RESTAURANTS Popeyes to launch beignets nationwide for limited time as it doubles down on dessert

cnbc ^ | 12/14/2020 | Amelia Lucas

[mylife]

Ben Yay

[nesnah]

How is that pronounced?

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Ben-yay

[Hazwaste]

Beignets, black Community coffee, and a Kool Menthol 100. Breakfast of Champions in New Orleans.

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, I’m not arguing. Popeye’s is the best fast-food chicken by far. Loved it for years. Better than Kenny Rogers Roasters any day!

I haven’t been able to get close to one for a while now, though - lines way too long. But good on them! Doing something right!

[Daaave]

I'd have to drive out of town to try beignets at Popeye's. Which is highly likely.

In Hawaii we used to get Portugese doughnuts called Malasadas. I haven't had any since I was rugrat. I've had similar. Wish I could just go to Honolulu and get some doughnuts.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=portuguese+doughnuts+hawaii&qs=HS&pq=p&sk=HS1&sc=8-1&cvid=E885179A8B3246A094651E4F53F4EB11&FORM=QBLH&sp=2

[mylife]

Hawaii had great food.

[Vaduz]

Dealer wonders now what bag did I put my lunch in?.

[PUGACHEV]

... de gustibus. I like Popeye’s Red Beans & Rice, and their biscuits, but I also likeTaco Bell. TB will customize anything on their menu to suit your taste.

[Hootowl99]

Back in the day, I was based in Texas and the Process R&D person for a plastics production unit in Louisiana. Once or twice a month, I would make a day trip to the facility in the company's King Air. Nice way to commute and a heck of a lot stressful than highway commuting. The county airport was 10min from the house then usually a 90 min flight to Louisiana, taxi into the hanger with a rental car waiting inside for the easy drive to the facility.

The first time I was at the Louisiana facility was a day in meetings and during the morning break, I went to the break room next to the control room to grab a quick coffee. It was curious in that it was the smallest styrofoam coffee cup I'd ever seen. I drink run of the mill break room coffee black so this stuff by habit I had the same way. Took a drink and it about knocked me over. I had to take baby sips to handle it.

Anyway, I found out later that it was homemade recipe chicory coffee. The operators got kick out of feeding it to unsuspecting victims like me. LOL... With cream and sugar, it's amazing but black it's almost lethal.

How they made it is to brew the coffee up normally then spoon a straight chicory brew into the fresh brewed coffee pot. The straight chicory was brewed separately as you do coffee and then put into a pot and concentrated into a syrup on a stove. The syrup was stored in the fridge and added to a regular coffee brew. That's how Mama taught them at home.