Chicken in a Basket

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The place at the edge of Sisikon (to the right if you are coming from Brunnen). Mind the radar if it's still there...

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There is no reason, apart from culinary snobbery, for it to be moist either.

So I ask again, this time with emphasis, what's wrong with it being dry?

(Not "why do you prefer it one way over the other?").

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The taste and texture are terrible when chicken is over cooked. Nowt to do with culinary snobbery it's only about respecting the food you are cooking and doing it properly.

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The Auberge de Mouton in Belfaux does chicken in a basket and has done for years. Won prizes for it iirc.

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In case you desire to make your own at home, a helpful (and humorous) demonstration:

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Roast chicken is great, but why do they put it in a basket?

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They don't.

FRIED chicken goes in the basket.

Tom

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Unless there was something really special to celebrate. Then the Asti Spumante would come out.

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Was it this one Patsy? http://www.chezmacousine.ch/site/fr/ I went there often when I studied in Geneva. Really nice and cosy and not expensive (went to the one in the old part of the town).

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Right. What's the point of putting FRIED chicken in a basket?

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So it can't get away?

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When I was in Indonesia, they used to bring me chicken that was really, really well done. No idea what they did with it, but you even ate the bones ('cos they were cooked into crumbliness). It was lovely.

They also brought little sachets of "spicy" sauce - that was made out of the surface of the sun.

And cake. They were forever feeding me.

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Yep that's the stuff. Ah the memories that brings back.

Yours too. they still serve prawn cocktail in restaurants over here too.

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Nope in the UK back in the 70s and 80s it was definitely roast chicken they put in a basket.

Not sure they even knew what fried chicken was back then.

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Back in the mid-seventies The Chicken in a Basket on Rowstock Corner in Oxfordshire claimed to be the first "chicken (or scampi) in a basket" restaurant in England.

If a bloke was trying to impress then that's where he'd take you.... it was less impressive when said bloke's Ford Popular broke down and you have to walk most of the way home.

Definitely fried chicken, and pretty greasy it was too.... yummmm!

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The most disgusting way to serve prawns: Crevettencocktail

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lol prawn cocktail is amazing. An the way you know it's amazing is because it comes from Britain, the best country in the world. Haven't you got some bland cheese to boil up with commodity-class white wine?

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However, here it is fried, as it should be.

Tom

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Deep fried, as is the case here.

Tom

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I have a soft spot for a prawn cocktail. Bed of lettuce and a shake of paprika over your thousand island dressing - what can go wrong?