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Chicken Annie’s and Chicken Mary’s: Side-By-Side Fried Chicken Restaurants in Southeast Kansas
About a year ago, I stumbled upon the book The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia as I looked for novels for my summer reading. The more I read, the more I knew I had to read this book. The setting of the book, two fried chicken restaurants in Merinac, Kansas, caught my eye. You see, we live about 45 minutes from two fried chicken restaurants, Chicken Annie’s and Chicken Mary’s, that sit right next door to each other near a small town in Southeast Kansas named Frontenac.
Fictional tale inspired by Southeast Kansas fried chicken
Learn the real story behind “The Chicken Sisters”, as well as the real story behind Southeast Kansas chicken: Kansas fried chicken drives narrative of novel.
Southeast Kansas “chicken wars” makes international headlines
For a short time on April 30, 2020, “America’s ‘fried chicken war'” was a top headline on the homepage of BBC.com, one of the most visited news sites across the globe.
America’s ‘fried chicken war’
How immigration, ingenuity and the American spirit shaped a US fried chicken “war” that’s been simmering for four generations.
Food + Drink
Southeast Kansas a fried chicken mecca, and it started 85 years ago on Chicken Dinner Road Read [paywall]
One of the most famous roads in Kansas is a rural, two-lane stretch in southeast Kansas that’s affectionately known as “Chicken Dinner Road.” It’s out in the middle of nowhere with nothing much around it but trees and outbuildings.
A Complete Collection of Beer On Tap at 5th Street Bar & Grill
Downtown Pittsburg’s 5th Street Bar and Grill is home to an incredible selection of local and national beer brands. With 39 to choose from (plus a mystery beer located in the upstairs beer loft), it could take a while to sample every one. Lucky for you, we’ve pulled together a […]
Food Wars: Kansas Fried Chicken War [subscription]
Camille Ford visits the chicken dinner road in Pittsburg, Kan., and warring fried chicken joints, Chicken Annie’s and Chicken Mary’s.
Fried-Chicken War [paywall]
The writer in this 1982 article in The New Yorker explores the “war” between two fried chicken restaurants in Southeast Kansas.
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