Earl Eats Chick-fil-A Fillets

My earliest memories of Chick-fil-A are walking by people in the mall who were offering me tasty samples of waffle fries and chicken to entice me to buy one of their savory fried foods. I will admit that I loved their fries, but didn't often buy their chicken. At that time, I didn't really know what a chicken sandwich was. My chicken came on the bone from the Colonel, or from home. Since that time a lot has changed! The Colonel has passed on and his recipe seems to have gone with him. Kentucky Fried Chicken is now KFC, and the best fried chicken is NOT on the bone, replaced by the ubiquitous chicken strip, the best of which are found at Chick-fil-A.

Some time in the past 35 years, someone thought it would be a good idea to change the Colonel's recipe. Even though KFC rules the fast food market in Asia, it is tough to get a good piece of fried chicken on-the-bone there today. In my opinion Chick-fil-A rules the roost in fried chicken taste & texture and their service is terrific. I don't eat their sandwich, although for years my wife "Turkey" loved them. Then they changed the cheese offerings, and she now eats the strips along with me. She likes their honey-mustard dipping sauce, though I rarely need the sauce, their strips are so tender and tasty.

...And I still love their waffle fries, though I wish they offered fry sauce.

Chick-fil-A has succeeded by focusing on what they started doing and do so well, fried chicken breast fillets. Sure they have added and changed some since their beginnings, but what they bring us is an amplification of the original, not a deviation. And they have some very clever TV and billboard ads too!

As and aside:
The chicken pot pie at KFC keeps me going back there and is something everyone should try, so they haven't totally lost me!