>>21415488in the US, fried chicken is "for the blacks" and thus seen as an unmentionable, low class food for miserable people to eat when they are trapped in the inner city aka the ghetto. it's why korean fried chicken took off so fast, see it turns out people like fried chicken but are terrified of being seen eating a "black food" so if you delete the black face and instead stick a nonthreatening k-pop face next to it, much like the ACA vs obamacare these neanderthals will suddenly welcome it because you bypassed their tribal blood feud heuristics
same deal with watermelon btw, and also cognac weirdly enough. the civil war never ended, and arguably the south won in the end by infesting everyone's brain with these atrocious takes on what you're allowed to enjoy if you're "respectable"