Fried chicken and pimento cheese sandwich

Chicken second courses

I am by no means a Southerner. I did move to the Southwest suburbs of Chicago. I do live across a main street from two rather large farms. Yet, still, I would not call myself a southerner. I don’t even know if this recipe truly does justice to two southern staples, fried chicken and pimento cheese. Northerner or Southerner, I think we can all agree this is an amazing and indulgent sandwich. Mike and his friends have this thing. Well they have a lot of things that annoy me, like a yearlong Twitter convo that takes up most of his time. Yet, when I ask about specific details in said friends’ lives regarding visits to town or their families, his usual response is usually something along the lines of, “I don’t know. We don’t really talk about that.” Uh, well what DO you talk about? Politics, food, sports, and weekenders. “What is a weekender?” you may ask. It is the first thing they eat around Friday afternoon that usually signals the unofficial start to the weekend and results in an unproductive afternoon at work. Some common weekender lunches include a Chipotle burrito or a Philly cheesesteak sandwich. I could see …