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Flavor Flav opens fried chicken restaurant in Iowa
Look out, Colonel Sanders. Flavor Flav has a fried chicken restaurant, and he's coming for you - starting in a small Iowa city.
The Public Enemy rapper and reality TV star opened Flav's Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa, on Monday with a business partner he met through a connection in Las Vegas, the Clinton Herald reported.
"My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise," Flav said, referring to chicken giant KFC, in a YouTube video of him frying chicken at Monday's opening.
The sight of Flav cooking at his own restaurant apparently won't be a one-time thing. He told the newspaper he intends to work at the Clinton location now and then to help draw customers. (Good news for the fledgling operation: If his trademark attire is any indication, he should have no trouble arriving to work on time.)
"You're going to find me in here working. … You're going to catch me in here seasoning up my chicken, flouring up my chicken, frying up my chicken. And not only that, but coming out here and serving my chicken to people," he said.
The idea for the venture came after Flav befriended Las Vegas restaurateur Peter Cimino. Flav cooked Cimino some chicken, and Cimino, duly impressed, had Flav sell his chicken wings at Mama Cimino's Pizza in Las Vegas, the rapper told northern Illinois news site SaukValley.com.
It was Cimino's brother, Clinton restaurateur Nick Cimino, who suggested he and Flav open a fried chicken restaurant in the Iowa city of roughly 26,000 people.
"He said, 'You know what, Flav? … What I want to do, I want to build you your first restaurant.' I'm like, 'Are you serious?' He's like, 'Yo, I’m dead serious, man. I’m going to go home, I'm going to build your first FFC restaurant,'" he told SaukValley.com.
Nick Cimino bought a building next to his own restaurant and got it ready for Monday’s opening, the Clinton Herald reported last week.
Flav, a 51-year-old New York native, told the newspaper he's developed his own special fried chicken recipe over the years, having grown up in a family that owned a diner and having attended cooking school in the late 1970s.
His chicken has "that deep down southern fried chicken" taste, and also has "some crisp going on up in there," he said.
"The taste … will blow up your taste buds, man," Flav told the Clinton Herald in an interview posted on YouTube.
Flav, who starred in the VH1 reality series "The Surreal Life" and "Flavor of Love," said he'll consider opening more FFCs after getting this one under way.
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Oh. My. God.
When I die, I hope this is what Heaven will be like.
@Werdna
arrongance on determining if there is no God or Heaven lol
The irony of your statement Werdna is, of course, that the existance of God, or Gods can't be proven either way. That's actually the whole idea of faith. It is interesting that non-belivers can state emphatically that there is no God despite not being able to prove the statement. It doesn't seem any different to me than the people who feverently state not only that there is a God, but that they are sure they have been saved and are assured a place in heaven; with an equal lack of evidence. In the end you are both choosing what to believe with no conclusive evidence.
Werdna = andrew in reverse, clearly the same person. you just got trolled.
Why does this remind me of Undercover brother.... hahahahahhahahaahhaahahahahahahahahahaha
If Flavor Flav can be as hyper critical about his chicken, as he is about future entertainment wanna bees, then just maybe his chicken restaurant will be a smash hit. But the moment he starts hanging little toy watches on chicken parts 'n crap, I'm done with this, and will go back to Churchs.
It was either open a chicken place or pursue a career as copy editor: "My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise," Flav said
churches chicken is disgusting.. it is by far the nastiest chicken i have ever tasted.
If I were black I'd pop a cap in his viking helmet. The guy is a walking negative stereotype.
HATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what do you mean if you were black white people pop caps too. that is soooooo white of you to say!!! and just an FYI people don't talk like that anymore.....
Hey man, it's my firm belief that most stereotypes are based on facts. Soul food is a staple of many black homes, and there's nothing wrong with the man liking fried chicken OR selling it. In fact.... Do you have something against fried chicken, dude?
YEAH BUT THEY GOT TO PAY ME BOYEEEEEEEE!
if you were black you wouldnt do nothin... STOP IT PLEASE
I don't get it , what's so stereotypical about a black man starting his own business? I hope this stereotype catches on as well as the fried chicken and watermelon stereotypes did.
Patrick: your firm belief is based on flimsy evidence. It must be difficult to wear a thinking cap and a pointy white hood at the same time..
Celebrities open restaurants and businesses every day. What is newsworthy about this clown opening a fried chicken restaurant? It is another Antoine Dodson-esque exploitive, stereotypical poor excuse for journalism.
wouldn't "popping a cap" in his viking helmet also be a negative stereotype?
My God, What does being black have to do with this story.
He has shown he can do almost everything now. One challenge left for him now. Flavor Flav for president. Think about it.
didn't I tell you to leave Flavor Flav alone, knocker?
As an African American.. Flav has some serious issues to deal with. I don't care about him frying chicken. But have a bunch of children and not taking care of his responsibilities is one big problem i have. Also.. he needs to grow up and stop acting like a complete clown. I love P.E.... one of my favorite groups. But out side of P.E. flav has been an embarrassment.
I'm willing to give it a try. But not if you keep comparing it to Church's. Please.
Honestly Popeyes looks great until you sink your teeth into the chewy breading
Chicken so good....It'll make you wanna slap yo momma!
For the record, Church's can't TOUCH Popeye's.
You mean those sumo-chickens they got???
I won't knock it till I try it...
And for that matter, no fried chicken can ever touch my home made PAN friend chicken.
Hahah this is hilarious. Represent Flavor.
I met Flav in Vegas last time I was there. Flav was in the bowling alley. He was with a couple nerdy looking white dudes, I thought they were his managers or something.
Greatest idea ever! Will be visiting just for this. Can't want to get some of that flava
Flavor Flav is in everything you eat, CUZ EVERYTHING YOU EAT GOT FLAVA!
Good for u Fla...do your thing!
Hey Patrick: quiet. Most times I see blacks getting upset on tv is when watermelon and fried chicken are brought up. I remember the big stink when Fuzzy Zealor brought up fried chicken and watermelon when interviewed about Tiger woods and Tiger is mostly Thai and Native. People are forced to resign over stuff like that. So maybe people should make up their minds. Are we going to be ultra sensitive over every joke and let Flavor Flav get off scott free, or are we going to relax a bit and chuckle at stuff like this?
I keep thinking about Dave Chappelle's routine about chicken. He said, "All these years I thought I liked chicken because it was delicious. Turns out I'm genetically predisposed to liking chicken."
Thanks for clearing up the useless obsolete slang. Peel his wig back black enough for you tard? Pull out tha street sweeper and chop him down? Is that black enough for you? Racist clown! Go back to your video games and red bull
first of all im not racist and second it sounds like you are, making the comment that you made. YOU NEED TO GROW UP.
Chicken with a side of spit...