Fried chicken is an ethnic food though.

Scottish/Irish brought the method over, and when slaves made it, they used African flavoring techniques. Which also caught on with hillbillies.

That led to hillbillies and slaves being the ones that popularized it.

And they were the two most looked down on ethnic groups in America for a long time. Especially because they were eating it because it was cheap. The lard and frying was to increase the calorie count, because there wasn’t much to go around. Same with the heat, it made you eat the (relatively cheap, but still expensive) part slowly.

The big difference is authentic fried chicken, and instead being handed a watered down version of it.

Like, if for Cinco de Mayo they got Taco Bell…