I Ate Chicken from the Trash

Jack Hamilton
11 min readJun 21, 2021

Chicken Supreme. It was the best tasting chicken dish I had ever had at that time in my life, and I wanted it every day. I never would have discovered it if I hadn’t started working at that restaurant.

Fried chicken with white creamy sauce
It looked kind of like this.. but not exactly the same. It probably looked worse than this, but tasted better.

Essentially it was fried chicken smothered in a white gravy, but that is an oversimplification of what it was. It wasn’t just “fried chicken,” it was lightly battered and breaded, and fried at a lower temperature…

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Jack Hamilton

Tokyo based Director and VFX Supervisor. Writing for hilarity and therapy. All stories are true life experiences I've had (unless explicitly stated otherwise.)