KFC Nashville Hot Chicken...

brsmith

IS HOT!
I tried it tonight and it was hotter than I thought it would be. I am not a heat aficionado, but it made my lips sting.

pike51

It's not hot, not at all. Even my wife thought it was weak. It tastes exactly like BBQ potato chips. It's nothing at all like real hot chicken.

brsmith

pike51

johnnydoom

pike51 I thought the exact same thing - taste just like Lay's Sweet Southern Heat BBQ chips. Now I'm interested in trying the real thing. I go to Nashville at least once a year, but never stopped in at one of the noted chicken joints. In Memphis we have Gus's Fried Chicken, which is the best spicy (and overall) fried chicken I've ever had. I don't mind KFC, but it wasn't my idea of hot.

brsmith

Must have been the batch I had was different, 1/2 hour later, my lower lip is numb.

pike51

LOL

Well, I know who not to invite to wing night at my house.

Do you like Sriracha sauce? I call that ketchup for adults. It's pretty much replaced ketchup at our house. I've got a hot sauce collection that rivals my golf club collection. Hottest one I have actually comes in a medicine bottle with an eyedropper. 1 drop in a large pot of chili is too much for most people.

Umfaan

Brsmith, if it is hot to you than it is hot. Chicago is not known for spicy food so heat is relative to what you are used too eating.
My neck of the woods, we drink habanero sauce straight from the bottle. I hear people in Texas like Ghost peppers which would burn my guts out.

PA-PLAYA

I'm on a pretty serious "sweet and sweaty" buffalo wing kick right now. And, in general, I do like spicy foods on occasion. But I draw the line when I can't enjoy something I'm eating because I can no longer taste it after the first bite.

pike51

johnnydoom I had been wondering about the whole "Nashville" name because I had always thought hot chicken originated at Gus' and was a Memphis thing.

BTW - Gus' is hands down the best chicken in the world.

azgreg

When it comes to spicy-hot I'm a puss. I do like hot Italian sausage though, but it's not as hot as typically considered hot.

Hoss7504

Yeah, I agree that these aren't "hot". But then again, I grew up with my Dad cooking Indian food regularly so I'm pretty immune to spicy food. B-Dubs Blazin' wings... those make your mouth pretty numb.

pike51

Hoss7504 my wife went to dental school with a couple Indian girls... hence, I have come to love Indian food. We get crazy looks when we ask for "Indian spicy" lol.

Hoss7504

pike51

I bet you do! That's awesome.

brsmith

I would never profess to eat a lot of heat, but my serving of the KFC was definitely hotter than any chips I have eaten and I eat the flaming hot pork rinds fairly often. I like Tabasco, Tabasco Habanero, and Perfect brand sauce. My F-I-L gassed up the hottest wings from BWW with a sauce he bought in Belize. I didn't enjoy it. The flavor was almost gasoline and it burned going down and coming out the next day. I enjoy spicy and savory much more than heat.