JoelF wrote:According to The Takeout, Popeye's has removed Cajun rice and green beans from its list of side dishes.
The rice was my #2 choice, after the beloved onion rings. If they 86 those, that place will likely be dead to me.
scottsol wrote:This has all been a tempest in a teapot caused by lousy journalism. The only side that has been 86’d by Popeye’s in the last year is corn on the cob. Any other cases of missing sides are based on a location by location decision. For example, the downtown location on Jackson only offers fries, mashed and cole slaw, while the 2556 S. California store adds red beans and rice, green beans, and Cajun rice.
WhyBeeSea wrote:scottsol wrote:This has all been a tempest in a teapot caused by lousy journalism. The only side that has been 86’d by Popeye’s in the last year is corn on the cob. Any other cases of missing sides are based on a location by location decision. For example, the downtown location on Jackson only offers fries, mashed and cole slaw, while the 2556 S. California store adds red beans and rice, green beans, and Cajun rice.
I guess the statement the "lousy journalist" received from the company and posts on the official social media account are all unfounded....
https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/stat ... 09345?s=19
ronnie_suburban wrote:WhyBeeSea wrote:scottsol wrote:This has all been a tempest in a teapot caused by lousy journalism. The only side that has been 86’d by Popeye’s in the last year is corn on the cob. Any other cases of missing sides are based on a location by location decision. For example, the downtown location on Jackson only offers fries, mashed and cole slaw, while the 2556 S. California store adds red beans and rice, green beans, and Cajun rice.
I guess the statement the "lousy journalist" received from the company and posts on the official social media account are all unfounded....
https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/stat ... 09345?s=19
Yet just another example of why I fucking hate social media.
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WhyBeeSea wrote:scottsol wrote:This has all been a tempest in a teapot caused by lousy journalism. The only side that has been 86’d by Popeye’s in the last year is corn on the cob. Any other cases of missing sides are based on a location by location decision. For example, the downtown location on Jackson only offers fries, mashed and cole slaw, while the 2556 S. California store adds red beans and rice, green beans, and Cajun rice.
I guess the statement the "lousy journalist" received from the company and posts on the official social media account are all unfounded....
https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/stat ... 09345?s=19
scottsol wrote:WhyBeeSea wrote:scottsol wrote:This has all been a tempest in a teapot caused by lousy journalism. The only side that has been 86’d by Popeye’s in the last year is corn on the cob. Any other cases of missing sides are based on a location by location decision. For example, the downtown location on Jackson only offers fries, mashed and cole slaw, while the 2556 S. California store adds red beans and rice, green beans, and Cajun rice.
I guess the statement the "lousy journalist" received from the company and posts on the official social media account are all unfounded....
https://twitter.com/PopeyesChicken/stat ... 09345?s=19
The Takeout article announces that the rice is dead and buried without deep consideration. Popeye’s uses the phrase “permanent menu” but we never learn what that implies. Is rice likely to show up once a year, once a quarter, probably never? It didn’t take a lot of effort to determine that many locations are still serving the rice as well as green beans. Is this just because they haven’t yet run out or will those locations continue to have them for the foreseeable future.
Readers of the article are left without hope and may be dissuaded from dining at Popeyes's unnecessarily. If the mention on Takeout was just a short blurb that would be one thing, but an entire column devoted to the subject should have dug a little deeper.
pudgym29 wrote: [I edit myself.]
So - I managed to visit this specific Popeye's store just before a satisfying visit to the adjacent Long Room Tavern, where select craft beer 12-oz. cans are only $4 on Sunday, and you don't have to put up with gridiron on televisions (and gambling “fantasy football” persons). [But here I splice in: The Long Room Tavern is a Black-owned business.]
I thought the Spicy Chicken sandwich was pretty good. I think the secret is the pickles included thereon. (Disclosure: When I order the Original Chicken sandwich from Burger King®, for which I typically have a coupon, I ask for extra pickles upon it, which Burger King is very used to doing.)
[My own images removed to save bandwidth. Not many other LTHF denizens would do that.]
An alert LTHF viewer may have noticed that in the images accompanying my description of the Popeye's Spicy Chicken sandwich, I ordered the Cajun Rice. This is likely the last time you shall glimpse a picture of it here.JoelF wrote: According to The Takeout, Popeye's has removed Cajun Rice and green beans from its list of side dishes.
The rice was my #2 choice, after the beloved onion rings. If it 86s those, that place will likely be dead to me.
jlawrence01 wrote:I passed as I could head over to the local Kroger affiliate and get a two piece chicken dinner with two sides for $5.
Almost 1.5 years to the day after Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen launched its now-famous Chicken Sandwich, the fast-food chain is unveiling another sandwich that it hopes will drive customers equally wild. The Cajun Flounder Sandwich launches tomorrow: It’s a Cajun-seasoned fried filet, served on the same brioche bun with pickles that diners know from the Chicken Sandwich, along with Popeyes tartar sauce. The sandwich costs $4.49.
Washington Post wrote:Popeyes is selling a “sandwich insurance” policy: Customers can purchase one from the chain’s app for 15 cents, and if they don’t like the new item, they can get a tried-and-true chicken sandwich in its place.
nsxtasy wrote:Another fishy opinion, not all that different from those above:
Popeyes’ new fish sandwich is a muted sequel to the chicken sandwich blockbuster of 2019 (Washington Post)
Given the lack of rave reviews, this part is worth pointing out:Washington Post wrote:Popeyes is selling a “sandwich insurance” policy: Customers can purchase one from the chain’s app for 15 cents, and if they don’t like the new item, they can get a tried-and-true chicken sandwich in its place.
nsxtasy wrote:Shouldn't Popeye's have at least one spinach dish on the menu?
Binko wrote:Popeyes is named after a character in The French Connection, "Popeye" Doyle.
Binko wrote:I know you jest, but Popeyes is named after a character in The French Connection, "Popeye" Doyle. Yes, they did eventually use Popeye the cartoon character in their branding for many years, but (looking it up), they stopped licensing it from King Features Syndicate at the end of 2006.
Mr. Copeland added more than a sprinkle of cayenne pepper and a few more secret Cajun-inspired hot spices, changed the name to Popeyes (he said he was too poor to afford an apostrophe) and by the end of the 1980s owned or franchised more than 800 of the restaurants.
The name Popeye did not come from the spinach-eating cartoon character but from the hard-nosed film detective Popeye Doyle in “The French Connection.” Mr. Copeland liked to say he loved speed and other ways of taking spectacular chances. According to The Los Angeles Times in 1997, he once told a restaurant critic, “If you’ve got a dream, you might as well dream big.”
And lose big. Mr. Copeland by 1989 owned the third biggest fried chicken chain in the United States, and borrowed heavily to buy the second-biggest, now called Church’s Chicken. It was too much debt. He soon sought bankruptcy protection.