Photo: BurgerFuelT-Bird
The spicy fried chicken burger: crispy fried chicken dusted with Rum and Que’s Dirty Bird Nashville seasoning, sliced jalapeños, salad and chipotle aioli. The Nashville spice gives a dry, peppery heat and the jalapeños add a fresher one, so it builds rather than burns. Hotter than most of the menu, but not a challenge burger.
The story
The T-Bird’s seasoning comes from Nashville hot chicken, a dish with a famous origin story. Thornton Prince, the story goes, was served fried chicken loaded with extra pepper by a girlfriend tired of his late nights, liked it, and by the mid-1930s was selling his own version with his brothers in Nashville. Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, run by his great-niece André Prince Jeffries since 1980, keeps the tradition going. KFC took Nashville Hot national in the US in 2016, and the style has since travelled far beyond Tennessee; BurgerFuel uses a Nashville rub from Rum and Que.
What’s inside
- BurgerFuel fried chicken with Nashville seasoning
- sliced jalapeños
- salad
- BurgerFuel chipotle aioli
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the T-Bird yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares chicken and heat
KFC Zinger Burger (Copycat) - Shares chicken and heat
McDonald's McSpicy (Copycat) - Shares chicken and heat
KFC Spicy Chicken Sandwich (Copycat) - Shares chicken and heat
KFC Dirty Louisiana Burger (Copycat)
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the T-Bird.- Wat-a-Burger · chicken, jalapeños and heat
Jumbo Chicken Spicy Burger - Better Burger · chicken, jalapeños and heat
Spicy Chicken Burger - McDonald's · chicken, jalapeños and heat
Chicken Maharaja Mac - KFC · chicken and heat
SignatureZinger Burger
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About BurgerFuel
Chris Mason opened the first BurgerFuel in Ponsonby, Auckland, in October 1995, with a loud, irreverent style and burgers built on New Zealand ingredients. It grew into the country’s best-known home-grown burger chain and went public in 2007.
Around 60 stores across New Zealand, plus a few in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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