0:00 [Music] all righty so um I follow this food thread on Reddit and uh just usually has like good food spots right and um there was one thread that said just like what are the best food rivalries in LA right and so people were just listing off like food rivalries right just classic I don't know like McDonald's Cross Juniors it's a bad example you know what I mean right just like random rivalries and then the most liked comment is um zenu chicken vers zenu chicken what what I'm like what the ████ does this mean I was like I don't get it like what yeah and then I I go through that thread and everyone's just going off about it I'm like what the ████ and there's like this article sorry go to the article and um it's like this beautifully written novel
0:52 it's crazy they go in on this and so here is that article ooh juice so I'm about to get kebabs tonight let's go I love zenu chicken really so uh schwarm my baby this is titled I'm going to have to skip through this too cuz it's I'll just go to the bullet points cuz it's long it's a great read feel free to make some ████ up too if this is like a ranime novel it's written really well so juicy um the title is the zenu chicken murders when the patriarch when the patriarch of the hugely popular fast food chain killed his mother and sister then himself self he left behind a family wrestling with fate and each other W that's how the what what a hook no way so this all begins uh a mansion in the
1:43 Hills above Glendale are they Armenian yeah oh yeah and so uh zenu chicken according to all this reporting I've seen some other ones when I went down this Rabbit Hole uh is started in Armenia they were all fleeing um whatever was happening in Armenia at that time and uh they had a zenu chicken there the moves uh to not to Glendale yet cuz glendale's after they um they had found success uh and when they move to LA uh they open up the first zenu chicken right and it becomes like wild popular and this is like I think mid 80s late ' 80s wow um and then um that's like the perfect timing for like a lot of that Armenian um you know immigration at that time and so uh they start killing it and now they franchise it but when they franchise it the um the Son and the mom have like a disagreement right like the mom makes the the sauce
2:35 their garlic sauce the F garlic their famous one very good the mom makes that and it's all about the quality but the son's like I have a vision to franchise this right and so uh after like running that shop for however long in within the '90s they um he gets the blessing they come to this agreement where he's going to franchise it but he sells his ownership of the original zenu chicken and then his sister and his mom retain ownership of the original location and he's going to go however it wasn't like this like bad split at that time there was an agreement where even he had his sister doing like managerial work at some of the other locations the mom is still making sauce for the other location so like you know it was still Civil Right but on this morning he rose from his bed put on a white silk suit he hadn't worn in 20 years he stuffed a 9mm handgun into his waistband and a 38 caliber revolver into his coat pocket
3:27 walked step by step uh down the stairs and his wife fra uh who had fallen in love with him when he was 12 couldn't believe this sight for a man who was so near death cancer everywhere this this is that son uh he suddenly looked beautiful in this moment it had been months since he ventured outside by himself months since he had driven one of his fancy cars uh and she knew that he was too weak to go anywhere but he told her not to worry he was feeling much better and he told her he was going to zenu chicken to see an old friend however he pulls up instead to his uh his mom lives with his sister now right and apparently according to like you know it's normal for armanian Mom to stay with a son but after there was a really bad falling out she stayed with his sister uh he drives to their house in his suit and he's like really sick he's like cancer rate and all that and
4:18 it pulls up shoots his sister and shoots his mom whoa damn she and apparently like the root of this according to this article uh another reports is that that um like once he found out he had cancer and he was you know obviously there's all these other locations I think there's at least four other locations and they they like live in Glendale like they're falling right um he uh upon knowing that he's about to die uh he told his mom and his sister like uh you know I'm going to have like my sons run the franchise and in that moment there was like this huge like big um just falling out because apparently his sons there's like kind of just controversy with all of them like one of them has a uh drug issue another one was like facing like a manslaughter case just
5:08 like all of them have like certain different types of like issues with all three sons and so like there's some crazy quote of the story that just says like uh right when he said that she didn't say anything about his cancer or anything she just said like your sons don't Cast Your Shadow or something like that and then she leaves that room and they never talk again and he's like sick you know and so this relationship she they never talk again and she moves in with the sister and this keeps on going and basically like after how much longer is it I had no zenu I had no idea zenu chicken was this like it's like the zenu chicken had any you go when you go sit down and Zen you're like you know they got it all figured out this place is a well oil machine the Sun the son has um one of the sons that he was going to give it to had been charged with
5:58 shooting at a prostitute and her p him and had faced a life sentence shut that's a wild life sentence so one of them died no um faced a life sentence but the case ended in a mistrial what the hell interesting I mean maybe cuz he's in customer service he got really bad quality service and he goes I know what good customer service is and the pimp was like you ████ this is my product and then like the hooker was like I gave you all that I could give and he goes He that's ████ is that how it went down how exactly word by word they even spell b o o l ████ I'm in the service industry that's ████ man you sucked me off harder last week last week you didn't squeeze my nipples this time
6:49 while you were sucking me so apparently now back from our commercial break there's all these um there's been multiple legal cases with the two sides of the family now because there like the dad's side but then there's like the sister's side of the family and that like are keeping the chain running and now there's they're still going through legal cases there's still a division and like right now it's still being run by the two different sides the different one location and the other franchise wait so there's the sister's family side and then did did his sons take it over the mom now so now it's the mom so like out of the guy who killed his mom and sister the yeah the wife is taking over but they were saying like the wife like totally never was in the shop but like she's basically the person now since the Suns aren't going to do it which zenu do you go to you know what I've never had zenu chicken
7:39 shut up you never had zenu chicken Zen I always hear about it I always hear about it you have to try it now we have to go there's one in Pasadena and that's right by where sometimes we walk on around that area it's right by Afters I do think the one in Glendale is the best though I used to go to the one on sautel uhhuh and that's where the family lives I used oh really oh ████ I used to go to the one on like every week uhhuh and then I had the one in pastina and then I remember eating that the one in Glendale I'm like dude this one's extra good the one Glendale is the best one I think there's bbang there's have no clue there was any type of lore behind this there's Hollywood apparently they were offered like 30 million by Pepsi to like buy the franchise but like it was a whole family decision familyowned yeah 30 million it's crazy cuz from the outside you always see stuff like this well I knew it was familyowned and then I would always be like oh man their family has
8:29 it together you don't know that they're ████ killing each other and ████ dude more Mone more problems though you know what I mean there a lot of like rich people that have like when things are like big money involved murder suicide double murder suicide that's a crazy way to go out that's a crazy way to go out bro in a white suit do you worry about that building an empire and then your children and grand kids all fight and you just like it's like that stereotypical story where you're on your deathbed and everyone's just waiting for you to die so they could those ████ little vultures could fight over over your wealth ████ but then I'm like damn dude all the families that's what they try to do like they get wealthy but like most people talk about this like like oh you get inheritance you're so lucky and it's like that's almost like a curse you you ████ born into a family where everyone's trying to kill each other and ████ cuz they want to have the the the
9:21 keys to the trust you know I mean if it is hard when when The Heirs don't have like a self- sustaining thing so it's like this or nothing you need a manuscript on how to raise them and you to manuscript and rules of how the wealth has to be shared and divided it's also when you grow up in luxury I feel like right like if the parents acquired all that wealth it's like how can you teach that to your kids dude if my parents were like millionaires like that I'd be shooting prostitutes on the street too test me like I would probably be doing the same thing yeah's go ahead no think what's crazy is that The Show Must Go On too the whole we got toing Chien anding like Maestro with thece who's going to make the ████ sauce now and they got to keep paying for the legal
10:12 fees on both sides I hear stories like this and I think about the wife's name was Rita right who's now running ████ you always think about when crazy ████ goes down it's like who's the one who has something to gain from that yeah imagine her you know what I mean whispering in her dying husband's earr at all know what I'm saying can't believe they did that to you and she has the real sauce she's the one with the real sauce your mom walked out on you blah blah they manage you like that culture Mom supposed to live with the sun well she doing disgracing you like that but she's stupid cuz then now she got to work yeah now she got to put a apron on like why would you want to do that because all these issues you living cushy and now she has to put on a ████ zanu paper hat every day smell like garlic all the time wearing them yellow shirts carving the schwarma she goes ████ my plan my plan
11:04 sucks my plan sucks this ████ ████ I used to have lb purs every day and she's out here shaving her schwarma now I have to shave a schwarma every day that accent every day schwarma schwarma every day do you want beat a sandwich ████ keep saying that every day show go go every day for every day is a schwarma every day every day every day I make the pizza that was I didn't think you guys your a p dude that's that's the new commercial for every day that's an angry person when a hair that yellow shirts if you walk in her say that someone's beatboxing too every day every
11:55 day what if that's the source for the new argument they're like Uncle that's the jingle I want he goes no way not for zenu chicken well ████ you too like one of their heirs is a JK fan and they're like that is what we need every [Music] day [Music]
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