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Noticed today via Dining@Large and a few other sources that the Texas Based food chain Wingstop, who specialize in chicken wings (durr) will be opening up to 20 new locations in the Bmore/Wash region in the next few years. This inevitably got me thinking about Laurel, MD based (now with a location in Lebanon!) Cluck-U Chicken and how awesome they are. |
I mean, they’ve got buffalo pizza fries in certain locations, and nearly every one I’ve been to is BYOB. Their wings are great, tossed in either BBQ-based or vinegar-based (“traditional”) buffalo sauce, with their hottest flavor “911” requiring a waiver before purchase – which I’ve had one time in the form of a toothpick dipped in the sauce, resulting in my drunken agony-writhing on the floor of the Towson location. Best sandwich on the menu: The Roman, a fried chicken breast covered in garlic sauce and melted mozzarella. Yeah, you want to eat one. Right now.
| And no discussion of Cluck-U would be complete without reminiscing about College Park’s own Lee Majors, aka Cluck-U-Pac, who worked the kitchen and sold his debut rap album Verse 4 Verse out of he College Park Cluck-U (which apparently is now closed) until 2005 when he quit his wing-slinging to concentrate on his recording career and perfect his martial arts techniques (no, I didn’t make that up). |  |
I have no idea what the internet says about what he’s up to now, but apparently he’s still out there, appearing at Lil’ Wayne shows.
So what say you readers, Wingstop or Cluck-U? What’s your favorite thing at either? Have you seen Lee Majors lately?
In Summer ’07 I worked with Majors at Sante Fe. Very nice, cool dude. He dubbed me as his favorite waitress for the whole week that I worked there. Maybe he told all the ladies that, but I was sure to help out the guys in the kitchen whenever I could. You want them on your side. He schooled me on his ability to racially profile what sides someone was going to order with their wings. Apparently if a group of white people walked in to Cluck U, he prepped a batch of mac & cheese before the words could even leave their mouths. Personally, I can’t say it isn’t true.
Wednesday night at the Fe was wing night, and it brought in a crowd. The timing of our co-workerdom was right after he tried to lecture the entire wing night crowd at the Fe on their behavior, which always ended in a brawl. Apparently it was a bit in the style of a couple of Bill Cosby’s famous racially charged lectures, because it resulted in a boycott of Santa Fe by the black community. Turned out the junior NAACP VP (could have been pres, can’t remember) was present and didn’t appreciate Lee’s opinion on the matter. But I give him a lot of credit for standing up and speaking his mind on what he thought was right, to keep the peace.
Awesome story Christina, thanks!
Damn I miss Cluck U.
I miss my days working in College Park and paying the occasional visit to Cluck-U. I always liked calling Lee Majors “2-Cluck.”
My diamondback buddy, Barry Schwartz, did the definitive Lee Majors profile. It was an epic, two-part series. Majors wasn’t a student, but he liked to randomly sit in on lectures to increase his knowledge base.