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Question of the Day: What food can't you live without?

Pizza. Can't go a week without it. Not even really three days without it.

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The Best Fried Chicken in the World Might Be at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

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.

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The Best Fried Chicken in the World Might Be at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

I live 30 minutes from Mason, TN & and hour from Memphis. I think the chicken from the original location in Mason is the best. Gus's has a few more locations around West Tennessee and I would say that Mason and Memphis are in the top 2.

As for Dyer's, go to the location that IS NOT on Beale Street. What I don't understand is why that location doesn't hold true to the Dyer way of cooking burgers, considering they are going to get the most traffic and business.

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The Best Fried Chicken in the World Might Be at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

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.

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The Best Fried Chicken in the World Might Be at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

loved this post--very well written. I think your recommendations should always be considered when anyone is seeking out "the best of whatever" :).

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Question of the Day: What food can't you live without?

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

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Question of the Day: What food can't you live without?

@Brian I once went 10 months without pizza during Atkins. It was the hardest thing to do. Giving up carbs was so hard the only thing that eased my pain was a rare steak or chicken salad.

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