Place: Krispy Krunchy Chicken (inside Zip's 66)
Lunch: 2 thighs, Honey Butter Biscuit, bottled water
Krispy Krunchy is the 2,000-plus outlet chicken chain you've never heard of. That's because most outlets are in convenience stores. Usually in sketchy older inner-city stores with bars on the windows or in old small-town mom-and-pop stores where Peggy is the cashier and her sister Mandy and her best friend Luann hang out keeping her company until the kids get out of school. Or those ones in the middle of nowhere where everyone goes dead silent when a stranger walks in the door. The creepy supernatural convenience store in "Twin Peaks:The Return" probably sells Krispy Krunchy Chicken.
The appeal to owners seems to be it's cheap and easy to get into. There's no ongoing franchise royalty...you just have to buy their food from them. You already have the space, you just buy the equipment (and even there, they might let you use existing equipment if it fits their standards.) You can put one in pretty much any situation you want. There are rare standalone and strip mall outlets, sometimes in conjunction with another food (pizza, for example). That mom-and-pop burger joint that is the only restaurant in the food court of your local nearly abandoned shopping mall could probably add it. Heck...it might make an interesting addition to a sports venue or a drive-in theatre snack bar.
But there are those who swear it's the best chicken money can buy, often drawing comparisons to Popeyes (which is, in fact, the best chicken money can buy.) If you're lucky enough to get it freshly cooked, it has a mild spiciness to it, but what pops to me is the citrusy flavor of the marinade. You won't taste that at all if the chicken has been sitting under the warmer too long. Then it's just dry and bleh.
It's mid-September, and average temperatures are about 20 degrees above normal. Why? Because my air conditioner is broken. I came home from my Labor Day weekend trip to find the fan blowing warm air through the Townhouse of Solitude in an impossible attempt to cool it down and the cats looking at me like "WTF?". Did the usual troubleshooting and decided it needs professional service. But it's September, and it should be cooling off, so why not wait until Spring to deal with it? So that was the plan. Except we're STILL averaging mid 80's temperatures two weeks later and will even hit low 90's this week. I'm telling you...if my A/C was working, this wouldn't be happening. And the second I get it fixed, it will suddenly quit happening.
So the windows are open overnight and closed during the day, which seems to keep the inside temp between a livable 72-80 currently.
So feel free to blame God's constant hatred and bullying of me for it being so hot out still.
Makes as much sense as climate change.
