If fried chicken lore is to be believed, Nashville hot chicken was created by a woman scorned. Sometime in the 1930s, there was a handsome man named Thornton Prince III living in Nashville. To put it in polite terms, Thornton was...active...on the dating scene — so active in fact that one of his girlfriends decided to seek revenge on his two-timing ways by cooking him some fried chicken with a little too much of a kick to it. The plan backfired; Thornton loved the chicken. And thus, Nashville hot chicken was born.

How it became such a popular menu item in Las Vegas is probably a less scandalous story, but finding it doesn’t involve any wooing and betraying. All it takes is a trip to one of these restaurants.

Note: Restaurants on this map are listed geographically.