Chicken and Waffles

Friend #1- "All I want to do for my birthday is eat chicken and waffles."


Me- "What?!  That sounds completely disgusting."


Friend #2- (a male with a baritone voice that morphs back to his Southern roots while discussing soul food)- "They're the best."


Friend #1- "Really, truly, chicken and waffles are the bomb and you haven't lived until you've had them."


Me- "Chicken and waffles just sounds fucked up to me.  Quite honestly, I can't think of a nastier combination.  Can't we do something else for your birthday, like maybe Belle Vie?"


Friend #2- (now in a trance like state with his eyes rolling back in his head recalling a childhood filled with collard greens, grits, and chicken and waffles)  "When are we going?"


Friend #1- "Friday.  After Thanksgiving.  I'll make the reservation."


Me- "Really? Where does one get a meal like that, The Fair?  Don't you know it's November and that shit's closed down for the season?"


Friend #1- "The Bulldog.  You're going and you'll love it."


Friend #2- (now speaking in a complete drawl, even a slight twang coming forth, voice deeper than ever)  "Sign me up."


Great.  The day after Thanksgiving we are planning to consume sourdough waffles smothered in thyme infused syrup piled high with bacon and fried chicken.  Yum.  Can't wait.  Sounds like a big 'ole hot mess to me, but I love my friend and if she wants to celebrate her day with chicken and waffles then chicken and waffles it is.


Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle if it wasn't the best damn thing I ever did taste.  Looks like shit on a plate and I can't begin to imagine the number of calories but once you put a single savory, sloppy, drippy, gooey bite into your mouth you might as well have died and gone to heaven.  Chicken and waffles puts the soul in Southern cooking, the Hee in the Haw and practically makes you hallucinate.  


And when your fancy pants friend tells you to get down and dirty and eat something you might never, ever imagine like chicken and waffles, you listen.  

The tastiest plate of nastiness you ever did see