I haven’t had fried chicken in a while now mind you, but both when I was a kid and my family would have leftover KFC, and as an adult in the rare occasion I do get fried chicken, I have always loved it more after it’s been sitting overnight in the fridge.
Won’t heat that shit in the microwave or nuthin, just eat it straight cold and love it like that.
The problem isn’t flavor, imo. Cold chicken is really good, in different ways from warm and hot. Dunno if I’d say better, but good in its own way.
It’s texture. Doesn’t matter what the temp is if the breading isn’t good, and cold breading might taste fine, but the texture is crap. Might as well not have fried chicken at that point, just pick up a rotisserie chicken instead, and go to town with it cold.
But, yeah, definitely an unpopular opinion!