Meaning
Jerk chicken cooked and sold from the roadside 'jerk-pan' (steel-drum grill) — smoky, spicy, chopped to order and served in foil or on bread, often late into the night. A beloved street food, the pan-chicken man on the corner with his smoking drum is a fixture of Jamaican nightlife and weekend liming.
Examples
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Mek wi buy some pan-chicken pon di way home.
Let's buy some roadside jerk chicken on the way home.
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Di pan-chicken man deh pon di corner till late.
The pan-chicken vendor is on the corner until late.
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Foil-wrap pan-chicken wid festival, di best.
Foil-wrapped pan-chicken with festival, the best.
Origin
From 'pan' (the jerk-drum grill) + 'chicken'; names the roadside jerk-chicken trade. See [[jerk-pan]], [[jerk-chicken]].
How it’s used
Roadside jerk chicken from the drum grill; a street-food staple. See [[jerk-pan]], [[jerk-chicken]], [[festival]].