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| - 8 pieces spicy chicken
1 mashed potatoes & gravy (4 servings)
4 buttermilk biscuits
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$17.34
Seemed steep for fast food take-out.
Might be FABULOUS.
For us, not particularly. When I get pulled in by a repetitive TV commercial I'm trying to avoid, I hate myself. (But not for long. I'm pretty lovable.) In the case of Popeyes, countless fried chicken spots aired in just a couple of weeks.
Not much of a TV watcher, probably aired during my husband's favorite sports (I'm generally not glued to it for that) or maybe during those recent Sunday mini-marathons of BReaking BAd (glued like SUPER Crazy Glue Industrial Strength, to THAT). InCRedibly ENtertaining serIEs. DIdn't waNT it to eND.
WHATEVER was on, whenever that familiar jingle "Love that Chicken from Popeyes" came on, I tried to block it out, tune it out, look away. But---by what seemed the hundredth time---I caved in. Okay Okay, enough already. By then, I couldn't take it. The standoff had ended---and Popeye had won.
~ SPICY CHICKEN
I love crunchy batter but this was somewhat
hard, and there was too much of it; TOO spicy;
I don't mind some heat, but after just half a
thigh and a wing, my mouth and throat burned
for hours; start with their regular if new to this
chain
~ MASHED POTATOES
Surprisingly decent; if an instant form (likely),
the best I've ever tasted.
~ GRAVY
Not the standard chicken or even beef-flavored
found up north in our neck of the woods; has
that unmistakable Louisiana influence, and
more like what you'd expect with Cajun and
Creole dishes; didn't work for us; good enough
tasting, but one I'll always associate with rice---
never potatoes.
~ BUTTERMILK BISCUITS
Soft, small, (smaller than McD's Bacon, Egg &
Cheese); I baked an extra 10 minutes to firm up;
didn't like flavor of whatever fat was used to make
them; might be okay with butter, honey, other;
you might like
Potatoes, gravy, and biscuits 6.35. Their chicken was 10.99, and 60% higher (!) than Giant Eagle at 6.99, which are much better in preparation and flavor.
Maybe I'm out of the fast food chicken coop loop, but $17.34? That's more like what I'd expect to pay at a ball field concession stand, or from a counter a five minute walk from Concourse C.
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