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“Unless There’s A Patent On Chicken N Waffles”

The ReadyWriter

Nobody owns it!!!!

IHOP, the internationally known pancake giant has added “chicken and waffles” to their varied food menu. But according to Carl Redding, owner and proprietor of Reddings Restaurant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “They’re selling soul food without the soul”.

Chicken and Waffles “use to be” one of Reddings signature dishes when he owned and operated Amy Ruth’s in Harlem, New York over a decade ago.

Chef Redding feels IHOP has set chicken and waffles back 70 years because they’re marketing a cheap dish at a cheap price.“You’re supposed to perfect the dish, not diminish the quality or taste, but that’s what IHOP has done,” says Redding. “You can’t sacrifice quality to undercut the market”.

According to Chef Redding he’s supposedly selling the real thing while IHOP is selling juicy chicken tenders with crispy Belgian waffles that are thick and dry, with no authenticity or historical allegiance to the African-American experience.

IHOP is a global breakfast chain that has long since branched out to ride the wave with its competitors; and has now joined the competition of so many other restaurants besides Reddings, who’ve added “chicken and waffles to their menus.

Kevin Hezekiah, who owns and operates Bayonne’s Chicken & Waffles in Bayonne, NJ also has chicken and waffles on his menu as well as Roscoe’s in Los Angeles and Sylvia’s soul food restaurant, the famed Harlem dame, who’s put her famous soul food on the map! And I’m sure there’s so many other restaurants who’ve done the same.

So in my opinion, there are no originators just duplicator’s…

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125 thoughts on ““Unless There’s A Patent On Chicken N Waffles””

  2. No tracy didn’t put that crusty negroe with that *do-rag* on his head, up on this blog. he couldn’t cook shit for me on any given day. GTFOH!!!!

    Yes and AmyRuth’s use to have some slammin chicken n waffles.

    Dear Trace, have you eaten Reddings food? You don’t say.

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      2. No tracy didn’t put that crusty negroe with that *do-rag* on his head, up on this blog. he couldn’t cook shit for me on any given day. GTFOH!!!!
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        when you’re in a kitchen cooking you have to have your head covered well atleast you should. It’s un-sanitary not too. So that’s the reason for the do-rag people dang!!!!

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      3. “Dear Trace, have you eaten Reddings food? You don’t say.” That’s what I wanna know, has Ms. Bell eaten @this man’s spot

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      4. That’s what I wanna know, has Ms. Bell eaten @this man’s spot
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        Good morning Civil and Sane, I’ve never eaten at Redding or AmyRuth’s and for the record I don’t eat meat, therefore i would maybe have fish or an egg-white omelet with my waffles.

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      7. Hey Tra….will you be eating at any of redding’s restaurant won’t go unless you go first. 🙂 LOL

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      9. Good morning Civil and Sane, I’ve never eaten at Redding or AmyRuth’s
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        @Trace, so if you ain’t neva ate there why should we?

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      10. Good morning Civil and Sane, I’ve never eaten at Redding or AmyRuth’s
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        @Trace, so if you ain’t neva ate there why should we?

        @Sane, no where in this post did Trace say she ate @ either place post is about redding thinking he own the chicken -n-waffles brand. stay focused.

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      11. “i love jesus, my mama and then all of you”
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        I remember that now. nicca said that after we thought something was up with him and blog queen. lmao!!! he had to set our asses Str8 on how he didn’t want her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! smdh.

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      12. Good morning Civil and Sane, I’ve never eaten at Redding or AmyRuth’s and for the record I don’t eat meat, therefore i would maybe have fish or an egg-white omelet with my waffles.
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        let me know @Trace and i’ll take you 🙂

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      14. @Trace, we don’t wanna hear SHIT from dis nicca unless he “puttin a ring on it” hear!!!
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        I agree with Starr, until he gives Trace something to talk about we don’t care about this dude and his chicken n waffles.

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    1. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book
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      Nah…dats the same nicca dat love jesus, his mama and all of us. remember? same nicca, different post.

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      1. LMAO!!!! >@ Nah…dats the same nicca dat love jesus, his mama and all of us. remember? same nicca, different post.

        Morning Felicia & Anthony.

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      3. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book
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        @Felicia, get over it boo! Just let it go! LOL

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      9. Carl Redding is nice looking too bad he gay.
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        damn where dat come from?

        “i love jesus, my mama and then all of you” GTFOH..dat shit was gay as all hell!!!

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      10. “Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book” -> Blog Queen never said he was @Felicia

        Morning.

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      11. Carl Redding is nice looking too bad he gay.
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        what you know FLO, tell it!

        Whaddup ceo fam.

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      18. Carl Redding is nice looking too bad he gay.
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        damn where dat come from?
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        “i love jesus, my mama and then all of you” GTFOH..dat shit was gay as all hell!!!
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        Dat Nicca ain’t gay he on the DL…LOL I remember that I love my mama and jesus shit, left blog queen outta that one conveniently. LMMFAO

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      19. Morning Fam,
        This post is more about the mentality of the thirsty niccas who want to out-sale their chicken n waffles like ihop dat all.

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      20. And I don’t know about y’all, but the idea of knowing a real soul food restaurant’s *chicken n waffles* would be better than ihop’s got me siding with what Chef Redding is saying. love sylvia’s chicken n waffles too.

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      22. Whaddup ya’ll – yeah chef Redding is the same corny ass “i love jesus, my mama and then all of you”motherfucker who set I’m GAY and LAME back a-whole fuckin decade!I woulda said, “yeah me and blog queen just friends but I wanna smash her b4 I would said some *gay/dl shit* like that.

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      24. Carl Redding is nice looking too bad he gay.
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        who said this dude was gay? where ya’ll comin from with that one.??

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      25. who said this dude was gay? where ya’ll comin from with that one.??
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        he did when he said on here last year after he did an online interview with Trace, “I love jesus, my mama and then all of you” words of a D/L gay man imo.

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      26. @anthony, you shouldn’t speak what you don’t know for sure, actually none of you should. This Chef Redding guy and Trace shared a chemistry imo and i doubt he’s gay. i also believe as you all know that his character is cole from Tracy’s book COAS.

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      27. @felicia, thanks for pointing that out. My guess is like maybe most people who read the book. and i don’t know if it’s this dude or not. But Cole (the character)never even kissed Trace, which means he had no desire for her which means he is very much gay! sorry boo!!! but that’s the impression I came away from the book with.

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      29. Morn-TING Ceo Family.
        Didn’t this Redding cat also work for Al Sharpton.??? and yes isn’t he the one who down-played he and blog queen having a thing?

        He said, “I love no-one but Jesus, My mommy and then all of you” LMAO!!!!

        @Trace, we don’t wanna hear SHIT from dis nicca unless he “puttin a ring on it” hear!!!

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      31. 🙂 LMMFAO @ “Trace, we don’t wanna hear SHIT from dis nicca unless he “puttin a ring on it” hear!!!

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      32. “Trace, we don’t wanna hear SHIT from dis nicca unless he “puttin a ring on it” hear!!!
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        LOL…agree!

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      33. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book
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        @Felicia, babe., nobody gives a FUCK ok… LOL

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      34. “Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book” –>Until that shit spills from Tracy’s beautiful big lips shit doesn’t matter n no-one cares!

        Trace sound like she don’t fuck wit nobody who can’t SHIT, so she prbly be throwing niccas off the pot!

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      35. Trace sound like she don’t fuck wit nobody who can’t SHIT, so she prbly be throwing niccas off the pot!
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        sounds like something my grandmother use to say. when a brotha shows no intent keep him moving. @ any rate., chicken n waffles are universal no need to talk about IHOP’s just because they tryna stay relevant like every other restaurant out here.

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      36. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book.
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        I read the book and it did sound like *cole* might be gay so this dude fit the descrip. plus cole had just opened a restaurant in the city (*side-eye*) so it’s all suspect and coincidental.

        If he gay then trust, he is not a prospect n Tra ain’t FUCKING with him.

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      37. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book.
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        who cares who cole is? i can’t wait for the time when blog queen diva will announce that she’s married or engaged….that’ll be the fun stuff. all that other stuff that’s all irrelevant and one big guess.

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    2. Redding is Tra’s character cole from her book.
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      @Felicia, Ms. Bell has never confirmed that. It’s all specualtion….To my knowledge all characters in her book *COAS* are real with fictional names but none have been identified.

      And as for Carl Redding, Tracy has never been linked to him romantically.

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      1. “And as for Carl Redding, Tracy has never been linked to him romantically.” -> Yeah we know him and blog queen are not involved he made that very clear after their online interview awhile back when he came up in here and said “I love my mama, Jesus and then all of you” meaning he and Tra had nothing going on and yes his comment sounded very suspect.

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      2. he came up in here and said “I love my mama, Jesus and then all of you” meaning he and Tra had nothing going on and yes his comment sounded very suspect.
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        Damn ya’ll ain’t gon let dude live those comments down either. LOL!!!!! But I think Redding said those words to keep ya’ll (the ceo community) out of he and blog queen’s business. I do believe he and *blog queen* are romatically involved. His comments was a smoke screen.

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      3. I do believe he and *blog queen* are romatically involved. His comments was a smoke screen.
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        well imo he shoulda said some other shit. his comments sounded gay “i love my mama, jesus and then all of you”. Gtfoh!!!!!

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      4. I do believe he and *blog queen* are romatically involved. His comments was a smoke screen.
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        well imo he shoulda said some other shit. his comments sounded gay “i love my mama, jesus and then all of you”. Gtfoh!!!!!
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        sounds like he’s hiding something to me Ms. Bell is private well except for the testimony of the book and if she is seeing dude she ain’t tellin it.

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      5. And as for Carl Redding, Tracy has never been linked to him romantically.
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        yeah we know, he love his mama, jesus and all of us, not blog queen. we get it! *side-eye*

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      6. And as for Carl Redding, Tracy has never been linked to him romantically.
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        yeah we know, he love his mama, jesus and all of us, not blog queen. we get it! *side-eye*

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        blog queen is not his type

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      7. “And as for Carl Redding, Tracy has never been linked to him romantically.”

        @Zion, I need to know how would you know that Tracy has never been linked to him romantically??

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  4. “Carl Redding, owner and proprietor of Reddings Restaurant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “They’re selling soul food without the soul”. -> I’ve tried them @IHOP and think they’re pretty good. They weren’t dry at all. the dish is a little less than *a heart-attack waiting to happen* unlike when you go to a soul food restaurant and you get all this chucken piled up on the waffles. Not that that’s a bad thing but IHOP’s dish is just TONED down.

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    1. I had their “chicken n waffles” too. and they were good. Dude just tryna “BIG-UP” his restaurant that all. If ever in AC i’ll check dude out until then, it’s all about what’s local.

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  5. well, well, well…..I can respect what redding is saying but like blog queen said, ihop is just trying to get like erbody else.

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  7. i notice ihop adding alotta soul to their menu. they have grits too. redding just don’t want people to forget that he make the same thing too.

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    1. i notice ihop adding alotta soul to their menu. they have grits too. ->>>>that’s because i’ve noticed their hiring black men to cook their food, the one by me does anyway

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  9. Chicken n waffles is a once in a while thing. i don’t eat those kind of foods often because it’s not healthy. chicken n waffles is like a heart attack waiting to happen.

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    1. Chicken n waffles is a once in a while thing ->pancakes waffles and syrup all make me sleepy so i don’t fuck wit it too much. plus it’ll make ya gutt fat! LOL.

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  11. Carl Redding said: >> “You can’t sacrifice quality to undercut the market”.
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    True… but I’m sure Mr. Redding’s response to IHOP’s new chicken n waffle dish is because they’re a corporate brand. IHOP is known internationally with commercial marketing worldwide., wherein Teddings I mean Reddings is a lil AC joint. There’s a difference.

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    1. Reddings is a lil AC joint. There’s a difference.
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      yes but it sounds like he wanted the people who maybe eat at his place to know that IHOP is not selling the real thing., wherein he has the REAL THING.

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      1. I agree @pinky, imo all of ihop’s food is fake!!!! i love their pancakes at best and that’s it!!!

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  13. My kids love ihop and a.c. is much to far to be traveling. may check out reddings this summer tho.

    Tracy why didn’t you link the website to Reddings?

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  14. Dear Ms. Bell, please don’t waste a post talkin bout who’s balls are bigger when it comes down to chicken n waffles unless you had some of em. the chicken n waffles that is, not some brothas balls. LOL…whoaaaaa!!! 🙂 I crac myself up!!!!!!!!!!

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  15. My kids love ihop and their portions are good enough, and when you go to a restaurant sometimes you get way too much. just my .2 cents

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      2. All I can say is blogging ain’t easy..
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        🙂 LMAO….Tracy should feel that way not you!

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      3. “All I can say is blogging ain’t easy.. ”
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        Do what you can, do what you can…

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  20. I googled comments from people who ate at Reddings some say the food ain’t good, some said it was ok. some even said, he can’t cook. so…I find it odd that blog queen didn’t eat there but wrote this post anyway.

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    1. I find it odd that blog queen didn’t eat there but wrote this post anyway.
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      That’s why I asked her. Tra try da be slick why write about something you didn’t eat. damn how he feel what his food taste like?

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      1. Morning Civil and Keisha,
        You gotta catch the hints, blog queen always add a little color to her words and in this post she said things like “But according to Carl Redding” -> meaning she don’t take his word. and “Chicken and Waffles “use to be” one of Reddings signature dishes when he owned and operated Amy Ruth’s in Harlem, New York over a decade ago.” that suggest he’s hanging onto what USE TO BE!!!! Then she included other restaurants who sell “chicken n waffles” besides Reddings so they could all speak out about IHOP’s ad too. She’s saying in so many words “HIS SHIT AIN’T SPECIAL”

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      2. @Queen, thems a lotta words you puttin in the stroke of blog queen’s keyboard, her mind and in her mouth. Got damn! What? You’s a mind reader? Hell after all that!

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      3. LOL @ Civil.

        @Queen, Blog Queen is suppose to be colorful, she’s a writer 🙂 and that’s what they do. and she leaves much to the imagination to get the talk on and poppin here in the *ceo community*

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  21. SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares about this dude. Erbody sale chicken n waffles in they soul food joint……Again I say…..”SO!!!!!!!!!!!”

    I mean what’s the big deal????????????????

    Dude just wanna be heard.

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    1. Same shit different restaurant….
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      New York, AC he is cooking the same shit just a different location. and i don’t even have to be there to know that. Ha Ha!

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      1. New York, AC he is cooking the same shit just a different location. and i don’t even have to be there to know that. Ha Ha!
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        how would you know what dude is cooking in his restaurant? have you been there? how do you know???

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      2. how would you know what dude is cooking in his restaurant? have you been there? how do you know???
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        Carl Redding use to own amyruth’s on 116th st. in nyc and chicken n waffles was his biggest sellers esp. after we would leave the clubs. he had dishes named after sharpton and other famous people but still managed to lose the restaurant and went bancrupt. now he in ac doing the same thing with his chicken n waffles and famous people names on the menu. same shit just a different town and city.

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      4. forget all that other stuff, is the food good?
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        @RANDOM
        the food at amyruth’s was real good but then again he had a real good chef. can’t speak for ac haven’t been to his restaurant there. blog queen said up above that she hasn’t eaten at either one so i don’t know could be a sign.

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    1. @Anthony, I read it and the executive director disses dude by saying: Lenow also suggests that because IHOP has more than 1,500 locations, it can introduce more people to chicken and waffles, “and maybe some of them will make their way to Redding’s.”

      LMAO, maybe people will make there way to reddings in ac but in the meantime nicca ihop making the dish and you don’t have the patent to sue dey asses for doing so.

      So STFU!!!!

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      1. Morning gentlemen, i would hope redding is doing this for the publicity because otherwise to even speak out about this is pure and sheer ignorance!! Like Trace said here, nobody has the patent on chicken n waffles.

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      2. nobody has the patent on chicken n waffles.
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        hell if that’s the case, where is sylvia’s and roscoes in l.a. and all those other soul food spots that sell chicken n waffles? carl redding sound like a damn fool bitchin about this.

        and where’s felicia? she still think blog queen fucking wit a dumb nicca like this? IDTS!!!!

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      3. Way to get free publicity for yourself there Redding. This is a stupid story in the DN. So now Redding is the king of chicken and waffles and anyone wanting to make it must get his approval? GTFOH!!!!

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      4. No one is forcing Redding (or any other person) to eat at IHOP. Again, this was a good PR move for this fool.

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      6. Of course this all for publicity, with more than 1,500 locations, do ya’ll think IHOP care about this dumb ass token nicca.

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      8. has anyone noticed the picture in the DN is the same one that blog queen posted here months ago? I noticed it. dude must read this blog. so he’ll be reading what all ya’ll had to say about him. LOL

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      9. “dude must read this blog. so he’ll be reading what all ya’ll had to say about him. LOL” -> and we don’t give a fuck! Read this Carl Redding, YOU’S A DUMB ASS!!!!!

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      10. protesting ihop is like a piss in the ocean, nicca tryna fight a lost battle. ihop is known globally redding is not. that’s why the director said “maybe some of them (meaning people) will make their way to Redding’s.” he need to sit his ass down somewhere and quick. dude look stupid.

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      11. @anthony, thanks for the article link.

        Redding said:
        “I would respectfully suggest we have chefs and owners who prepare and serve it with love,” he says. “And with soul.”

        He sound so fuckin stoopid!!!! I’m embarassed is anyone else?

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      12. He sound so fuckin stoopid!!!! I’m embarassed is anyone else?
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        why should we be embarassed? because his dumb ass is black? he ain’t my father, lover, friend or brother? the sadness is his ignorance.

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      13. I’m embarassed is anyone else?
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        not embarassed but realize the publicity angle. but it’s dumb because he’s speaking out against a corporate global giant. Tracy is smart and knows the laws regarding patents and copyrights (and as an author she should), that’s why this post says: “UNLESS THERE’S A PATENT ON CHICKEN N WAFFLES, NOBODY OWNS IT”

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      14. laws regarding patents and copyrights “UNLESS THERE’S A PATENT ON CHICKEN N WAFFLES, NOBODY OWNS IT”
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        EXACTLY!!!!!

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      15. “Lenow also suggests that because IHOP has more than 1,500 locations, it can introduce more people to chicken and waffles, “and maybe some of them will make their way to Redding’s.”

        “Next time I’m in Atlantic City, I’d like to go there myself,” he added.

        Redding replied, “Tell him anytime.” But meanwhile, the chef will take to the street today for an edible demonstration of his point.

        He’ll set up at noon in front of the IHOP on Black Horse Pike in Mays Landing, N.J., to cook and hand out free portions of chicken and waffles, Redding’s-style.

        LMMFAO!!!!!!!! This nicca got mad game!dumb ass

        @Anthony, thanks for the morning laugh.

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