Do you eat fried chicken with ketchup? And if you do, where in the US are you from?
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Me: Hey roomie, want some ketchup to go with that Popeye's fried chicken?
Roommate (RM): want some what?
Me: Ketchup.
RM: You eat fried chicken with ketchup?
Me: Um...yeah. Doesn't everybody?
RM: No.
Me: Huh? Who doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup?
RM: Nobody eats fried chicken with ketchup. Southerners don't, and where does fried chicken come from? The south! [she's from Louisiana].
Me: You're pulling my strings.
RM: It's true! I dont' know anyone who eats fried chicken with ketchup.
Me: My entire family does! And my boyfriend does! And everybody I know since growing up eats fried chicken with ketchup. We pile on the ketchup.
RM: Maybe it's a coastal thing. I know southerners don't do it.
Me: Let me call my friend Q from South Carolina and see if that's true.
..... conversation with Q.....
Q: Hi there.
Me: I just realized that you don't eat chicken on the bone, so did you find out if your family eats fried chicken with ketchup?
Q: My dad and brother says they've never heard of anyone eating fried chicken with ketchup.
Me: WHAT?!
Q: You're just weird.
Me: I've never heard of anyone not eating fried chicken with ketchup until today.
Q: Yeah, you're just weird.
Me: I have to ask another person from the south about this fried chicken with ketchup thing.
Q: Okay, weirdo.
.....conversation with the roommate....
Me: My friend from South Carolina says her family doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup either!
RM: See, I told you.
Me: I'm going to find a southerner who eats fried chicken with ketchup, even if it kills me.
RM: okay, now.
.....conversation with the Boy....
Me: Want to know something really weird?
BF: what?
Me: People from the south don't eat fried chicken with ketchup.
BF: What do they eat it with?
Me: Nothing.
BF: That's weird.
Me: I know!
BF: Who told you that?
Me: The roomie and Q, who said her dad and brother doesn't eat fried chicken with ketchup.
BF: Why would anyone not eat fried chicken with ketchup?
Me: I know!! That's what I keep asking.
BF: That's just weird. Fried chicken with no ketchup.
Me: Honey, apparantly we're the weirdos for doing that.
1 comment:
I'm from Wisconsin...and my family has been eating fried chicken with ketchup as long as I can remember. We're obviously not "coasties" so I'm not sure where we picked it up.
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