Before there was Stroud’s, there was the Green Parrot Inn

The flurry of comments inspired by Jonathan Bender’s recent post about the Kansas City restaurants that, perhaps, shouldn’t be institutions provided a few lumps — and I don’t mean in the cream gravy — to the 78-year-old Stroud’s, Kansas City’s best-known fried-chicken restaurant. No matter what you think of the dishes served at this beloved restaurant — which moved from its original roadhouse location to a building on Shawnee Mission Parkway in 2008 — you have to give it credit for outlasting all of its competition.

There were several more popular fried-chicken spots than Stroud’s over the last seven decades, including the Green Parrot Inn. (The famous Wishbone Restaurant came later — in 1948.)