Date Visited: 13 July 2008Meal: Dinner
Diners: 2 - Me & Wendy
Experience: Sometimes you just want fried chicken. The primary cheap, fast-food fried chicken place in Leesburg is Popeyes. We went there on a Sunday night, and business was very slow.
We got one of the family meal deals that included twelve pieces of chicken (we got half mild and half spicy - for me!), two large sides (we got mashed pototoes and red beans & rice), and six biscuits. When we go to Popeyes, we always get a large side of onion rings too - they're pretty good. When you want good, cheap, fast fried chicken, Popeyes is not so bad.
As has happened before, sometimes the restaurant's web site is more interesting than their food. It turns out that the full name of the restaurant chain is actually Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits. It was started by Al Copeland in 1972 in Arabi, Louisiana. Popeyes is named not after the cartoon sailor, but for the character Popeye Doyle in the movie “The French Connection.” According to the Popeyes wikipedia article, "Copeland would claim facetiously that he was "too poor" to afford an apostrophe."
I found two "official" Popeyes web sites: one appears to be the main corporate one, and the other is just for the Virginia/Maryland/DC locations. You can download desktop images and screen savers that show a variety of Popeyes food, and even download some of their jingles (although I can't imagine why you would want to).
Location: 515 E. Market St., Leesburg, VA, 20175
Web sites: http://www.popeyes.com/ and http://www.popeyeschicken.com/
Total bill: $31.11
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