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Chutzpah
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:36 am
by AnotherFairportfan
The best way to explain the
Popeyes/
Bojangles' duality is to explain that Popeyes came first, and the best comparison i can draw is that Popeyes is Dr Pepper and Bojangles' is Mr Pibb.
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That billboard has been there for years.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:32 am
by lake_wrangler
I remember a time when, in Québec City, Popeye's was a burger joint...
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:12 am
by Alkarii
I remember a time when Popeye was a sailor, man.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:39 am
by AnotherFairportfan
Alkarii wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:12 am
I remember a time when Popeye was a sailor, man.
For quite a while the chicken restaurant licensed the
Thimble Theater characters {Popeye, Olive, Wimpy...}
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:52 pm
by Bookworm
That's okay. In the US, there's Little Caesar's pizza, with a motto of "Pizza! Pizza!".
In Ontario, there's Pizza! Pizza! pizza. Apparently they worked out the trademark argument with just an agreement that they wouldn't expand into each other's markets.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:03 pm
by Typeminer
Alkarii wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:12 am
I remember a time when Popeye was a sailor, man.
Ya wouldn't think he was a cowboy.
But then there's this one:
"What time do y'all go to church?"
"Hell, we don't go to Church. We go to
Popeyes!"
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:33 pm
by TazManiac
I've heard of Bojangles (as in MISTER), but never as a brand name for anything.
Popeye's Chicken otoh, they have two piece Tuesdays, a decent 'beans & rice' side dish, and I flip back and forth over them and 'Church's chicken'...
PS- I just rebooted following a complete power loss and the 'as yet unsent text' of this post was right here waiting for me when I rebooted.
PPS- I miss Flints and esp Dougies Bar-B-Q. <sigh>
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:54 pm
by Dave
True... but the restaurant it refers to had actually burned down in a terrible grease-fryer explosion, almost as long ago.
The billboard had been kept up by the owner of that particular Popeyes franchise, as a memorial to what she felt was an honorable competitor.
I guess she missed her Bojangle's.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:27 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
>>bleah<<
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:28 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
TazManiac wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:33 pm
Popeye's Chicken otoh, they have two piece Tuesdays, a decent 'beans & rice' side dish, and I flip back and forth over them and 'Church's chicken'...
For a few years, Popeyes and Church's were subsidiaries of AFC {America's Finest Chicken}...
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:32 pm
by lake_wrangler
Bookworm wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:52 pm
That's okay. In the US, there's Little Caesar's pizza, with a motto of "Pizza! Pizza!".
In Ontario, there's Pizza! Pizza! pizza. Apparently they worked out the trademark argument with just an agreement that they wouldn't expand into each other's markets.
I actually worked as a pizza delivery driver for Pizza Pizza, for a couple of years... And they have moved into the province of Québec, a few years ago now.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:46 pm
by jwhouk
Popeye's and Bojangles were part of the rush of fast-food restaurants that tried to compete with McDonald's and KFC in the early 1970's. Popeye's only kept up by posturing as a Louisiana Cajun-flavor restaurant, while Bojangles... well, I'm not sure what their deal was, but it worked in the region of the US where they were popular.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:02 pm
by Warrl
The best fast-food chicken I've had was at a Popeye's in east Texas.
The worst fast-food chicken I've had was also at a Popeye's in east Texas.
Quality control in that chain is not up to snuff.
Re: Chutzpah
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:07 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
jwhouk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:46 pm
Popeye's and Bojangles were part of the rush of fast-food restaurants that tried to compete with McDonald's and KFC in the early 1970's. Popeye's only kept up by posturing as a Louisiana Cajun-flavor restaurant, while Bojangles... well, I'm not sure what their deal was, but it worked in the region of the US where they were popular.
Popeyes IS a Cajun-flavour restaurant; they pretty much ran KFC out of New Orleans for most of the 1980s; they originated in the NOLa suburb of Arabi in 1972.
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By the way - Guess what fast-food chain has the most locations?
Nope - Not McDonalds.
Nope - not Starbucks
{Bojangles' is tied for 82nd, behind Zaxby's; Popeye's is 25th.