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Chicken with no wings

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Before we had franchised restaurants, chicken outlets were the thing and those whose budgets allowed, developed a sense of self-importance.

They always walked out of these chicken outlets with that little box with a few bones and a few crusted chips.

The reason for this was to tongue-in-cheek say, ‘I can afford this scrumptious chicken and you cannot’. So this divided the town into roughly two groups – those who could buy chicken from the imported outlets and those who ate tough chicken at Christmas. Funny now the tough chicken seems to be the chicken eater’s premium choice.

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Chicken with no wings

Before we had franchised restaurants, chicken outlets were the thing and those whose budgets allowed, developed a sense of self-importance.