WHO SERVED IT FIRST and who serves it best is a loud and proud classic North vs. South debate that stretches from the seventeenth-century Pennsylvania Dutch settlers, to German settlers in Virginia in the 1800s smothering thick gravy over their chicken and waffles Sunday breakfast, to the 1930s Well’s Supper Club in Harlem. Atlanta’s own Gladys Knight and Brooklyn-born Biggie Smalls elevated chicken and waffles to a whole new level, moving it out of the ritual Sunday family dinner and into the mainstream. The kind of artery-clogging goodness that we all guiltily crave, slurp, and order “only on special occasions,” “because they’re from out of town,” “since we have to celebrate,” or “seeing it’s been that kinda week.” Find an excuse, any excuse. And then find a bib and a friend. Because what is indisputable in the crunchy, delicious sweetness when you combine these seemingly disconnected breakfast and dinner treats is, no matter the roots, chicken and waffles need to be shared with a friend.