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.
