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#309822 - 03/24/08 06:12 PM
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Popeyes founder and local icon diesAl Copeland, a hard-charging, high-living entrepreneur who built an empire on spicy fried chicken and fluffy white biscuits, died Sunday in Munich, Germany, of complications from cancer treatment. He was 64. He had gone to Munich for treatment of his illness, which had been diagnosed in November, said Kit Wohl, his spokeswoman. Born in poverty, Mr. Copeland burst onto the scene in 1972, when he opened his first Popeyes fried-chicken stand. The Arabi restaurant was the start of a franchise that, under his leadership, had 700 outlets, in the United States, Puerto Rico, Panama and Kuwait. The money he earned led to public displays of opulence such as speedboats kept in a glass-walled showroom along Interstate 10 when he wasn't racing them, a Lamborghini sports car parked outside his corporate headquarters and, of course, the massive Christmas displays that required sheriff's deputies to direct the traffic outside his Metairie home. There also were over-the-top weddings with such touches as fireworks and a model of Cinderella's pumpkin coach. These weddings ended in equally spectacular divorces; the divorce proceedings from his third wife wound up bringing down the original judge hearing the case as part of a massive federal investigation of courthouse corruption. During Carnival, Mr. Copeland not only sponsored parade floats in Jefferson Parish but also rode, said Peter Ricchiuti, a Tulane University finance professor who saw Mr. Copeland in one such procession. Ricchiuti said he overheard this exchange between two other spectators: One man dismissed the spectacle as an indication of new money, but the other man replied, "If I had money, that's what I'd do." Not even bankruptcy, the result of buying Church's Fried Chicken Inc., stopped him. Although Mr. Copeland lost ownership of his chicken outlets, he retained control of the company making the distinctive spice mixture, and he went on to open restaurants bearing his surname, as well as establishments featuring California cuisine, wrap sandwiches, cheesecake and Asian fare. Obit , including tales of judicial corruption and chasing Anne Rice out of New Orleans, goes on for six pages in the Times-Picayune. Don't these people have hurricane damage to worry about?
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#309823 - 03/24/08 07:30 PM
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#309825 - 03/24/08 09:18 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/02/05
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I hate to admit this, but back in the mid-90s, whenever I worked late in downtown LA or up in San Jose, I'd have my receptionist buy me a 12 pack of Heineken and a box of Popeyes...I was young and full of vigor then and wheeled 9 miles every morning and could bench 225 lbs 15x over.
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#309826 - 03/24/08 09:29 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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When I was a kid, Popeyes was a treat. Fast food in our house was pretty rare. I loved the drumsticks and the tops of the buttermilk biscuits. Just the tops.
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#309827 - 03/24/08 09:59 PM
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 04/02/07
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same as gia but we didnt have popeyes where i lived, kfc original was great though, (fucking lakers are about to fuck me) side question, how has not one of these fried chicken joints realized the gimmick potential of "gourmet mashed potatos" a side at mortons is like 13 dollars, how expensive could it be to actually buy potatos force the workers to actually peel and cook them add some cream chives real butter whatever charge an extra 1.50,people will totally pay it, and then market the gourmet mashed potato gimmick on tv and make a fortune, why has no one thought of this
GOD DAMMIT LAKERS 9:59 pst
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#309828 - 03/24/08 10:25 PM
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Registered: 05/08/07
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In all my visits to the States I've never had Popeye's. Then one just opened up here in town a couple of months ago.
What's good on the menu?
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#309829 - 03/25/08 06:31 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/09/06
Posts: 9113
Loc: red dirt state of mind
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We didn't have any Popeye's here until recently. KFC and Church's only. Although black people don't like Church's much. There is fried chicken chain in Saudi Arabia called Al Baik and besides my own Grandmother, it is some the best chicken I have ever had.
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#309833 - 03/25/08 08:12 AM
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their belief that Snapple is run by the Klan.
Man, I thought I'd heard 'em all, but that's so loony I had to look it up. Per Snopses:
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The KKK rumor was putatively supported by two aspects of the beverage's former label's design: the ship that used to be portrayed in the background and the small letter K off to the side. Those who choose to see conspiracies lurking everywhere claimed the vessel as a 'blackbirder,' a slave ship that brought enslaved Blacks to America. Look at the label closely, they would say, and you'll see captured Blacks in chains on the deck and crewmen further in the background wearing the distinctive Klansman sheet-and-hood get-ups.
It's amazing how imagination can prompt folks to see things that are not there. The photo used for the label came from the Bettmann Archive and was a drawing of the Boston Tea Party. As for the K (another sign rumored to point to a Klan connection), it's a standard symbol found on many foodstuffs that signifies that particular product meets Kosher dietary standards.
In response to the slander, Snapple redesigned its iced tea labels to add the words "Boston Tea Party" to explain the subject of the illustration. The encircled K was enhanced with the words "kosher pareve" to clarify what that symbol stood for. A still later redesign dropped the ship entirely.
The company never did discover who began the rumors or why. It's possible the uproar was in part fueled by Snapple's then decision to advertise around arch-conservative radio and TV personality Rush Limbaugh's radio show. (That association ended in 1994.)
Rumors die hard, though. In 1995 — only a year after the company ran a media blitz to combat the rumor — ABC's 20/20 empanelled a group of African-American consumers to discuss their suspicions about several consumer products, including Snapple.
Seems there's also rumors they're tied to Abortion Doc murders Operation Rescue and Osama bin Laden.
 
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#309835 - 03/25/08 08:52 AM
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Registered: 06/09/03
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In all my visits to the States I've never had Popeye's. Then one just opened up here in town a couple of months ago.
What's good on the menu?
just about everything there is good but their chicken and sausage jambalaya is awesome. Damn now I am wanting some is it 10am CST yet?
I liked their cajun rice. Church's has that interesting fried okra.
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#309836 - 03/25/08 08:55 AM
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Registered: 05/08/07
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Fuck I haven't had that in years. We've got the BEST hamburger chain up here called Harvey's and they used to serve fried okra. They took it off the menu a long time ago and tried a brief merger with Church's chicken, but it tanked and the okra never returned.
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#309837 - 03/25/08 09:23 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
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There is/was a Popeyes in Toronto, but I haven't been there is a long time and it might be gone now. Handful, it used to be on Yonge Street, near the Eaton Centre. Out west, Church's is usually geared to the Philipino market (they outnumber the blacks about 10-1). I don't partake too often (too greasy for my taste). My fast food of choice is Pho, but it's kind of messy to eat whilst driving. 
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#309838 - 03/25/08 09:23 AM
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Registered: 09/23/04
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One of the best things ever is fried okra covered in creamed corn. I mean southern creamed corn- which is more salty than the sweet shit that comes in most cans.
We never got Popeye's in this area I think because Bojangle's is based nearby and sells the same basic food.
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#309842 - 03/25/08 04:07 PM
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Fuck I haven't had that in years. We've got the BEST hamburger chain up here called Harvey's and they used to serve fried okra. They took it off the menu a long time ago and tried a brief merger with Church's chicken, but it tanked and the okra never returned.
There used to be a Roy Rogers (fried chicken, hamburgers and roast beef) two blocks from my freshman dorm. I firmly believe it accounted for 90% of my 'freshman 15' pounds gained that year. Damn! That was good chicken after a serious study session.
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#309843 - 03/25/08 04:25 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 05/18/06
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we had a sister's chicken across the street when i was living dangerously close to the ghetto. they had this fantastic strawberry shortcake and my mom got mugged in the parking lot one evening when she went there to get some. after that she bought guns. 
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#309844 - 03/25/08 05:05 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/02/05
Posts: 5750
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Bojangles is the shit, I had an assignement in Columbia onetime and every evening after work the chicks would take me to a bar and pour JD down my throat and by the time I got back to my hotel I'd be in the mooooooooood for anything with lots o fat and a greasy bent to it.
+1 on the okra observation
Oh, and I love Zoe
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#309846 - 03/25/08 07:44 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/14/06
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btw, in the early 80s I used to travel to the East New York projects to Kansas Fried Chicken to get ribs for my elderly aunt who lived in Starrett City just adored them. The chicken? Not so special.
I'm pretty sure it's gone now.
The only one's I know of that may still function are in Harlem and Newark.
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#309848 - 03/26/08 11:13 AM
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There's a "Texas Fried Chicken" a block from my office. It's run by an Egyptian dude with a bunch of Mexican peons.
Never heard of Bojangles until now. There's one in Brooklyn, but it's in such a shitty neighborhood (2 blocks from "Malcolm X Blvd.") that I'm not about to go check it out.
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#309849 - 03/26/08 12:39 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/14/06
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wtf?? There's a Malcom X Blvd in Brooklyn?
What neighborhood? Bed-Stuy?
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#309850 - 03/26/08 01:58 PM
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wtf?? There's a Malcom X Blvd in Brooklyn?
What neighborhood? Bed-Stuy?
The Brooklyn location is at 1291 Broadway, on the Bed-Stuy/Bushwick border. Malcolm X is inside the Bed-Stuy side.
They actually have five locations in Honduras. CLICKY
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#309851 - 03/26/08 02:07 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 14160
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I ate at Popeye's in Iceland. It's in a mall with a Porshce dealership inside. The Popeye's there tastes really good because the meat comes from local Icelandic farms.
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