Obama Fried Chicken Joints Pop Up Around Town

Photo by Joe Schumacher

Earlier this month, following the Meal O'Bama food cart reveal, our own Joe Schumacher spotted a recently re-branded fried chicken place on St. Nicholas just south of 116th Street, now called Obama Fried Chicken. Is number 44 following in the footsteps of JFK and Lincoln—both of whom have had their names plastered on many a fried chicken joint? Looks like it. The Smoking Gun now points out another Obama Fried Chicken outpost in Brooklyn (previously known as Royal Fried Chicken). Has the President's name found its way onto an awning near you yet?

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By Jen Carlson in Food on April 1, 2009 4:33 PM

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the3rdbridge

I really want fried chicken now...

RN Amused

well I do have a taste for some chicken .

kcin122

there are Kennedy Fried Chicken places everywhere.

whats the difference?

NannyState

Church's just announced their own spinoff: Jeremiah Wright's Fried Chicken: "Not God Bless the Colonel's secret recipe, but Goddamn the Colonel's secret recipe..."

SP

following your logic, greasy fried food has killed many many more asian people. do you have a point? no, but you are still and will always be a complete idiot.

SP

following your logic, greasy fried food has killed many many more asian people. do you have a point? no, but you are still and will always be a complete idiot.

jt10000

I hate to say it, but.....

Ides said something pretty funny.

freddynyc

Then again, you gotta admit dark meat has a lot more flavor and is much more tasty - that coming from a heterosexual btw...

ides_of_march

The only serve left wings.

thinkbreakfast

ha.

nik13

Serving dark or white meat? White is always more expensive.

ides_of_march

Racial stereotypes are clearly alive and well in NYC. What next, Obama watermelon stands?

Anyway, greasy fried food has killed far more black people than the KKK could ever dream of.

Clarice City

Al Sharpton's Hot Wings n' Fries....opening soon!

Brooklynbobby

I think Al Sharpton's spicy spiked tongue would be more appropriate.

theevilone

Errrr, is following in the footsteps of JFK and Lincoln such a good idea?

Spirit of 76

It goes to show the change in attitude and spirits. Did anyone like Bush enough to name a business after him? In fact, in the last few years of his term, it would have been financial suicide to do so.

Although OFC doesn't really roll off the tongue.

nik13

Yup. Obama fried chicken clearly belongs in same league as beef Wellington, napoleon, Chateaubriand, peach Melba, oysters Rockefeller, etc. All high end stuff.

Shinobi Shaw

The Fried Chicken is a representation of his administration, messy and unhealthy for the people.

And before anybody jumps in, I don't believe in the Left-Right paradigm.