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Flavour Flav opens chicken restaurant
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 25 January 2011
Now, if ever there was a reason to go to Iowa, this was it. Clinton, Iowa to be precise. Public Enemy rapper and reality TV regular Flavour Flav has opened a chicken restaurant in the American city, and if all goes to plan he hopes it will be the first of a chain of Flav’s Fried Chicken.
Apparently Flav first got the idea of launching his own brand of chicken after meeting Las Vegas restaurateur Peter Cimino. He was so impressed with the rapper’s fried chicken recipe that he started selling Flav chicken wings in his Vegas pizza place. It was Cimino’s Clinton-based brother Nick Cimino, also a restauranteur, who suggested opening a stand alone Flav’s Fried Chicken restaurant.
In a YouTube video filmed at the new restaurant’s launch, in which Flav is seen frying his chicken, the rapper remarks “My chicken ain’t no joke, I ain’t scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise”.
Meanwhile Flav insists that, unlike most other celebrity-backed restaurants where the c’leb is just a front, he really will be involved in the chicken cooking in his new business. He says: “You’re going to find me in here working. You’re going to catch me in here seasoning up my chicken, flouring up my chicken, frying up my chicken. And not only that, but coming out here and serving my chicken to people”.
Let’s hope plans to record a new Public Enemy album don’t get in the way of all that chicken frying.
