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Chicken and waffles is the standard pairing for fried chicken. In honor of National Fried Chicken Day, we've scoured the country for stranger combinations. You won't believe some of these things. Keep clicking for Food of the Weird.
Cupcake
Chicken and Waffles Cupcake
WHERE: Robicelli's (various locations in New York)
Like when Harry met Sally, this is where dinner met dessert. If you’re craving something savory and sweet, try the chicken and waffles cupcake: a buttermilk-based vanilla and cinammon cupcake stuffed with 24-hour marinated spice and buttermilk chicken, then topped with a buttery maple frosting. If that’s not enough chicken for dessert, the cupcake is then sprinkled with a chicken cutlet and syrup.
Doughnut
Chicken-Doughnut Sandwich
WHERE: ChurchKey (1337 14th St. NW, Washington D.C.)
If you thought KFC’s double-decker was a heart attack waiting to happen, feast your eyes on chef Erik Bruner-Yang’s meat-donut sandwich. They call it the Luther. It’s fried chicken placed between two glazed donuts served with maple chicken jus, candied pecans, and bacon. Reportedly named after Luther Vandross and his admiration for the “jelly belly,” the burger version of the “Luther,” clogged arteries never looked this good.
Red Velvet
Red Velvet Fried Chicken
WHERE: American Cupcake (1919 Union St., San Francisco)
No, this isn’t a late night tale of the munchies gone wrong, this is Southern cuisine on steroids. Using buttermilk as the common ingredient, San-Fran’s American Cupcake creates the unexpected. First, they marinate the chicken in red velvet batter, then toss it in toasted red velvet cupcake crumbs, and then send it off to the deep fryer. Cream cheese infused mashed potatoes keep the dish company. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too?
Pancake
Chicken Bacon Flapjack Burger
WHERE: Slater’s 50/50 (6362 East Santa Ana Canyon Rd., Anaheim, Calif.)
The Chicken Bacon Flapjack is basic math. Add fried chicken to bacon-infused white country gravy, then bracket the mix with buttermilk pancakes and a few strips of crispy bacon, and you've stumbled upon the solution to your wildest cravings. Don’t forget to add warm maple syrup to the mix, times three.