How To Eat A Rotten Apple - Kennedy's

Troubled Youth
Jul 30, 2020
3 min read

Updated: Sep 15, 2020

As New Yorker's living in this big city, with thousands of different options to either quench our thirst or to satisfy your taste buds, somehow we always find ourselves asking the same question.. "Yo! What we gonna eat?"/ Where we gonna go eat? LOL followed by its usual response.. "Facts".

Look no further, HOW TO EAT A ROTTEN APPLE is your tool guide for you to find the best spots to pickup some food or grab a drink at bars/restaurant's throughout the city. We're going to give you real reviews, on taste, service, cost, ambiance, with real pictures of each meal of that we ordered (none of that copy and paste bullshit from the website).

This ongoing post will list everything from street-food like the Halal truck on the corner or the local pizza spot all the way up to your white table cloth spots with the overpriced appetizer list and small portions.

Each spot will be rated by a gavel(s). 5 gavels being the best and 0 gavels being the worst.

Let's kick this off with an all time hood classic. A spot that can be found in every hood across the five boroughs. A spot that offers everything from chicken, to shrimp platters, to ice cream. A spot that's been feeding drunks, crackheads, snot nose kids and baby-mothers for decades. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about, none other than Kennedy's a.k.a The Chicken Spot.

Kennedy's.. despite what some may say publicly, this is some of the best tasting fried chicken you'll ever eat. You may have to be under the influence to agree (lol), but none the less, the chicken is fire. Growing up we usually would get the classic chicken box, 6 piece chicken wings and french fries or if you were really broke, you would get kill-breast (don't ask me what part of the chicken this is, but i know if you ask for it, they got it)... so, the 6 piece w/ fries and a soda. No matter which Kennedy's you go into, your order will take no more than 5 minutes.

Boom, you get your order, you walk outside. As soon as you get outside, you bust open the box.. Yes, we walk while we eat. We're New Yorkers.. we multitask. So boom, you bust open the box take out a wing.. fire (lol. this how I know Kennedy's some of the tastiest chicken.. you don't even put ketchup or hot sauce on the wings). Anyway, there's a trick to this walk and eat method.. The trick is.. take the box out the bag, hold the box in your left hand and leave the soda in the bag, this way you still got full mobility of your strong hand (never know what might happen, this is very important). So now you doing this walking and eating method all the way to your destination or back to your block. When you get to the block, you find a car, place your food on the trunk, take out the soda, bust that open.. swig.. and then finish the rest of your food.. understand?

Overall, Kennedy's is a win-win.. price, taste, and convenience. The average meal in the chicken spot is $7 - $10 including a drink and most spots stay open until 3:00 a.m - 4:00 a.m. So the next time you're out past curfew and want something quick and easy before you go upstairs, stop at that Kennedy's on the corner and pickup a 6 piece chicken wings and fries.