Chicken and waffles: what city started this?

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Brussels

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Harlem.

Jazz musicians would play all night and wouldn't get to eat until the time where all the restaurants had was leftovers from the last night (fried chicken) and were already starting to makes breakfast (waffles)

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Luda has an album called Chicken and Waffles

 

[Canada Goose]

Damn I misrembered

 

[im_sleep]

Question for the older Harlem/NYC folks...

Was it always a thing out there? Or something you could only get from certain spots?

I ask because I feel like Chicken and Waffles went from a fringe thing to something you see everywhere now, especially over the past 20 years, to the point where people think it’s Southern in origin and has always been around.

 

[Mandizi]

I just realized that was root beer and not alcohol on the cover.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Never knew it originated in Harlem..... but I always knew the reason behind it.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Harlem.

Jazz musicians would play all night and wouldn't get to eat until the time where all the restaurants had was leftovers from the last night (fried chicken) and were already starting to makes breakfast (waffles)

This is the history I’m familiar with.

 

[Canada Goose]

I was born and raised in NYC never knew chicken and waffles started here


Granted I grew up in BK not Harlem but still

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Question for the older Harlem/NYC folks...

Was it always a thing out there? Or something you could only get from certain spots?

I ask because I feel like Chicken and Waffles went from a fringe thing to something you see everywhere now, especially over the past 20 years, to the point where people think it’s Southern in origin and has always been around.

It def wasn’t a big thing in Brooklyn growing up in my years. I honestly didn’t see people talking heavy about chicken and waffles till after high school.

Then again I’m not from Bed Stuy, ForTe Green of Clinton Hill.

Nowadays even the West Indians have added Chicken and Waffles to their menus.

 

[call_me_step_daddy]

all them jazz players and cooks where from the south around that time in harlem thou

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Black people started it.

There were probably cooks in Harlem (that's had just come from the South) feeding busy musicians (also straight from the South) a dish that we all know and love.

Prefer my waffles soft.....

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I just realized that was root beer and not alcohol on the cover.

I just noticed that too. I wonder if there was a reason for that