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It’s not exactly goose in a Chinese restaurant, but I guess it’ll do in a pinch. 
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Is Popeyes any good?
I don’t think I ever tried it.
It’s better than KFC and Church’s. Local spots/small chains can beat it though.
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If you are starving, and if you also need your bowels evacuated (just like all other heavily-fried chicken) you’re in luck.
Sides are similar to other places. They had a run on some “new sandwich” they made that was an antisocial media sensation.
They are a Coke place (KFC is Pepsi, that is a minus one on my Excel Spreadsheet).
There was one near where I worked, but I WFH, and I am trying to wean off “fast food prepared and then frozen elsewhere and shipped to a local franchise to cook.”
Real issue with all these places is the puny sizes of the breasts and thighs.
I’m talking about the chicken, not the help!
Went to a Zankou Chicken place the other night. “Middle Eastern” fast food. Had the tri-tip.
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Popeye’s is passable, imo. The spicy chicken is decent, and while the beans and rice aren’t great, not a lot of places you can get that.
Thankfully we have a local Cajun place that is fantastic, so I’ll just spend $6 more for that. Speaking of, they make this bananas Foster bread pudding that is the best dessert in town I think. Anywho.
I’m just not that into traditional bone-in fried chicken anymore. Occasionally when we’re the next town over (since the local fast food scene is slim pickins) we’ll get Raising Cane’s (chicken tenders = their whole menu) or occasionally the new Bojangles that has now made its way north.
i had popeyes once. that was plenty. i don’t get the huge appeal (other than fried chicken is delicious as a baseline - i just didn’t love theirs)
Their biscuits are delicious.
That said, in Columbus there’s a place called Hot Chicken Takeover that I like.
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Supposedly the quality has gone down (again) since it’s been bought out by the former Jimmy John’s CEO. I think it still tastes pretty good, I’ll get it once in a while at North Market when I’m at the office, but I won’t make a special trip for it when I’m at home (there’s a location about a mile from me).
Oh no, I had no idea about either fact. Kind of like for now Campbell’s hasn’t ruined Rao’s jarred sauce, but I’m expecting to wake up one day and suddenly their marinara tastes like their nasty tomato soup. 
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Is that why it is on sale at Costco now?
Funny you mention Rao’s because the last two times we have gotten it I said to my husband it tasted much blander than I remember. I did not know it was bought by Campbell’s. But we got those jars from Kroger, and we usually get them from Costco, and sometimes the Costco versions of a food are slightly different from other grocery stores.
Maybe? Not sure what aspect of that you’re speaking to. (That Campbell’s owns it now? That because it isn’t ruined yet it’s Costco-worthy? That it actually is ruined now which does make it Costco-worthy?)
I love Costco as a whole, but it isn’t uniformly awesome.
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Popeyes >>>KFc. I haven’t eaten at KFC in years, it’s disgusting.
Popeye’s is also halal, so a great choice if that’s what you need.
Costco only buys a shit-ton of a product, and they expect it to cost less so they can price it less, else they’ll wind up with a shit-ton of product.
The product might or might not be the same as the smaller-batch stuff in the regular grocery store (or wherever).
Anywho, the fact that it sold at Costco (and sometimes with an explicit discount) tells me that Campbell’s made a shit-ton of the product, probably because they have the capacity to do so over whoever Rao was before.
Nothing to do with quality, though that is now in play due to the volume and the need to add more preservatives and the need to appeal to more people (so, blander, as NA’s hub thinks). I mean, people can always spice up to their own taste.
Another Example: Costco sells M&Ms in large plastic jars. The Peanut version, from my POV, comes with smaller peanuts. Maybe M&M did this for all their M&Ms or maybe separated out the smaller ones for the Costco jars. Who knows?
I get it now. Kind of like how sometimes electronics makers have a separate Walmart line that may not have quite the same build quality as the same item sold at not-Walmart. Which is why I won’t buy certain bigger-ticket items at Walmart.
I used to joke that the Celeron processor is just Intel’s main-line chips that failed quality control but still work pretty well, so they put them in “value” PCs.