Popeye’s Chicken advertised a special that promised 8-piece meals for $4.99. Due to the popularity of the deal, one outpost in Rochester ran out of chicken. The local news covered it, and nowhere along the way did a producer say, “Uh, maybe we shouldn’t run a story about fried chicken in which every single person interviewed is black.” Nevertheless, without touching on the race issue, there are some gems here (“How we supposed to feed our kids now?” “We were looking forward to this day”).
To discuss the issue of race and fried chicken, I’d like to refer you to Martellus Bennett, the Dallas Cowboys tight end who wrote a blog post titled Why do black people love chicken? He polled several black friends who provided different answers (“the media makes people believe chicken is all black people eat.” In this case, true), but here’s Marty B’s ultimate analysis:
my answer: everybody loves chicken despite race sex gender chicken is scrumptious and everyone enjoys it. If you haven’t had chicken go get some.
I have rarely seen wiser words. And now I want a four-piece meal with mashed potatoes and mac & cheese. You can have fried chicken for breakfast, right? No? Well, you’re probably the same people who say I shouldn’t drink at lunch.
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>>>With all that being said I am about to go get me a spicy ten piece with fo (four) biscuits and a large red beans from popeyes. I don’t need a drink because I have purple koolaid at home.<<<
No Sunny D for Marty B.
“If you haven’t had chicken go get some.”
– I am intrigued by this “chicken” you refer to. Where would a gentleman such as myself find this rare delicacy?
“If you don’t like chicken and watermelon, something’s wrong with you motherf-er”
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Dammit, qwijibo! You beat me to the Chapelle punch!
Blacks and chickens are quite found of one another…
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^^^Come on, buddy…come onnnnnnnnnn, buddy!
I really love Popeye’s Chicken. Unfortunately, the only one remotely close to me is in the airport, which means I only get my fix when I’m flying out. Although I have, because I’m a fat shit like Louis CK, actually bought some to take home upon arrival in my home airport. Red beans and rice? Mashed potatoes? Mardi Gras suace? Yes, sir!
You can have fried chicken for breakfast, right?
Hell yes. You just have to wrap less-healthy things around it, like a buttermilk biscuit, a fried egg, and three strips of bacon.
Crap, my left arm’s gone numb.
and by “found”, I mean “fond”.
Crap!
“I ain’t never coming back.”
Sure.
They better not run the Chicken Tetrazzini special…
sometimes reality is more racist than anything Don Imus could ever imagine…
Make way for the bird!
<< Did someone say fried chicken?!
I work with a few Europeans so I just showed them this video to encapsulate what America means.
One of them asked – “so why do they drive big SUVs all around town to save a few dollars when they’re wasting more money in gas? Couldn’t they just go get some pasta for that much?”
/shakes head
…oh foreigners…
These people sound so stupid.
Really? They couldn’t find one token white person in a city that’s 83.3% white (2010 Projected Census), to comment on the chicken fiasco? I love how they cut back to the two porcelain journalists too. You can almost hear the one on the right’s thoughts through her smirk. I subscribe to the Dave Chappelle school of thought as well, thanks for posting a link to the Vid.
The same fiasco plays out in Minneapolis as is also captured on Youtube. Although no white people interviewed for that piece either, it produced such gems as, “That’s okay, we’ll just go to KFC,” and the reporter teases a customer by saying, “I see they’ve still got you buying chicken anyway.” The poor prole can only grin sheepishly.
“How’m I Gon’ fee ma kids?”
Well, you could start by selling your 40,000 dollar SUV and buying something slightly less ostentatious for 20,000 dollars. Then you will have 20,000 dollars to feed your kids something slightly more healthy than that popeyes crap.
Comedy gold.
I have never in my life seen a group of people so disappointed about something so meaningless.
This beats that one time I saw a group of Mexicans ready to riot because Wal-Mart ran out of hairnets.
I don’t understand the problem with food based racism. I learned from the movie Undercover Brother that all white people love mayonnaise. And it’s true! I eats that shit up!
I live in Bermuda and seriously they love their chicken here. On Bermuda Day (Bermuda’s version of Independence Day) when the clears after the parade, all you can see is Kentucy Fried Chicken wrappers. In fact, Kentucky Fried Chicken is the only chain restaurant on the whole island. One of Bermuda’s national dishes is Mac and Cheese. Seriously WTF is that all about?
Yeah, thats some funny shit and all….but seriously, wheres my godamn chicken.