Plain yellow onions are fine, any decent butter or oil will do and, of course, a good chicken is essential.

"But I have yet to find a single good chicken here."

Cleaning a suit is around $15 and a good chicken runs $2.30 a pound.

"They got really good chicken fried steak here," Marino said, not looking at either of us.

I am sure I'll be serving a lot of good chicken.

I hear they have a real good chicken fried thigh there.

"It has to be a good chicken," he explained as we sit down.

Three good chickens, and now all she had to do was get home with them.

"What I wouldn't give for a good greasy chicken fried steak."

It's a safe haven, there's good chicken, and it offers a small shot at catching a part of the American dream.