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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.
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.
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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