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Finally mainstream gives recognition to a true grower.

Right. I bet it's their answer to KFC Kentucky hot or whatever they call it. It's not hot at all LOL. Im not sure if I'll try Popeyes, last time I was there I was NOT impressed. Service was shot (fast food, go figure but no excuse to be rude) and the food was awful.
 
In my experience, Popeye's is among the better fast food options, which still leaves it pretty far down towards the bottom on the restaurant hierarchy. Sucks that they were rude to you, but I find that kinda thing tends to be more about the culture at specific locations than across the entire chain.

You're absolutely correct that it won't be hot. Which is to be expected from a mainstream national chain. I often think about the psychology of us real chileheads, as far as what makes us do these things that we do, to ourselves? I don't have any actual answers, but I do like to think about it, mostly bc is pretty weird....

That being said, it isn't half as weird as the habits of the "normal"/ non-chilehead community, in regards to the mainstream spicy foods, at least in the US. They want to purchase products that claim to be the hottest thing EVER, but they will totally balk and even become angry if the product is actually hot at all. Like, they want the bragging rights, but they'd sooner die than actually ingest something with any real pungency. I don't get that at all. To me, that seems weirder than when I eat a whole raw Superhot for no reason, and then spend fifteen minutes marching around my kitchen table, compulsively swigging milk and promising myself that I'll never do it again...

Ultimately, though, I wonder how this deal went down. I sincerely doubt that there will be any actual 7Pot Primo powder or sauce or anything in their recipe. Did they pay him to use his name? Did he approach them and cut then a sweet deal, in hopes of drumming up some publicity? I'm way more interested in the whole backstory than I am in those tenders.

But I'll be hitting up Popeye's in Maple Shade, NJ for lunch tomorrow, regardless.

Thanks for sharing, BoaRider.
 
Bicycle808
 
i know what you are saying about fast food places adding heat. my local Chinese restaurant menu says General Tso`s chicken is "spicy" so i call in an order and i tell them make it extra spicy and when i get it i taste no heat at all. i think they are are afraid to up the heat and offend the typical customer. you won`t get anything spicy at Taco bell either.   
 
In Thailand, they are pissed off about Taco Bell's 'hot' being nothing so Taco Bell is making custom sauces just for the Thai population with real kick. lol.
 
Next will be the McDonald's Primo Chicken Sandwich. :)
 
Chris
 
luvmesump3pp3rz said:
Bicycle808
 
i know what you are saying about fast food places adding heat. my local Chinese restaurant menu says General Tso`s chicken is "spicy" so i call in an order and i tell them make it extra spicy and when i get it i taste no heat at all. i think they are are afraid to up the heat and offend the typical customer. you won`t get anything spicy at Taco bell either.   
I hear you re: the Chinese takeout spots that cater mostly to a US-born clientele. Never get spicy Tso's or Kung Pao around me. Of course, I once tried to watch a documentary about General Tso's chicken. It was too boring to watch the whole thing, but one of my takeaways from what I did watch was that General Tso's was created in the US by Chinese restauranteurs trying to Alan to American customers, so who is to say how hot it should be, anyway? But they DO or the little chile icon next to it on the menu, so they owe us since sort of kick, I reckon.

I do like going to Korean, Thai, and Indian restaurants, where you actually can get some heat in your dish but, until you become a regular, you need to take with at convincing some of the waitstaff that you truly can appreciate some spice on your plate...
 
Around here, Popeyes is about the best FF chicken you can get. I had some a week ago at a new one that opened a mile down the road. Seemed milder than the ones on the north side of town but it was good.
 
The vast majority of Chinese places are super cautious about making anything really spicy. The best cook ive met started with a little hole in the wall. I sampled many items he prepared for their lunch and he has brought me many things to sample. He brought out a hot oil tofu once that was flaming hot. This stuff was brutal for Chinese food. MUCH hotter than mapo tofu. It was probably Hunan style tofu. After he saw i could eat that it was no problem getting SPICY!!!
 
If you have a Chinese place that is somewhat authentic and specializes in Spicy/Sichuan/Hunan dishes, ask for the Yellow Lantern hot sauce. If you can eat that and they remember, you wont have a problem getting spicy.
 
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