The Chinese restaurant dish of “chicken fried rice” is fried rice with chicken; it is not rice that is fried by a chicken. “There’s no way in hell a chicken fried this rice” was cited on Twitter on January 14, 2012. “You’re telling me a chicken fried this rice?” was cited on Twitter on February 22, 2013.
“I love Chinese food as much as the next guy, but you’ll never convince me a chicken fried this rice” is a popular form of the joke and was cited on Twitter on June 10, 2014.
“Bought a chicken to make sandwiches. It doesn’t. It shits on the floor” is a somewhat related chicken joke.
Twitter
Jesse Flowers
@wjflowers
There’s no way in hell a chicken fried this rice.
5:34 PM - 14 Jan 2012
Twitter
@3lone
At this teriyaki spot, overheard this broad say “There’s no way in hell a chicken fried this rice” -____- #awwHELLNO
5:32 PM - 3 May 2012
Twitter
Tami C
@TamiCru
you’re telling me a chicken fried this rice?
4:54 PM - 22 Feb 2013
Twitter
JT2daExtreme
@jtrulez
Don’t get me wrong, this Chinese take-out is amazing. But I’ll be damned if they expect me to believe a chicken fried this rice.
7:06 PM - 20 Nov 2013
Twitter
Tony
@Tmoney68
I love Chinese food as much as the next guy, but you’ll never convince me a chicken fried this rice.
6:32 PM - 10 Jun 2014
TJSHome.com
Funny Status Message #153198
09-26-2014 19:15 by snotty
I love Chinese food as much as the next guy,,, but you’ll never convince me a chicken fried this rice.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Welcome to growing older. Where all the foods and drinks you’ve loved for years suddenly seem determined to destroy you” (4/17)
•“Date someone who drinks with you instead of complaining that you drink” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Definition of stupid: Knowing the truth, seeing the evidence of the truth, but still believing the lie” (4/17)
•“Government creates the crises so it can ‘rescue’ you with the loss of freedom” (4/17)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
This site is edited by Barry Popik. These are the Cookies and Privacy Policies.