Well attestedNamed from the place
Nashville hot chicken
noun · first attested 20th century
Tennessee's signature dish began, by family account, as an act of revenge.
Fried chicken brushed after cooking with a cayenne-heavy paste of spice and hot fat.
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Nashville hot chicken
The Prince family tells of a girlfriend who over-peppered Thornton Prince's chicken to punish him, only for him to like it enough to build a restaurant around it. The dish stayed a specialty of Black Nashville for decades before national chains carried the city's name onto menus in the 2010s.
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