The
fried chicken prepared in
Albertsons local
service deli. It's not as good as
Kentucky Fried Chicken, obviously, but at $3.99 for 8 pieces (sometimes more, sometimes less) and you can usually get 50 or so pieces for about $22,
it's good enough for me.
What probably sets it apart from
KFC is the amount of
grease present in every cubic inch. There's enough to keep you licking
the roof of your mouth if you wait a few minutes to let the grease
congeal. I once worked at one store that had been around for 20 or 30 years, and the grease had left a fine
filter on the floor for about 30 feet around. The deli was in poor condition, and the closer you got to the
deep fryer the more obvious the grease was.
Employees beware.
I often
speculated that if there were a way to peel off the grease of
ages past, there could be some
unknown bacterial strain lurking under it all. Fortunately, I don't think the technology
exists to get all that grease out of the
floor tiles.