bb.q Chicken with Tansu Philip
Doughboys
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4.8 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Tansu Philip (@tansuphilip, Viva La Boba) joins the 'boys to talk boba, weed, and eating habits before a review of bb.q Chicken. Plus, a special boba edition of A Single Item Must Be Banished.
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Sources for this week's intro:
http://www.bbqglobal.com/aboutus/ceomessage.asp
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/forklife-korean-fried-chicken-transnational-comfort-food-180965128/
https://ricebowldeluxe.com/story-of-korean-fried-chicken/
https://www.yorienn.com/post/a-brief-history-of-korean-fried-chicken-the-other-kfc-with-chivago-chicken-in-carrollton-tx
https://www.mashed.com/736209/the-untold-truth-of-bb-q-chicken/
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| 0:14.3 | 50,000 stores over the world in 2030. |
| 0:20.3 | This is the stated vision of Jun-Hong-Yune, founder and chairman of a South Korean fried chicken restaurant. |
| 0:27.0 | If this monstrously ambitious expansion plan holds, |
| 0:31.0 | by next decade, Jun's chain would usurp McDonald's and Starbucks at and When Eun launched his concept in an already crowded market back in 1995, he silenced the doubters |
| 0:45.9 | by scaling up to 1,000 locations faster than any chain restaurant in history. |
| 0:51.4 | Like a great many dishes, Korean fried chicken's historical origin is disputed and colored by myth, |
| 0:57.0 | but the most popular theory dates to the Korean War, when black American GIs stationed overseas shared the breaded seasoned chicken preparation with their |
| 1:04.0 | South Korean counterparts. Post-war, the dish became a popular bar food, and by the 70s, South |
| 1:10.1 | Korea had its own fried chicken chains, in advance of KFC's arrival in the 80s. |
| 1:15.0 | Today, with South Korean pop culture dominating American pop culture, |
| 1:19.0 | the South Korean remix of an American dish has become one of its signature culinary exports. |
| 1:25.2 | And with over 3,500 franchises, Eun's chicken chain presently has nearly as large a footprint |
| 1:30.3 | as pop-eyes and more outlets than Chick-Vallee or churches. |
| 1:34.7 | As it scales up its presence in the U.S. |
| 1:36.8 | the name may prove a hurdle to Americans who might understandably expect a smoked |
| 1:41.1 | sauce preparation as opposed to fried. But its stylized acronym |
| 1:45.3 | stands not for barbecue but for best of the best quality chicken, which will have to be |
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