Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EVENTS Method 51 with Trudge, Thursday, The New Brookland Tavern. Lou Ford with Jennyanykind, Friday at Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday, February 24, 1999 P^l liUlUIliUUft by Rob Gioielli and you ne Viewpoints Editor kin. Now Of the many dishes that can be good chicl called uniquely "Southern," fried chick- the sides. I1 en usually tops the list, so that's prob- able, but ably why the South has more fried- best. It hai chicken fast-food chains than any other biscuits an part of the country. which ha The best kind of fried chicken is al- places. But ways the home-cooked kind, but for redeem 1 those who get the craving, there are a en> so number of places in the Columbia area when you where you can get a quick chicken fix. northern lc Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC, ^he cbickei is the world's biggest fried-chicken chain, ex^ra stror with stores all over this country and in Next many others. Its popularity, unfortu- table is Ha nately, does not correspond to the qual- relative ne ity of its chicken. "ie^ KFC has three varieties of chicken, market. t The Original Recipe has the not-so-good as a way fortune of being the standard by which ar^er J 0 all other chicken is measured ? the a,,", bottom standard, that is. The coating f ,, , ? l n , . ,, , . to the men has a good flavor and isn t too spicy. Since H Rut. it's immensplv erpflsv T snmpfimps . . . wonder whether they fry their chicken ^njC j^'g ^ in oil or condensed lard. Two pieces are a eooc probably have enough fat and choles- ^ teroltoldllacat without be The dark meat at KFC is especial- -g a ^ ^ ly greasy, but the white meat isn't much an(j not ev( better. Most mass-produced chicken, While 1 even the kind you find in the grocery mosj. weu_], store, is full of steroids. Chickens are jangles an given steroids for the same reason ath- growing. T1 letes take them: to create large amounts depending of muscle mass in a short period of time, usually fir You can tell when a chicken has South, been given steroids because in the white Church meat, there's a creamy, sticky substance with a low { that seeps through the meat. This can tie spice to be seen in almost all take-out fried the white i chicken, but KFC is the worst. Often, film. The si it will cover the entire chicken breast, Gullah spe? 1 i true culturi by Rob Lindsey mixtures b Features Editor and colonii Latin Amei Gullah, a Creole language spoken Later, t by inhabitants of the islands off the with the lai coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, the minglin is a mixture of several African dialects guages in c and early American English. In the < The language developed in the ear- so known a ly and mid-1700s as slaves, forced to as in the si learn English in a rushed and slap- the Iandash fashion, were ^siaes me ian funneled into the guage, the society Old South through that grew up the area around ? , * Charleston, first around CharlestO] from Barbados, reflected the mixthen from West . Af . ture of African an As the slave American culture? trade gained momentum, the result was an almost equal oaiance Detween &li ucture 01 West African slaves and Southern English. Sp< whites. The slaves brought with them to drop hel] an extensive oral tradition, with a lim- "He is young ited ? perhaps even nonexistent ? for verbs of, written language. "You be," "I With the two groups, slaves and ble intensifi whites, living and working in such close tives ("They proximity, the languages of both meld- double nega ed into a new language, Gullah Creole, no help"). T1 The term "Creole" was first used to aspects of tf describe the descendants of the racial I I gotta go visit ] / E The offers many >pH tn winp it nfF with a nan. thprp'c fr 1 pH nlrrn smH thp hicpiiite h a unique honey glaze. Church's sig there are two parts to a ture side is a whole jalapeno pep} sen dinner: the meat and which reflects its Texas heritage. [FC's chicken is barely pass- While most national chains ha\ its sides are some of the number of locations in Columl s a great selection, and the Popeye's only has a few. The closes i always hot and never stale, USC is actually in a Hess station ppens at a lot of other Devine Street, the sides aren't good enough Popeye's originated in Louisn die poor quality of the chick- and is known for its spicy chicken. 1 should only be consumed actually a pretty good cajun typ< are in a spicy, but can be >cale and uwihen It rnmes tr% hot for those v 1 jones is wnen 11 COmeS lO iike their chicke ig. fast-food fried bit milder. Th on the chicken, there is fl^es have so trdee s, a . kick, too, especi; iwcomer One place in the Cajun rice. / i chicken Columbia that puts if y?u Just warl lardee's ^ .u . fast-food meal w s been a them all to shame: some heat, Pope; int, but ZeStO." also has a num ears ago ? r of decent Caj [-chicken dishes, u. Boj angles has the good forturn [ardee's doesn't specialize in being the only fast-food place across e choices are pretty basic. It street from WiUiams-Brice Stadium mr sides, but the helpings it's probably the most popular fr 1 size. The chicken itself chicken on game days. Aside from tl tie coating is tasty and crispy it has the best overall menu of am ing extra greasy. Hardee's the places being reviewed here, toice when you're eating out The chicken comes in two flavc sryone wants chicken. spicy and "Traditional Southern." 1 ECFC and Hardee's are the spicy kind is all right, but if it's h mown chains, Church's, Bo- you're looking for, go to Popeye's. Tl d Popeye's are constantly are nice and crispy, if a bit too grea ley are Southern-based, but But Boj angles is definitely more tl on your location, you can chicken. The sign says "Bojangles Chi id one of these outside the en and Biscuits," and its biscuits , great. For breakfast, the sausage 's chicken is nice and crispy, chicken biscuits put McDonald's a grease factor. But there's lit- Hardee's to shame. And unlike th the coating, and, like KFC, other two, Bojangles serves sausj neat can have that creamy and chicken biscuits all day long, i des are pretty standard, but just for breakfast. and Louisiana, the mixture of conflicting cultures brought to the forefront both I the differences be- laJW tween the races and ' tl the potential for From John's Island, S.C., Ernest J peaceful coexis- Charleston, speaks fluent Gullah C - tence. d With similar Besides the language, the sock j/' word classes, parts that grew up around the Chariest of speech and a com- area reflected the mixture of Afric mon alphabet, the American cultures. 7the language is similar to F?r example, the concept ;akers of Gullah Creole tend Southern hospitality, which has becoi Ding verbs ("He young" vs. a cliche in recent times, is derived fix f), maintain single spellings a similar tradition in southern Niger all tense and aspect ("I be," Also, the many aspects of the fa le be," "They be"), use dou- tote tradition associated with slave] iers for comparative adjec- which produced such stories as the 11 run more faster"), and use ?le Remus tales, come from the stro tives freely ("He don't want oral tradition of West Africa, lese are merely a few of the Present-day Charleston and Georj le Gullah Creole language, town still show a strong Gullah infl ence. The slave market in Chariest New donors can earn up to d-?S $215 per m, maybe he ] month! Just a few hours out of your week could earn you $65! Help children, hemophiliacs and heart patients who receive products made from the plasma of our donors. naII. The Qualitv Source NABI BloMedlcal Center 215 Assembly St., Columbia SC 29201 I IgMMBESb^ 254-2280 Itc. Gamecock choices for c ave Boj angles has a good selection of pa- sides, but two stand out: the dirty rice Der> and seasoned fries. Both are a great . combination of flavor with just the right e a amount of heat. The only problem is for ^ tto SC00Pable sides like rice, beans and gjOi3 on mashed potatoes, the servings are puny. When it comes down to it, Bojan- BiBl|||| ma gles, Church's and Popeye's are pretty It's much equal. But when it comes to fast2 of food fried chicken, there is one place in too Columbia that puts them all to shame: 'ho Zesto. n a Like anything really good, Zesto is ^ ^ $ eir a small local chain, with a few here in r Columbia and some others scattered \ * ^ throughout the region. The closest one fig|| P ^ ] ^ a to campus is the Rosewood Dairy Bar. Ijg^ ^ Zesto's chicken is probably as close lJhh ^ ^ " S yre's as you can get to real fried chicken that's r^' ber not home-cooked or from an actual un restaurant. The coating has a great spicy taste to it, but it's not hot, and MPMif 3 of grease is minimal. The pieces aren't the skimpy, and the meat is tender, juicy ! ^ and rarely overcooked. For the best-tasting fast-food chickf 0? en, Zesto is the best around Columbia, but the sides can be a drawback. For ^Jol )rS; four bucks you get the chicken snack, fhe which is two pieces of white meat chickeat en, fries, two rolls and cole slaw. The ley fries and rolls are definitely nothing tsy. special, and the coleslaw is more like old slaw. iek- If yOU Want a really good chicken are dinner but don't have the know-how or ^ equipment to cook the chicken yourself, ege whip up some homemade green beans, lge mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, not etc., and just grab a box of chicken from The Rosewood Da Zesto. When you have that craving, it's chicken, the best the only way to go. 1 1 ? ? ? ? ^ by Katy Evans Assistant Features E Shooting for st dreams... Giving These are a fc t ! agement to the 30 tu tnke pftrt in ^ The dance mar j 6 p.m. Friday in t .-* Ballroom and con1 Saturday. This % ing event will raise Sara Ladenheim The Gamecock dren'g Miracle Nc ieling, selling his baskets at a market in Creole. Each participa or more, which v ity and Georgetown's rice plantations are the Children's Mira on proof of this. raises funds anc an As the United States was increas- programs for 160 ci ingly subject to increased European col- "We want t o f onization and increased imports of slaves Marathon a USC i ne in the mid-to late-1700s, a secondary mon Herrmann, coi )m linguistic colonization was taking place. "It will be a long-tei ia. And through this discovery of a new raising more mon Ik- language in the New World, a new so- than the previous ry, ciety emerged. All ^nnorc wi fn- In a very real way, the Gullah Cre- on their feet the w ng ole people of the South Carolina and activities have been Georgia coasts were truly the first the time pass as e je- African Americans. ble. The participan u~ to concerts, playi on and, of course, dar ' What is the Clothesline? The Clothesline Project provides an opportunity for female survivors of violence to paint a t-shirt expressing their inner sorrows and triumphs. These t-shirts are then displayed on Greene Street during Women's History Month so that others can bear witness to the survivor's experience. T-Shirts arc color-coded in order to recognize iiite uiui|uci?c:o ui cckji uoincsmve rariiupauis violent encounter. White tor woi"nen who have died from violence Yellow tor women who have been battered/assaulted ,$nk tor women who have been sexuallg assaulted jJfcBitie tor women survivors of incest or child sexual ^rbfc tdf woiTX'n attached because of tlveir sexual '"*** orientation $1 i .? SITE OF THE PAY Want to see how stuff works? Go to How Stuff Works. http://www. howstuffwo rks .com Page 5 | hirlron fane Ashton June Assistant^Photo Editor iry Bar, located at 3003 Rosewood Dr., serves Zesto's in Columbia. :e Marathon will ate your booty ^ I jj | ^v a .. | ^ J1 \ The participants of the marathon ditor are either individuals or groups rep. resenting an organization. There will ars ... Dancing for be a talent competition during the hope to kids... marathon, and groups can enter, v words of encour- if you want to watch the Dance 3-plus dancers due Marathon, there are certain times set ISC s first Dance aside for visitors. Each participating group can receive spirit points for athon will begin at every person who visits and signs in he Russell House "3^ " r.-.vii rTU T JIM? *uuu* UVA fctVUU VHII HJC IdUEPOP Q. anue until 10 p.m. *8 to IX p.m. Friday for 10 points. twork at the Pal #3 to 5 1Lm&*bafoy for 20 P0"^. ? Hoifw. 12 P^Satoday for 10 "il]hgo cUrecUy to ^ to 5 p.m.Saturtay for 6 points, cle Network, which I has awareness Visitors can also come by anytime h&dren's hospitals. durk? event to P^ase support o make Dance cards. These are handwritten letters tradition " said Si- encouragement to the dancers and mmittee chairman, will be read or given to the dancers -m event, each year at various times during the marathon, ey and awareness Ea<& support card an individual reyear." ceives will be worth one spirit point II have to remain to his or her organization. hole 28 hours, but An award will be given to the organized to make group that receives the most spirit njoyably as possi- points. ts will be listening For any information regarding the ng games, eating Dance Marathon, call its office at 777icing. 6770. A Bearing 0k W/itnocc tn 1^1 How can I Participate? Students, Staff aixl Fatuity female survivors, or ll\osc wishing to paint a l-shirt on Pelialf of a loved-one who I vis been subjec led to violence, arc welcome to paint a t-shirt ot one of the on-c ampus session listed iKkxv: Tuesday, Wednesday February 23,1999 February 24,1999 6-5pm 6-opm tSrsweS South Area Social Room Classroom Towers Area; South Quad: Towers Seminar Room Classroom For more information cone erniivj tlx* Clotlvostine Projet t. call USC's Offii e ot Sexual I lealth l'ro()rams& Sexual /Vssault Servic es at 777-5243. Student I lealth Servic es Department ot Student Development Division of Student & Alumni Servic es ^ ,i