My youngest daughter Mary spent the last year in graduate school at the University of Kentucky. My wife and I went with her on an apartment hunting trip a year ago. We were able to find a reasonably priced apartment that wasn’t far from campus. The apartment complex was gated which gave us a sense of security about where she was moving. She was also within walking distance of a couple of candy shops. There was one literally a couple of doors down from her apartment building. The other one was around the corner and would have been a bit of a stretch for walking. But Mary likes to walk, and it would have been reasonable for her. That candy shop is a strip mall that has several other stores including a Save A Lot grocery store. A sign outside of this grocery declared that it had the “Best Fried Chicken in Lexington”. We thought this was a bold statement for a relatively low-profile grocery store that might otherwise go unnoticed. It also seemed unlikely that in Kentucky, a place that people associate with Kentucky Fried Chicken, one of the highest profile chicken restaurants in the world, a discount grocery store chain would have the best chicken you could get in town. There had to be some place better. Because of the pandemic, family never made any trips just to visit so we never got a chance to try it out.
