Chutzpah
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Chutzpah
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.
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That billboard has been there for years.
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- lake_wrangler
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I remember a time when, in Québec City, Popeye's was a burger joint...
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I remember a time when Popeye was a sailor, man.
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For quite a while the chicken restaurant licensed the Thimble Theater characters {Popeye, Olive, Wimpy...}
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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.
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.
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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!"
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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>
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>
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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.
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>>bleah<<
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For a few years, Popeyes and Church's were subsidiaries of AFC {America's Finest Chicken}...
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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.
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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.
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Re: Chutzpah
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.
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.
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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.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.
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By the way - Guess what fast-food chain has the most locations?
Nope - Not McDonalds.
Nope - not Starbucks
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