[00:00] fried chicken has become a religion in America&nbsp; at this point every US city has their own beloved&nbsp;&nbsp; local spot but some places are legendary and&nbsp; stand out above the rest but today I want to&nbsp;&nbsp; find the best i asked you to name America's top&nbsp; fried chicken cities in the absolute best spots&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:17] in each one thousands of votes later we have our&nbsp; contenders we're hitting five cities trying our&nbsp;&nbsp; top three picks in each to finally crown the fried&nbsp; chicken champion starting in Nashville our number&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:29] one most voted for city so we're at Hattie Bees on&nbsp; Broadway this was the number one most voted for in&nbsp;&nbsp; years that said it's a change it's grown a lot&nbsp; so is it still good since the last time I came&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:43] here wherever available we'll try to taste the&nbsp; same pieces everywhere thigh breast leg cheers&nbsp;&nbsp; immediately brought me back the first time I came&nbsp; here that's why this place is such an institution&nbsp;&nbsp; it's seasoned pretty nicely i remember there being&nbsp; a little bit more to the flavor of it but it's&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:56] still really delicious the breading itself crisp&nbsp; i'm kind of surprised Hatty Bees with the amount&nbsp;&nbsp; of locations usually quality tends to go down the&nbsp; chicken's cooked well the skin I will say for some&nbsp;&nbsp; reason it's a little under rendered so therefore&nbsp; kind of chewy i don't hate it tastes great rating&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:10] wise flavor I'm going to give it like a 7.5 out of&nbsp; 10 i think it's lacking a little bit like overall&nbsp;&nbsp; it tastes good and then texture I give it a solid&nbsp; 8.5 but the question is with the popularization&nbsp;&nbsp; of hot chicken this is not the only place has had&nbsp; bees fallen behind moving on listen up america's&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:24] fried chicken scene isn't made up because it's&nbsp; America it's because America is a melting pot of&nbsp;&nbsp; multiple cultures all across the globe that have&nbsp; come here to make the greatest fried chicken ever&nbsp;&nbsp; so don't expect to just see American style fried&nbsp; chicken because we are at SS Guy where we've got&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:39] be hot right nashville hot." No it's actually&nbsp; this place it's been rated number one in all&nbsp;&nbsp; fried chicken spots on Yelp so let's see how&nbsp; it stacks up can you hear that the crunch is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:54] phenomenal the seasoning dare I say perfect i mean&nbsp; the salt levels are like exactly where I want them&nbsp;&nbsp; the skin isn't chewy it's crisp but tender it&nbsp; melts as you chew there's whole fried shallots&nbsp;&nbsp; on here you get little bits and pieces of like&nbsp; sweet shallot caramelized goodness let's just&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:08] cooked perfectly everything is tender the skin&nbsp; is tender it's not under rendered the crunch&nbsp;&nbsp; is present and it's not like dry in any part&nbsp; i'm going to give a nine flavor I'm going to&nbsp;&nbsp; it but I'm not picking up a ton of other layering&nbsp; of flavors like garlic lemongrass or whatever you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:26] would put in this that's the flavor is great it's&nbsp; very chicken forward it's seasoned nicely the salt&nbsp;&nbsp; levels being so good makes a big difference and I&nbsp; can tell that there are other things in here like&nbsp;&nbsp; part of the component of flavor so I'm still going&nbsp; to give the flavor an 8.5 i mean we're getting&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:41] close to perfect scores this early on it's going&nbsp; to take a real big dog to take this out moving on&nbsp;&nbsp; we're at the original spot of the OG inventor of&nbsp; Nashville hot chicken Princes now the fact that&nbsp;&nbsp; had a huge grease fire had to completely shut down&nbsp; the restaurant so we were supposed to get the bone&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:59] in chicken thigh and the bone in chicken breast&nbsp; those were lost in the fire but they still had&nbsp;&nbsp; wings for us to fry fresh and honestly I think&nbsp; those are just as good if not the best option&nbsp;&nbsp; cuz they're the fattiest and they're easiest to&nbsp; make delicious again the crunch really well done&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:12] the cook a little too much i'm chewing a lot and&nbsp; even for the wing being that overcooked that's&nbsp;&nbsp; hard to do I will say but this place way spicier&nbsp; than the previous two by far they do natural hot&nbsp;&nbsp; like maybe 70% where I want it to be the wings&nbsp; which are fattier kind of overcooked so texture I&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:30] think a 6.8 flavor it's very much just cayenne&nbsp; there's not a lot of depth to it it's missing&nbsp;&nbsp; salt probably also a six i think they're OG and I&nbsp; think this is a must try spot it's just not doing&nbsp;&nbsp; it for me nashville done and dusted and Thai Fried&nbsp; Chicken at SS Sky surprisingly leads with a 17.5&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:45] but that could change very soon new Orleans is&nbsp; up next with two absolute classic spots and one&nbsp;&nbsp; you'd never expect first up Willie Maze now we&nbsp; were supposed to go to the Scotch House which&nbsp;&nbsp; unfortunately is recovering from a fire but they&nbsp; do have a location Willie Maze Nola supposedly&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:59] stated by Anthony Bourdain to be the greatest&nbsp; fried chicken restaurant in the world is it&nbsp;&nbsp; true i don't know it's also been recognized by&nbsp; James Beard with the American Classic Award so&nbsp;&nbsp; it's at least going to be good but the question is&nbsp; does it live up to the standard that it did when&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:11] Anthony Bourdain tasted it i've got the same&nbsp; order we've had everywhere else a leg a thigh&nbsp;&nbsp; a breast first we'll start with the thigh yeah&nbsp; that's that's crispy this is totally different&nbsp;&nbsp; than any fried chicken we've had it's clearly&nbsp; battered rather than dredged in dry flour you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:24] can tell by this sort of almost like tempura&nbsp; exterior super crisp wispy crunch i have mixed&nbsp;&nbsp; feelings cuz it's seasoned really nicely the&nbsp; salt levels are really nice the seasoning isn't&nbsp;&nbsp; a little bit of spiciness in there that I do like&nbsp; though texture-wise the crunch is really wonderful&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:41] it's a little bit different of a crunch than&nbsp; I normally want let's try the breast is it dry&nbsp;&nbsp; it's perfectly cooked that is juicy we're having&nbsp; a little bit of a problem where the breading is&nbsp;&nbsp; just so oily it's really ruining the experience&nbsp; cuz the crispiness is beautiful the chicken is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:55] want another bite flavor-wise I think it's&nbsp; deserving of a nine texture crunch is there&nbsp;&nbsp; it's cooked nicely but it's so oily that it's&nbsp; bringing down the rest of the whole experience&nbsp;&nbsp; i think it's like a 7.9 that said moving on we are&nbsp; at a historical marker not just for chicken for&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:11] America dookie Chase i'm going to go for the thigh&nbsp; first cuz my favorite piece classic flour dredge&nbsp;&nbsp; it's not a batter i mean it's crisp the seasoning&nbsp; is really nice but there's a little bit of heat&nbsp;&nbsp; from the black pepperc corn but some kicking pants&nbsp; from cayenne not too much just enough to make it&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:25] nice but the flavor of the chicken is prominent&nbsp; it's not overwhelmed by the spice next up the&nbsp;&nbsp; breast this is incredibly dry and comparatively&nbsp; underseasoned the chicken thigh it's almost like&nbsp;&nbsp; the breast is like completely missing in salt it's&nbsp; like these were two different people made this&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:41] texture the crunch is decent it's not crazy it's&nbsp; clearly like quite dry only good one was the thigh&nbsp;&nbsp; i'm going to give it a 6.9 out of 10 flavor-wise&nbsp; I think I'm also going to give it a 6.8 i would&nbsp;&nbsp; say it's worth hitting for a historical POV&nbsp; but you're not getting anything above average&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:54] you're getting an average plate of fried chicken&nbsp; now here's the thing our next spot is unexpected&nbsp;&nbsp; and it all starts at a place that also sells bongs&nbsp; a gas station i don't understand how or why this&nbsp;&nbsp; happened the third most voted for place in all&nbsp; of New Orleans keys this place is iconic they're&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:09] a big fan of places like this because it always&nbsp; feels like a secret thing and honestly it's one&nbsp;&nbsp; of the better looking chickens we've got holy this&nbsp; is phenomenal what the it's seasoned perfectly&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:25] dude i'll go for the thigh real quick just to&nbsp; make sure it's consistent dude the crisp on the&nbsp;&nbsp; chicken is excellent the skin is a little flaccid&nbsp; in some parts but generally speaking overall it's&nbsp;&nbsp; like relatively very crispy salt level is maxed&nbsp; out the seasoning the spices are nice it's not&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:38] that has so many spices on it all you taste are&nbsp; the spices i want to taste the spices working&nbsp;&nbsp; with the chicken marrying the chicken loving the&nbsp; chicken this is the true test if this breast is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:50] moist we could no joke have a winner on our hands&nbsp; guys it's moist as it's cooked perfectly honestly&nbsp;&nbsp; the upfront flavor I'm getting is just tons&nbsp; of chickeny umami but then you have all this&nbsp;&nbsp; other fragrance from like garlic black pepper a&nbsp; little bit of paprika but again it's not overly&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:05] seasoned i taste the true flavor of the chicken&nbsp; and that is the most remarkable thing to me here&nbsp;&nbsp; i think the flavor is a nine the only thing&nbsp; that would make this higher than a nine would&nbsp;&nbsp; be higher quality chicken texture the parts that&nbsp; were crunchy were absolutely perfect the parts&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:18] an 8.5 if this gas station was near me I would go&nbsp; to it all the time and a gas station is now tied&nbsp;&nbsp; for the lead for best fried chicken in America&nbsp; this is insane but with three cities to go this&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:32] proves anything can happen next up Chicago with&nbsp; a good friend Christopher Mr beef the man himself&nbsp;&nbsp; at what some might call the best fried chicken in&nbsp; Chicago honey butter fried chicken we applied the&nbsp;&nbsp; namesake honey butter to our chicken and dug in&nbsp; it was very average to me i grew up with some of&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:49] the best fried chicken in the world made by my mom&nbsp; herself and I'm not using that as a bias i'm just&nbsp;&nbsp; saying I know where the bar is if I'm being honest&nbsp; I'm just not feeling this place like it's good for&nbsp;&nbsp; going to go frankly the honey butter also didn't&nbsp; really help at all there's just a lack of crunch&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:05] and seasoning overall the salt levels are almost&nbsp; there they're like 80% of what I want them to be&nbsp;&nbsp; seasoning i'm tasting some paprika some garlic&nbsp; but it's just not prominent for me personally&nbsp;&nbsp; my man Josh is an honest dude and that's why I&nbsp; love him i actually thought it was not too bad&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:18] he's got a higher bar see Chicago fried chicken is&nbsp; different than South Fried Chicken if I had this&nbsp;&nbsp; it wouldn't disappoint that's for sure all things&nbsp; considered flavor I'm going to give a 6.5 slightly&nbsp;&nbsp; above average texture I think it's deserving of&nbsp; also a 6.5 both slightly above average what's&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:31] fine is fine but ultimately we're looking for the&nbsp; best in America i'm going to take this seriously&nbsp;&nbsp; so I'm rating this a little harshly moving on up&nbsp; next is a legendary showdown number three Uncle&nbsp;&nbsp; Remis takes on Chicago's number one vote getter&nbsp; Heralds both of which are known for a special&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:45] sauce now we're not necessarily just going to&nbsp; be judging this by the sauce of course this&nbsp;&nbsp; hot but not in a way that it can get a leg up cuz&nbsp; at the end of the day only great chicken can win&nbsp;&nbsp; here so let's kick off with Uncle Remis this is a&nbsp; variation of mouth sauce though her has their own&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:01] mouth sauce which is pretty much like the staple&nbsp; mouth sauce theirs taste totally different you're&nbsp;&nbsp; only going to get this sauce at Uncle Remis this&nbsp; is outstanding i believe my wife for this this&nbsp;&nbsp; is Honestly I was iffy going into this because of&nbsp; the sauce when I see sauce covering fried chicken&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:16] my first thought is that's going to be soggy&nbsp; whatever was going on that was once nice about&nbsp;&nbsp; that is gone but this it's a non-issue like at&nbsp; all this is the real Chicago Westside food this&nbsp;&nbsp; is almost like the American version of Korean&nbsp; fried chicken cuz Korean fried chicken is the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:29] nice the crunch is beautiful the chicken's cooked&nbsp; perfectly it's juicy it's not dry and stringy the&nbsp;&nbsp; skin is rendered out it's really sweet it's a&nbsp; little too sweet for me but it's balanced by&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:42] in all pretty good texture i'm going to give 88&nbsp; eight flavor i think I'm going to give an eight&nbsp;&nbsp; it's worth being nervous on theing stoplight to&nbsp; go and get it's worth it heralds you're up against&nbsp;&nbsp; something cuz I got clean bones good luck finally&nbsp; the number one vote getter in Chicago Harolds can&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:58] it beat its mild sauce rival Uncle Remis can you&nbsp; taste the difference in the sauce it's similar but&nbsp;&nbsp; this one's way less sweet it's more acidic which&nbsp; I like a lot what I will say looking back is that&nbsp;&nbsp; Uncle Remis' like your sugar diabetes almost in&nbsp; a bottle but listen they're both huge staples in&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:15] good acidity to balance out the sweetness it's not&nbsp; just like here's a bunch of sugar you You get that&nbsp;&nbsp; acidity you get that depth it cuts the richness&nbsp; of the chicken so so so well flavor-wise I wish&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:28] there was like a tiny bit more salt 5 to 10% more&nbsp; i like the seasoning of Uncle Remis just a little&nbsp;&nbsp; bit more flavor okay so let me explain myself the&nbsp; sauce is better but the seasoning is not for me&nbsp;&nbsp; so I would say 75 texture i wish there was a bit&nbsp; more crispiness but at the same time it's cooked&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:43] really nicely the last one was more chewy and this&nbsp; was like more like cooked through and like tender&nbsp;&nbsp; so I'm also going to give the texture an eight&nbsp; still crisp succulent tender both great chicken&nbsp;&nbsp; spots moving on so Uncle Remis steals the Chicago&nbsp; chicken crown but still stands behind our current&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:57] leaders SS guy and New Orleans gas station we now&nbsp; move on to our next city Los Angeles where we're&nbsp;&nbsp; kicking things off at our number three most voted&nbsp; for spot Honey's Kettle i've heard this place is&nbsp;&nbsp; great i've never been this is not a breading this&nbsp; is another battered one let's start with the thigh&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:11] it's so oily dude let's try the breast the breast&nbsp; is super dry you saw dripping there was actually&nbsp;&nbsp; not juice it was oil just to be clear but you know&nbsp; the flavor isn't bad like the flavor it's really&nbsp;&nbsp; honestly very chicken forward which I really like&nbsp; salt levels are just about where I want them to be&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:24] i would say they're 99% of the way there maybe 100&nbsp; but there's not much like seasoning going on it's&nbsp;&nbsp; just kind of like salty chicken which I don't hate&nbsp; so flavor-wise I'm pretty happy with it texturally&nbsp;&nbsp; like it's okay chicken's a little slimy honestly&nbsp; this is the same problem as Willie Mays when you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:38] batter it it's in there for so long that batter&nbsp; really soaks up oil quite a lot texture is good&nbsp;&nbsp; but it's being drawn way down by that oiliness&nbsp; and by that sliminess so all things considered&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm going to give the flavor deserves an eight&nbsp; it tastes pretty good texture seven the crunch is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:51] phenomenal but that oiliness I don't want to know&nbsp; any more of this and by the way by my standard&nbsp;&nbsp; still quite high but not a winner moving on we&nbsp; are at possibly one of the most famous American&nbsp;&nbsp; fried chicken spots in the world rosco's Chicken&nbsp; and Waffles i think everyone somehow has heard&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:06] this name and we're at the original location Los&nbsp; Angeles Long Beach a lot of people on Reddit have&nbsp;&nbsp; said this has fallen off and honestly looking at&nbsp; this waffle I am concerned dude i'm going to try&nbsp;&nbsp; everything individually and then if the chicken is&nbsp; good I will try it with combinations it's pretty&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:20] good seasoning is really nice for comparison&nbsp; let's try this leg no breading on the drumstick&nbsp;&nbsp; at all from a breading standpoint it's like a&nbsp; 2 out of 10 for the drumstick but the thigh is&nbsp;&nbsp; almost perfectly breaded it's a little bit kind&nbsp; of wonky but like it's crispy it's crunchy the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:33] salt level is perfect if I were to just rate salt&nbsp; I might give it a 10 out of 10 seasoning's nice i&nbsp;&nbsp; The flavor of the chicken really shines they're&nbsp; not overwhelming it with seasoning the classic&nbsp;&nbsp; like garlic powder paprika there's nothing too&nbsp; special in there that's really making it stand&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:46] on it at this point take a piece of chicken out&nbsp; put a little syrup on there you put a little hot&nbsp;&nbsp; sauce on it and make kind of a sandwich honestly&nbsp; it made it worse completely took away from the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:58] chicken all I taste just is maple syrup and hot&nbsp; sauce on a cinnamon waffle and the chicken's not&nbsp;&nbsp; chicken's pretty damn good but we aren't rating&nbsp; it for the waffles now are we time to rate the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:10] chicken so texture it's extremely inconsistent&nbsp; i'm going to give the texture like a a 7 out of&nbsp;&nbsp; 10 flavor really quite nice honestly I am left&nbsp; desiring more and I don't want to finish it so&nbsp;&nbsp; I think I'm going to give it a 7.9 just almost&nbsp; an eight still good i would come back just for&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:24] the chicken i would not come back for the waffles&nbsp; unfortunately moving on we're at Howland Rays the&nbsp;&nbsp; number one voted for spot for fried chicken in&nbsp; all of Los Angeles i know the chef here he's a&nbsp;&nbsp; a beast he's basically the one that brought real&nbsp; legit Nashville hot chicken to Los Angeles i still&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:41] have to be honest we have two of their chicken&nbsp; their country which is just plain fried chicken&nbsp;&nbsp; what they're known for is their hot we'll try both&nbsp; whatever we prefer is what we'll vote on cheers&nbsp;&nbsp; this is insane that skin is like melts in your&nbsp; mouth it's super chickeny seasoned perfectly with&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:54] salt okay hot chicken oh my god dude i smell the&nbsp; heat on this god damn that is spicy as But it's so&nbsp;&nbsp; good though you have that immediate crispy crust&nbsp; that skin is properly fully rendered it's just&nbsp;&nbsp; crispy delicious melts into nothingness it's juicy&nbsp; it's salted really nicely it's a little spicier&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:11] than I want it to be personally for me this thing&nbsp; was spicy vicram didn't believe me and try to bite wow oh man see what I mean yeah you're going to&nbsp; poop your pants now i'm going to have the hot&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:23] chicken be the one that enters this competition&nbsp; i like it a little bit more than the country&nbsp;&nbsp; soggy sitting on that bread i'm really looking for&nbsp; intense crunch i think 8.4 is fair if you level&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:35] that out flavor my mouth is atomic bombed right&nbsp; now but right out the gate though in comparison&nbsp;&nbsp; more i don't want any less it is exactly where&nbsp; I want it to be the flavor of the spices the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:47] cayenne the paprika that peppery that rich just&nbsp; anxious deep red chili flavor is so present in&nbsp;&nbsp; this it's like perfuming your whole mouth and&nbsp; your nasal passage that said I'm going to give&nbsp;&nbsp; it a solid nine i might even give it higher&nbsp; than a nine if it was so [&nbsp;__&nbsp;] spicy moving on&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:01] howen Rays just misses the three-way tie for first&nbsp; place we now have four cities wrapped and we still&nbsp;&nbsp; have a tie for the lead as we arrive to our very&nbsp; final city Atlanta for some classic southern fried&nbsp;&nbsp; chicken right well yes and no actually now you&nbsp; come to Atlanta and you're probably thinking&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:15] like southern style fried chicken buttermilk&nbsp; OG right but this is getting a ton of buzz on&nbsp;&nbsp; Reddit so we're here for Peruvian chicken basto&nbsp; it looks great i mean I'm not going to lie i think&nbsp;&nbsp; this might be the crispiest chicken we've had so&nbsp; far and it's got acidity to it too how juicy the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:30] one which is the leg and thigh the thigh is juicy&nbsp; it's cooked nicely i will say like this is clearly&nbsp;&nbsp; fried longer to make it crispier maybe even double&nbsp; fried but look at this the meat gets a little bit&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:42] crispy too which I don't hate but it is adding&nbsp; some chewiness that I don't know if I love this&nbsp;&nbsp; is going to be the real test chicken breast it's&nbsp; a little dry oh man and you know what the second&nbsp;&nbsp; you get into the meat that seasoning goes this&nbsp; is missing a lot of salt on the insides if this&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:56] was seasoned properly this could be a genuine&nbsp; contender the outside of this chicken almost a&nbsp;&nbsp; perfect score flavor crunch texture and like it's&nbsp; salty i think it's cuz they straight up put tahin&nbsp;&nbsp; on the outside which is genius it goes super&nbsp; good with this chicken but then as soon as you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:08] get into the meat like all that salt and flavor&nbsp; is gone there's just no flavor in the meat at all&nbsp;&nbsp; a 7 out of 10 cuz it's just it is delicious it is&nbsp; really good i would finish this texture the crunch&nbsp;&nbsp; is like a 10 out of 10 i [&nbsp;__&nbsp;] you not this is&nbsp; like as about as perfectly crispy as I've ever&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:24] board that's the hard thing about fried chicken is&nbsp; you want to achieve the crisp without losing the&nbsp;&nbsp; out of 10 cuz it's so beautifully crunchy moving&nbsp; on next up one of the most known fried chicken&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:38] spots in America Gus's it was a high vote getter&nbsp; for almost every city this originated in Memphis&nbsp;&nbsp; but it didn't get any votes in Memphis matter of&nbsp; fact it was number two on our highest voted for&nbsp;&nbsp; Atlanta and I've actually never had it somehow&nbsp; I've managed to avoid it everyone's told me "You&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:52] got to go to Gus's." Question is is it really as&nbsp; good as everybody says it is i will say it looks&nbsp;&nbsp; a little clapped like it's not a very flaky fried&nbsp; chicken but I guess that's because it's a batter&nbsp;&nbsp; you're going to get a different look it's juicy&nbsp; as it's cooked nicely the skin's rendered so you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:05] spicy it's got umami it's salted nicely this is&nbsp; one of the first chickens I'm like tasting the&nbsp;&nbsp; spice in it and by spice I mean spicy i mean&nbsp; like the paprika the garlic the black pepper&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:17] notes texture is great but how did they do on&nbsp; the chicken breast for a chain not bad i will&nbsp;&nbsp; say it is kind of dry there is a juiciness to it&nbsp; too it's not all dry yeah I've definitely had far&nbsp;&nbsp; drier that said crunch it's definitely crunchy&nbsp; it's definitely crispy it's losing a little&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:31] bit on the dryness factor i think the texture is&nbsp; deserving of an eight it's pretty good flavor it's&nbsp;&nbsp; up there salt levels are perfect it doesn't need&nbsp; any more or less salt seasoning is nice i love&nbsp;&nbsp; the spice level honestly I think flavor I'm going&nbsp; to give an 8 seven not bad Gus not bad it doesn't&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:45] put you in a first place hold but if you have a&nbsp; Gus near you can maybe go check it out that said&nbsp;&nbsp; not a winner moving on with one spot remaining&nbsp; we still have a tie for first place between two&nbsp;&nbsp; unlikely contenders new school tie fried chicken&nbsp; in Nashville and chicken from a literal gas&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:59] station in New Orleans either we're going to end&nbsp; up seeing a gas station take the greatest fried&nbsp;&nbsp; chicken crown in America or we're going to have&nbsp; a big upset today we were in the parking lot of&nbsp;&nbsp; probably the most iconic fried chicken spot in&nbsp; America mlk has been here it is the number one&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:14] voted for in Atlanta as well busy be I got to&nbsp; say it does look pretty good i'm going to start&nbsp;&nbsp; with the thigh phenomenal i will say as you chew&nbsp; it's missing a little flavor but then boom then&nbsp;&nbsp; the flavor starts to kick in a little bit you get&nbsp; a little bit of that MSG the umami the richness&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:29] of the spices and honestly it's not super pepper&nbsp; forward it's a little bit more like garlic some of&nbsp;&nbsp; the fried chickens we've had have been like more&nbsp; paprika more peppery more cayenne this is more&nbsp;&nbsp; like black pepperc corn garlic flavor-wise top&nbsp; tier texture- wise I wish it was a bit more crunch&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:42] i'm not mad let me try the breast is the breast&nbsp; moist crazy moist when you go to a fried chicken&nbsp;&nbsp; spot the first thing you'll commonly notice is&nbsp; it's easy to make the legs and thighs succulent&nbsp;&nbsp; and delicious and not dry but the breast has no&nbsp; fat so it goes dry real fast this is moist it's&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:57] literally perfectly cooked i got to say I'm kind&nbsp; of shocked with how long this place has been here&nbsp;&nbsp; it's crazy that they've maintained the standard&nbsp; most places could not do that it all comes down to&nbsp;&nbsp; this 15 chicken spots across five cities and the&nbsp; best of the best voted by you the audience will&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:12] this spot take the crown flavor-wise honestly&nbsp; I think it's a nine texture Bizzy Bee needs an&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.6 or higher on texture to win it everything&nbsp; is cooked perfectly if the crunch were better&nbsp;&nbsp; an 8.8 and that's a 17.8 which means Atlanta's&nbsp; Bizzy B is the best fried chicken in America i&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:32] wish I had come here sooner i would even argue&nbsp; eating this right away my first thought is this&nbsp;&nbsp; is exactly what embodies a perfect American&nbsp; fried chicken it's breaded nicely it's crispy&nbsp;&nbsp; it's crunchy it's anxious umami rich but it's not&nbsp; overpowering and it's this unassuming building you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:46] would never realize you could drive right by this&nbsp; and have no idea you're driving past the greatest&nbsp;&nbsp; fried chicken in America hey wow that's the end of&nbsp; the video please subscribe we got some crazy stuff&nbsp;&nbsp; coming uh some of the craziest stuff I've ever&nbsp; done in my life love you so much all right [Music]