Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken

[fancycwabs]

I mentioned it previously, but since I changed jobs and it was convenient again, I figured it was high time I visited Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken for an update.

Uncle Lou's was recently featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-In's, and Dives with Guy Fieri. Food Network announcers refer to Guy as "Guy Fee-eddy," but in spite of the Italianization of his last name they don't call him Geeee. Huh. Anyway, Uncle Lou's abounds with references to its being on Food Network, but I didn't take a photo of it.

The first time I went to Uncle Lou's I had the chicken, and was less than impressed. Mostly because I despise honey, or anything honeylicious. The second time, I had the burger, which is tasty, and worth mention. This time, the menu hadn't changed much:

And I thought it would behoove me to order the honey-hot chicken, a seeming middle ground between the cloyingly sweet honey chicken and the blazing heat of something described as "hot chicken." Also, potato salad.

One thing about honey. It makes everything, even hot sauce, taste like bee vomit. There is no disguising the fact that it spent some time inside an insect's digestive tract. I should know better than to order anything with "honey" in the name, the same as I should know better than to order anything with "maple" in the name, as ribs or pork chops that taste like trees are just wrong. I don't care how long you've lived in Canada or Vermont. In any case, next time I think I'll just have the homestyle chicken and skip anything with the word "honey" in it. Or maybe a burger.

I should note that other folks thing Uncle Lou's has the very best chicken in all of Memphis, and perhaps the world. These people were raised by bees.

Comments

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

Man, I love that show. If our local 40's-themed diner hadn't closed, it would have been a perfect venue. I am so gonna miss that place.

Honey-fried chicken? That'll get you bees.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I am impressed that Fieri elected to visit actual off-the-beaten-path places in Memphis, instead of Corky's, Rendezvous, and Neely's.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Think I might have mentioned it befor, but your post reminds me of eating at a place in the middle of nowhere outside West Helena, AR with resk and he ordered "the catfish" and they brought him basically an entire catfish. And man, oh man, the food was sooooooo good.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Do you recall the name of said whole catfish place?

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

Dude, it was literally a cinderblock place at a crossroads with an barrel barbecue out the front. Middle-aged African-American woman behind the counter and cooking and I think it was named after her -- like Bev's or something. Amazingly good food and even though we warned by our friend who was doing Teach for America who sent us there that we might get a stinkeye or two, they were incredibly hospitable to two huge hulking white Yankees pulling up in an SUV. They thought it was hilarious. One of my top 5 meals of all time. resk might?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

There's a Granny Dee's, and a Ginger's, and a Linda's, and a Kelly's--culinary mystery within 90 minutes of Memphis? Investigations are in order!

(Edit--I've sent resk a link to this thread.)

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

If I have to pick from that list, I'd say either Linda's or Ginger's but man, it was like 12 years ago. Resk?

[resk.livejournal.com]

If you water-boarded me and demanded an answer, I'd have to say "Ginger's." But that's the problem with torture. I could be wrong.

[k-sui.livejournal.com]

This has all taken a grim turn.

INTERROGATOR: TELL ME WHERE TO GET THE TASTY CATFISH AND SWEET TEA!

RESK: I don't know.

INTERROGATOR: You do know!

RESK: No, dude, it was a rea- (gurgle, gurgle)

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