Popeyes v wendys

Popeye's, both because it feels like more of a commitment (and thus requires more rationalisation) and the rewards are greater.

Wendy's cuz they have burgars and a dollar menu. But Popeyes' chicken ain't bad, sides are good, in fact everything is pretty good at Popeyes, but I am poor.

Recently bought a $5 shrimp box at Popeyes, shrimp was much better than LJS. Glad to be posting in ILE Fast Food Thread #349587598673

Popeyes chicken tastes like rubber.

why are these the two you rationalize eating at

popeyes until wendys BRINGS BACK THE FUCKING SUPER BAR

though i wouldn't eat at popeyes tbh. this a purely polemical vote.

a few years ago a new chain popped up in new orleans (where popeyes originated and is totally dominant) called "chicken box." they alternated between two slogans: "tastes like ya mama's!" and "new orleans' #2 chicken!"

understanding that popeyes was too strong to fuck with, chicken box eschewed sides (except for pale, limp, salt-and-peppered fries which i loved) and even drinks (except for big shot, a local brand of very VERY sweet fruit soda) in favor of opening up stores in really crappy neighborhoods and serving, no joke, 5 pieces of dark meat (which is all that was available) for $1.98. in 2005. also they were lit up like operating rooms and decked out in corner store-style bulletproof glass. and open 24 hours.

the chicken was perfectly good if one ate it really fast. this is in sharp contrast to popeyes where the chicken improves with age (to a point).

given the fucked up nature of NO socioeconomic population distribution, the fact that all chicken boxes were in crappy neighborhoods meant that they all got flooded and none ever reopened (in fact there is a church's chicken in hollygrove that was never even gutted).

that's the closest anyone's ever come to even denting popeyes' stranglehold on this city. kfc has just given up.

wendy's is fucking gross.

Dude, the Super Bar was awful. xpost

look, i've picked my cause. the quality of the super bar is irrelevant compared to sticking to my convictions.

the dif between wendys and similar fast food burger joints is pretty superficial, I think: the square burger, the presence of chili on the menu, the greenhouse windows favored by whoever drew up the architectural standards issued to franchisees in 1991. but popeyes chicken is genuinely a lot less gross and evocative of headless featherless fatass dr. moreau experiments than kfc is, to me...the fact that they do clinically depressed looking lil bowls of red beans and rice is just a bonus IMO

what other fast food joints offer baked potatoes?

^^

yeah but i can make a baked potato at home. on the other hand, i don't own a deep fat fryer, hence homemade french fries will almost always be a crushing disappointment.

(if anyone knows of a place where they deep fry a baked potato, holler.)

I'd give you directions to my house but it's getting late

so many years i have resisted buying the deep fat fryer.

Strongo, are you familiar with the mighty Jo Jo Potato? Deep-fried potato quarters -- they're big enough to have a baked potato texture on the inside, french fry texture on the outside.

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/1/13839/12_2007/jojos.jpg

jess you know you don't need a deep fryer to deep fry right?

wmc: 0_o

b: no, i know. it's just...it's a dark road i am better off not going down considering my diet in general.

i will rep for wendy's spicy chicken sandwich, their frosties, and their baked potatoes. their burgers are probably better than mcd's/bk, but i never order them.

their salads are ok too, but if i want a salad i'm not gonna go to wendy's for one.

popeye's has disappointed me the last few times i've gone. they were better when they were cheaper.

as a shameless burger joint addict i will rep for wendy's as easily the best of the ubiquitous chains

not as big a fried chicken enthusiast but when i do go that way i go to popeye's, if only because the closest kfc is incredibly slow and incompetent

i have to say that living in baltimore kind of ruined fast food fried chicken for me. not that there's some stellar local chain, but the little shithole places dotted across the city were like the perfect drunk food ever at 2 a.m.

also one time this ancient guy in a really dapper all-white suit made me sing along with him to t-pain's "i'm in love with a stripper," which was playing LOUD on a car outside the joint. i just can't imagine that happening at a kfc that closes at 10.

cheapo ghetto fried chicken really is the best fried chicken.

Popeyes requires more commitment, but more payoff. I pass two Wendys to get to it. And it doesn't sit well afterward. But man is it tasty. The biscuits, the chicken, the riceandbeans, everything.

Wendy's has salads and dollar chicken sandwiches and frosties and baked potatoes and chili for a cold wet November day. I give them points for the ketchup dispenser, not forcing me to bite open little packets. They offer a solarium and I can still find franchises with the tables that have the 1910 Cheers opening credits people on it.

So Wendy's. It's my adopted favorite.

About the only thing I look forward to in DFW (aside from getting out obv) is the popcorn shrimp at Popeyes. Since the Gulf spill I've thought the shrimp has had an extra oomph even.

would hit a super bar though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aT8agEm07c

the dif between wendys and similar fast food burger joints is pretty superficial, I think: the square burger, the presence of chili on the menu, the greenhouse windows favored by whoever drew up the architectural standards issued to franchisees in 1991.

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fwiw this is p much untrue; currently they're serving unsweetened ice tea which is actually awesome (popeyes sadly only serves their disgustingly sweetened ice tea)

i was moving today so i managed 2 drive-thru experiences, tried each of these. the popeyes po boy was good, but i was happy to get a huge hug of unsweetened ice tea in a drive through during a downpour.

I don't eat fast food burgers (besides Five Guys I guess), and Wendy's chicken is meh. Popeyes fries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and their biscuits, plus their spicy wings make this NO CONTEST whatsoever.

i love unsweeyened ice tea

u r a savage

supposed to say "jug" not "hug" although that was lol

that shit is disgusting smh

i also love sweet iced tea

what could possibly be disgusting about unsweetened ice tea? its tea leaves water & ice cubes

u just answered your own question

ya ur missing the sugar

or the heat, i can deal w/ hot unsweetened tea

anyway Tea -- Sweet vs. Unsweet

i brewed my own unsweetened ice tea this summer

those results are awesome. lol victory by one

unsweetened ice tea is pretty bougie tho i think

wendy's easily

have not read this thread but i consider popeyes much closer to kfc than to wendys

well, maybe not easily -- but yeah, wendy's

kfc has just given up

popeyes chicken is genuinely a lot less gross and evocative of headless featherless fatass dr. moreau experiments than kfc is

otm. kfc is vomitous

arby's serves unsweetened ice tea too btw

wendy's is really killing the frozen drive-thru treat these days -- have you looked at their dessert menu lately? they've got like a billion variations on the frosty now, as a shake, as a parfait, as a root beer float, etc. this time of year when i need to indulge in some kind of cold snack to cope w/ the heat a few times a week they're a godsend.

i used to dig wendy's, but now that five guys is everywhere i see no point in continued wendy's patronage. otoh popeyes is the cream of the crop when it comes to fast food fried chicken, especially since you can get spicy fried chicken. the red beans & rice, fries, biscuits, onion rings all own, and they have strawberry soda at many hood locations. wendy's does get mega points for the persistent 80s decor & vibe though

also one time this ancient guy in a really dapper all-white suit made me sing along with him to t-pain's "i'm in love with a stripper," which was playing LOUD on a car outside the joint. i just can't imagine that happening at a kfc that closes at 10.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha 'made me' - im imagining jack palance in shane shooting at your feet

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Wendy's represents a more innocent time for me. Thus my vote is cast.

It is good to see this quiz obeys the golden rule: what polls in August, stays in August.

can't think of a single reason i'd ever go out of my way to eat at a wendy's, maybe besides their shakes. popeyes at least has their cajun fries and biscuits which are both awesome. oh fuck sudden nostalgia overload: when i was in fourth or fifth grade, i would go to the mall occasionally to play star wars card game tournaments at a comic book store and my dad would buy me cajun fries from popeyes every time after i was done. HAPPIER TIME, etc

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ooh close 1

discovered this at my local Popeye's. Uhhhh....

http://i67.tinypic.com/2nhkm11.jpg

ridiculous poll result

popeye's is the best american fast food chain.

i had to drive my dad to the airport today and on the way back stopped at a rest stop off the turnpike and had some popeyes, perhaps unconciously inspired by this thread. it was greasy and terrible. when i left the rest stop, there was a cat on the sidewalk. he seemed clean and not mangy so i thought he probably had a home nearby, but i couldn't tell because he didn't have a collar. on the drive home i kept worrying about the cat.

dud for poeyes.

like, why was the biscuit so salty? why do i still feel full and gross three hours later? what a terrible place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miu90sh_9yM

and here i thought i loved popeyes too much already

I 900% believe my triglycerides went into the 500s purely due to eating there almost daily for two weeks

hey Santa's gotta poop somewhere

guys popeyes has come to the UK and the fried chicken sandwich is a certified hit. people absolutely lose their shit over it. can somebody explain this to me?? who tf cares about popeyes chicken? how did they achieve this?

Years of good word of mouth, months/years of clamor for them to please do a sandwich, months of anticipation once they announce they'll do a sandwich (I assume, I never saw an ad campaign thanks to cable cutting and adblockers), scarcity of it taking forfuckingever to get one because they apparently only cook 2-3 at a time, and finally it's a pretty damn good sandwich. The last one I got was below par but that's one miss in about six swings.

Maybe it’s the exoticism of a New Orleans themed fast food restaurant for you guys over there.

Like Nando’s is probably ubiquitous and prosaic for you but it’s still exotic and new over here in the US.

fried chicken sandwiches are def. a fad right now

I could go for one

Like Nando’s is probably ubiquitous and prosaic for you but it’s still exotic and new over here in the US.

The town where I live has so many really good Portuguese chicken places that when I went to London and was brought to Nando's by locals raving about it, I was just kind of baffled, like, "OK, it's nice that you tried."

I like Popeye's chicken, but not the chicken sandwich. Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich is better.

Nashville hot chicken places are popping up all over AZ now, I assume all over US as well

yeah we have so many nashville hot chicken places now in sacramento its crazy