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Tuesday June 10, 2008 | The Pickle Makes it Southern | Humor |
A recent tweet about pickles reminded me about a recent trip to Arby's. They were advertising a "Southern Chicken Sandwich." My wife got one and she ended up with a tiny sandwich consisting of the following:
- tiny bun
- tiny fried chicken patty
- mayo
- pickles
Arby's Southern Chicken Sandwich
We weren't sure where the "Southern" part came from. Maybe we are just ignorant Yankees, so was it the pickle?
Soon afterwards I saw an adversisement for McDonald's Southern Chicken Sandwich. It, too, consisted of just chicken and pickle. I was sensing a pattern.
McDonalds's Southern Chicken Sandwich
So, I put down my copy of William Shatner's book, Get a Life, and went to google "southern chicken pickle" to see if, indeed, the pickle is the key to making a Southern Chicken Sandwich. What I found where two blog postings [1, 2] mentioning that McDonalds was ripping off Chick-Fil-A's southern chicken sandwich. Ah ha! (Arby's didn't make their RADAR).
Chick-Fil-A's Southern Chicken Sandwich
Again with the pickle.
I don't get to the south much, nor even to the few Chick-Fil-As in California. The first time I saw their name I pronounced it "chick-FILL-ah." Can someone tell a dumb Yankee why the pickle makes it Southern?
Update: Pulled from the comments, it's a NY Times story on the chicken-pickle sandwich wars.
Tags: arbys chick-fil-a chicken food mcdolands pickles southern
June 10, 2008 05:34 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [5] |
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