Fried chicken restaurants in the UK
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Fried chicken fast food restaurants are a common sight in urban parts of the UK.
The typical fried chicken restaurant is an individually owned business or part of a small chain and serves American-style fried chicken, emulating the well known brand KFC (and often featuring a close parody of that name, such as Hentucky Fried Chiken). Most UK chicken outlets serve Halal meat.
The service popular with the late night and after-clubbing snacking market, and this type of restaurant normally has the longest opening hours. Fried chicken restaurants may also serve pizza, kebab, tandoori, or fish and chips. Fried chicken outlets in the UK suffer from a bad reputation as they are often located in deprived areas and associated by many with food poisoning and the sale of illegal meat.
Shop signs and brands of fried chicken restaurants typically follow a common pattern:
- A red, white, and blue colour scheme
- A drawing or cartoon of a chicken
- Reference to the Southern United States, Kentucky, or another symbol of America.
[edit] Trivia
Although fried chicken is famous for having roots in the rural Southern United States, it was first fried in the United Kingdom. The Scots, and later Scottish immigrants to many southern states had a tradition of deep frying chicken in fat, unlike their English counterparts who baked or boiled chicken.
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[edit] List of largest UK Fried Chicken Franchises
- Southern Fried Chicken (Also in Cyprus)
- Chicken Cottage
- Lick'n Chick'n
- Miss Millie's Fried Chicken
- Dixy Chicken
- USA Chicken
