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Hardees

Hardees Fried Chicken
Food

Inside the Hardee’s Fried Chicken Experiment of the 90s

Mickey Yarber

Hardee’s fried chicken arrived in the 90s with bold ambition, borrowing a beloved recipe and chasing new customers before fading away. It remains one of fast food’s most memorable lost experiments.

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