Our Story

About Chicken Fried Tees

True story: this whole brand started because someone said "well, don't that just fry your chicken" at a cookout, and we could not stop thinking about it. We put it on a shirt so we'd stop saying it out loud at family gatherings. It did not work. We just have matching shirts now.

We're not a fashion label. We're a couple of people who think chickens are funnier than they get credit for and that Southern sayings deserve better merchandise. Every shirt starts as a pun that made someone snort-laugh at 11pm, gets argued about for a week, and then gets printed whether or not it was actually a good idea.

No investors, no focus groups, no "synergy." Just dumb jokes, soft shirts, and a chicken mascot who has never once filed a complaint. We print small batches, we sell on Etsy, and we read every email that hits the list — mostly because there aren't that many of us to hide behind.

If you've made it this far: thank you, and yes, the puns do get worse. Join the email list below and we'll warn you before the next drop, so you can pretend you saw it coming.

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