00:01.37
Nandi K
Welcome back to Right Quick.

00:04.63
Vance 😈
A bite-sized pop culture conversation with your favorite queer, unfriendly black hotties.

00:09.97
Nandi K
We're unfriendly today because honestly, too many people are closeted fried chicken lovers because of anti-Blackness. I'm Nandi Kay.

00:19.22
Vance 😈
And I'm Vance Gowe. And I could also never, ah could never.

00:24.34
Nandi K
Yeah, it's kind of like, remember in Zora and Langston where Zora had ate the watermelon at that banquet?

00:31.52
Vance 😈
Uh-huh.

00:32.90
Nandi K
And she was like, I'm not about to leave this good-ass watermelon to all these crackas.

00:33.37
Vance 😈
ah hu

00:39.19
Nandi K
And I'm like, right, why would I not eat?

00:43.66
Vance 😈
watermelon First of all, watermelons fire. um I just saw a picture of me at the park sprawled out on ah on a blanket eating watermelon with ah with with Jason, with our friend Jason and our other friend Tony.

00:51.45
Nandi K
How beautiful.

00:54.81
Nandi K
Black and beautiful. Yes.

00:56.14
Vance 😈
We were all smiling. It was so beautiful.

00:58.30
Nandi K
oh

00:58.86
Vance 😈
I was like, yes.

01:00.44
Nandi K
Wow.

01:00.63
Vance 😈
um I haven't done it enough this summer, but I want to eat cold watermelon at the park with the homies. um I just started buying melon for the house and I've been cutting it up and eating it with tajin.

01:11.67
Nandi K
Sure.

01:12.74
Vance 😈
So I put MSG on it the other day. Bitch.

01:15.32
Nandi K
Yeah, MSG is great on anything, really.

01:17.27
Vance 😈
Yeah.

01:18.05
Nandi K
really

01:18.30
Vance 😈
Yeah.

01:18.71
Nandi K
I don't really eat the melons.

01:19.03
Vance 😈
So. ah

01:20.95
Nandi K
Not just watermelon.

01:21.56
Vance 😈
Oh, yeah. Because of the because of the seeds.

01:22.32
Nandi K
All melons. I'm just a melon hater. No, you know what it is? I feel like melon flavors are, like, really, like, subdued, and I don't, yeah, I don't like that.

01:33.43
Vance 😈
They are They, ah so they are, but I do.

01:37.07
Nandi K
Like, Like honeydew, cantaloupe, those tastes like armpit to me.

01:39.75
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

01:44.44
Nandi K
um Watermelon kind of tastes like nothing, but it tastes kind of like a how I feel about cucumber and watermelon is the same as far as taste, if that makes sense.

01:56.95
Vance 😈
We, we were talking about this the other day via text and yes, no, it,

01:59.03
Nandi K
Yeah. Yeah, I can't. But we growing watermelons this year in our garden. so Shaun had the first watermelon out of the garden and it was pretty good, but they said they were probably not going to grow them again.

02:06.26
Vance 😈
But you won't be partaking.

02:16.44
Vance 😈
why not? Too much work?

02:18.33
Nandi K
Yeah, they said they're kind of like, they go too crazy. They say if they do, they'll do them differently, but yeah. Yeah, it was a real, we grew a lot of food this year and it was a real learning experience.

02:33.91
Nandi K
But anyway, this episode is about fried chicken.

02:38.07
Vance 😈
Yes. ah Our first love? i don't know. I speak for myself. One of my first loves for sure.

02:43.54
Nandi K
Yeah, yeah, no, fried chicken is my number one favorite food. um There's not a food that I like more than fried chicken.

02:56.25
Nandi K
And it's not close.

02:58.37
Vance 😈
I'm sorry. I'm thinking. I

03:02.58
Vance 😈
yeah i mean, it's top three for me. But I like fried chicken so much, I don't count it in my head when I think about foods I like, if that makes sense. It's just up there.

03:12.87
Vance 😈
Like, it's already there.

03:14.07
Nandi K
Okay. This is what I'm saying. It's so high up. It's like, it's not even close to other foods that I like. I can basically always eat fried chicken.

03:23.42
Vance 😈
Okay.

03:27.13
Vance 😈
Yeah.

03:28.34
Nandi K
Yeah, i can.

03:28.54
Vance 😈
Because for me, I'm just trying to think about when I go out to eat, If there's a wing on the menu, I'm getting it. And then mac and cheese, I know better, but I still get it everywhere i go because...

03:43.30
Nandi K
That's me and grits, but you know, I'm not gonna, I won't order mac and cheese anywhere though. I know how to peep a spot and know if the mac and cheese, cause if you bring me that creamy shit, I'm swinging.

03:51.43
Vance 😈
Bitch.

03:54.46
Vance 😈
That runny ass...

03:57.62
Nandi K
I'm swinging. in

03:58.74
Vance 😈
Listen, you should be allowed to.

03:59.44
Nandi K
I'm swinging. it

04:01.14
Vance 😈
i be every time I go out.

04:01.50
Nandi K
Yeah. Now, yeah. But fried chicken, what about when it's fried chicken on the menu?

04:05.46
Vance 😈
Okay.

04:08.25
Nandi K
Like, how do you decide if you're gonna get it

04:13.02
Vance 😈
So that's it, right? Wings, I don't care.

04:15.29
Nandi K
okay

04:16.14
Vance 😈
Like, I'm going to order that wing.

04:17.33
Nandi K
Okay, word.

04:18.26
Vance 😈
I will order a wing. But when they say, like, country fried fried chicken, I'm weary because it depends on where I'm at because y'all not about to play in my face.

04:28.42
Vance 😈
So I will say that. Tendies. Tendies are tendies. Like, tendies are like, it's like pizza.

04:35.26
Nandi K
I could take them or leave them.

04:38.02
Vance 😈
If I get a bad tendie, I'm going be like, I'm going to be a little annoyed. But, like, it's a tendie.

04:43.19
Nandi K
I don't know. I can't really do the fake tendies anymore like them frozen ones.

04:47.29
Vance 😈
Oh, I don't eat them. I'm talking like lease restaurant, like a decent, like, you know, Chili's.

04:50.42
Nandi K
Yeah, okay, yeah, like a sit down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:53.14
Vance 😈
Yeah.

04:53.30
Nandi K
ah yeah The chili’s, that crisper.

04:55.42
Vance 😈
Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, ah yeah.

04:57.28
Nandi K
Yes, no, I'm well aware.

04:57.30
Vance 😈
Yeah.

04:59.10
Nandi K
No, I know ball, right? I know ball, okay. I know ball. Yeah, i know ball ah yeah what Okay, do you have like, I have very specific fried chicken memories as a child.

05:16.18
Vance 😈
yeah Yes, yes, yes, for sure.

05:16.92
Nandi K
Do you have any?

05:19.14
Vance 😈
So my mom, she is, my mom is a really good cook. My grandpa, listen, my grandpa, cause my grandpa like a cooking ass nigga.

05:25.37
Nandi K
That's so wild.

05:30.43
Vance 😈
Like he just, he cook everything.

05:30.87
Nandi K
Yeah, but it's like she not motherly and like I know you had to fend for yourself like a lot.

05:32.07
Vance 😈
He's a good cook.

05:37.98
Nandi K
So it's kind of wild that she's a good cook.

05:41.91
Vance 😈
the joke The joke I used to tell as a kid was that was the trade-off. I would be like, look, I'll put up with all this bullshit because the food is good.

05:46.55
Nandi K
Damn. Damn. Wow.

05:53.24
Vance 😈
I was a teenager saying that.

05:53.75
Nandi K
wow

05:54.64
Vance 😈
But it was true.

05:55.19
Nandi K
I had no reasons to stay my mama really could not cook. That's wild. Anyway, so your mom's a really good cook.

06:02.39
Vance 😈
So my mom used to make the best fried chicken. um

06:05.66
Nandi K
Oh. Wow.

06:06.17
Vance 😈
And like the community would be like, nigga, your mama make a chicken. So so that was just the a staple standard, which is again why when we say like, oh, what's your favorite?

06:16.66
Vance 😈
I don't even think about, I don't think about our food because our food is already up there for me. So I just like, could like fried chicken greens, Mac, like what we talking about?

06:22.94
Nandi K
and The next one.

06:27.70
Vance 😈
That's it. don't Don't ask me what my favorite food is.

06:31.38
Nandi K
Yeah, sure.

06:31.83
Vance 😈
ah But then, like, a good fried chicken memory that I may have is um me and my mom. My mom made us move to North Carolina when I was a teenager.

06:42.28
Nandi K
Klantown.

06:42.49
Vance 😈
um chasing Chasing a nigga. We moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.

06:47.28
Nandi K
Oh.

06:47.35
Vance 😈
And I, because, you know, I'm a Cali person in my heart. So I would be like, hey, in the summer I'm going home.

06:51.99
Nandi K
Mm-hmm.

06:53.85
Vance 😈
So my mama, again, not not super nurturing. She used to put my ass on the bus, Nandi. So...

07:02.46
Nandi K
Had you riding around with the niggas from Ernest Goes to Jail.

07:02.90
Vance 😈
three

07:06.55
Vance 😈
Yes, yeah actually.

07:08.38
Nandi K
ah

07:08.48
Vance 😈
Nigga with a switchblade sitting next to you. youre like oh um So my mama, three days, three day trip there. So three days there, three days back is what I used to do when I was like 15, 16.

07:18.46
Nandi K
Wild.

07:20.47
Vance 😈
My mom would just make a bunch of fried chicken and put it in a brown bag. And that's what I would

07:23.96
Nandi K
Wow, you was literally traveling. That's so ancestral.

07:28.47
Vance 😈
And then...

07:28.76
Nandi K
Like, honestly, do you know that's like people who were escaping Jim Crow, who moved from the South to the North because the train cars were segregated in the South.

07:35.05
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

07:42.42
Nandi K
They also used to pack up like fried chicken in boxes and take, cause it, well, good f fried chicken.

07:46.78
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm. Because it stays.

07:50.84
Vance 😈
Yeah.

07:51.48
Nandi K
can really hold up for a while.

07:53.14
Vance 😈
Yeah.

07:53.87
Nandi K
Oh, that's honestly really beautiful. That's a beautiful, like ancestral thing in that really kind of shitty moment. Like you can look back on it and be like, wow, that's an ancestral thing.

08:05.72
Vance 😈
and And let me tell you, I had, so I'll be on a bus with like three bags of fried chicken. And what ended up happening was um I started bartering with people like, oh, you got bread.

08:17.30
Nandi K
Yeah, wow.

08:18.51
Vance 😈
You could have three wings if you let me get that bread. So we were on a train. We created like a little system. And you know, you were riding with people for like, maybe a half a day depending on where they were getting off and then that's what I would do I would just like stick with the people that were cool um and there was like a teenager another teenager is like this my buddy and then that's what we would do so I did that like the whole time and when I think about it I think like the way I've like the you know community and all that shit I'm like not to say it started there but it definitely was like oh you see it like the the connections

08:28.41
Nandi K
yeah, word yeah

08:50.52
Nandi K
yeah no there's definitely a through line there that's really really great yeah we my mom not a good cook. ah Really, yeah, not a good cook. Not a great cook while I was growing up.

09:07.41
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

09:07.70
Nandi K
um You know, she just was really stressed out. She had three kids. She was single. Everything in the oven, 450. You know, like that was like, it was a lot of baked chicken leg quarters.

09:18.67
Vance 😈
Not 450. It's too high.

09:21.34
Nandi K
Yeah, and it was a lot of broiled leg quarters for dinner.

09:25.53
Vance 😈
No sis.

09:26.14
Nandi K
it was so awful.

09:28.41
Vance 😈
Turn it down a little. Low and slow.

09:29.91
Nandi K
But sometimes we would, like if it was like a Friday night, There would be a few things. When my mama and my daddy were still kind of cool, even after they got divorced, my dad would come over like every other Friday and we would have movie night.

09:49.98
Nandi K
And he would bring like wings from Miami subs. I don't think y'all have those, but Miami subs is like a local spot. And they're like a breaded wing that you, and they have like buffalo sauce that like comes on the side.

09:59.26
Vance 😈
Yeah.

10:03.16
Nandi K
Or... And then my dad would get like two movies from Hollywood Video with like the little popcorn pack and the soda. You know how you could get the whole thing at like Blockbuster or Hollywood Video whatever or whatever?

10:15.26
Vance 😈
Yeah.

10:18.46
Nandi K
if he wasn't coming, we might get Popeyes with my mom, which is why I fucking love Popeyes so much.

10:24.89
Vance 😈
Yeah.

10:25.30
Nandi K
And the Popeyes that I grew up going to, like that was near like our daycare is still open, like still there. Yeah, I love Popeye's. That's one of the reasons why I'm like so big on Popeye's too, because like it's such a big staple in my childhood. Yeah, I love fried chicken.

10:43.54
Vance 😈
Listen, we have I talked about family dinner on this podcast?

10:46.87
Nandi K
Not really. You should talk about it! Mm-hmm.

10:49.72
Vance 😈
So the the inception of family dinner, I didn't even start it. It was ah the homie Sutiweyu. But essentially, the inception of family dinner was you can organize niggas around chicken.

11:00.76
Vance 😈
So they...

11:01.56
Nandi K
Wow, it's true.

11:03.58
Vance 😈
Well, they would have a potluck where everybody bought a chicken dish. And because the group was like hella diaspora, you know, ah we had different folks from different places.

11:11.03
Nandi K
okay

11:13.51
Vance 😈
Everybody would be bringing like their their their home dish, you know, sort of jollof and shit.

11:17.05
Nandi K
Nice.

11:18.95
Vance 😈
But um that that was the start of it.

11:19.52
Nandi K
Mm-hmm.

11:21.15
Vance 😈
And by the time I came around, it was just like the host would get Popeye’sand then everybody else would bring sides. But

11:28.22
Nandi K
Yeah, I like that too.

11:30.58
Vance 😈
And on special occasions, we will bring, we will bring like Popeye's and, you know, uh, LA, we got Louisiana fried chicken, which is like, uh, she like, she like a silent number two.

11:37.50
Nandi K
yes i love louisiana fried chicken love her love her

11:41.10
Vance 😈
And, um, she's good. She's great. Um, But yeah, we were bringing the different fried chickens. And then when I started inviting people, I would just be like, yo, it's a black ass chicken party that we that we throw every month.

11:53.69
Nandi K
that's so dope

11:53.67
Vance 😈
and it you And then the right people get excited about that. Like, if that doesn't excite you, i probably we probably don't want you there in no You probably wouldn't have a good time anyway. So like it kind of weeded people out.

12:05.70
Nandi K
Damn, the spirit of Zora would be pleased.

12:05.69
Vance 😈
And then they'd be like, ah listen, no.

12:09.62
Nandi K
She would be so pleased.

12:10.05
Vance 😈
no ah no whites um No whites at the family dinner, down at the family dinner.

12:14.17
Nandi K
That's right.

12:16.87
Vance 😈
um

12:17.49
Nandi K
Niggas only.

12:18.62
Vance 😈
Listen, people used to be so mad. Nandi, you would think, like...

12:23.61
Nandi K
Oh, did the white people try to come? Oh my God, i haven't even considered this.

12:26.23
Vance 😈
ah we had a couple

12:28.49
Nandi K
But of course.

12:30.23
Vance 😈
We had a couple issues, like high-key, where, like... ah we had a We had a family dinner at a park at a farm one time. and ah

12:38.87
Nandi K
and

12:39.64
Vance 😈
well first I mean, I get it. The person who ran the farm, her her husband was white. We were like, no white.

12:48.50
Nandi K
Okay.

12:49.53
Aaron Rand Freeman
Bye.

12:49.94
Vance 😈
But like, y'all need to say...

12:51.13
Nandi K
But she runs the farm. She's not a part of the group.

12:54.66
Vance 😈
Y'all need to say, hey y'all can't do it here. Y'all gonna be mad about it. Because like... Because I think they were like, well, bitch, it's our farm. We're like, it's our event. Like, if you don't want us to have the event here, tell us.

13:05.30
Nandi K
Right.

13:07.02
Vance 😈
cause So we had already had the event.

13:07.83
Nandi K
right

13:10.02
Vance 😈
They already said we can do it. And I used to do the write-up for the family dinner. And it was always like... It was always personalized. This is pre-chat GPT.

13:18.07
Nandi K
yeah yeah oh damn

13:19.24
Vance 😈
So i would I would just be like, it would always be like a joke. Like, leave your Collin at home. And then, so ah I put something like that on there. And then they were like, oh, well, like, because my Collin or something. I was like, oh.

13:36.50
Vance 😈
We still had it.

13:36.63
Nandi K
Girl, you're caping for a him? girl.

13:37.26
Vance 😈
And it was a good time.

13:40.31
Vance 😈
the Yeah. Yeah.

13:43.06
Nandi K
Why do you feel personally offended by that when nobody's talking to you?

13:48.92
Vance 😈
Right. And I mean, I know this ain't the family dinner episode, but all I would say is like, if this was an all women's event, nobody would be pressed about bringing their man here.

13:58.39
Nandi K
Don't even get me started.

14:00.28
Vance 😈
And if they are, you say, hey, we already said he can't come. So like, why are you asking?

14:04.44
Nandi K
yeah right strictly for the niggas we love that family dinners organized around chicken though i had no idea that that was kind of like the vibe you did eventually tell me about the Popeye’s and then people bring sides though because i know y'all had it kind of recently you had made that mac this is the last time i remember y'all having it

14:06.90
Vance 😈
But they don't. Right. Right.

14:20.28
Vance 😈
Yes, yes. Because that's what

14:28.12
Vance 😈
ah what recently, like last year, no?

14:30.10
Nandi K
I mean, last year. i it was last year, but I mean, within the past year.

14:31.45
Vance 😈
Yeah.

14:34.78
Vance 😈
Oh, yeah. No, it was like our 10-year anniversary or something.

14:37.46
Nandi K
Yeah, exactly.

14:37.82
Vance 😈
That's why we did it.

14:38.74
Nandi K
That's what it was. Yeah.

14:40.35
Vance 😈
Because we were at our mutuals.

14:40.57
Nandi K
Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, let's talk about, we kind of started, yeah. I was trying to avoid that part of it, um but yeah.

14:51.21
Vance 😈
We can move on. We can continue.

14:55.74
Nandi K
Anyway, okay so where are some of your favorite places to get fried chicken? So I have a few categories. Location-wise, restaurant-specific, and I mean like sit-down restaurants, and then like fast food fried chicken.

15:10.55
Vance 😈
Okay.

15:15.86
Vance 😈
Okay, so...

15:16.92
Nandi K
So for location, and I mean like is there a city? Is there a Yeah, yeah.

15:23.16
Vance 😈
Oh, i mean, so Long Beach. Long Beach has, in the hood, we got like a nice wing spot. So I feel like my, again, i know we talk about fried chicken.

15:36.34
Vance 😈
We talk about all the pieces, but like for the most part, my spots are mostly wing spots.

15:38.86
Nandi K
Yeah. I see.

15:41.08
Vance 😈
um We got a really good wing spot in the hood that I go to, and that's the best one. so that's all I really go to. And then i have discovered that if you go to some of these Asian restaurants that ain't talking about no fried chicken,

15:48.12
Nandi K
Yeah.

15:55.64
Vance 😈
They will have a good fried chicken in there, but you just gotta, you gotta find them though. You can't, like, I don't know all them.

16:00.86
Nandi K
yeah I definitely think l LA has, of all the places in the country that I've been and lived, l LA has the best fried chicken scene.

16:02.42
Vance 😈
Oh.

16:13.85
Nandi K
it has the best variety of fried chicken that i've ever found so it has southern fried chicken it has asian fried chicken it has like the louisiana fried chicken they have like Gus's which is also good they have the hot chicken as well and like you can basically get any kind of fried chicken

16:18.84
Vance 😈
Uh-huh.

16:24.16
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

16:27.00
Vance 😈
Yeah.

16:29.62
Vance 😈
Yeah.

16:32.66
Vance 😈
Yeah. We love the hot chicken. Crack it.

16:37.34
Nandi K
in Los Angeles and the greater Los Angeles area. And for that reason, I think that l LA is the best place in the US to have fried chicken.

16:50.24
Vance 😈
Dang. You were harder for that reason than me.

16:53.11
Nandi K
I consider myself an aficionado.

16:54.68
Vance 😈
Hey.

16:55.71
Nandi K
I do consider like Myself an aficionado and I have fried chicken in every place I go. I literally don't go to a place and don't have fried chicken.

17:08.09
Nandi K
So I feel like, yeah, maybe if I spent more time in other places, I would have a different answer. But I feel like in terms of variety, quality, it's hard to kind of beat Los Angeles to me.

17:25.02
Vance 😈
Dang. Okay. I mean, I'll take it. That's a high praise, especially coming from you.

17:28.63
Nandi K
Yeah.

17:31.22
Nandi K
Hey, yeah.

17:32.82
Vance 😈
i will i will say per capita, if you go if you go to like South Central and you just drive around, bitch, you're going see some hole in the wall spots with lines around the corner that is like, well, you better get over there and see what's up.

17:42.17
Nandi K
Yeah.

17:45.85
Vance 😈
Make sure you only got some cash.

17:46.07
Nandi K
Listen. Ugh, that reminds me of a place that we used to have here that closed before I moved back. There used to be this spot in Jacksonville called Mary Ann’'s Fried Chicken. Oh my God, talk about a fucking line. It was in the hood too. I used to always go there when I was getting my hair done.

18:05.30
Nandi K
ah RIP Mary Ann’'s. Okay, restaurant specific, sit down restaurants. Now, you said you're a wang nigga.

18:17.86
Vance 😈
I am a wang nigga.

18:19.13
Nandi K
I like wings. I think wings are safe. um Usually, you can't really, like you said, you can't really mess up a wing. I'm pretty particular, though, because I only like breaded wings.

18:31.71
Nandi K
like I like only breaded wings.

18:34.07
Vance 😈
um Bread it with a sauce or just bread it?

18:37.67
Nandi K
bread it with a sauce bread it period either yeah but like i don't like non-breaded wings with sauce like yeah yeah yeah so yeah i love that i really there used to be a place in new york city called the delta grill

18:38.97
Vance 😈
okay. Okay. Okay.

18:45.98
Vance 😈
No, i got you. I got, I get what I'm putting. I'm,

18:58.20
Nandi K
It was in like Hell's Kitchen Times Square area on like 48th and 9th or something like that. They had a half a chicken dinner for like, it was like 25 bucks with two sides.

19:13.30
Nandi K
They also had crystal hot sauce at this restaurant.

19:15.93
Vance 😈
Yeah.

19:16.46
Nandi K
The only time I've ever seen crystal hot sauce in New York City ever They don't even have Crystal in New York City. You cannot buy Crystal in New York City, but this restaurant had it, baby.

19:30.70
Nandi K
And they would tell you, we cook it to order honey

19:34.27
Vance 😈
Uh-huh.

19:35.96
Nandi K
I would get that thing whenever I could get that way because then I would take half the half chicken home because you also have like two sides, cornbread.

19:45.35
Vance 😈
Right.

19:46.42
Nandi K
It was so fucking good. i love that place. Also, there's a place called, fuck, Lenox something. There's a bunch of New York fried chicken places that I really like.

19:58.90
Nandi K
um Yeah. Any new places for you?

20:02.20
Vance 😈
I mean, you so you mentioned Gus's. um

20:05.11
Nandi K
love Gus’s

20:05.75
Vance 😈
The Gus's in Long Beach got closed. I have no idea why. i was going to go the other day. um Then there's a ah Korean bar. It's called KBBQ.

20:16.34
Vance 😈
It's a Korean bitch, right?

20:16.70
Nandi K
oh i love that place that's my spot the fried chicken spot the korean fried chicken spot yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah now i'm obsessed we have bbq la that's what it's called

20:19.93
Vance 😈
ah Yeah, and then... Yes, yes.

20:29.02
Vance 😈
Okay, yeah, they're...

20:29.62
Nandi K
It's like a chain. They have a bunch of spots, but they have one in New York.

20:32.47
Vance 😈
beast.

20:34.07
Nandi K
They have one.

20:34.17
Vance 😈
Nah, they're good.

20:34.83
Nandi K
I don't think we have one here, but there's one in Orlando, I know.

20:39.00
Vance 😈
Right.

20:39.18
Nandi K
Obsessed.

20:40.02
Vance 😈
Yeah, listen, I mean, I know i know i know the Koreans was topped by the niggas during that war, but they putting their foot in it over there with the, I think it's the sauce.

20:45.91
Nandi K
Yeah.

20:51.74
Vance 😈
um

20:52.15
Nandi K
and you know what it is? It's the cornstarch.

20:55.26
Vance 😈
Cornstarch. Cornstarch, because it's crispier.

20:56.79
Nandi K
The corn starch, like rice flour kind of like situation is like the vibes, but I haven't figured out how to do that without burning it in my own house.

21:00.88
Vance 😈
yup

21:07.65
Nandi K
I stick to the rivers and lakes that I'm used to. All right, fast food chicken.

21:14.23
Vance 😈
We already know Jollibee Popeyes But Jollibee Jollibee is secretly number one But like i don't

21:15.73
Nandi K
Jollibee, my nigga. Popeye’s.

21:21.82
Nandi K
Yes, not always available.

21:24.98
Vance 😈
Right. They had a Katseye special. Like ah last time we had a chicken party. Oh, the last family dinner. They had a Katseye special.

21:31.80
Nandi K
Oh, yeah.

21:33.78
Vance 😈
And there was ah a Korean barbecue inspired flavor. Bitch.

21:39.42
Nandi K
a

21:40.22
Vance 😈
It was. so I hate when these i hate when these stores do limited ah limited offers or whatever, because I'm like, y'all need to put this on there forever.

21:45.33
Nandi K
Yeah, and they be good as fuck. Yeah, I fuck with Jolly B because i love putting gravy on my fucking chicken, bit bitch. I always get mashed potatoes and gravy because I love dipping my chicken in gravy.

21:55.01
Vance 😈
Yup.

21:59.83
Vance 😈
Listen, Jollibee.

22:00.86
Nandi K
Uh, uh, it's so good. Uh, oh, did y'all?

22:04.44
Vance 😈
Yeah, Jollibee in Kuwait. And my boss was Filipino, and he was like a fiend.

22:08.39
Nandi K
Damn.

22:12.34
Vance 😈
He used to take us every time we left the base.

22:13.94
Nandi K
I literally did not know about Jollibee because when we didn't have a Jollibee here in Jacksonville before I left, which is bananas because we have so many Filipino people here. like The neighborhood I grew up in was named after different islands. The streets were named after different islands in the Philippines. It was so wild.

22:36.88
Nandi K
That's how many Filipino people we have in Florida, in Jacksonville. But there was no Jollibee. I went to Sunnyside, Queens for the first time. And my Filipino friends from church was like, have you had Jollibee? I was like, nah, what's this? They were like, oh, it's a fried chicken spot.

22:54.30
Nandi K
I was won.

22:55.99
Vance 😈
Yeah.

22:56.44
Nandi K
I was won, amen.

22:56.86
Vance 😈
Yeah.

22:57.68
Nandi K
ah

22:59.30
Vance 😈
Jollibee is that girl.

22:59.58
Nandi K
ah

23:00.76
Vance 😈
Yeah. So Jollibee, Jollibee, Popeye’s, Louisiana.

23:01.31
Nandi K
She's so good.

23:04.33
Vance 😈
Those are my, that's my top three.

23:05.40
Nandi K
yeah Yeah, we don't really have like all the local chicken spots. I don't really like a lot of the local fried chicken spots here.

23:16.40
Nandi K
There's so few and far between. Mary Ann’s closed. That was my spot, Mary Ann’'s.

23:21.43
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

23:22.16
Nandi K
And then a lot of the wing spots that I used to go to also have closed or are racist. now so we can't go there you know people who are amassed in florida since like a place him we used to go for like 20 years was like super racist to my dad the last time he was there and i was like oh well i can never go there again that's crazy we've been going here forever oh yeah yeah

23:33.62
Vance 😈
Yeah, right.

23:42.84
Vance 😈
Right. um

23:46.95
Vance 😈
Bitch, Roscoe's apparently um MAGA, some MAGA bullshit.

23:50.10
Nandi K
yeah

23:52.02
Vance 😈
so And they were like, and we don't give a fuck what y'all got to say.

23:52.38
Nandi K
and then

23:55.22
Vance 😈
We was like, okay, say let's.

23:55.93
Nandi K
Okay, great. Perfect. We love to see it. All right, last but not least, let's cover the kitchen portion of the exam.

24:06.87
Nandi K
Now, I see you, I see the sweat beads starting to form on your brow.

24:12.50
Vance 😈
ah the

24:15.61
Nandi K
um But i know sometimes you're a little ah timid about frying. Do you be like frying chicken? What's the extent of your chicken frying?

24:27.29
Vance 😈
So, ah yeah, timid might be a good word. I say i say not confident. I just don't.

24:33.43
Nandi K
yeah

24:35.03
Vance 😈
I don't fry a lot because I know that if I fry it a lot, my back will be as long as this room. And so I eat f fried chicken when I can, of course, but like, I just don't fry it in the house.

24:47.68
Vance 😈
It also makes the house smell like oil.

24:51.32
Nandi K
Yeah.

24:51.38
Vance 😈
There's a bunch of reasons. So I fry, yeah, well, it depends.

24:53.18
Nandi K
You don't have a fan over your stove? Oh, okay.

24:58.14
Vance 😈
My old place had a carpet and it would just smell like, it would just smell like it for three weeks.

25:00.72
Nandi K
Oh, yeah. Yeah, we definitely don't have carpet in our like area where the kitchen is at all.

25:02.70
Vance 😈
But,

25:08.95
Vance 😈
in this current place I'm in? Yeah, no, I mean, but okay, but to answer your question, I'll probably fry like once every four months, if that. Like, it's very far in between, which is why I'm not great at it.

25:18.10
Nandi K
yeah

25:19.67
Vance 😈
And then I don't have a deep fryer, so I gotta like do the thing. so yeah. Yeah.

25:23.83
Nandi K
Yeah, I don't have a deep fryer either. I mean, I do, but I don't use it because it's too much work. Deep fryers are so much. Like maybe I've been thinking about maybe if I want to get like a, what's it called?

25:37.02
Nandi K
Fry daddy. That's like as a top. That's like a basically just like a pot.

25:41.98
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

25:42.07
Nandi K
that you fry in but i have pots so it's like i don't uh neither i fried like something twice this week what did i fry i've already some fish last night

25:43.42
Vance 😈
Only fry though.

25:47.38
Vance 😈
Just fry it.

25:57.44
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

25:58.84
Nandi K
What else do we have? We had something else fried the other day, a few days ago. um Tonight we're not frying anything, but yeah, I fry pretty often.

26:14.39
Nandi K
um yeah I love frying stuff.

26:16.12
Vance 😈
You know.

26:18.79
Vance 😈
Nah, you know, I'm an air fry. I'm an air fry hoe. But also, i am.

26:22.80
Nandi K
That's not the same.

26:24.31
Vance 😈
Well, I mean, that's just how i prep like air fry bacon and on the on the stovetop. But I don't. Yeah, i just don't fry that often.

26:31.77
Nandi K
Yeah, I'm like, bacon, you don't really, I mean, I put bacon in the oven because I don't feel like standing over it.

26:31.99
Vance 😈
um

26:38.05
Nandi K
That's the best bacon.

26:38.70
Vance 😈
I cook bacon in the oven now and I slow and slow.

26:41.37
Nandi K
Yeah, bacon on a rack in the oven, woof.

26:43.86
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm. if I'm filling my oats, I put a little brown sugar with a little cayenne on there.

26:44.88
Nandi K
Woof.

26:50.06
Nandi K
Yeah, season it.

26:50.24
Vance 😈
ah I said, mm-hmm. I said, it already got seasoning.

26:52.82
Nandi K
Mm-hmm.

26:54.10
Vance 😈
It's pork.

26:54.64
Nandi K
Mm-hmm.

26:54.60
Vance 😈
But, you know, more seasoning.

26:55.61
Nandi K
Yeah, yeah. Well, I love to... Mostly fry wings. Usually I'm frying wings if I'm frying chicken at my house.

27:02.55
Vance 😈
Mm-hmm.

27:06.53
Nandi K
Um, or chicken tenders. That's so rare, but sometimes I do have chicken tenders in my freezer.

27:10.17
Vance 😈
Yes. Yes.

27:13.89
Nandi K
And so I'll make those. Um, and my chicken tenders be looking at like fucking store-bought bitch. Them things...

27:21.85
Vance 😈
Do you brine em? I know you brine em.

27:23.10
Nandi K
Yeah, of course. Well, and buttermilk. I do buttermilk usually. um Unless I have like a whole day, then I'll do like a water brine. But usually I just do buttermilk. um And then, yeah I do like a little egg and cornstarch mixture after I pour the buttermilk off and then i dredge it And flour. Yeah, I love frying chicken.

27:49.94
Nandi K
I love fried chicken, so i have to, I had to get get busy in the pots. The best fried chicken,

28:01.06
Nandi K
It's good cold. This is my opinion.

28:02.88
Vance 😈
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

28:04.47
Nandi K
I think that's like the kind of bar for me, like if it's not good cold, and I mean like the texture has a hold up, the flavor has to hold up too.

28:04.79
Vance 😈
It's like.

28:13.77
Nandi K
Like the skin has to still be crispy when it's cold and the flavor has to still be good. And this is why Popeye's, Jollibee, superior fried chickens.

28:22.04
Vance 😈
Yeah. Yeah. um What house do you use?

28:28.70
Nandi K
Crystal because i'm back in the south um that's what that's like my hot sauce of choice um when i was in new york Frank's was kind of the hot sauce to use meh i prefer Crystal, Texas pete i kind of but texas pete is i like the kind of just like simple vinegar base vinegar cayenne pepper that's it yeah yeah louisiana too

28:46.15
Vance 😈
Oh, you...

28:50.59
Vance 😈
Vinegar-based, yeah. Louisiana-style, yes. I grew up on Crystal, so that's like my grandma and them. Crystal, that was like... That was what we had.

29:00.94
Vance 😈
So, Crystal, I grew up on Crystal.

29:01.43
Nandi K
yeah

29:02.78
Vance 😈
um i i became an adult. I turned out... I had a partner that was Belizean, they be using Marie Sharp.

29:09.18
Nandi K
a oh is it like a pepper sauce okay yeah yeah yeah i have some pepper sauces but pepper sauces are too hot for me yeah yeah my stomach be hurting yeah i be like chyle

29:11.06
Vance 😈
So then i switched I switched over to that, so it's like a little thicker, and it's way hotter. So... Mm-hmm.

29:22.17
Vance 😈
Yeah, they're hot, because they be using the habaneros. But, uh, Marie... No, look, you could do, you could do, like, a dot. You could do, like, a dot and be good. But, yeah, no, that Marie Sharp, that's my, that's my go-to nowadays, so...

29:34.65
Nandi K
wow that's what your ex your ex-wife i mean ex-fiance

29:36.15
Vance 😈
But I have...

29:41.02
Vance 😈
Yeah, we want to... Yes. And then also, i got like I got like eight hot sauces in the fridge. Because don't know.

29:49.66
Nandi K
oh yeah

29:50.54
Vance 😈
Because, you know, I don't know who are going to be here.

29:51.00
Nandi K
Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. i mean, we have we still have other hot sauces in case other people want different things. But yeah, no, it's mostly a crystal house around here.

30:02.74
Nandi K
i was so happy to have crystal back.

30:02.94
Vance 😈
um

30:04.54
Nandi K
I buy it in bulk.

30:06.26
Vance 😈
um maintain I maintain that it's anti-black not to have hot sauce in your house.

30:11.13
Nandi K
Bro, whenever I run out and I blame Shaun always and I'm like, I panic and I buy like so much hot sauce because I'm like, this can never happen again!

30:23.26
Vance 😈
Listen, cause why?

30:24.34
Nandi K
Yeah.

30:24.74
Vance 😈
Why y'all...

30:25.43
Nandi K
Yeah.

30:28.38
Nandi K
yeah yeah Well, I think we did it. This is a longer one. I do love fried chicken. I really do. i think I've also really demonstrated like my knowledge of fried chicken.

30:41.30
Vance 😈
Yeah, i i I feel like I felt the passion. Like, as we were talking, i felt like maybe I'm not as passionate.

30:45.14
Nandi K
Yeah.

30:49.34
Nandi K
I think maybe you're not.

30:49.66
Vance 😈
About fried chicken.

30:51.06
Nandi K
I mean, I do call myself a fried chicken aficionado.

30:52.34
Vance 😈
As I thought.

30:54.86
Nandi K
i don't think you call yourself that. I think you just say you love fried chicken. But I'm like, no, i'm I feel like I can judge these niggas. Like, you know, like, I look down my noses.

31:06.92
Vance 😈
No, even your advocacy for l LA.

31:10.49
Nandi K
Yeah.

31:11.96
Vance 😈
ah feel like you never advocate.

31:12.02
Nandi K
which was is a surprising thing.

31:13.94
Vance 😈
Yeah, it is.

31:14.10
Nandi K
I don't. I never have anything good to say about Los Angeles, but baby, so much good fried chicken.

31:15.10
Vance 😈
it is.

31:18.24
Vance 😈
I hear it every day, all the time.

31:21.72
Nandi K
hands Such a variety. i I'll give LA their tens for that one. I did not feel like, damn, I wish I could have the fried chicken from back home.

31:32.31
Nandi K
I did not feel like that LA. in l LA and not that I felt like that in New York but I still feel like it was like less restaurants and like yeah I mean yeah

31:47.00
Vance 😈
my My problem with fried chicken in the region is that I'm not super adventurous. Like if I find a place that I like, I'm just like, well, we don't need to know anything else.

31:53.18
Nandi K
and

31:57.33
Vance 😈
And then when they get shut down, are you know, you have a backup.

31:58.17
Nandi K
oh I see yeah sure yeah you have like two yeah

32:01.13
Vance 😈
Like, oh, okay, if this place is closed. If it's not closed, I'm going here. But like, I kind of stick to what I know.

32:07.67
Nandi K
Mm-hmm.

32:08.08
Vance 😈
anyway, yeah. okay

32:09.27
Nandi K
Yeah.

32:10.04
Vance 😈
Do we have a sponsor?

32:11.93
Nandi K
ah Today's episode is sponsored by National Fried Chicken Day, which is on July 6th. I don't know when this episode is going to come out. I think probably in August, but you know that's when it is Next year, we'll do it on time.

32:28.03
Nandi K
you know It's a crazy time.

32:28.76
Vance 😈
Yes. Yes.

32:30.23
Nandi K
a Big thanks to our producer and audio adonis, Aaron Rand Freeman.

32:35.45
Vance 😈
I have been Vance Gowe, and you can find me on Instagram and threads at Sir *beep* a Thot. And who are you, friend?

32:42.42
Nandi K
And I'm Nandi K. You can find me on Instagram threads in blue sky at Nandi K-A-Y-Y-Y. And follow us on our Instagram at rightquickpod.

32:54.68
Nandi K
Bye.

32:55.85
Vance 😈
Goodbye. Peace.