Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Who makes the best fried chicken? Old Melonhead (father/Jamari Jaylen's Grandpa)?! Tiana (sister/Jamari Jaylen's Mother)?! Me, the one and only Interaktiv One, TLE, himself?! The three of us have been debating this issue for years now and since I am a fan of fried chicken, I make the best fried chicken in the Matheny-Edmonds-Leveille clan. But Old Melonhead claims HE makes the best fried chicken--BULLSHIT, Melon! I make the best fried chicken in this family, even though I do not cook very often except when needed. I use Old Bay, Salt, Pepper, Sugar, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Adobo with both Bitter Orange and Lemon and many seasonings too numerous to mention. So if my family takes a bite of chicken, they damn well know who made it and they will like it regardless.

Besides fried chicken, I, TLE, also make the best Italian-American spaghetti sauce around as well. The difference between the family's sauce and mine is that I not only add sugar, but also add BullsEye Barbecue Sauce and Old Bay Seasoning to it and the family version only adds sugar. My family discovered that the sauce, nevermind the pasta, tasted the sweetness due to the acidity reduction and a little kick because without the sugar and the BullsEye, expect a serious bellyache.

So, fried chicken and Italian-American spaghetti sauce done the Interaktiv Way or the old fashoned Matheny-Edmonds-Leveille way. Mine, the Interaktiv One's, is the best hands down. Oh yeah, do NOT send fellow lefty, comedian, current TPIR host and Clevelander Drew Allison Carey over to the Interaktiv Potluck Dinner hosted by yours truly.

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