll call it like twice cooked chicken it is hacked up into very small bits too sometimes it’s boneless you’re thinking I think you’re thinking a toothpick lamb we’re making a serve toothpicks in this too maybe they do okay okay but it has everything that I love about like American Fried Chicken right where you get the the dry seasonings with the chilies and all that I’ve had this is just covered in fried whole dried chilies yeah you’re popping chilies little bits of chicken so you get tons and tons of surface area coverage really good and then dusted in ground up Sichuan peppercorn where you get that sensation that’s called Mala right where your mouth is simultaneously it’s getting hit by a chemical called xanth Asylum that makes your mouth feel like it’s being electrocuted but then you’re also burning so it’s like an electrical fire in your mouth from the chilies and the peppercorns yeah I’ve had it before it’s a short impression it’s very good same I don’t know that there’s a better fried chicken dish um what about karagi who can beat it get the heck out of here no I do love Carl again he’s Delicious Japanese French what about Katsu katsu katsu is a Japanese schnitzel so to me there’s something I don’t know how to put it there’s something chaste there’s something I don’t know chaste and prudish there is something that is not engaging and and sensual about chicken schnitzel it’s Anodyne it’s sterile are you calling my chicken preferences Prudence oh yeah a plain piece of battered white meat chicken served with lemon and ketchup yeah Nicole I’m over here talking about Chinese fried chicken that’s covered in xantha xylem it makes your mouth feel like it’s on fire and all this and you’re talking about a giant chicken Beauty and simplicity Josh it doesn’t always eat pop Zing wow sometimes you can just have a little bit of normalcy and there’s so when you have a beautiful schnitzel a really good schnitzel it can like alter your mood you know you sound like right now you’re like the guy who’s like I would prefer my women with no makeup and then it’s like no you don’t you’re just saying that I do not sound like that I’m just saying that makeup I love makeup I that’s not true at all I all women this Beauties shut up I want the pop I want this thing I want the especially sometimes like fried chicken this isn’t like a weeknight simple food this isn’t like you’re eating uh green salad with some grilled chicken on it this is Fried Chicken it’s one of the most beautiful engaged aging dishes in the world that has captured the heart of the world but I’m just going to go ahead and circle back right now and say that southern style fried chicken is the best we know let’s talk about karate oh my gosh there is there’s a lot of Merit to it and I do love me some Japanese food yeah yeah um so Cara again you take uh generally like a chicken thigh right cut it up into really small bits and then you marinate it in like a very wet marinade which typically I believe has eggs in it so like egg mirin soy You Velvet it I think is it velveted with corn well yeah so it’s effectively velveted so tell them about velvet so velveting is whenever you take a cornstarch an egg and you just let it kind of sit with the meat a little bit to tenderize it and give it a little bit of body and then whenever you cook it up the texture almost Alters in a way that the meat is soft but also succulent you can also put like baking soda it helps tenderness I’ve never my dad you know my dad uses baking soda in his cab off dude it makes sense and I always ask him why do you do that he’s like taste it and I’m like it does taste good so baking soda with velveting the cornstarch helps if you want to know what the texture of velveting is think of beef and broccoli yeah of course yeah yeah when you eat the beef and beef and broccoli if it’s at like a very standard Chinese American restaurant yeah hey don’t got the chew of a steak what’s in your mouth that’s my design that’s from the baking soda and the velveting process um karage I don’t think they’d use baking soda and chicken to me you don’t need to Velvet sometimes you do you can if you want I don’t know I like developing my chicken for me it’s like best like a tough cut of steak it’s a very wet marinade and it’s like very sweet and aromatic which is cool I don’t know that to me I don’t think Fried Chicken needs sugar that’s where I’m coming on this ever I like sugar I love sugary Fried Chicken like I love orange chicken I love caraage and so karage it’s then wet battered and then do you toss it in a dry mix as well or no it’s just which is wet batter and then it’s wet batter and then you pull it out and it has little Crispies it’ll be served with like sudachi lime or sometimes like Sancho Pepper or something yeah am I making that up I don’t know this is a lemon okay that’s okay but it’s a very um what’s that word for a Japanese Gastropub kind of thing yummy no what’s the oh my Izakaya dish delicious you start making up making up Japanese words yummy is not made up word what Young I thought you were gonna start never mind what’s your favorite anime is a restaurant that I like uh whatever my favorite anime is Powerpuff Girls Neon Genesis Evangelion bubbles she is the sweetest Josh named Josh named an anime sugary Fried Chicken let’s think about it what else in the world there’s a big country a huge huge huge Contender Brazil that we have not named no Brazilian okay so big country not like not like a lot of Farmland in people but I mean like there’s a big contender in the fried chicken today this country does have a lot of people I believe its capital is the second largest city in the world okay okay let’s think about this let’s think about this where is it to Asia like um is it China no we’ve talked about a couple different Chinese Korea South Korea South Korea South Korea okay well yes South Korean Fried Chicken is great Korean Fried Chicken is probably the sexiest hottest Fried Chicken in the world right now right I didn’t I don’t mean to commodify Fried Chicken in that way yeah but it is like a lot of restaurants in America Shake Shack right they one of their first chicken sandwich variations is a Korean Fried Chicken Sandwich their chicken bites are so good they are good right they’re so good also Korean Fried Chicken so the way it different shades Korean Fried Chicken is supposedly based on American Fried Chicken GIS who are stationed in there during the Korean War I saw Alton Brown talking about that yeah I post World War II they uh made Fried Chicken for their Korean homies during Thanksgiving yada yada That’s How The Story Goes um Korean Fried Chicken tends to have a rice flour dredge which means it fries harder and crispier and then if there is a sort of sauce and lacquer there’s a bunch of different flavors but the one that we think of is a very thick very sweet very fermenty kochujang sure puree right yeah it’s very good it’s very good it has a shattering crunch that’s sweet you know I know but I’m saying like do you think that could be in the running is that in your top I think the only reason I like it is because of the ritual of eating it like the ritual of eating fried chicken and drinking beer is fun I agree with that and it’s a good way to do it but I don’t know if the ritual in itself creates like the best fried chicken experience because I can turn any Fried Chicken eating into a ritual if I have a bunch of beer and friends with me which I generally do when I’m eating fried chicken yeah yeah Korean fried chicken I feel like I feel like we need a ringer to come in and explain why it’s so much better than everything else because I feel like I should love Korean Fried Chicken more than I actually do and I again I love it I love all fried chicken I love all Fried Chicken too I think it’s fun but I don’t know if it’s I think it’s top five but I don’t think it’s the best yeah uh Thai Fried Chicken is another one okay yeah yeah I’ve had it once at Anna Jack Thai and it was really good Thai Fried Chicken’s really good it’s phenomenal right generally bonan uh I would the most most of the time I’ve had it it’s called yai Fried Chicken yeah I think it’s this type of street vendor you forgot something really important what what about the Honduran Fried Chicken from tegucigal I didn’t forget it also no it’s not from it’s not from tegus because I said it was from tegus and everybody’s like damn I can’t remember where it’s actually from Meg if you want to look up other just look up other cities in Honduras and I’ll recognize the name but everybody from this other city was just like hold on not that not that San Pedro Sula okay everybody from San Pedro Sula commented on my Twitter and they were like nah this is SPS bro Tegu sucks um Honduran folks y’all seem to really hate Tegucigalpa and I don’t exactly know why but I trust you um so yeah Pollo Chico and Honduras and there’s a couple different Fried Chickens that’s the best fried chicken I’ve ever had that was the craziest explain to the people what it is so it’s called Pollo Chico which literally translates to like dirty chicken or Garbage chicken and it is a street food became a very popular sort of drunk food uh in metropolitan areas in Honduras and the way you do it is very similar to American Cuts right there’s a lot of American style fried chicken in Mexico in short yeah in Central America Guatemalan chicken chain Pollo Campero is in America now and they’re delightful I love that’s where I want a franchise foreign skin on chicken you marinate it in lemon juice in vinegar in mustard uh in uh oregano cumin and chicken bouillon which you get the MSG and the fried chicken and you let that marinade for a while so you get all that acid penetration all the salt penetration a little bit of the Funk from the cumin right the MSG herbaceousness and the oregano there’s not a single ingredient that doesn’t need to be there and then you dredge that because the mustard gives a lot of body to hold on to yes which is helpful very helpful you dredge it in a very heavy again cumin oregano black pepper salt uh dredge fry it off and then what you do hold on you top it with like a pink sauce that’s just like a ketchup mustard mayonnaise situation so good and then you top it it with like a salsa Roja like mild red chili sauce so it’s just fried and acidic and spiced and drenched in multiple different sauces including a mayonnaise sauce then you serve a salsa Chi mold which is like a radish and then you serve it with like a cartito like a pickled cabbage so you get the pickles you get that like uh you know radish kimchi thing that I love with Korean Fried Chicken something that we don’t really have in America with our fried chicken and then you serve it on a giant bread of fried plantains giant bed of fresh what did I say giant bread of Flint dude I don’t care Josh you just explained that so good and for the average person that is not eating it they’re missing out right Honduras number one fried chicken in the world it’s number two for me number one is southern style fried chicken always right back coming right back Kyle Fried Chicken Pollo Chico Honduras number one number two we didn’t talk about it yet but chicken 65 from India oh my gosh chicken 65 it was invented the hotel buhari nobody knows why it’s called chicken 65 there’s a lot of rumors about it the person from room 65 ordered it no it was like there’s 65 different chilies in it but it is um wet battered and fried and just served with lime and marinated onion and it’s so heavily spiced with kashmiri chili um fan freaking tastic love chicken 65. I do a good version of it at um at mayura in Los Angeles and then number three uh Sichuan okay Sichuan chicken number four Southern American like Louisiana heavily heavily cayenne and then for five like you gotta go I’ll throw Korean there that’s a good Korean you wanna know what my list is yeah yeah southern style fried chicken baby Pollo Chico Korean and let me see let me look at this list over here we didn’t talk about the West African naked fried chicken and naked Fried Chicken we talked about it a little bit we talked about it a little bit I talked about it enough what about Persian Fried Chicken no such thing I found it okay there’s one restaurant no I’m not crazy you’re crazy there’s one restaurant in L.A Nicole where it was a it was a fried Cornish game hen and it was a very specific Regional recipe and there was a pomegranate molasses Glade on glaze on it after it was fried and it was like a con fee fry it was like a slow fry was it good not really but I’m really glad I love this food I’m really glad I tried it I’ve never heard of it before sounds good but nope not that would not be on my top let’s try and scrape real quick what fried chicken dishes did we miss I’ve had a lot of time on these popcorn chicken which is really great do you like popcorn chicken we could talk about like Brazilian koshini from Puerto Rico that’s good is there any like like Mexican uh fried chicken I mean there’s like jit like polio elements you know not really I’m gonna mess with uh Carl’s Jr chicken Stars it’s a chicken nugget but it’s in the shape of a star that’s pretty fun what else is there uh the fries chicken fries chicken fries from BK yeah the Burger King um I don’t think I had any Fried Chicken in South Africa I went to South Africa once no way I think we exhausted most Fried Chickens it says rap Josh it says rap what do you like Angola Mongolia oh Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia Malaysia Malaysia uh Malaysia but Indonesia has a really good fried chicken that we didn’t talk about it’s um uh I am Goreng I am Goreng okay I am Goring number six that’s it later God I want Fried Chicken foreign like truffle butter filet mignon with potato leek Masher ancho lime salmon with chimichurri Crema and black bean corn salad what’s the first thing that comes to mind that those are going to be really good and probably take a long time to prepare well you’re right on one of those two things they’re undeniably delicious meals but they’re also dishes that you can pop in the microwave this summer for quick nutritious Ready-to-Eat meals thanks to factor America’s number one ready to eat meal kit then I can’t wait to try the factor meals that we’re getting we ordered the jalapeno lime cheddar chicken with spicy cilantro cauliflower rice and the soy braised beef with stir-fried veggies and steamed broccoli those sound so good are they here yet Josh I’m checking the door now and with 34 Chef prepared dietitian approved options each week there’s something for everyone oh yeah nope prep no mess and only two minutes later you got yourself some great meals now that’s one way to make summer As relaxing as possible possible head to factorymeals.com hot dog50 and use the code hot dog50 to get 50 off your first box that’s code hot dog50 at Factor meals.com hot dog50 to get 50 off your first box subscribe to the spork newsletter for the latest and greatest in food rankings and new product reviews delivered to your inbox every other week head to spork.com and click subscribe [Music] all right Nicole we’ve heard that you and I have to say now it’s time to find out what other whack yet he is a rattling out there in the universe it’s time for Segment we call opinions are like casseroles sorry I got into Goblin mode I’ll be gobbling this Fried Chicken what okay we need uh are we starting the podcast again did The Music Play and then the graphic rolls up anyways okay the Sichuan fried chicken dish it’s called lazuchi which I’m probably mispronouncing um the six people who always roast me for any Chinese pronunciation feel free to do it again I probably got it wrong um and also I am gorang is both Malaysian and Indonesian yeah that’s why I said Malaysia you did yeah it’s a happy accident I know more Indonesian people David than I know Malaysian people not a single person do you want something for that information Exchange I don’t know how many Malaysian friends do you have Maggie played the first opinion I’m opened it’s not that I like Josh I’ve just never like I don’t know that I’ve met a Malaysian person hi my name is Anna and I was wondering about whether or not you guys know any localism I don’t know a better way to phrase for example I’m from Vermont and I’ve been transplanted into Massachusetts but where I grew up Foster of ice cream is very specifically called a creamy just wondering if you guys knew any other local term thanks love the podcast bye what is this about a creamy so like there’s um for instance right like you’ll get like water ice water ice is a very weird local term for an Italian ice that has become sort of its own thing sure you go in Vermont or wherever and you get a creamy um you go God I don’t know because so the correct answer is no that we actually don’t have that many in Southern California there may be um that I can’t think of but there’s an actual reason it has to do with a lot of older Generations right people came out to the West Coast later especially uh whites you know a lot of again California was part of Mexico until the 1800s um but you get like a lot of older Generations who settled on the East Coast um and they’re literally like geographical dividers Nicole that separate the way that people speak still to this day like if you go something about like the Connecticut River where if you go to the West people say park your car you go to the east people say so there’s a lot more regionalisms and Regional accents on the east coast and also in the South as well again a lot more older families there whereas the West Coast you get a lot more cultural interchanging and mixing which actually creates more homogenization in speech that’s why you look at newscasters the way that they’re trained to speak is in quote non-regional dialectical English which shares most similarity to some people say Southern California and some people think southern California has too much vocal fry and affectation but like somewhere on the west coast like a Pacific Northwest style accent okay so we don’t have that many but what do you think of any what about speaking in a Transatlantic accent on the transatlantic yeah it’s almost British yeah no it’s not a posh it’s almost like you don’t even know where it’s from but you’ve heard it before you’re gonna hear it again there’s a strange accent called the Boston Brahman which has a lot of British applications too and it is very much like an upper crust Boston accent Boston is probably the most fascinating you’re from the north end to the South End you know uh Back Bay all that very different accents in Austin and that again is the American city that has hundreds of years of developing the English language and not as much movement in or out cool so there’s intro like I learned a word when I was in Baton Rouge uh so guys like y’all want to go get a little lanyap and I was like what is a lanyap and the way that he used it I think it’s like a nosh Nosh is a fun little Regional Yiddish uh Jewish you know something is a good one but as far as like specific food things I don’t think we have any some people call milkshakes like fraps you go to one region in New Jersey and uh pizzas pizza is called a tomato pie okay I don’t think we have that here what about like with regards to like Mexican food like tacos I don’t think we have that here no I truly don’t I’m rocking my brain and I can’t find a single ISM I can’t think of a singleism either and that makes me sad because uh regionality and speech is really beautiful yeah you want to start one yeah yeah okay where do you wanna what do you want to be about uh uh go get some no I can’t think of one okay let’s let’s Frindle what’s a Frindle okay whenever we go okay what do we like to do me and you I don’t know like talk crap on our co-workers outside of no outside of here watch clips from the idol the worst show in the world uh and close the door so nobody watches us watching clips and then make fun of the weekend going and then make fun of the weekend open your mouth gosh we like to do that like something we like to do like like what’s what’s a food that both of us like fried chicken okay so whenever we want to go eat fried chicken we’re like do you want to go have a little crunchy boys let’s go get some crunchy boys crunch on those boys I like crunchy boys so from now on whenever you want Fried Chicken we just like you should say crunchy boys crunchy boys all right we’re doing it welcome to the ism hi this is Grace from Grand Rapids your voices are so creepy just now um anyways I wanted to say we’re on the podcast this isn’t a hot take but um do you guys know about food aversions or I think that’s what it’s called one time I was eight years old I had a lot of pizza pockets I ate like a billion of them at my grandma’s house later that night I threw them all up in my hair and my hair is really long I had to take a bath and then I kept throwing up the rest of the night ever since then I haven’t eaten pizza and I’m 23 now so that’s quite a long time and I don’t eat it because of that memory so do you guys have any foods that are like that for you I feel like it would be an interesting thing to talk about yes I do um so when I was maybe like uh 12 13 years old I went to Vegas with my family and um I ate a Caesar salad and it was the best Caesar salad I’ve ever had I was like oh this is delicious I don’t see so I’m gonna use that all the time from now on I threw up on my bed in the hotel and I didn’t eat a Caesar salad for five years until Sunny suddenly I was like Ugh why am I so scared of a food it’s not a big deal I ate it once I had a bad experience there’s no way I’ll have the same experience again life is too short there’s no way that I’m gonna vomit in my bed again from eating a Caesar salad so I ate the Caesar salad and guess what I didn’t throw up I didn’t feel sick I didn’t feel any kind of way and now Caesar salads is one of my favorite foods I actually listed on my top hundred that we did together you sure did I love Caesar salads now just because I had a bad experience when I was younger I didn’t let it affect me in older age I I did have a moment I had five years where I did not come near it and I was scared of it but I don’t have that aversion that exposure the exposure helps yeah I’m a big fan of exposure therapy whenever I’m scared of something for example I used to be scared of driving next to uh not both I’m scared of driving next to like trucks on the freeway so I was like terrified of it okay I thought I was gonna die every time I drove next one so I was like you know what there’s no way I can live like this anymore so I would purposely drive next to the trucks that’s a bad idea and I was desensitized and I was fine yeah but like trucks actually have larger blind spots than any other car but yeah but I would be safe and and I would be safe about it that’s like saying like you’re afraid of sharks so instead of just like going swimming in the ocean you’re like I’m gonna jump next to the shark yes like no there’s a real life okay that’s how I that’s how I get over stuff and I’m very mentally agile healthy person you know it’s like saying you’re afraid of raw chicken and then you’re like well I’m gonna start eating raw chickens no yeah but pizza’s harmless Caesar salad Thomas I don’t think next to trucks isn’t harmful no it’s not like it’s slightly no yeah it’s gonna happen I live in Los Angeles nobody likes driving next to semi trucks I don’t like it either but I had to get over my fear in order to function get over my fear in order to function Josh because I had to commute I commute and I’m not gonna take the side streets you act like I don’t commute everybody commutes it’s L.A no that’s what I’m saying hello my fear my irrational fear to control me anymore so I said screw it I’m gonna be comfortable around it instead of be scared of it I had a very similar food experience but a little bit different with light beer um and I couldn’t smell it for five years without dry eating but I gradually exposed myself to it later and I got stronger because of it and now I love light beer eat pizza just stop stop it stop complaining Pizza I don’t know does tough love work hi Josh and Nicole I’ve been listening to your podcast a long time thank you I just want to tell you Josh you’re wrong yeah Laffy Taffy does not taste like gasoline only banana does taste like gasoline is gasoline plain flavor Red Bull coconut obviously but plain Red Bull tastes exactly how gasoline smells and it is my favorite thing in the world yeah let’s go bye uh I love Red Bull flavor I know the Red Bull flavor is talking about I believe it is guarana I like the flavor of it but I know I can’t drink energy drinks they’re really bad for me like my heart will oh my heart will fall out of my butthole oh no I don’t know you bought all the other day we bought holes your heart’s gotta stay where your heart is so I can’t have energy drinks or else it’s gonna end bad but it’s none of it’s real except for the caffeine right that we like vitamin B12 and guarana and taurine and all this stuff like none of that does anything other than caffeine and Red Bull ain’t got that much caffeine but I think it is the guarana flavor it tastes good I think the U.S band if I have this right the U.S banned Red Bull from using guarana based caffeine but it could keep the artificial gorana flavor or something like that interesting yeah I think I remember reading articles but there’s a weird reason why Red Bull has such a unique taste and why so many energy drinks after them also have that weird gasoline taste rock star is probably the strongest to me but they all really are like a a plain monster like takes your breath away from that fumey nature never had it oh God it gets you all jacked up but I do love them that’s an interesting observation cook with Red Bull it’s fun I so I love the way gasoline smells so being able to taste Red Bull it makes me think I’m drinking gasoline yeah well and it’s also the color of gasoline uh yeah kind of a deeply let in uh unhydrated urine yeah yeah or pee gasoline or pee gasoline or P that’s a fun guessing game oh does not say you should play it on on the show because you know you want to drink one but don’t want to drink the other yeah you know yeah yeah first off so abnormal those voices made me feel some sort of way I’m feeling pretty good right now Eric this is Eric and Perry from Lexington Kentucky also part of this is my bourbon podcast and we we have opinions on the hot brown which is awesome Kentucky hot brown I guess like not native fish but our our dish yeah that people most know us for but the thing is like we don’t think that people talk about it I don’t see Tick-Tock recipes for the hot brown yeah there’s no like that’s a good hot brown hat that’s a good one yeah like I mean it’s there’s so many variations you could do but when you got a good hot brown you had a hot brown it’s no magical I can’t believe we’ve never made a hot ground mythical it’s it makes you feel something I love that there’s two people what do you guys think is is the hot round not talk about enough is that what we sound like have you had a hot round have you had a bad hot round because I feel like you’ve got hot Browns brown pretty easily but a good hot brown good hot brown what is that where is that pour some bourbon over top of it too whoa no just drink your bourbon on the side I mean I think you should pour Bourbons over food all day long anyway love you guys love you love you too y’all Lexington Kentucky hot brown hot brown Is An Open Face Sandwich with I believe Maggie if you could look it up right now but I believe it’s a large slice of bread with is it a cheese sauce is it the Mornay uh roasted turkey tomato and cracked pepper bacon uh roasted turkey Tomatoes Marne sauce yeah is there and there’s bacon on it yeah there’s bacon on it great sandwich I mean it’s a very americanified version of like a crow crook Madam with the Bechamel the cheese the pork product this got turkey in it turkey Native American bird love turkeys you know what I mean I love me some turkey um I would just put another piece of bread on top and slop on that whop though you know I got sandwiches do you eat this with a fork and knife yeah you’re supposed to but can you pick it up and eat it like a I sure would right there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to eat with my hands I would eat one um I don’t think I think we’ll do a tick tock about it we absolutely will okay bread is my favorite starch base for anything I like bread so like to me cover bread and sauces and condiments and other accoutrement right so I’m all about the hop around we should do it we’ll make it on the uh we’ll make it on the tick tock okay we’ll make it on Tick Tock one more Maggie one more scrubs hi Nicole hey Josh hi hey I want to shout out to gooey butter cake yes gooey butter cake is really really good don’t knock it till you try it not only doing butter cakes good but gooey butter cake ice cream gooey buttered cake cookies Jenny’s baby butter cake Donuts say it again like gooey butter cake is the thing yeah get gooey butter cake make gooey butter cake shout out February butter cake I love gooey butter cake I love gooey butter cake significantly better than angel food than pound then Victorian sponge gooey butter cake the king of cakes more king of cake than a king cake I really like gooey butter cake more people should eat gooey butter cake you know who claims to be the American Capital Factory no St Louis oh Cheesecake Factory claimed to be the American capital of gooey butter cake do they have gooey butter cake and Cheesecake Factory you said that so confidently like there was no other answer other than Cheesecake Factory that could have been no St Louis anyways this is our official apology of St Louis and Nicole’s officially lost her mind thank you so much for stopping by what are we called hot dog zocdoc.com hot dog this has been our final episode we will not be doing podcasts going forward because bite your tongue oh you gotta like oh twice stop twice I’m stomping thank you anyways we got new Audio Only episodes every Wednesday a new video episodes every Friday thank you for supporting us on our patreon we got a link to the patreon Maggie we don’t have patreon send me writing false information if you want to be featured on opinions I like casseroles give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833 dog pod one Nicole’s On Cameo Nicole tell 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