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Hot Chicken Turns Into A Race Discussion

Every knows by now that the signature dish of Nashville, Tennessee is Hot Chicken. And when we say hot chicken we’re not talking heat, we’re talking spice. Hot chicken chains have popped up all over Nashville and are starting to extended to other cities and states. Even Kentucky Fried Chicken jumped on the bandwagon this year by introduction Nashville Hot Chicken to the masses of KFC eaters. However, the Colonel had nothing on Nashville's true hot chicken.

The people in Nashville have enjoyed hot chicken for decades. Well, there’s an article that has been written on the online food magazine called Food Republic, where they give praise to Hattie B’s for putting hot chicken on the map or making hot chicken trending and cool. In the article the writer, George Embiricos, does mention Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack and Bolton’s Spicy Chicken & Fish for maybe creating hot chicken and maybe preserving the tradition. But mainly this article focuses on Hattie B’s success in the hot chicken arena.

This article has sparked a lot of talk, a lot a race talk. Many people feel that the article gives the credit of hot chicken’s craze in Nashville to Hattie B’s which is a white owned restaurant instead giving credit to where hot chicken originated which were in black owned restaurants.

We’re not here to pick any sides.

What we want you to do is read the article for yourself and form your own opinion.

Below are 3 articles. The first will be the article from Food Republic. The next article will be from the Nashville Scene discussing how the Hattie B’s article has sparked such a deep discussion. And the third article will be from Bitter Southerner on the origins of hot chicken.

Ask yourself these questions while you read the articles listed below:

1. Does the article take credit away from other hot chicken restaurants that came before Hattie B's?

2. Is this another example of how white cultural has embraced and claimed something from black culture?

3. Are people looking for something to be offensive?

 

Meet The Man Who Launched The Nashville Hot-Chicken Craze

Race, Credit and Hot Chicken

How Hot Chicken Really Happened

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Comment by Mahogany on August 30, 2016 at 1:32pm
Without taking the time to read the articles I can say I know more Caucasians (personally) that enjoy hot wings/hot chicken than Nubians. Me myself hot stuff years my stomach up. It ain't made for me so that surely means more for those that enjoy such! By the way why is everything about race, dang? Again I did not read to get the jest.

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