Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Food Carts: Cackalack's Hot Chicken Shack
Posted by Chris Onstad on Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Fantasy Hands
- The Blazer, highly touted by the front-of-house.
My young daugher only eats monochromatic starches, so we went down to the Good Food Here pod at 43rd and Belmont for some $2 sushi rice. I'd been wanting to check out the fried chicken cart next to my friend Mary's skyrocketing cart The Honey Pot, mainly because I've been wanting to do a fried chicken roundup for some time, and this place had good buzz.
I had the Blazer ($7.50), their signature boneless fried chicken breast sandwich, which comes with smoky slaw, homemade pickles, and garlic baby dill aioli on an ethereally light yet crunchy-crusted Fleur de Lis sesame brioche bun. You choose your heat, and the happy chappie manning the window advised me against the habanero-heavy "Very Hot," so I opted for Hot. (It was Hot, sure, but I think Very Hot would have been a nice higher high and still allowed the rest of the flavors to shine. Next time.)
True to legend, it's a big, fat, juicy chicken breast, fried to a beautiful dark crisp with a dredge that holds on tight. It's a massive, satisfying beastie loaded with red-blooded salty flavor, and makes the McChicken look like a fibromyalgic Boca burger. I find it truly hard to find fault with this offering, and offer as proof that I was barely able to make a dent in the crisp, hot, half-order of seasoned fries ($2). I'll be back to try the Buff Stix ($8), a "why haven't I seen this before" take on chicken wings that uses jumbo drumsticks instead of flaps and drumettes.
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