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Popeyes Red Stick Chicken

I caught this YouTube video of Daym Drops reviewing Popeyes Red Stick Chicken.

It seems like a good deal for only $3.99 with fries and a biscuit if you are talking about NYC prices. So I tried it. The chicken is marinated in Tobasco pepper and it is goooooooooooood.

I’ve been eating some critically acclaimed NYC fried chicken this past week too. Went on a fried chicken binge (Bobwhite Lunch & Supper Counter and Peaches Hot House). I think I liked these Popeyes Red Stick Chicken tenders the best. They had a lot of flavor by themselves. And also worked with the dipping sauce. Although now I realized they gave me the wrong complimentary sauce, Blackened Ranch. Supposed to get Smok’n Pepper Ranch. But it was good with Blackened Ranch anyhow.

To be fair though, I also got a Popeyes spicy chicken thigh to compare to all this fried chicken I’ve been eating. I really like Popeyes and I think it’s good fried chicken. However, you could really tell the difference in the quality of chicken compared to Bobwhite’s and Peaches Hot House. Popeyes meat is greasier and seems like they come from bigger steroid type chickens. But it still tastes good. Maybe it’s the salt. But I was surprised I liked the Red Sticks better. I never thought I was a chicken tender type guy.

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Popeye’s Chicken Deal

I walked by Popeyes yesterday and it was packed. I figured everyone was there for the $1.89 two-piece chicken and a biscuit meal deal. Today, the same thing. Packed. Sam pointed out to me that it’s only a 10cent savings. I didn’t even notice it was originally $1.99 before. Did everyone else?


Sam is good at math.

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fast food travel

The Last Night in New Orleans

After Vietnamese food, I met back up with Jody & Christa at Harrah’s casino. We walked around for an hour trying to figure out how to play. The machines wouldn’t take our dollar bills. Then we figured out that we have to put at least $5 in. Then it wouldn’t take our $5’s. We almost gave up, then I decided it was time to go down in flames and stuck $10 in there. I pushed some buttons and it gave me more money back. What kind of business is Harrah’s in? The business of losing money or the business of fulfilling dreams?

We walked around trying to find Jody & Christa some cheap, quick food. By that time, there wasn’t much open but Popeyes. But I have to admit, Popeyes makes some dang good food. I love their Jambalaya and lived on that in college. That’s how I think I base my judgement of what good Jambalaya is –by Popeyes. Although, I know I’ve had a couple of Popeyes that tasted like vomit, but when it’s good, it’s great. The one right there in the French Quarter didn’t have Jambalaya though. Only Dirty or Cajun Rice. Every location should have jambalaya IMO …and fried chicken liver!

Jody picked up a Shrimp Po-Boy and that looked great. We brought it back to our hotel and stood in the lobby talking, where we saw an old man without any pants holding onto the luggage rack. I couldn’t tell if his glasses were super thick that made his eyes super wide or if he really was a deer in headlights. We think he might have been in one of those situational comedies where he was hanging with a lady and got locked out of his room. That Popeyes Shrimp Po-Boy tasted really good.

Then we met back up with Jay where he was doing sound at One Eyed Jack’s for Dax Riggs. That was a fun show. After, we stumbled around for more food. There really isn’t much open, except Arby’s. Two years ago, Rusty totally Hasselhoff’d on Arby’s down in the Big Easy. He was dipping his fries and roast beef sandwich in the Horsey sauce that got on his bed. Good thing the line was crazy long at Arby’s this time. It could’ve been Hoff Deux. Not that I wasn’t ready to videotape it.

There’s this weird illusion when you wake up and open the windows at the St. James Hotel. You see your reflection from the building across the street and think you’re in the Twilight Zone. It freaked us out.