Welcome to our series sharing Food Holidays: March 30th, 2022. Today is National Hot Chicken Day. I can’t have Spicy foods so I will sit this meal out even though Charlie loves Spicy Chicken and David will eat this Chicken with Charlie. How about you. Do you like Nashville Hot Chicken and if so where do you purchase it at and why?
Facts about Hot Chicken:
- Hot Chicken is a hot and Spicy Fried Chicken. That is a local specialty of Nashville, Tennessee. The Chicken is also known as Nashville Hot Chicken
- The creator of Hot Chicken is the family of Andre Prince Jeffries, owner of Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack.
- Created by a scorned woman, Thornton Prince’s girlfriend cooked him a supper Spicy Fried Chicken breakfast after Thornton Prince was out all night with another girl. Turns out this helped the Chicken so much Thornton Prince soon opens a Chicken Shack in the 1930’s.
- Hot Chicken is going National and even global! Even KFC offers Hot Chicken.
Five facts about Turkey Neck Soup:
- Did you know Turkey is named “Tom”, because Ben Franklin always teased “Tom” Jefferson for not picking the Turkey as the National Bird
- The Turkey was never a staple for Native Americans because Turkeys were seen as weak, and Turkeys were only eaten in times of famine.
- Turkey Chicks have a tendency to drown on rainwater because they become curious about the phenomenon above their heads and look until they drown.
- “Legend has it” in the 1800’s they cross-bred Turkey and Chicken into “turken”.
- All major documents signed in the founding of the United States used the quill (feather) of a Turkey for their signing there signature.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
