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"When in Nashville... Try the obligatory Nashville's hot chicken that's fried with cayenne pepper paste.
This dish was invented in the 1930s, per Taste Atlas, by "a man named Thornton Prince, who was a notorious womanizer. One of Prince's girlfriends was mad at him, so she made him chicken for breakfast and added the spiciest ingredients that she could find, in hopes that Prince [would] hate the dish, but her plan backfired and Prince loved it so much that he even took it to his brothers, who shared his positive emotions.
"The chicken dish [was then] brought over to Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, a restaurant owned by the brothers. What began as an act of revenge is now considered a staple of late-night dining in Nashville" and has become popular throughout the States."
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