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Spicy Chicken Sandwich

    The original with a peppery, spicy breading, on the same buttered bun with pickles. The heat is warm and building rather than scorching, and the pickles cool it down. Many regulars never go back to the plain one once they try it.

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    The story

    Chick-fil-A sold the same sandwich, unchanged, for nearly fifty years before adding heat to it. The spicy version arrived nationally in 2009, after years of customers asking and a long internal argument about whether changing anything was worth the risk. The company’s answer was to leave the sandwich alone and change only the breading: same breast, same pressure fryer, same buttered bun and two pickles. It has since become the second-best-selling item on a menu that barely has ten.

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    About Chick-fil-A

    • United States
    • Since 1946
    • $

    S. Truett Cathy opened a diner called the Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia, in 1946. Fifteen years later he found a pressure fryer that could cook a boneless chicken breast as fast as a hamburger, and the sandwich he built around it became Chick-fil-A. Every restaurant still closes on Sundays, a rule rooted in the founder’s Christian beliefs.

    Around 3,000 restaurants across the United States, all closed on Sundays.

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