Popeye's Chicken
Written: Jan 23 '03 (Updated Jan 02 '07)
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Pros: Big Fat Juicy Breasts and tasty side dishes.
Cons: This stuff could kill you if you eat it every day.
The Bottom Line: Experience good old fashion artery clogging fried chicken, with tasty side dishes.
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| stockholder's Full Review: Popeyes |
My son and his wife have been far too nice to me lately. They asked if I would stay at their house until it starts to warm-up a little. Here in Chicago it is -2 degrees outside, and without a car it is a real dog getting around. Just yesterday, I nearly froze my huevos off just walking about 4 blocks to the mailbox. So, my daughter-in-law suggested that I stay the week. Little did she know what kind of a pain I could be.
My son’s wife is the sweetest girl and I have nothing to complain about when it comes to her. It’s just that we have two very different lifestyles. She loves to keep everything very neat, clean and smelling very nice, she is a health food fanatic vegetarian (she laughs when I call her a veterinarian) and she works out two times a day, every day.
Myself on the other hand, I like to lounge around in my underwear, spend most of my time on the computer and I eat everything insight.
Since I realize that I have been a burden on their lifestyle, I decided to do something nice and buy dinner for a change. I understand how much it costs to feed a stockholder and I did not want to eat them out of house and home, plus if I ate anymore soy products, my extreme gas could cause someone bodily harm.
Not thinking at the time about my poor daughter-in-law who only eats seaweed, I bought Popeye’s Chicken.
If looks could kill, I would be dead after the glares she gave me as I walked in the door with two humongous bags of chicken. And I didn’t make things better by bringing my loud mouth son-in-law with me, but I needed someone to drive me, and at the time this worthless glob was my only option.
Although chicken was out of the question for my daughter-in-law, I did buy plenty of scrumptious side dishes that she enjoyed. At Popeye’s Chicken you can order sides of Rice and Beans that are good but not great, they consist of refried beans mixed with white rice and some sort of Cajun seasoning. Their mashed potatoes and gravy are excellent. The biscuits are always served moist, fresh and warm out of the oven. The corn on the cob is small and overpriced but it is extremely tasty, soft and soaked with butter.
Popeye’s Chicken is without a doubt my favorite out of all of the fast food chicken joints. The secret to dining at Popeye’s is to order breasts only. If you waste your time with the smaller pieces of chicken (legs, wings), what you get is much less meat and much more oil per bite. Popeye’s charges about $2.50 per breast, about 90 cents more per piece.
The chicken is much tastier than anything KFC has to offer, but I don’t understand what makes this stuff Cajun, it tastes like regular chicken to me. So, don’t let the Cajun image scare you away, there is nothing extreme about the flavors of any of their food. I think what makes Popeye’s better than their competition is the larger, crispier and meatier pieces.
Popeye’s Chicken gives you the choice of both SPICY and MILD. The mild is what I prefer, but my son likes to eat the spicy and he also orders a jellopeno type pepper for only 25 cents. But be careful, these peppers are hot enough to burn through you. You could not pay me enough to eat one of these butt burners.
The bottom line on Popeye’s Chicken
My vegetarian daughter-in-law gave me looks like I was gnawing on her best friend, as I sucked the juicy flavor off the bones. She found it very disgusting to look at my pyramid of chicken bones. So, if you have any Sally the Salad Eaters joining you for dinner, this is not the place. But the side dishes will keep them from starving to death.
But if you want to experience good old fashion artery clogging tasty fried chicken with very good side dishes, this is the place. But this stuff could kill you if you eat it every day. I only allow myself to eat this much fried food when I know I will be eating healthy for the rest of the week.
For myself, I order three breasts NOT SPICY and a large mashed potato and gravy, for a reasonable price of $9.70.
What I ordered for two adults, one idiot, a veterinarian and the fartknuckle (my grandson) cost was around $33.
I give Popeye’s Chicken 4 out of 5 stars.
-- stockholder
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