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What Country Makes The Best Fried Chicken?

A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich

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The Origins of Fried Chicken

The first published recipe ever for fried chicken, I believe, was from 1700s in the American South. Some people think the origins of it actually come from Scotland. There is a bit of a theory that it actually was expelled English or Scottish Jews who would fry fish and they would fry chicken to preserve it for Shabbat. And so they think that that may have influenced southern American fried chicken.

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