Readers cry fowl over family-friendly cola chicken at Coop de Ville

Stingray, a Sunnyside watering hole that featured pizza when it opened last year, closed this month for a quick concept remodel. And now it's reopened as Coop de Ville at Stingray -- a neighborhood joint with a focus on comfort food, particularly chicken. And to make sure that everything stays...

By Patricia Calhoun

February 16, 2012

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Stingray, a Sunnyside watering hole that featured pizza when it opened last year, closed this month for a quick concept remodel. And now it's reopened as Coop de Ville at Stingray -- a neighborhood joint with a focus on comfort food, particularly chicken. And to make sure that everything stays family-friendly, the kitchen is offering cola-can chicken, rather than beer-can chicken.

That had some readers squawking. What isn't family-friendly about beer-can chicken?

Says Dave Barnes;

I am confused. Beer can chicken.

1. Open beer can and drink contents. 2. Place chicken over can and roast. 3. Open another beer can and drink contents. 4. Place empty can into recycling bin and GOTO 3 until chicken is ready. 5. Consume chicken.

And Mantonat provides the final answer:

It's not family-friendly because you don't want your kids growing up thinking beer should be wasted like that.

But there's more, much more, to Coup de Ville -- where you can definitely enjoy your beer without ordering chicken. Read more about it here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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