Brown Sugar Chicken- Crockpot Recipe

I've been waiting to make this recipe for a while. The crazy lady over at crockpot365 had this on her page last year (and yes, she honestly made a new recipe every single day in her crockpot- and took pictures and blogged about it!) Here's how it goes:

INGREDIENTS
--12 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, or 6 boneless, skinless breast halves
--1 cup brown sugar
--1/4 cup lemon-lime soda
--2/3 cup white wine vinegar
--3 cloves smashed and chopped garlic
--2 T soy sauce
--1 tsp ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS
Use a 5-6 quart crockpot for this recipe.

Plop the chicken into your crockpot. Cover with the brown sugar, pepper, chopped garlic, and soy sauce. Add the vinegar, and pour in the soda. It will bubble! At first, this looks like a LOT of liquid in there.
Cover and cook on low for 6-9 hours, or on high for 4-5. The chicken is done when it is cooked through and has reached desired consistency. The longer you cook it, the more tender it will be.

Serve over a bowl of white rice with a ladle full of the broth.

VERDICT
I was a bit nervous. A cup of brown sugar? 7-up? But this is a great dish. The chicken falls apart once you pull it out of the pot. I cooked it for 7 hours... perhaps a bit less would have been better. But the taste is great and it's certainly easy enough.

NUTRITION

According to the calculator when I plugged it in to myfitnesspal.com:
Servings: 6
Calories: 311 (without the rice)
Carbs: 36g
Fat: 2g
Protein: 36g