On a recent weekday I found myself in a booth at Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘n Waffles in Mid City devouring a crispy thigh and a syrup-drenched waffle—every little square filled with a dab of butter ...

Those chatty British chickens have been supersized. Now, instead of the quaint country cry of “I don’t want to be a pie!” from the 2000 Claymation classic “Chicken Run,” the fed-up cluckers battle a ...