Those who know how chicken should taste - moist and tender, but firm - have no trouble telling the fresh from the frozen.

At Sylvia's restaurant, a temple of Southern cooking in Harlem, the fried chicken tastes the same.

Sylvia's found that its fried chicken, its most popular dish, tasted the same with the healthier oil, Mr. Woods said.

Sure, the chicken tastes fine at Chick-fil-A.

"My chicken tasted good," he ventured.

Even the chicken ($18) tasted better than it sounded.

Suddenly his Kentucky fried chicken tasted sour, the dry white wine so bitter that he grimaced.

Sharpe discovered he was famished and the chicken tasted delicious.

Ms. Ip recalled thinking that the chicken "looked and tasted like a hockey puck."

Nevertheless, the chickens taste like the ones my mother used to cook.