I can’t believe how many emails and phone calls I’ve gotten over the past week about chicken salad and doughnuts! Probably 200 or more people have told me about their favorite chicken salad, and just since this morning I’ve had about 150 responses for the city’s best doughnuts! So this gets me thinking–what else should we survey? I can’t go out every week and taste test, but I can report reader responses. Best hot and sour soup? Best pimiento cheese? Best cookie? Best margarita? Help me out here…
Responses to “Inquiring mouths want to know”
May 10th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I’ll throw one out….where can one find a really good poor boy? I’m talking about the kind like you get in New Orleans on good French bread dressed. I would love to find a great roast beef poor boy with the wonderful gravy that is so messy it requires six napkins!
May 10th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Ill go with the hot and sour soup. I use it as a guage for each Chinese restaurant I go to. And, how about, eggs benedict. This is such a mis-made dish in Memphis. I mean with eggs fried, for instance. Where is a good one available?
May 10th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Eggs benedict w/ fried eggs, that’s hilarious.
I would nominate for consideration non-chain pizza; non fast-food burgers; calamari (Yia-Yia’s gets my vote).
May 10th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Jane’s description reminds me of the debris po’ boy at Mother’s in New Orleans 
I would also like to hear about good muffalettas & po’ boys, especially ones made on CRUNCHY bread. I am always so disappointed when I order that type sandwich & the bread is the consistency of marshmallows 
I do admit a fondness for the Cuban sandwich at Soul Fish, but is a Cuban really a po’ boy?
May 11th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Why are all these folks emailing their comments to you instead of posting them here on the blog so we can all benefit from their take on the best doughnuts and chicken salad?
May 15th, 2007 at 11:25 am
If you asked the chicken salad question 40 years ago, the answer would be Sessels. In my meory, Sessels had the best Chicken Salad. Now days its hard to find chicken salad that is not pre made and out of a small tub.
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