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I walk into Prince’s Hot Chicken, and order hot fried chicken legs. “Oh, enjoy it,” says the hostess. Her reply is a commonly 【小题1】 (hear) Southern expression.

My chicken arrives and is too hot 【小题2】 (touch), but I don’t care about it. As I take a bite, the taste hits my mouth. It’s 【小题3】 (horrible) spicy. There’s sweetness before the heat hits. The taste is surprisingly amazing, as the spices dance inside my mouth. Although I’m sweating (出汗), I can’t stop 【小题4】 (eat).

How does a dish so challengingly hot become well-received? Like so many Southern foods, fried chicken has a long history. Hot chicken first appeared in the 1930s, when a man 【小题5】 is named James Thornton Prince 【小题6】 (begin) serving it at his BBQ Chicken Shack.

After a few years, 【小题7】 restaurant moved close to the Ryman Auditorium, where it became popular 【小题8】 the city’s country music stars. In the following years, Prince relocated his restaurant several times around the city, eventually changing 【小题9】 (it) name to Prince’s Hot Chicken in 1980, when André Prince Jeffries, his great-niece (侄女), took over.

These days, you’ll find hot chicken all over the city. I feel at home with the 【小题10】 (taste) food as it is a symbol of the city’s culture.