You Just Think You Know Chicken and Waffles
254 words. Letter to the editor.
In her letter of May 24, Mimi Beus opined that the gourmet chicken and waffles she had enjoyed at Roscoe’s in Hollywood (California, I presume) would not go over in Yuma. I beg to differ. I am something of a C&W hound and I wager I have tried them at every restaurant in Yuma that has them on the menu--and some that don't advertise the fact that you may obtain them by special request.
The ones I have enjoyed in Yuma have been uniformly delicious, and so I see no particular reason why Mimi thinks Yuma is not ready for them--unless of course Roscoe's applies some extraordinary ingredient or flavoring that would render them too exotic for local taste buds. Or perhaps at Roscoe's the thrill of occasional celebrity-sightings makes the food taste extra-good.
As much as I have enjoyed the dish hereabouts, though, their very uniformity has caused me to eschew restaurant C&W as unnecessarily expensive. The ingredients are, after all, very basic. You can make the same thing at home, and quite inexpensively, by heating up packaged waffles and a few pieces of fried chicken, both from the freezer section of your grocer. That's right: they are sold separately, but you can combine them if you want. They are just as good as restaurant C&W, and SO much easier on the wallet. And there's no mess to clean up, except possibly for one baking sheet or microwave dish (I prefer baking in an actual oven).
Don't forget the syrup!
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This work appeared in Yuma Sun on May 26, 2021.
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