cafeteria stuff--stop and shop!

JimInLoganSquare wrote:Sure, David -- Pan fried chicken is superior to deep fried chicken for a couple of reasons. Mainly, the difference is that pan fried chicken is attentatively watched and tended by the cook throughout the cooking process, meaning each piece gets cooked just right. .

Once a year, my husband's employer contracts with Old Country Buffet for space for some events they hold. (In return, their customers get a free lunch, as does my husband, who frankly isn't too excited about having to eat lunch there for a week or two out of every year. But I digress...)

DH says there's a sign over the steam table "fried" chicken that says, not deep-fried, not pan-fried, but "hand-fried." He and I have had a lot of laughs trying to figure out exactly what they mean by that. And, of course, now when I fry chicken, that's what we call it at our house.