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Fried Chicken Showdown: The Crispy Coop and Meshikou Chikin
Fried chicken is at it again. Everywhere you look, a new restaurant concept dedicated to the bird is opening in Columbus. Here are two to check out.
The Crispy Coop had a generous head start on the current fried chicken boom. Its origins start at The Buena Vista Café in Warren, Ohio. There, the 65-year-old restaurant serves something iconic in Northeast Ohio: Uncle Nick’s Greek Fried Chicken. A fan of its chicken while growing up near Youngstown, Drew Cleary brought an Uncle Nick’s franchise down to Columbus more than five years ago, opening up a no-frills spot in Grandview.
Gayle Johanna Erlandson Flanders
Sept. 24, 1919 Dec. 23, 2020
It is with deep sorrow that the family of Gayle Erlandson Flanders announces her passing Dec. 23, 2020. She was 101.
A devoted wife and mother to five children, she was a born fighter. Her parents were first-generation Swedes, Sara Ellamine Erlandson, a schoolteacher, and Oscar August Erlandson, a homesteader, who made a life for his family in North Dakota. The youngest of five, Gayle had to elbow her way into the world. A bright, vivacious and incredibly quick child, she excelled at school and earned the highest grades recorded at her high school and played clarinet in the school band. She made friends for life in North Dakota who shared a history of living through the depression in a small town where everyone knew everyone else.