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     Kommentar till en text av DALE SHIPP
Ärende: Cajun fast food 83
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 DD> And you have saved me from getting stupid and trying it even once. The
 DS> Glad to be of service :-}}  It is possible that our usual Popeyes just
 DS> had a bad night on those wing segments, but given the way chains work
 DS> (even when they are franchises) I would expect that they would be the
 DS> same formulation in your area.  IMO, these wing segments were
 DS> analogous to lobster culls, i.e. rejects from the normal operation.

Hiding behind a promotion, or behind the idea that a hot
enough sauce will mask anything, or maybe justifying their
actions by the notion that people who will eat hot food
don't care if it tastes good or is up to standard, only
that it's hot? It used to be said that you should never
buy hot sausage or spicy fried chicken, but by and large
I've found that the (regular) hot products are of equal
quality to the regular.

 DS> ususally have a coupon that gives us a free two piece meal with the
 DS> purchase of a three piece meal.  That is our standard.  I admit that
 DS> their red beans & rice is sub standard.  I had it once only.  I
 DS> probably could make better dirty rice, but their standard serving is
 DS> just right. If I made it at home it would end up being a major part of
 DS> the next three night dinners.  Gail usually gets their mashed potatoes
 DS> and Cajun gravy.  The gravy is pretty good.  Have you ever tried that?

It's the texture of the potatoes, not that I eat potatoes,
that gets to me.

 -=> Dave Drum said to Dale Shipp <=-

 DD> Oh, and I hardly ever buy their combo deals. I have soda or other
 DD> beverages at home. And I make better RBR or Dirty Rice than they. And
 DD> AFAIAC their fries suck  the bitter carrot. So,

I can make these dishes better, most of the echo can
probably say the same, but who does?

And I don't have as low an opinion of their RBR as you
guys - maybe my impression is colored by the days when
you got discernible bits of ham. But even today when it
is asserted by some that they just use commercial smoke
flavoring, at least they get the balance right.

 DD> Checking their web presence I find that they no longer offer crawfish
 DD> items. They used to offer (>10 years ago) several crawfish selections.
 DD> They do offer Po'Boy sandwiches in chicken (2 tenders per) or seafood
 DD> (choice of popcorn shrimp or fish). Their popcorn shrimp is, as with
 DD> most popcorn shrimp, mostly breading - but tasty for all of that. I've
 DD> not, in all the years I've been a Popeyes customer, tried the fish.

The crawfish (likely Chinese and quite spicy) didn't taste
any better than popcorn shrimp.

 -=> Dale Shipp said to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> If I have tried their Cajun Gravy it wasn't very memorable as I can't
 DD> recall having had it. The dirty rice and the RBR - yeah, I've tried
 DS> I once tried to order "dirty rice" at a Popeyes and all I got was a
 DS> blank stare! :-}}  They call it "Cajun rice" and the level of clerks
 DS> they hire behind the counter don't know it by its proper name.

I still do that, and sometimes they have no idea, sometimes
they figure it out, and sometimes they snootily say "We serve
CAJUN rice," which I guess is both.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Red Beans With Rice
 Categories: Cajun, Main dish
      Yield: 6 servings

      1 lb Red kidney beans                    1    Bell pepper
      1 lb Salt pork                           1    Chopped onion
      2    Cloves garlic                       1    Stalk celery
      1 ts Italian seasoning                   1    Whole hot pepper

  Boil pork 5 minutes to get rid of salt.  Put pork in second water (hot) and
  add beans, water, should be one-half inch above beans. Add immediately, one
  bell pepper, one chopped onion, celery, garlic, Italian seasoning and whole
  hot pepper.  Cook slowly two to three hours, until gravy is thick and beans
  tender -- just before dishing out add a pinch of italian seasoning again.
  Salt to taste and serve with rice. From "Talk About Good" contributed by
  Mrs. Charles Barras, Jr.

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