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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Church’s Chicken despoiling the name Texas with fried chicken in the U.K.

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On the same day that the DMN does a big roundup of fried chicken places in Dallas comes the news that Church's Chicken is despoiling the name "Texas" with its expansion into London, with a division called "Texas Chicken."

Competing against Kentucky Fried Chicken, there are currently six branches of Texas Chicken in the U.K. but Church's management wants to have 50 in the country by the end of 2008.

According to the Guardian:

Despite increasing numbers of consumers shunning mass-produced chicken, spurred on by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver's Chicken Out! campaign, the cheap chicken market is steadily growing in the UK. So far, branches of Texas Chicken have opened in London's Holloway and Walthamstow, Bolton and Birmingham, all places with high working-class and black and minority ethnic populations. ... The Texas Chicken marketing campaign features images of a black family and a group of teenage boys wearing hoodies and baseball caps. When it launched, the chain also targeted minority ethnic media, such as Eastern Eye, Ethnic Now and Asian Lite.

Overlooking for now the DMN big roundup of fried chicken places in Dallas, is Texas really a place noted for fried chicken? (And if it is, can that be changed?) Church's Chicken is based in Atlanta, Georgia; why don't they call it Georgia Chicken?

Posted by T.G.

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pnewsgal

pnewsgal Anonymous

No kidding, I don't even eat fried chicken (my body is a temple)...Y'all come to Texas where you can eat your fried chicken while sitting on your horse waiting for the bucks to pile up from your oil well in your front yard...

3 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Chad Jones

Chad Jones Staff

Because those worldly Brits could think "Georgia Chicken" refers to the Eastern European country and not the southern U.S. "Former-Soviet chicken?" they would inquisitively chide, crinkling up their noses in the most foppish of manners, indeed.

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Lisa Lawrence Merritt

Lisa Lawrence Merritt Verified

The new slogan for Texas Chicken: "South Dallas- Keepin' It Real Y'all and Fried Right!!!"

Sho Nuff!!!

But is it available at Euston Station?

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xdavidwattsx

xdavidwattsx Anonymous

Fried chicken is pretty popular here. Williams Chicken, represent!

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bmslaw Anonymous

Historical note: Church's Fried Chicken began in San Antonio during the 1950's. So, it has a legitimate claim to being "Texas Chicken" (although I MUCH preferred Leslie's, Church's was certainly a much tastier alternative to that damned Kentucky colonel who pressure-cooked his chicken).

3 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

frankstongal Anonymous

Because they already have about 20 locations of Dallas Chicken in London and the Texas image sells. You mustah growed up as a Yankee. Here in Dallas, we grew up on Youngblood's Fried Chicken for Sunday supper.It was so good it would make your hair turn blue! You sassy thing.

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luniz Anonymous

sucks for them that it's not Popeye's. totally worth the extra buck for something that actually contains meat and may be warmer than room temp.

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Billusa99

Billusa99 Anonymous

Church's was owned by Popeye's from '89 to 2004, when a private equity firm bought the brand.

Reminds me of this old ghetto-humor joke: "Yo' mama is so stupid, when they told her they were burning churches, she said, 'That's alright, I eat at Popeye's.

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