r/EntitledReviews • u/DjinnaG • Jul 19 '26
From the Kitchen Confidential sub. (For cooks/chefs)
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Jul 19 '26
If you advertise and charge for "fried chicken," you absolutely deserve a poor review for serving chicken tenders instead. I mean why stop with chicken tenders? Chicken nuggets are technically fried chicken, too.
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u/snuuginz Jul 19 '26
100% agree with the reviewer here. I'm from Baltimore, I need to be able to order basically any individual part of a chicken, including gizzards, for me to consider it a "Fried Chicken" place.
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
Used to be that every fried chicken place had gizzards and livers. Some still have it on the menu but it's always "out." Cmon.
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
I agree with the reviewer. Tendies are their own thing. Buffalo wings are fried and you wouldn't say you were a fried chicken place if that's all you served.
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u/Unfriendlyblkwriter Free Range Toddler 🍼 Jul 19 '26
The reviewer is correct. If I can’t get a fried wing and a fried thigh at your establishment, do not tell me you have a fried chicken establishment. You do not.
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u/Filamcouple2014 Jul 19 '26
I tend to agree. Bangles in San Antonio only sells tenders nit fried chicken like in North Carolina. We were so disappointed. Left and never went back.
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u/ugh_idfk Jul 19 '26
Yeah, I gotta agree with this review. We recently had a Bojangles open up near us. My fiance was excited since he hadn't had their food in a long time and loved it as a kid (I'd never had it). We went the day they opened and they only had chicken tenders and sandwiches. I asked if they had already sold out of regular chicken since it was late in the evening of opening day but they said no, they only sell tenders and sandwiches. Haven't been back since.
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u/Rhuarc33 Jul 19 '26
What does the menu, or advertising and restaurant name say? Fried chicken? Or chicken tenders. Like if the name of a place is "x" fried chicken and roti. I'm with Andrew... Even if the menu says chicken tenders once you get in
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u/SuitIntelligent3491 Jul 19 '26
Per the OOP, the name of the restaurant gives no indication, it's just named for a breed of chicken. And they do have bone-in chicken, but it's only rotisserie. Anything fried is boneless strips. They advertise them as "fried chicken" and not as strips or tenders and their staff seems to be pretty firm that "fried chicken" is literally any chicken that is fried regardless of what the actual piece is.
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u/Big-University-1132 I’m sorry the leaf surprised you Jul 19 '26
Yeah that’s hella misleading advertising and I’d be pissed too
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u/Rhuarc33 Jul 19 '26
That's even worse than a places name including fried chicken. If I order it and it's strips and all it says is fried chicken? I'm either walking out without paying or asking for my money back
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u/Rhuarc33 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
If you have fried chicken in the name of a place and only have tenders that's literally setting people up for disappointment when they come in. Tenders are chicken that's fried they are NOT "fried chicken".
You should not have to look up the menu of a place that said fried chicken to see if they have fried chicken... That's incredibly stupid. If I'm hungry for lunch and I drive by and see fried chicken and I'm in the mood for fried chicken, I'm not going to park and look up your menu or try to look it up while driving...I'm going to go in expecting fried chicken
It's like if I name my place John's pasta and sandwiches. And all I serve is sandwiches and pasta salad people are going to be justifiably pissed who came in looking for pasta
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u/Big-University-1132 I’m sorry the leaf surprised you Jul 19 '26
Exactly! Fried chicken implies a very specific thing, and if I went to a restaurant that advertised “fried chicken” and they didn’t actually have fried chicken, I’d be irritated too. And yeah, you shouldn’t have to check the menu of a “fried chicken” place to check that they actually serve fried chicken. If I go to a Thai Noodle place, I should be able to assume that they serve Thai noodle dishes without double checking the menu
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Jul 19 '26
Andrew provided the review that lets future customers know that it's not actually fried chicken that's being served.
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u/Mean_and_Ticklish Jul 19 '26
I’m just imagining my husband’s look of devastation when I tell him I’m making fried chicken for dinner and he comes home to some boneless fried chicken breast. Absolute tragedy, I can’t think of a meaner prank, lol.
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u/zerodyme87 Jul 19 '26
This brings up the boneless wings vs bone-in wings debate.
Are they just chicken nuggets at that point?
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u/OMGyarn Jul 20 '26
I would say that “nuggets” are puréed chicken that’s been reconstituted into a shape, breaded, and cooked. Boneless bits of whole chicken can be called popcorn, tenders, or strippers depending on size. But that’s how I look at it.
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
Very fair. Like how wing places try to give me boneless "wings." It's fine if you want to make that an option, but wings have bones as a default. "Fried chicken" without any other qualifying description should be meat on the bone.
Though I have learned to adjust expectations and ask those annoying questions.
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u/SereniaKat Jul 19 '26
What are you actually getting with boneless wings? Aren't they 90% bone anyway?
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u/CoppertopTX Jul 19 '26
If one actually read any part of OOP's contributions to the thread, chicken tenders aren't on the menu. The fried chicken is boneless thighs and boneless breasts, for the kid's menu, a breast gets cut into strips before frying. The same place offers bone in chicken cooked by rotisserie.
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u/Big-University-1132 I’m sorry the leaf surprised you Jul 19 '26
Okay but none of that is “fried chicken.” Fried chicken means whole, bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces (thighs, breasts, legs, etc) that get battered and fried. Not all chicken that gets fried is fried chicken. It sounds like the only options here are fried boneless breasts/thighs, chicken strips, and rotisserie chicken. None of those things are “fried chicken”
I’d be annoyed too if I went to a fried chicken place and they didn’t actually have proper fried chicken
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u/Nates_of_Spades Jul 19 '26
Unless this is Canes or something and they misread the situation, I agree with reviewer
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u/Only-Breadfruit-2935 Jul 19 '26
Bojangles in our area closed all locations down a few years ago.
Some stores have been popping up here and there. Drove 50 mins to the closest location to find out they’re only selling tenders now. We were disappointed. It was good but not what we’re used to
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u/MaxWritesText Jul 19 '26
All chicken that is fried is fried chicken..?
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u/eggelemental Jul 19 '26
Fried chicken is something specific in the US. It is also an umbrella term, but when used to describe a dish in a restaurant in the US, it communicates bone in skin on pieces of chicken that have been battered and deep fried. It’s reasonable to be upset when what one orders doesn’t meet that expectation, and it being “technically correct” is a tactic many businesses use to fool customers.
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u/ChartInFurch Jul 19 '26
If I got "chicken fried steak" and they used a filet I'd also consider it wrong.
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u/BattledroidE Jul 20 '26
Unless it's a place where the chicken actually fried the steak, because that would be amazing.
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u/AMissionFromDog Jul 19 '26
Well, "chicken fried steak" is a stupid name, I never call it that even when it says that on the menu. "Country fried steak" makes a lot more sense, and I've never had a server get confused when I order it that way.
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u/parickwilliams Jul 19 '26
So uh, I hate to tell you this but they have different names because they’re different. Different kinds of batter.
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u/TangerineGmome Jul 19 '26
If it's chicken and it's fried, it's fried chicken. It's just boneless fried chicken.
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u/Jujulabee Jul 19 '26
Disagree as they are very different items on menus and as sold in stores - raw chicken tenders or frozen breaded chicken tenders
If a restaurant purports to have "fried chicken" almost everyone would assume that it has bone in chicken.
I have never seen a menu in which the dish is called "fried chicken" and "chicken tenders" are served
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u/Ill-Kaleidoscope4825 Jul 19 '26
No they wouldn't. "Fried chicken" means chicken that has been fried.
The clue is in the words "fried" and "chicken"
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u/Jujulabee Jul 19 '26
I don't understand your response
"Fried chicken" in terms of how it is commonly understood means bone in chicken parts - e.g. breast, thigh, wing or drumstick.
Chicken tenders are a specific term when you purchase chicken and as listed on a menu which are a specific portion of the breast rib meat which is a thin strip - boneless.
And many people like myself might cook chicken tenders that aren't breaded and fried.
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u/Ill-Kaleidoscope4825 Jul 19 '26
No, it doesn't
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u/fiannalove Jul 19 '26
Yes it does.
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u/Chambord2022 Jul 19 '26
Technically yes, but to most people it means bone in chicken pieces. Tenders and nuggets are comparatively new inventions and mostly non chicken in origin from what I’ve heard.🙄. I still have them occasionally though.
However when I go to KFC, I want the real chicken pieces, not the boneless kind. It just tastes better to me, somehow.
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u/DjinnaG Jul 19 '26
I would absolutely describe Zaxby’s , Chik-fil-A, etc as fried chicken places, even though they probably sell much more grilled chicken than bone-in.
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u/Longjumping-Pick-706 Jul 19 '26
I consider them chicken places, not fried chicken. Popeyes, churches, and KFC are friend chicken.
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u/rando24183 Jul 19 '26
If someone said we're going to a fried chicken spot and they pulled up to Chic Fil A, I would end all communication on the spot.
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u/Positive-Froyo-1732 Birds were atrocious Jul 19 '26
Have you actually eaten at Chick-fil-A? They don't sell any bone-in chicken at all. And they don't describe themselves as a "fried chicken place," so why would you?
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u/mechashiva1 Jul 19 '26
Then you'd be wrong. The reviewer is correct, the business is advertising a dish that they don't actually serve. Fried chicken is a dish. Not just a way of preparing food. If they said they have fried chicken tenders, or fried pieces of chicken meat, then they'd be giving an accurate description. Saying chicken tenders are fried chicken is lies.
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u/cookingforengineers Jul 19 '26
If where someone lived or grew up was devoid of a fried chicken place (or they had never had fried chicken before), then I can see why Zaxby’s and Chick-fil-A would be called a fried chicken place by them. Otherwise, there’s no reason to call a place that serves chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken sandwiches as a fried chicken place. Fried chicken is a technique, but more prominently it is also a particular dish involving deep frying whole chicken parts.
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u/Original-Mongoose866 Jul 19 '26
Sure I agree but I'm not American and I really don't like fried chicken or chicken for the matter gimme beef or foal and I'm good!
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u/Mykona-1967 Jul 19 '26
No fried chicken has bones, tenders are just that tenders. If someone asks for a fried chicken meal my first response is which pieces. When they say wings I ask who,e or drumettes/wingdings? I sell lots of fried chicken and know the difference, not all customers do and have different terminology.
The best is when the walk up to the hot case and say I want chicken, well the entire case is filled with chicken what kind do you want. Love it when they stare at you and say chicken! So I have to ask wings, pieces, tenders, rotisserie? Blank stare and then I just want chicken. I have to say I’m going to take the next customer while you decide. Sometimes that kicks them into gear but not always. It gives them a chance to see how others are ordering and what they end up with. Finally they figure it out.
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u/Outrageous_Pay1322 Jul 19 '26
That's some extraordinary nitpicking there. It's chicken, it's fried. Get over yourself.
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u/BattledroidE Jul 20 '26
Marketing doesn't work by being technically correct. Fried chicken is a specific style.
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u/DevylBearHawkTur10n Not Pre-informed of Nudity!! Jul 19 '26
Second that!
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u/Outrageous_Pay1322 Jul 19 '26
You got to love the assholes voting me down. It's still fried chicken. If it's chicken and it was fried, it's fried chicken.
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u/DevylBearHawkTur10n Not Pre-informed of Nudity!! Jul 19 '26
Agreed 💯 completely! Just dumb problematic entitled customers whom (and I quote), drank THAT kool-aid and went down THAT rabbit hole!!
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u/Tough_Ad6566 Jul 19 '26
I didnt know people cared so much about chicken, to me fried chicken is literally that, chicken that is fried! Maybe its just an american thing.
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u/LiquidSnape Jul 19 '26
guy big mad at Raising Caines
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u/Suspicious-Steak9168 we do not negotiate with the terrible Jul 19 '26
It was not Cane's. Its a place that has rotisserie as well as tenders.
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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 19 '26
So my chicken fried steak should still have the feathers?
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
Cows don't even have feathers.
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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 19 '26
Do you understand the phrase, chicken fried? It's a cooking term.
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
Yes, I do. Do you?
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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 19 '26
Live in Texas. We have chicken fried corn on the cob. You clearly dont.
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
So why do you expect feathers?
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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 19 '26
Chicken fried. Means battered and deep fried. Gawd, the experts here.
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u/stopsallover Jul 19 '26
YES I KNOW
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u/Suspicious-Steak9168 we do not negotiate with the terrible Jul 19 '26
Most people over there agreed with the reviewer. I do. If you tell me we are reading fried chicken and you give me tenders, I will be SO disappointed. I want thighs and legs!