Every now and then, I like to take to the streets of Twitter to see if anyone has a good idea that I need to be writing about. This week has been dragging a bit more than I expected, and I’m in a weird funk where I just want to sleep, and I’m not exactly feeling my most creative (I feel satisfied after a great weekend at the cabin for the SoBros Content Retreat, and I don’t do well ‘satisfied.’ I find that it kills my drive…anyway…). So, I asked my Twitter crew what I should be writing about today, and my buddy Chad chimed in with “the world needs the return of Hardee’s fried chicken.“
What!?! My initial reaction was “what are you talking about, Chad? I get tendies from Hardee’s all the time!” Then, it occurred to me that he must be talking about legit fried chicken….some KFC ass fried chicken. So, I did a little Google search and BAM! There it is!
"Hardee's Fried Chicken- A Taste For Racing!" – @WardBurtonWBWF (Winston Cup. 1994) pic.twitter.com/KZAFxlFq1e
— NASCAR Memories (@NASCARMemories) February 23, 2016
That looks like some good good shit right there. I do believe that that chicken would rival the great Colonel Sanders’s concoction. 11 herbs and spices? Fuck that, we got a NASCAR. Hardee’s seems to have had a bit of a bad boy reputation back in the day. They went at it with McDonald’s, Jack in the Box, and apparently, they even had the stones to go after KFC making chicken. That’s like fighting Vecna in the Upside Down, y’know? That’s a night game in Baton Rouge! But, it didn’t stop Hardee’s and their big swingin’ balls. I had no idea.
I had completely forgotten that Hardee’s had such an embattled, controversial past. No offense to Mr. Hardee, who is with us from the other side, but I always considered it C-tier fast food. I mean, I absolutely loved it. But, it never felt like it was really all that popular. They had that infamous campaign during which they were trotting out super models to sloppily eat their burgers. They rolled out the Six Dollar Burger at one point, and confused the shit out of me when I was younger because the burger was only like $3.
I’m beginning to think that nobody embodies the “fuck it we ball” mantra quite like Hardee’s. They would truly just throw shit against the wall to see what would stick, and if nothing stuck, they’d just start going after competitors. I love the energy. Oh, and if you’re craving some of this nostalgic chicken, it looks like there still might exist a few locations that still serve it (at least as of 2016). How about this? Learn something new every day on SoBros Network.
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley
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