and by the way Marylanders are hardly experts on southern cuisine
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LOL.
My father’s family is pure Alabama. Is that southern enough for you, Nifster?
I’m sorry that you took it as a knock my saying a deep fried chicken breast does not southern food make. But it really doesn’t.
I know for sure that Chic Fil A’s Asian salad isn’t southern food, either. The Cobb salad on their menu was invented in California.
Heck, they don’t even sell sweet tea (only sweetened ice tea, which all southerners know is not the same).
Oh that’s definitely southern enough. Apologies for being presumptuous. And you are correct in your other comments about the additional items on the menu.
So mea culpa...your bona fides are impeccable.