When Did Church’s Become Church’s Texas Chicken in Lubbock?

There's been a change in chicken, and I can't quite figure it out.

There’s a strange phenomenon people love to talk about called the Mandela Effect—when you remember something one way, but it turns out to never have happened. My current issue is a little different. It’s not that I remember wrong, it’s that I completely missed something altogether. And now I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how it slipped by me.

My daily travels take me up and down 50th Street constantly. I cruise from the Interstate over to United, swing by Home Depot, pass Spirit Halloween, and sometimes head all the way down toward the big box home improvement stores. More often than not, I’ll even make a pit stop at Jake’s for a burger and a beer. With all those trips, you’d think I’d have noticed everything.

Church’s or Church’s Texas Chicken?

So why is it that just the other day, I suddenly realized the Church’s Chicken sign now says Church’s Texas Chicken? When did this happen? After some digging, it turns out the official name change came in 2019. And here’s the kicker—they’re headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Even weirder, the brand has gone by Texas Chicken in other parts of the world since the 1980s.

Somehow, this all managed to fly completely under my radar. Have I been suffering from tunnel vision on my chicken runs, or did this change just quietly sneak in when no one was looking? Either way, I have no idea if all the Lubbock locations updated their signs, or if this one is leading the way.

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What I do know is simple: name change or not, Church’s still makes some of the tastiest yardbird around—and just writing about it has me craving a box right now.