On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 16:22:30 -0800 (PST), Roy >
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>On Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:58:42 PM UTC-7, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:14:58 -0500, jmcquown >
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>> >On 12/7/2013 11:44 AM, wrote:
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>> >> On Friday, December 6, 2013 1:22:39 PM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
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>> >>> I had to chuckle. He said, "I'm a black man. Been around fried chicken
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>> >>> all my life. I've *never* tasted fried chicken as good as I got in
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>> >>> Pennsylvania!"
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>> >>> I googled for some recipes for Amish fried chicken. Apparently soaking
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>> >>> the chicken pieces in buttermilk is the key. I've heard about this for
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>> >>> years, but since I don't fry chicken... <shrug>
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>> >>> Some might say buttermilk is a "southern thing". <shrug> My father
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>> >>> (born in and mostly raised in Pennsylvania or western Ohio, in Penna
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>> >>> Dutch country) grew up with buttermilk. Me, having lived most of my
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>> >>> adult life in the South, not so much.
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>> >> Some of the best fried chicken I have ever had was in Austria, where the
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>> >> chicken was raised on my relatives' small farms. Other memorable fried
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>> >> chicken dinners were in the US, where the chickens were raised on my
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>> >> wife's relatives' small farms. I'm going to guess that the quality of the
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>> >> feed makes the chicken.
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>> >> Do the Amish deep-fry? In general, Germanic chicken fryers shallow fry, to
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>> >> avoid wasting expensive fats.
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>> >I have no idea if the Amish deep fry. I found it interesting this
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>> >elderly Southern gent told me about how great the fried chicken is in
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>> >Pennylvania Dutch country.
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>> I've been through Amish country several times and have patronized
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>> several of their eateries... truth is it's all a myth, their food is
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>> awful, all of it. Shoofly pie is disgusting. The Amish can't cook a
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>> lick and all have TIAD.
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>The Mennonites that I know are all excellent cooks...you must have
>hit a bad day or a bad bunch of Amish.

Plain people food is just too plain.