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re: It's a sad day at Popeye's
Posted on 4/8/22 at 7:14 pm to fatboydave
Posted on 4/8/22 at 7:14 pm to fatboydave
Well, when fatties like you go in and kill their profit margin, it ruins it for all of us normal eaters
Posted on 4/8/22 at 7:20 pm to StonewallJack
Popeyes customer service is about the same as BK and McDonalds. It’s not good at all.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 7:41 pm to fatboydave
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It's a sad day at Popeye's
Almost as sad as when Wendy's nixed the Superbar.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 7:46 pm to TrouserTrout
You can't expect anything good from fast food restaurants. The product usually matches the labor and both are at the bottom of the food chain
Posted on 4/8/22 at 8:04 pm to fatboydave
Never seen a Popeyes buffet. I’ve seen KFC
Posted on 4/8/22 at 8:12 pm to fatboydave
I’ve never been to one with a buffet but I can’t imagine even wanting an all you can eat of fried chicken. After like 3 pieces even my fat arse is done
Posted on 4/8/22 at 8:14 pm to Cycledude
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Dam! I didn’t know Popeyes had a buffet! I would have been there, and now it’s gone!
I am not sure if the quality got worse or what, but I ate there once years ago and it was slappin.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 8:15 pm to The Boat
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It's a sad day at Popeye's
I though you were going to say something terrible, like Super Popey’s is closing forever.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 8:55 pm to TrouserTrout
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Popeyes customer service is about the same as BK and McDonalds. It’s not good at a
It’s much, MUCH worse than those 2
Posted on 4/8/22 at 11:34 pm to fatboydave
Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed (Eater.com, 2020)
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When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early ’90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem. We think of Homer Simpson getting dragged out of the Frying Dutchman, “a beast more stomach than man.” I think of my parents going on buffet benders resembling something out of Hunter S. Thompson’s life, determined to get their money’s worth with two picky kids.
What we don’t typically think about, however, is the fast-food buffet, a blip so small on America’s food radar that it’s hard to prove it even existed. But it did. People swear that all-you-can-eat buffets could be found at Taco Bell, KFC, and even under the golden arches of McDonald’s.
That it could have existed isn’t surprising. The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake. It was the physical manifestation of the American id: endless biscuits, popcorn chicken, vats of nacho cheese and sketchy pudding — so much sketchy pudding. Why, then, have so many of us failed to remember it? How did it become a footnote, relegated to the backwoods of myths and legends? There are whispers of McDonald’s locations that have breakfast buffets. Was there, in fact, a Taco Bell buffet, or is it a figment of our collective imaginations? Yes, someone tells me — an all-you-can-eat Taco Bell existed in her dorm cafeteria. Another person suggests maybe we were just remembering the nachos section of the Wendy’s Superbar.
The fast-food buffet lives in a strange sort of ether. You can’t get to it through the traditional path of remembering. Was there actually a Pizza Hut buffet in your hometown? Search your subconscious, sifting past the red cups that make the soda taste better, past the spiffy new CD jukebox, which has Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind and Paul McCartney’s All the Best under the neon lamps. Search deeper, and you might find your father going up for a third plate and something remaining of the “dessert pizzas” lodged in your subconscious. This is where the fast-food buffet exists.
quote:Re the world's greatest KFC", in Nebraska:
Former New Orleans resident Wilson Koewing told me of a Popeye’s buffet that locals “speak of as if it is a myth.” When I dig deeper, I come across a local paper, NOLA Weekend, which covers “New Orleans Food, things to do, culture, and lifestyle.” It touts the Popeye’s buffet like a carnival barker, as though it is simply too incredible to believe: “The Only Popeye’s Buffet in the World! It’s right next door in Lafayette! Yes, that’s right: a Popeyes buffet. HERE.”
quote:About the author:
Then she adds that the buffet “is also available TO GO, but there are rules. You get a large Styrofoam clamshell, a small Styrofoam clamshell, and a cup. You have to be able to close the Styrofoam. You are instructed that only beverages can go in cups, and when I asked about this, an employee tells me that customers have tried to shove chicken into the drink cups in the past.”
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MM Carrigan is a geriatric Millennial living outside of Baltimore with the wife, kids, and dog. Their essays exploring contemporary culture have appeared in VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and more. They are the editor of Taco Bell Quarterly, the literary magazine for Taco Bell literature.
Posted on 4/8/22 at 11:41 pm to fatboydave
Man the two piece Tuesday is now $2.89. I said frick that on Tuesday night and got an 8 piece from the grocery store. Popeyes sold out for the chicken sandwich. frick em
Posted on 4/9/22 at 2:42 am to bakersman
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I’ve never seen a buffet Popeyes.
The Popeye’s at Canal and Carrollton had a buffet.
The site is a bank now.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 3:06 am to fatboydave
Glad I got to experience it for the first time in 2019.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 4:04 am to fatboydave
I thought this was going to be because they have taken onion rings off the menu.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 7:41 am to LarryDavid
I miss the Pizza Hut buffet
Posted on 4/9/22 at 7:44 am to LarryDavid
quote:And the corn.
I thought this was going to be because they have taken onion rings off the menu.
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