“Gimme a six-pack and half of Harold’s chicken (a good combination), when I gets bubbly (I do it in moderation)…”
I love my Aunt Lou & my cousin, The Other Ty.
They came down here for a funeral this past weekend & brought this to me.
One gallon of Harold’s sauce.
Since I’ve professed my love for it before, I’ll leave out the part about me begging for this for years (To my knowledge, it’s not for sale). Sometimes, I wanted to go in Harold’s & just swipe the squirt bottle off the counter. Tuck in my coat & pray I don’t spill it between that point & exiting the plane to come back home. But imagine going into Cook County, being booked on a misdemeanor theft of hot sauce from a chicken shack…see that shit doesn’t read “gangster” no matter which way you turn your head to read it.
Wouldn’t even have mattered anyways because that squirt bottle wouldn’t be enough because I use sauces on everything I eat. I think it has to do with smoking 2-3 packs of menthol’s per day & deadening my taste buds. I soak everything I eat with either mustard, hot sauce or BBQ sauce. Right now, I’m squirting this on everything — chips, biscuits, gummi bears, sandwiches and, of course, chicken.
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smoking 2-3 packs of menthol’s per day
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Damn my dude. Your lungs must hate you.
^^^ and your wallet too.
Does that say “food and paper”??
Chicken and College rule????
Man,
If there’s one thing i miss about the southsie of Chi, it’s Harold’s Chicken. I swear the made the best chicken in the city outside of my pops.
Now granted, every Harold’s you went to had bullet holes in the bulletproof glass that was more plastic than glass, GD or VL graffiti, that jacked up, leaned over pepsi machine, the payphone with the GD carved into the receiver, no chairs, and a big hughe menu written in magic marker on the wall–no sign, just magic marker right on the dingy yellow walls which were usually filled with flyers for jookin’ parties or DJ Pharris gigs…
Oh and the big sign of the brotha in the chef’s hat runnin’ after the chicken with an axe hanging in the window.
But so what!
Them’s my people and my people’s made some good food. Plus I was walking distance from 2 Harold’s. Everytime I walked by one, my arteries would just go “*igga if you go in there again, we quit!”
Hey, you can take a bruh out the hood, but…
*hopes LC doesn’t see this.*
There used to be like 95 Harold’s Chicken Shacks. They were all numbered. I think there’s only like 10 of ‘em left now–chicken’s like the new weed–everybody’s pushin’ it. But if you want some really good Chicken… and some decent Fish for that matter, seriously hit up a Harold’s.
Just don’t go in there like you got money or ain’t from around there… And if big man come in with the bootleg video and tapes, don’t be rude–his stuff’s usually on point.
Cartons > buying packs.
Harold’s > Thanksgiving @ Teef’s house.
Harold’s sauce > Oxygen.
If you love Harlod’s so much how come on an unnamed food blog did you give Harold’s a 3.5 chicken wings!!!!
LOL
yo, i just checked the pic–i started writing soon as i saw the bottle of sauce… this is #62–it’s right across the street from my alma mater, Columbia College.
$17K a semester to go there now. Seveteen like the magazine thousand dollars for 15 weeks. $34 Gs a year… As of 2007, CC is the most expensive private 4 year college in the midwest.
And got the nerve to be askin’ me for alumni contributions…
School done lost they edumacated minds.
Two words for y’all:
Fried. Gizzards.
Okay, now i’m havin’ flashbacks…
*cues up D’angelos’ “chiecken grease” and clicks expedia to book weekend flight to Midway Airport.*
Must.have…
half-white, half-catfish…
*passes out in pre-sodium-induced coma*
My little sister is at Columbia right now. Shit is a grip, thank god she got some serious financial aid, but she still has to come out of pocket around 5K per semester. Hence, she is looking to transfer out that biatch and back to UIC or maybe DePaul asap.
Harold’s sauce is flame, the chicken has kind of fallen off in recent years though.
They opened a Harold’s in Champaign when I was down there for college. Only problem was they tried to overprice/tax they shit cause of the Harold’s brand name, so the business kind of lagged, than some white kids started complaining about reverse discrimination/racism from the management there because Harolds usually closed at 3 am on weekends and was right on campus, bars close at 2 so cats walk to Harolds, some white kids alleged that it was 2:30 and Harolds workers wouldn’t let them in to get food, said the spot was closed, but then they would open the door for minorities. Don’t know if it’s true or not, but at a TWI (Traditionally White Institution) it’s not good business practice to piss off the people who make up the majority of the population. Word spread amongst all the white students/students in general and Harolds shutdown after barely being open a year.
I love when you dudes do posts like this! I hear emcees spit about local spots they like to frequent, so to actually see pictures or hear you guys reminisce about them makes the lyrics come to life. I’ve heard countless raps about Harold’s; I wish we had ‘em up here in Toronto instead of Popeye’s and KFC damn it!!!
87th Street is the best one Harold’s in the city. Although I think EatNRun has better chicken, the sauce is what makes it such a staple in Chicago. Harold’s>>>>>>>>>>> JJ’s, Sharks, etc.
edit: of the the best Harold’s in the city
Somebody need to make a rap song about Crisp & Juicy son!
http://crispjuicy.com/
If you ever, ever, ever….ever, ever in the DC area hit up this joint.
cosign smoking deadening ur taste buds.
75′s or hunnids?
I had to upgrade to 100s just to cut down on the number.
@ Dr. Spaceman….I agree with you homie…and then I’ll put the one up on 53rd in Hyde Park as #2. Funny story about that one…about five years back, I actually waited in line behind Senator Obama. He was ordering the standard 6 wing, mild sauce, salt & pepper. Everyone in that joint was tripping on him throwing out the order so damn quickly….just a like a reg. nig from the hood. Gotta love that guy.
As for Eat&Run…you are indeed correct. My wife’s family own’s that biz…so we’re up in there every few weeks to get our batch of chicken. Their chxn is fucking fire…I eats that shit with no sauce on it! Their mild sauce not so much.
Now, for anyone that’s familiar with the WestSide, i’d argue that Uncle Remus’ chicken can give Harold’s a run for it’s money. No joke. My wife’s fam is from the Westside and when we were dating, they’d always swear up and down that Remus was better than Harold’s. Me being the uppity Southside ghetto nigga i am, I told them they was crazy.
Fast forward some 10 years later….and i can’t even front. Uncle Remus will have you smacking the shit outta Harold’s.
…and yes…I can say it…because I’m a find a connosieur of all things yardbird related.
oh…@ gotty, rosado, canceco and spaceman…this is from the cat that owns the one on 87th and 22nd st.
http://www.haroldschicken55.com/main.html?src=%2F
get your web orders on folks!
Uncle Remus is pretty fire. My cuz loves that spot.
I got another cuzzo who swears by JJ’s. But he’s kinda gully doesn’t leave the hood often kinda dude, lives on Pulaski and Potomac so he fucks with JJ’s I think more for the conveinience of it being right at the corner of his crib.
My roommate in college was from the Chi. Dude would always talk about Harolds & sophmore year I went home with him on an Easter break. Needless to say, I fell in love with the city…along with Harold’s wings.
Good looks, Rich
I know NOTHING of Harold’s but I’ma order a gallon of that sauce (NH?) of the strength of these comments from y’all cats…
lol, the sauce is so serious man. i can’t stress it enough. I’ve been murdering it since Monday.
*pictures Gotty soppin’ up everything in Harold’s sauce:
chicken, fish, sammiches, vegetables, cookies, hotdogs….
gott is so ghetto. lol!
Good looks on that Rich. And thank you for the co-signature on Eat & Run. No sauce is definitely the way to go when ordering there. And also for the westside folks, Sir Chicken off Independence is my spot too (the southside one is aight.). Chicago people and fried chicken…
Columbia is expensive as hell… i wouldn’t go to college if i was startin’ over now. you’ll be 70k-90K in debt just on a bachelors degree these days.
JJ Fish’s fish is too serious tho. It ain’t Doc’s–that’s old school for you youngin’. Doc’s was the O.G. of fish in Chitown.
I need to make a midnight run for some sauce for real tho. i might not make it thru the winter.
Did they shut down all Doc’s?
Nah its 2 left I believe. 87th Street (haven’t been over there since they opened up the road again)and one in Country Club Hills.
Fishwich, baby! Every Friday. Long live Doc’s Fishwich.
“I’m squirting this on everything — chips, biscuits, gummi bears, sandwiches and, of course, chicken.”
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Gotty I hope you are talking about the BBQ sauce kid!!?
Harold’s reminds me of a place in the Bay called “Luis Catfish and Ribs”. But the bomb spot back in the day was this joint called “Brother in Laws’. Man their ribs were crack!! 6 ribs and a 40 oz, man that was my shit.
*scratching head thinking where can I go and get some BBQ at half time*
Damn ya’ll then got a botha hungry as mug right about now.
Naledge stay mentioning Harold’s in his rhymes.
4 wings(w/ mumbo sauce!!) + crinkle fries + Fruit punch everfresh = the reason why i will prob never leave MD/DC. the carryouts are awesome. =)
i loved that fucking common sense album…
Oh shit! You can buy it by the gallon! Man, you dont realize how much you miss Chicago food til your not in Chicago anymore. Its like the rest of the country doesn’t know how to cook. I guess thats why they call it Cook County….HA!
THE Super
http://www.schoolofill.com