After 4 years of thinking about it, I finally had a chance to visit Bakesale Betty’s (in Rockridge- apparently they have opened a location in Downtown Oakland as well!) during open hours to try their infamous fried chicken sandwich. The lines were long, but they moved fairly quickly. In addition to the sandwich, I purchased a strawberry shortcake, pecan shortbread, a chocolate chip cookie and a ginger cookie. This was the entirety of what they had on hand, other than take-home unbaked chicken pot pie. Though they have many more bakery items listed online, only a few of them make the daily production cut. The fried chicken sandwich was good, but entirely too hyped up. The sandwich would have been tastier if the chicken had been freshly fried. As it was, it was only lukewarm… tasty enough, and a generous portion size, but not delicious enough that I crave it. The desserts, however, were pretty stellar and trek-worthy. In particular, the ginger cookie was absolutely delicious- the right amount of spice and chewiness, with crystallized ginger chunks interspersed through the cookie. Good enough that I got back in line halfway through my ginger cookie to buy 3 more for later because I didn’t want to save the other half of the cookie for mike ;P.