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| - Price's beats this by a mile.
I wanted to love this place - I wanted to not have to huddle in my car after carrying Price's magical white box down the street like I stole it. I wanted to sit down and eat, dammit!
But it won't be here.
The place is a dive that offers a TON of stuff. We ordered the 2 white piece chicken meals with 2 sides and my son got the 10pc wingettes. We chose Mac n cheese, mashed with gravy, fried okra, sweet potato casserole and hush puppies. The Mac was very,good, okra the same. Sweet potatoes were in chunk form - nice treat - and had a syrup instead of the usual streusel. The hush puppies were classic too-heavy-for-their-size balls of wonderfulness but nothing new.
The mashed potatoes were ice cold.
Think about that.
Why weren't they fresh? Why wouldn't they be screaming hot considering they were drowned in a very peppery gravy (a tad too peppery and I love the stuff).
The chicken was salty, crunchy and overcooked. The wings were little things, fried like the bigger things, no sauce. Peppery. My kid likes spicy so I'm hoping they didn't dumb it down for him, which happens a lot.
All of these things can be laid at the feet of a bad cook just wanting to watch the game on a Sunday afternoon (4-ish). Maybe it's banging any other day, any other time except for THIS day when it was dry and salty and meh.
I don't want that. I want chicken still sizzling with grease popping off crunchy skin that makes your eyes roll. I want a fresh biscuit or roll, cole slaw, tots - all packaged already. I'll even huddle in the car awkwardly trying to nom nom without making a complete mess.
I want Price's.
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