You have to get the spicy kind and dump all that sweet MSG-loaded Cajun Sparkle all over it. It's heaven and then you feel high for two hours. Perfect.

We had Bojangles here in the late 80s for a short time. I never went there.

I was dirt poor back then, I couldn't afford to eat out.

Sounds like a good man. May he RIP with a box of 3 piece spicy.
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For the longest we had 2 pc. $1.00 on Tuesdays. Now they raised to 3 pc. $1.79 Tuesdays.

Perfect wayhome snack. When it was the 2 pc., they didn't make it to the front door < 1 mi. away.

And I am a FIEND for Red Beans and Rice. The family sized portion is a nice appetizer.

I'm a big fan of their spicy chicken, but the only store near my house closed so I don't have it often. I love their red beans and rice, but I like their mashed potatoes and gravy even more.

The other way. man... Maxwell has some serious pop.

Way better than Chick-fil-a. Better politics too.

You really want to DC these threads up, huh?

My Ferrari doesn't have a cup holder.

Wait what?

POLLO CAMPERO IS THE BOMB

I don't think this franchise is out in the Midwest yet but it's chicken is awesome and so are their yuca fries!


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Thanks for this thread, I am getting Popeye's for lunch! 5 pc chicken tenders with cajun fries and blackened ranch dipping sauce.

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LUV THAT SPICY CHICKEN STRIPS .....

Chicken tenders are the bomb.

You do know Church's owns Popeyes now right?

The original owner Al Copeland sold it when he went bankrupt a while back.

The recipe is still the original though.

Alright boys. Think I'm hitting this on the weekend. I have only ever had it once and years ago. I will probably do something like 5 pc meal with 2 sides. Their sides look really good. What should I choose? Anything I need to know about how to order the chicken?

Thanks CP for helping my fast food needs.

If you don't get the Cajun mashed potatoes, I'll internet kick you in the balls.
Next, the cajun fries.
Biscuits.
Green beans.
Cajun Rice.

In that order.

Order it spicy. Their spicy chicken is legit. Eat a biscuit. Even if you don't feel like it. Some folks really dig their red beans and rice.

I'm so torn on the sides. There's quite a few that look really good.

Not really a mashed potato fan but the cajun take sounds interesting.

The Sides that look appealing. In no particular order. We will have biscuits for sure.

Cajun Fries
Red Beans and Rice
Mac N Cheese
Jambalaya
(Maybe) the Mashed Potatoes

Seriously, Popeye's sides are the best in my opinion. Don't skimp on the sides. Their Cajun mashed potatoes are one of my favorite side dishes ever.

It punches me in the dick every single day that my town doesnt have a Popeyes

Thats how good they are... yet all my town ever does is add yet another slapdick pizza joint :shake:

I've eaten at Popeyes twice in my life, both in the last three months.

Maybe it's the locations but I found it to be way overpriced and very underwhelming.

The red beans and rice and jumbalaya were garbage. Cajun fries were meh. The Cajun mashed potatoes weren't bad. I'm not a bread guy so I passed in the biscuit.

As for the main dishes, the chicken strips were mostly breading, the shrimp lame and their legs, wings and breast just meh. Without their Blackened Ranch, every thing was just bland.

I'll never go back.

Welp, it's ruined now.

Back to the drawing board I guess.

LMAO

Love that chicken from Popeye's

poverty fare

get the smoked fried chicken at Q39

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Its all depends on which distracted little slacker cook/s happens to be back there, and his level of motivation... at any fast food joint

But done right, Popeyes is the shit... the first car dealership I ever worked for ordered a feast of basically all they have from them almost every saturday

It was always more like well catered in food, than fast food

I'm not interested in a ****ing date with you man.

You don't have to put out...

I'm ecstatic a Popeyes opened a mile from my house in Tucson. I went to college in New Orleans (Tulane alum), and they were EVERYWHERE in NO.

We are getting a Popeye's here.

I had it in Baton Rouge while traveling through. The chicken was awful.

When I lived in Edmund Washington just north of Seattle we would drive 1:30-2:00 hours south to Fedral Way/Taquila for Popeye's. And that was with favorable traffic.

Popeye's rules. Blows all the competition away. Can't even remember the last time I ate at a KFC.

We have Church's chicken and Popeye's very close to each other. I've never had Church's.

I would never think of touching KFC ever again in my entire life.

I like them.

Had their new Cajun fries yesterday.


Would. Every. Day.

There's a local chain up here called Brown's that I like, but none of its locations are convenient for me. Don't think I've ever had Church's.

Everything else I've had there is fantastic.

I will never eat Popeyes again, and it's my Father in Laws fault. Pull up a chair folks, and let me tell you a story.

My Father in Law visited us from California this past February, and the day he arrived, he asked me to make him some bbq. I like my Father in law, so I was definitely up to the task.

So, on my only day off that week, my wife, father in law, and son went sightseeing the entire day while I stayed at home smoking ribs and pulled pork to absolute perfection. Spent all day on the task. Tended to the smoker, while also making homemade sauce, homemade cole slaw (modeled after Q39's delicious recipe with apples), and homemade French fries.

I worked so hard on this meal, and it turned out amazing. ****ing amazing. I asked my wife to have them home at 7:30 pm. So, I timed it to where everything was ready right around that time. My timing was amazing. ****ing amazing.

At 7:30 pm, I've got a table full of delicious homemade bbq.....and nobody is home. I sit there until about 7:45 pm. I decide to eat a to be while I'm waiting. Confirmed that it was ****ing amazing.

8:00 pm rolls around. Still no one home. I decide to text my wife, and see wtf is going on. I ask where they're at, and she replies with an apology and says they're almost home.

They walk in the door about twenty minutes later, and he father is carrying a big ****ing box of Popeyes chicken and sides. Before I can even get a word out, my wife almost pulls me to our bedroom and says something along the lines of, "I'm sorry. My dad wanted to have Popeyes while he was here because he says it's better in Louisiana than it is in California. Since he leaves early for the airport tomorrow, this was his last chance." I give her the look of death and explain to her how much work this meal was. She keeps apologizing and just kept telling me that she couldn't tell him no.

Anyways, he sat at our dining room table, surrounded by beautiful bbq, and ate like four pieces of Popeyes chicken. After wards, he ate a rib or two.

Ever since that night, I can't pass by Popeyes without thinking of that meal.

****ing shit. Let me just comment on the absurdity of the thought that a fast food restaurant is somehow amazingly better in one state than it is in another. It's not like the ****ing warehouse where they prepare and freeze all the Popeyes food is sorting through everything and sending all the good shit to Louisiana.

To top it off, they were sight seeing in a city south of our house, and they got the Popeyes in our town just a couple of miles north of our house. That means, while I was sitting at our table, watching this beautiful bbq meal slowly die as it waits, they passed right by my house (we live on the highway between the two towns) to go get the Popeyes. I found that out a few days later, and it made me rage all over again.

So, in short, **** Popeyes. I know it's not their fault, but **** 'em.

LMAO

Popeyes > **** you, Tim

You need to text him penetrative nudes.

I've never seen so wrong an answer in my life!!

Red Beans and Rice is the ONLY answer.

And you don't even list it as an option.

If you go to church's ask for the sprinkles

I like the cajun rice, too. The mashed potatoes are also good. But I do prefer the red beans and rice.

Cajun mashed potatoes and red beans and rice are my two side choices.

Based on my experience in SoCal versus the experience of others around the country, there might be some truth to it.

I don't know about the prices elsewhere but a combo was at least $11.99 before tax so I spent more than $40 dollars for three combos, which when compared to other restaurants in which I'd spend $40 dollars, was complete garbage.

I can order huge Thai dishes with chicken that are $9.99, delivered, and last two meals, as just one example.

I think it was spicier in Louisiana, but that could be because I'm older and now very accustomed to Cajun seasoning.

That's a good point about Thai food. I can get Thai takeout in the Loop that will last me two lunches for less than $12. But if I get a normal fast food lunch it's generally around $10 for a single meal. Plus, the Thai food is better and healthier. I should do it more often.

I think Easy 6 made the best point earlier, it's not a regional thing, you just probably hit a shitty Popeyes. There's good and bad ones here in Louisiana. It's all about the management and employees. The food is the same.

You do have a hood point, though. Fast Food in general is no longer fast and it's getting pretty damn pricey. 9 times out of 10 I leave a fast food place annoyed. I'm probably just gonna stop going, and only eat at quality places.

Ugh. Their red beans and rice are purely mediocre. :shake:

Not sure why, but that one has never impressed me.

Because it's not very good.

Never had it, so no comment.

I just assumed it was bland like every other beans and rice ever made.

You've clearly never had good beans and rice then.

Their Red Beans and Rice is a gift from Heaven.

You haven't had anything good until you try Bojangles

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You can't order their chicken strips. You need to order their chicken. Although I can't account for your garbage/meh sides.

I'm not a bread guy either, but Popeye's biscuits are top notch, IMO.

Back in my charter pilot days, through all my flying in the Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, eastern Texas, many of meals in small hole in the wall restaurants, and meals made by true blood "Coon-Asses", I have never ran into rice and beans that made me think "HOLY SHIT".

I did have some iron bowl crawdads and rice that some coon-asses in our Talledega camping group made that was good, though.

I've had plenty of experience, but my pallet doesn't respond to it like yours. No biggie, we are all made different.

They do have good red beans and rice.

You're not getting any real flavor at fast food places. It's just an overload of salt and fat.

If you think otherwise you're probably a rube who has never left the Midwest.

Great, the ****ing barefoot Contessas are here to weigh in on a fast food thread!!

I figured the Brown's chicken franchise was long gone. I worked at a Brown's chicken in Lee's Summit back when I was going to UMKC, but that place closed down a loooong time ago and I haven't seen one since.

Great spicy chicken sammich.

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The chicken and red beans kicks ass! All the rest was just meh good nuff every time I tried it.

I make a strong effort to get this no more than 3-4 times a year though. Too unhealthy.

I like the spicy chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy, but it affects me a few hours later. lol

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Clearly you haven't the sophistication to appreciate FMB's heirloom legume coulis over quinoa.

Not my fault you like mediocre red beans, dude.

I like quite a bit at Popeyes, though. Love their chicken and biscuits.

So you're going full ****. Noted.

When people talk fast food, the phrase 'for fast food' is assumed. And Popeye's red beans and rice is one of the best side dishes in all of fast food.

If I had druthers, I'd get hoppin' john at Southern, or recall the perfect RB&R at Bobby's. But Bobby's is closed because the management are all out earning Michelin stars. And Southern is 3x the price and has a line out the door.

Their chicken and biscuits are largely below mediocre. Hardee's has better biscuits. The best thing about Popeye's biscuits is either their honey or their ghost pepper jelly, not the biscuit itself. Their chicken has the advantage of spice, but almost all fast food chicken is ****ing disgusting.

Maybe if you had tried good biscuits and good chicken, though.