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Sir Dave, the Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia, shares a story about being smuggled into the "Forbidden Zone" of Medina to eat at a famous chicken restaurant called Al Tazaj. The anecdote highlights the cultural restrictions and the risks taken for high-quality fried chicken.
The United Kingdom is facing a rising obesity crisis, which some attribute to a "poisoned" food supply and the use of chemical aging in wheat. On a lighter note, a producer shared a full recipe for Al-Tazaj style marinated chicken in the show notes.
A listener's note describes a dispute with his wife in Amman, Jordan, over the quality of the Al-Tazaj chicken chain, which she compared to KFC. John Dvorak defends the high-pressure cooking method used by KFC and Al-Tazaj. The segment includes a trivia point about the King of Jordan dining at Morton's Steakhouse in San Francisco.
