Boy-oh-boy-oh-boy! This past week found us tackling a creative food challenge: Non-Discriminatory Chicken Sandwiches!

 

Mister and I are big fans of a certain chain’s chicken sammie. As a Southerner, I grew up eating this food, but never on Sundays (as they are famously closed on that day). A couple of years ago, a franchise opened in Hollyweird. I was a pretty happy chick on that day, I tell you. And on many days after.

 

But then the ugly hit the fan. The folks in charge at the chain’s headquarters – self-professed fine Christian folks – stuck their heads up their own butts and decided they were fit to freely judge God’s creatures. Yes, they openly discriminated against all non-heterosexuals and marriage rights for all. Well, I just had to hang my head in sorrow. I mean, their incredibly non-Christian behavior led me to completely avoid their restaurants. To paraphrase Aziz Ansari: I support gay marriage, I also support delicious chicken sandwiches. I thought those amazing sammies were gone forever.

 

But then Mister found a recipe for a do-it-yourself chain-like sandwich. I read it and re-read it. Would it work? Could it work? Only one way to find out!

 

So this past weekend we assembled our ingredients and made our very own Non-Discriminatory Chicken Sandwiches! We followed the recipe (found here) from the CEO of Serious Eats. That dude has pretty much nailed it, y’all. (I do have to tell you that Mister and I replaced some of the brining water with pickle juice, as we’d found that tip along the way on some other website. It definitely had an impact, but I’m not sure it’s necessary.) When all was said and done, I felt our creation was close enough to the chain store’s version to prevent me from ever giving money to those known bigots again. And that’s a beautiful thing.

 

If you’ve been lamenting the loss of delicious chicken sandwiches, head over to the Serious Eats site and give this recipe a try. While you’re at it, do what we did and fry up some potatoes while you’ve got the oil going. It doesn’t make for the healthiest meal, but it does make for some mighty fine eatin’. I super-like delicious creativity, y’all!

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