OT - Abner's

[NawlBennyDawg]

The original Abner's location closed down on Sunday, I live close to Oxford so this place was pretty good in it's heyday. When I worked in Tupelo a couple years ago I always went to their Tupelo store, but now it's closed too. Heard it had been going downhill ever since Abner White sold the company in 2019 and they started rebranding. OM already taking an L before the Egg Bowl.

Looks like they've only got 3 locations left - 2 in Memphis and 1 in Brandon.

https://www.hottytoddy.com/2023/11/21/abners-closes-its-doors-in-oxford-after-30-years/

 

[The Peeper]

The one in Starkville didn't last long at all and was replaced by another chicken joint. There's only so many ways you can do dry white meat chicken and only so many stores that can survive trying

 

[mcdawg22]

Stolen from an Ole Miss “friend”.
A lot of Ole Miss housewives are going to be scrambling ahead of tailgates now.

 

[johnson86-1]

The one in Starkville didn't last long at all and was replaced by another chicken joint. There's only so many ways you can do dry white meat chicken and only so many stores that can survive trying

Abners was never really good. Certainly weren’t bad; it’s not hard to do decent fried chicken tenders. Been a long time, but Cane’s blows it away from what I can remember and so does the gas station near where I work (to be fair, the gas station is surprisingly good). Kind of amazing they got as big as they did.

 

[Walkthedawg]

The original Abner's location closed down on Sunday, I live close to Oxford so this place was pretty good in it's heyday. When I worked in Tupelo a couple years ago I always went to their Tupelo store, but now it's closed too. Heard it had been going downhill ever since Abner White sold the company in 2019 and they started rebranding. OM already taking an L before the Egg Bowl.

Looks like they've only got 3 locations left - 2 in Memphis and 1 in Brandon.

https://www.hottytoddy.com/2023/11/21/abners-closes-its-doors-in-oxford-after-30-years/

it had been going down before 2019. Quality, amount of sauce given, service, everything.

The place to go for a plate of chicken tenders and sides in Tupelo is Kings Chicken over in Belden. Caines, Abners, Connies, Slim Chickens, etc. isn’t in the same league as that little family owned place.

 

[biodawg]

Abners was never really good. Certainly weren’t bad; it’s not hard to do decent fried chicken tenders. Been a long time, but Cane’s blows it away from what I can remember and so does the gas station near where I work (to be fair, the gas station is surprisingly good). Kind of amazing they got as big as they did.

I liked their grilled tenders waaay better than their fried.

 

[ckDOG]

Abner's sauce back in the day was good.

 

[Faustdog]

I liked their grilled tenders waaay better than their fried.

The Plate, grilled, Abner's sauce. Good stuff.

I have a feeling most of you here went for the Hungry Lush, fried.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I used to like abners was my go to for tenders. Zaxbys taste dirty. Canes is good but sometimes too greasy.

 

[YesIAmAPirate]

Stolen from an Ole Miss “friend”.
A lot of Ole Miss housewives are going to be scrambling ahead of tailgates now.

They will be ok. I was driving through Oxford a few weeks ago and saw where they are building a Connie's on West Jackson

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

it had been going down before 2019. Quality, amount of sauce given, service, everything.

The place to go for a plate of chicken tenders and sides in Tupelo is Kings Chicken over in Belden. Caines, Abners, Connies, Slim Chickens, etc. isn’t in the same league as that little family owned place.

King’s is amazing. I actually technically worked in Belden, it was just so hard to get in and out of there in a 30 minute time frame and have enough time to eat lunch, so I didn’t get to go there very often as I would have liked to. The several times I did go, though, it was some of the best I have ever had.

 

[aTotal360]

The Plate, grilled, Abner's sauce. Good stuff.

I have a feeling most of you here went for the Hungry Lush, fried.

That's exactly what I would get. Good stuff.

 

[paindonthurt]

The one in Starkville didn't last long at all and was replaced by another chicken joint. There's only so many ways you can do dry white meat chicken and only so many stores that can survive trying

Define last long?

I mean it made it 5 plus years at least and I was thinking more like 10 to 15.

But it had gone downhill. Couldn’t get people to answer the phone or come to drive through.

 

[Pink Floyd.sixpack]

Grab some tenders from any Junction location. Great seasoning and they are huge

 

[Darryl Steight]

They will be ok. I was driving through Oxford a few weeks ago and saw where they are building a Connie's on West Jackson

Connie's chicken biscuit...

 

[sbishup]

Drive to New Albany and check out George’s!

 

[johnson86-1]

I liked their grilled tenders waaay better than their fried.

I started to point out that the "grilled" tenders was something they offered that was a competitive advantage. They had two wraps (I think maybe a ranch wrap and a buffalo wrap?) that were pretty solid with grilled.

But let's be honest, the vast majority of us fat asses still got the fried, because mediocre fried gets the nod over pretty decent "grilled" with the fat *** crowd nine out of ten times.

I think the other problem with hanging your hat on the non-fried tenders is that we could make pretty comparable marinated chicken tenders on the George foreman and it was pretty easy. The type of person that will pick the grilled over fried is also going to have a pretty decent overlap with the type of person that will spend 15 minutes cooking chicken tenders for $3 instead of spending 15 minutes going to spend $10 for the same quality chicken tenders from Abners.

 

[anon1723824920]

The original Abner's location closed down on Sunday, I live close to Oxford so this place was pretty good in it's heyday. When I worked in Tupelo a couple years ago I always went to their Tupelo store, but now it's closed too. Heard it had been going downhill ever since Abner White sold the company in 2019 and they started rebranding. OM already taking an L before the Egg Bowl.

Looks like they've only got 3 locations left - 2 in Memphis and 1 in Brandon.

https://www.hottytoddy.com/2023/11/21/abners-closes-its-doors-in-oxford-after-30-years/

The one in brandon isn’t going to be around too much longer.. prices are outrageous and wait time is bad.

 

[NawlBennyDawg]

Drive to New Albany and check out George’s!

Best chicken place in Nawlbenny. Strip and fry snack with a milkshake is so good, fried or grilled. Got some great hamburgers too. George would make a killing if he served breakfast like Connie's did, and I'm pretty sure Connie's has thought about opening a New Albany location when they were first announcing the Oxford and West Point stores.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

That's exactly what I would get. Good stuff.

I either got the plate or the 3 tenders and loaded baked potato.

 

[SteelCurtain74]

The one in brandon isn’t going to be around too much longer.. prices are outrageous and wait time is bad.

Which is why I never see many cars if any there. I guess their drive thru business does well enough to pay the bills.

 

[DawgsGoneWild]

Meanwhile, the owner of Raising Canes was just recently named the richest person in the state of Louisiana. What could have been…… Sigh

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I used to like abners was my go to for tenders. Zaxbys taste dirty. Canes is good but sometimes too greasy.

Level of salt in Madison Zaxbys is off the charts, and given that we are talking about fast food fried chicken tenders, that's saying something. Right across the street, the Cane's is way better. I'm always surprised that anyone chooses to got to the Zaxby's.

 

[paindonthurt]

Level of salt in Madison Zaxbys is off the charts, and given that we are talking about fast food fried chicken tenders, that's saying something. Right across the street, the Cane's is way better. I'm always surprised that anyone chooses to got to the Zaxby's.

Most Zaxby’s ive been too are damn good.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Most Zaxby’s ive been too are damn good.

I can't say I've noticed that much salt in other Zaxby's locations, but it may be that with me cooking at home more and eating fast food a lot less, I'm hypersensitive to places that make salt the main seasoning. I do notice a difference in it vs the Cane's across the street from it.

 

[AstroDog]

Slim Chickens is replacing them slowly.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Bojanges just opened if Flowood. It tastes just like Popeyes which tastes like errywhere else. The only really good chicken tenders are at Grants in Flowood and the gas station in Louisville with the Cock of Walk (and that's only because they are yuge).

 

[kakiDawg]

I blame the demise of Abner’s on its use of celery salt in the slaw. The sauce is solid and very similar to Cane’s. But bad slaw is unacceptable.

 

[dogmatic001]

I liked their grilled tenders waaay better than their fried.

I go through spells of having to lose weight. The seven-piece chicken-only grilled and a plain baked potato was my go-to many a meal, but the price for that crept up and up and up.

 

[CEO2044]

The Plate, grilled, Abner's sauce. Good stuff.

I have a feeling most of you here went for the Hungry Lush, fried.

Yes, especially on a recovery day. Top notch, would choose it over any other place 10/10 times.

 

[rustydawg2]

The original Abner's location closed down on Sunday, I live close to Oxford so this place was pretty good in it's heyday. When I worked in Tupelo a couple years ago I always went to their Tupelo store, but now it's closed too. Heard it had been going downhill ever since Abner White sold the company in 2019 and they started rebranding. OM already taking an L before the Egg Bowl.

Looks like they've only got 3 locations left - 2 in Memphis and 1 in Brandon.

https://www.hottytoddy.com/2023/11/21/abners-closes-its-doors-in-oxford-after-30-years/

The guy who bought Abner’s is a huge State fan and alumnus.

 

[stateu1]

The Plate, grilled, Abner's sauce. Good stuff.

I have a feeling most of you here went for the Hungry Lush, fried.

Seriously more of these places should offer grilled. Those were great.