{"id":21,"date":"1996-11-30T22:42:51","date_gmt":"1996-11-30T22:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/11\/30\/where_all_men_a\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:45:36","slug":"where_all_men_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/11\/30\/where_all_men_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Where All Men Are United in the Love of Chicken-N-Waffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/roscoe_2.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie outside Roscoe's\" width=\"180\" height=\"209\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/><i>Roscoe&#8217;s the name<br \/>\nand they call me the king,<br \/>\ngrandmaster of the chicken<br \/>\nand the waffle thing.<br \/>\nI said read my lips and, friends,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t miss a word<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause the grandmaster&#8217;s gonna<br \/>\ngive you the bird!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/roscoe_1.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie and Matt\" width=\"180\" height=\"183\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/><strong>When I first saw <i>Tapeheads,<\/i><\/strong> I nearly hemorrhaged from laughing during the commercial spot that the two main characters did for Roscoe\u2019s House of Chicken-N-Waffles. I thought the idea was so crazy, so inane. It was a stroke of brilliance on the part of the screenwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Boy howdy, was I amazed when I found out that Roscoe\u2019s really exists. Actually,<br \/>\nthere are three of them scattered throughout the greater L.A. area. When<br \/>\nI found out that I was going to be in L.A., I knew that if nothing else, I had to make a holy pilgrimage to this soaring tribute to entrepreneurial spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Roscoe\u2019s is mostly a soul food restaurant, with big hearty meals at good<br \/>\nprices. Despite a tantalizing assortment, I knew I had to have the #20 \u2014<br \/>\nthe \u201cCarolina\u201d chicken plate with a buttermilk waffle on the side. This was some good eatin\u2019s \u2014 the creamiest butter, the thickest syrup, the tenderest chicken breast. If you have chicken and waffle, trust me: you really have to eat both at the same time. The combo sounds scary, but it\u2019s truly delightful \u2014 hot, sweet, and rich.<\/p>\n<p>This place is no secret, either. We showed up right before the rush, apparently.<br \/>\nWhen we left, totally satiated and deliriously happy, there was a huge line<br \/>\ndown the street. Obviously, California cuisine can also mean biscuits, gravy,<br \/>\ngrits, and \u2014 without a doubt \u2014 chicken-n-waffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roscoe&#8217;s the name and they call me the king, grandmaster of the chicken and the waffle thing. I said read my lips and, friends, don&#8217;t miss a word &#8216;Cause the grandmaster&#8217;s gonna give you the bird! When I first saw Tapeheads, I nearly hemorrhaged from laughing during the commercial spot that the two main characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/11\/30\/where_all_men_a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where All Men Are United in the Love of Chicken-N-Waffle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71283,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/71283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}