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| - I lived in the Deep South for years, where fried chicken and fries are treated as high gourmet. My Alabama hometown of just under 30,000 residents had SEVEN different fried chicken joints, and that didn't include restaurants that also had chicken on their menu. There were 2 of Southern-style chicken finger places--Guthrie's (which has been around for over 20 years) & Zaxby's, another chain down South. Raising Cane's fits that mold.
Southern style fingers are reknown for their crispiness as well as flavor. While the fingers I had at Cane's were thunderously crunchy and volcanically hot (temperature, not spicy), the flavor was not really there compared to the Cane's franchise I had in Augusta, Georgia. I didn't experience the down south flave I craved. Luckily, their sauce was on point. The sauce is a standard at these places--a mayo/ketchup blend with differing doses of black pepper, garlic powder, and worcester. Cane's sauce tasted like home.
Bottom line: Raising Cane's is a chain that tastes like what Southern Style chicken fingers should taste like. A "Box" (another recurring combo throughout the South) consists of 4 fingers, fries, cole slaw, 1 sauce, a regular drink and texas toast. I always order an extra sauce (1 ain't enough) and a sweet tea to complete the meal. The toast is to wipe up any excess sauce. Food is cheap (less than $8 for a combo) and service is fast. Make sure to eat it immediately, while the chicken is still hot enough to burn yer mouth. The coleslaw is used to cool down yer wounds.
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