On Sun 30 Jan 2005 02:04:39p, Melba's Jammin' wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sun 30 Jan 2005 01:11:53p, Boron Elgar wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>> > One of the kids has requested deep fried chicken and though I have
>> > made dredged Southern fried, I have never used a batter or the deep
>> > fryer for it.
>
>> > Boron
>>
>> Why batter?
>
> Who knows. Kids. :-)

Ummmmm... Battered Kids!