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I traveled with a U17 basketball team and about 8 parents to Memphis last summer for a huge NCAA recruiting tournament. We are from Canada and I did a ton of research on ribs, pulled pork and briket in the Memphis area. We ate at all the most well known places. Loved Central. But during my research, the name Gus's kept coming up so I put it on my list of places to eat. We had so many of us that I went over to Gus's to make a reservation and commented that they were suppose to be the best fried chicken in the world. Seconds later, my buddy and I were each offered a drum stick on the house and OMG, we were sold.

I have never had any fried chicken near as good as that. I ate there three times and some parents ate there five. We were only in town for like four days and ate at four or five BBQ places as well. Our girls basketball team devoured their meal as did the parents and after the trip was over, it was unanamous that Gus's was the best food we ate in Memphis. They kept wanting to go back and eat at Gus's after the days games. Lucky for us, our hotel was one block from Beale and about 6 or 7 from Gus's. Makes my mouth water thinking of it now.

Gee, Ed. In the interest of fair food reporting, I really think you should come to Charlotte. We could do a comparative tasting of Price's, the Coffee Cup and Keaton's in Statesville. I'll even offer to drive.

@jbeach - have you ever tried a sunnyside up egg on a hamburger? YUM!!!