I worked at Pioneer chicken a looong time ago. The chicken was great: a hard brown shell type, not a greasy pressure cooker coating. I still don't know the recipe but I remember 365 ish for 9 minutes for wings and legs, and 12 for breast and thighs, DONT CONFUSE THOSE! Raw thawed chicken was in a reddish brine overnight, then it went into the flour, then it was put into the batter bowl (dry powder with no ingredients on it from corporate and a cup of water) and then straight into the open fryer one piece at a time so they didnt stick together. We filtered the oil through a huge cone coffee filter every night and changed oil after 3-4 days. Good chicken. I'm sure the KFC doesnt use the old oil common anymore (poly-unsaturated?) so their chicken tastes different now. Krispy Krunchy chicken at Circle K around here is pretty good for FAST FOOD chicken. and that truck stop chicken is supposed to be pretty good too. Rememeber were talking FAST FOOD here, not slow broasted home recipes....Popeyes sandwich is still great and a good value. Chick-filet is awesome but a little pricey and not as big as Popeyes. BK's Chi-King sucks, about the same as Jack in the box's. I think its all the same producer of prebreaded white meat filets that gets dropped into the fryer for 4 minutes. Our supermarket chicken is hit or mis: Albertsons, Ralphs (Kroger) Vons, Stater Bros...sometimes its fresh, other times its dried out from sitting in the hot case. Used to be 5.99 for the family meal! now its 7.99-9.99. Still a pretty good value if it tastes good
