Origin of chicken and waffles. personally I do not like it but it seems to but in recent

charley

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years it has become really popular. I just don't ever remember it until fairly recently.

But found this in a nice article about the homecoming celebrations/tailgating at Historically Black Universities this year because of Covid. It's an old timey dish for sure.

That last dish, popular at homecoming brunches, has deep roots in African-American culinary history. Many food scholars argue otherwise, but chicken and waffles originated on Southern plantations: Enslaved Africans cooked and toasted rice batter over an open hearth, using a waffle iron. In the 1930s, a Harlem supper club, Wells’ Restaurant, helped popularize the sweet-and-savory combination.

 
I love fried chicken, like waffles, but cannot eat them or pancakes as they settle like cement in my

stomach. Never understood the combo.

 
I never got the combo thing either. For me pancakes/waffles are a mere excuse . . .

to eat a whole lotta butter and real maple syrup. Gotta be real butter, gotta be real maple.

But if you can eat eggs for breakfast and dinner, why not fried chicken and waffles for breakfast and dinner? I don't want it but my kids sure love it!

 
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