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by iguy 2083 days ago
Deep fried anything used to be a luxury, because calories were expensive, and a whole pot of boiling oil is a lot of calories.

IIRC, southern fried chicken in the US descends from cooking styles that only the aristocrats of western England could afford. Which their 2nd sons (or rather, their 2nd son's cooks) brought along to Virginia.