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Originally Posted by jkc2j
Dude, no amount of fallacious statements will change the truth about hot chicken. To be honest, it says a lot about you if you've lived in Nashville as long as you say and never heard of hot chicken especially since there's a hot chicken festival that's been going on for at least 15 years.
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I moved out in 2001. What you're linking to above was a very small local food fest, something like Goettafest in Cincinnati:
http://www.goettafest.com/. The hot chicken hype machine would have you believe that all Nashvillians from Dickson to Mt. Juliet were eating a local hot chicken all of the time, for decades, when 90% had never heard of it, let alone eaten it.
As someone who grew up in Cincinnati, I can attest that our grade school and high school cafeterias served 3-ways once per week and also periodically cooked goetta. Nashville area school cafeterias weren't serving "Nashville Hot Chicken" to grade schoolers and high schoolers because it wasn't a "Nashville" food in the way that Cincinnati-style chili and goetta most certainly are commonly - weekly - eaten by all locals regardless of class or creed. There are no tourists. Nobody's taking photos of their food.
Skyline Chili has 150 locations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_Chili
Gold Star has 85:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Star_Chili
Those are the two biggest chains but there are several smaller chains and independent chili parlors.
Per Google, there are 2 Prince's chicken locations. Hattie B's, which was founded in 2012, has 7. So 250+ locations for one type of regional food that only exists in one region versus...10.