Sometimes it seems like our No. 1 commodity in Henderson is fast food.
Drew Elliot, visiting from Sen. Richard Burr’s Washington office Thursday afternoon, said he has visited the Bojangles’ on Dabney Drive many times because it’s one of the first two Bojangles’ driving back to North Carolina from the nation’s capital on Interstate 85. (The other is in South Hill, Va.)
Driving with Elliot past the concentration of restaurants on Dabney Drive near I-85, Lynn Harper joked that all that not-so-fine dining helped explain the Maria Parham Medical Center expansion they’d just passed.
One of the additions to the Dabney strip in the past year is Chick-fil-A, whose arrival had Hendersonians camping out for a chance at a free chicken sandwich.
Chick-fil-A makes a fine sandwich, not to mention those waffle fries, but we who are at home in Henderson don’t need to visit a chain restaurant to find the finest flavor in a Southern fried sandwich.
Evans’ Famous Bar-B-Que & Chicken boils it down to the essentials. No special sauce. No lettuce, tomato or pickle. No processing to remove the bones.
What you get is what you need and want: a piece or two of perfect fried chicken crammed between a couple of slices of white bread. As Mayor Clem Seifert said, that’s the South for you.
We don’t want to make light of heart disease and other health problems related to diets that are too heavy in fried foods. But if we’re racing down that road anyway, we might as well drive through Evans for the perfect fuel, a great chicken sandwich.