Fried Chicken at 8am in the Morning

Just smoke copious amounts of pot.

Ugh. You MEVER heat things like fried chicken in a microwave! Was the lesson just getting off their shift OP or maybe they’d been working longer than you and that was their lunchtime? If this was merely a coworker having fried chicken for breakfast you’re right, that’s pretty obnoxious. We Americans have become such Orcs. We’re rapidly becoming a trash society. Birth control failed.

What’s fried chicken?

Don't hate me OP, but I used to have 'leftover' fried chicken on Christmas morning for many years.

My Mom and her siblings grew up poor in the 30s. Her mother would offer the kids anything they liked for Christmas Day. My Mom always chose my Grandmother's vanilla cake with chocolate icing, all made from scratch. After my Mom told us that story, we started a similar tradition. My Mom made killer fried chicken so I asked for that. The trick was, it had to be made the night before so that it was 'leftover fried chicken.' We did this for years until Mom got too sick (dementia) as did my sister (gastric cancer). Alas, the tradition has now died along with them. I'm single and didn't learn the magic to making fried chicken. That may be a good thing as I am currently struggling with my weight.

R4 that is a lovely story, thank you for sharing.

Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

R6 — I love you!

I would eat fried chicken at 8am with waffles and maple syrup. Had it in Atlanta. It’s great.

Logan McWilliams has a song for you, OP

R4 thank you for that story Cosmo. I always enjoy seeing your replies

R9 lol 😆 lol

Thank you, R5 and R10!

Fried chicken is only good cold. Hearing it up in a microwave is sociopathic. But cold fried chicken is an acceptable breakfast, just like cold pizza. I don't make the rules.

8am in the Morning is redundant, OP. Pick one but not both.

I can’t eat like that anymore, but cold fried chicken, cold pizza, cold Chinese food were favorites of mine back in the day.

[quote]I would eat fried chicken at 8am with waffles and maple syrup.

No waffles.

From what I could see on her plate it was potato salad and corn.

At least Carol Channing would be proud.

Perhaps your food repulses other people, OP. Why did you need to tell us your brand of yogurt?

R17 calling out the yogurt flex!

Cold pizza, to me, is preferable to hot/fresh pizza.

Op, I think yogurt smells and tastes like vomit. If someone is eating an especially "aromatic" yogurt, I have to move away from them.

R4, I’m a deep (DEEP!) south boy living in the Northeast. I would totally cook you fried chicken. Big hugs to your mom and your very sweet memory of her.

We don't let the help eat until after lunch.

What is the best way to reheat fried chicken? I can’t stand it cold and the microwave just makes the skin rubbery and inedible.

I was recently reading an article about bad office behavior since Covid ended. It was talking about people heating up fish in the microwave. I was saying to myself, "who in the fuck would do THAT?" Well, just last week some loser put some RANK ASS fish in the microwave and had us all gagging. I had to go home I was so nauseous. People are fucking idiots.

R30, thank you. I wish I could have my Mom's fried chicken again.

Popeye's is good but focuses too much on the coating. KFC is just terribly salty and missing the '11 herbs and spices' they were so famous for. My local Shop Rite actually makes pretty good fried chicken so I pick some up from there whenever the craving hits.

R22 You must put it about 30 seconds in the microwave first, to ensure the center is heated. You must then put it in a pan in your oven on a low temp to reheat it - maybe 8-10 min at 300F at most.

People can eat whatever the hell they want for breakfast. DLers post about eating all kinds of crap like Lucky Charms, Fruity Pebbles, etc. I don't see what's wrong with eating fried chicken.

[quote] From what I could see on her plate it was potato salad and corn.

Yeah I didn’t say she had it. I said that’s how I would eat it that way.

R26, I used to work with a sales guy who was obsessed with his weight. He would eat a can of tuna fish for breakfast AT.HIS.DESK! We could all tell when he was following Atkins cuz that was the smell.

I once worked at a24 hour call center - it was in a large room, but we had a little "kitchen" way up in one corner of the back of the room. A fridge, a little sink, some counter space and a microwave.

Some idiot whore once heated up a Tupperware container of BRUSSELS SPROUTS at 9 am one morning! The entire place smelled like a dead rotting corpse. People were literally gagging, many while on the phone!

This same moron had a space heater under her desk that she would turn on in the summer months because she claimed the A/C was too cold! We finally circulated a petition and got her ass terminated.

Marilyn Monroe ate fried chicken in bed -- the filthy bitch!

Best way to reheat is in the air fryer.

I’m from Charleston and we ear shrimp & grits (or fish & grits) for breakfast. When friends from the enemy states visit they’re always appalled! I certainly don’t reheat in an office microwave though.

[quote] ear shrimp & grits, friends from the enemy states

Bless your heart, R32

This is why people like working from home, if possible.

R25, are you under the impression a microwave heats food from the inside out?

[quote]Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

[quote]Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

[quote]Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

[quote]Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

[quote]Thanks for clarifying that they didn't have fried chicken at 8am in the evening.

WTF??!! Why did that post 4 times before I could even add my reply??!!!!

I was GOJNG to say that if OP lives below the equator, then 8am would be in the evening. Once!

But now I’m too mad to do that so I won’t!

Teenage memory…Movie theater matinee, Gimme Shelter , Mick Jagger prancing and pouting on the big screen..In the back rows two older black gentlemen eating cold fried chicken from home out of a big brown paper bag. The whole scene was so intoxicating …Jumpin Jack Flash and that wonderful smell of that fried chicken

As a little kid, I thought cold fried chicken at a picnic was THE height of fine dining. If there was a picnic happening, I’d ask my mom “will there be fried chicken?? Will it be COLD???” and she would say “well, I’m not making it so we’ll have to see…”

(She was making it. She just did it after I went to sleep and wanted it to be a surprise)

[quote]trying to enjoy my :ratio vanilla yogurt with granola

Almost as exciting as the "custom salad place" you probably grab your lunch at I imagine.

Try putting Cheryl's pussy in the microwave.

I like to flick it then lick it