Wow, I love chicken & waffles. It’s just a surprisingly great combo IMO.
That said I’m a maple syrup fan/snob, so any excuse to add more maple syrup is good. But it has to be real maple syrup. Not the corn syrup + imitation maple flavoring that (I’m assuming) is what they serve at the school cafeteria.
This is a different story than the one posted a few days ago? Sheesh!!!
I’m a maple syrup snob, too, but i don’t want it on chicken. That’s gross. I don’t even like duck l’orange, meat isn’t supposed to be sweet. The only exception is that i do enjoy cranberry sauce with poultry. But it’s the sour that makes it work.
Yeah, it makes me wonder.
These people need a little training, I think.
good chicken and waffles i don’t want straight maple syrup, it should be more of a maple or honey hot sauce. maybe a sweeter honey mustard
Whereas I would dip my chicken nuggets in honey when I was younger and preferred McDonalds because they had real honey as opposed to other places that had honey-favored sauce. (Even though McDonalds chicken McNuggets are inferior to many alternatives) I’m not as much of a honey snob as a maple syrup snob, but the real thing is still light years better than imitation.
The fact that so many places serve/offer honey, honey-flavored sauce, honey mustard, BBQ sauce, and heck even ketchup with meat tells me I’m not alone.
My favorite salmon recipe has a maple glaze. Honey glazed ham is pretty popular.
Yeah, you have explained what I’m missing. I know that sweet sauces are popular on meat, and i like them a lot less than most people. Sweet bbq sauce? I scrape most of it off. Chinese sweet&sour fried meat? I’ll pass. Maple glaze on salmon? Edible, but i prefer without. Honey mustard? Can’t stand the stuff.
I do eat ketchup on burgers, and cranberry sauce, as noted. Both have other strong flavors that are more important to me than “sweet”.
I bet you let your sausages get contaminated with the maple syrup when you have sausages with waffles or pancakes, too. 
I like maple enough that i sometimes buy maple sugar candy, and i have an embarrassing collection of honeys in my cupboard, but i pretty much only use them on bready foods, like toast, pancakes, and popovers.
I like sweet stuff even on meat, and I have ordered chicken and waffles from places where that dish was their specialty. There was a place in downtown Austin I went to last month where it was raved about, dinner lines for hours. They gave me a side of gravy and a side of maple syrup. I tried it all together, but decided the chicken/gravy and waffles/syrup were still better separately.
But I do generally like sweet sauce with my chicken nuggets, and even steak (I put a spicy raspberry preserve on my steak, it’s very good). And sorry to have to say, McDonald’s DOES have the best nuggets, at least way better than Wendy’s or BK - and my picky 7 year old agrees, so it must be true. Chik-fil-A’s are better than McD’s, yeah, but I don’t go there often. Mmmm, Polynesian sauce.
damn, not liking the sweet profile on savory things?
sweet and sour is such a staple combination flavor in both eastern and western cuisines, you’re missing out!
The only thing I don’t get is cranberry sauce with food. That don’t make no sense.
well. at least we agree that cranberry sauce is different from the typical sweet condiment for meat.
Cranberry sauce is disgusting. There’s a reason it’s a once-a-year “tradition”, and not a thing you shove into a doughnut everyday.
They mix sweet with savory here much more than any other country I’ve been to. I went to Runza’s the other day and it was like eating a donut stuffed with meat.
Huh. Turkey is bland and boring, and i only eat it once a year. But i eat cranberry sauce all the time. I serve it with roast chicken and i sometimes mix it with sour cream to make a simple ice cream.
I have a recipe for cranberry salsa, where you basically replace the tomato product with post-food-processor cranberries. It requires sugar to balance out the tartness of the cranberries. But you throw jalepenos, onions, and cilantro in too. It really is pretty good.
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Sounds like he’s very charming. And maybe targeting non-hot women as well.
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Lucy: NOT SUGAR!!!
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Naw, I often add some sugar to stuff with raw cranberries. Although I had unsweetened freeze-dried cranberries in my unsweetened breakfast cereal this morning.