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Well, it's finally happened.
It's finally happened. Ladies and gentlemen, you saw the title.
You know what's behind this, you know the entire lineage, the saga,
the drama, the action, the inaction.
That's right folks. I have allergies today!
And if I if I sound a little nasally, you know, that's why it's a seasonal allergies.
You know it happens always around this time of year. So, you know, that's just why.
You know, sorry, I've been a little bit stuffed up congested.
So I apologize, but the show always goes on and on just a little side note, of course.
(We still love you brah. It's okay.)
Popeyes has brought back their shrimp.
(Popeyes better not ruin his day again!)
Oh boy the infamous, the infamous shrimp.
What was once at one point, one time, one of my favorite items on the Popeyes menu. Something that I mean
I literally went totally insane over. I remember I think in like 2015
it was, maybe 2014, I would get the shrimp from the Popeyes.
And I literally I think I gave that close to like a 10 out of 10.
I thought it was one of the best things on the entire menu - better than any of the chicken. And
then came that one fateful day in
2017. I tried it and my disappointing my disappointment was immeasurable
and my day really was ruined. Such an incredible thing that was just, you know, the quality had stooped
so low. I was so I was so disappointed that day. You know? Well, Popeyes kind of took a break from that, you know,
they focused more on their chicken, chicken-esque entrees, and appetizers and wings and all that stuff.
But now I guess they decided to feel adventurous.
(eeek)
They said, "You know what? We're gonna go back into the world of shrimp!" and that's what they're doing.
They got a new release. Will they redeem themselves? We're gonna find out. What do we have on our plate
today? Well it's not a real plate, you know, it's actually just a cardboard box, but you know what I meant by that.
That was just uh
allergy. Alright Popeyes has their southern butterfly shrimp out.
So again, these are the same ones that have the butterfly meat like the last ones so it's gonna be that same type of shrimp
You get the $5 meal deal. That's the one thing with Popeyes
If you try to just get the shrimp only that's not gonna happen
So you have to get it as a 5 dollar meal deal and for most of us, that's fine
You just get the shrimp you get aside. You get the biscuit and of course you could tack on a drink if you want
But you just get the whole combo they say
Anyway, what's the big deal about these? Well these shrimp are
First and foremost they're breaded with club crackers might say what the heck is a club cracker. It's it's real
it just it's just like a uh,
Just your standard
Standard cracker, that's all that it is and at first starts thinking then it's kind of odd
That's it's a little weird. But then I think you know what most of it is breaded with just breadcrumbs
Anyway, it's just kind of a small variation of that. But anyway mixed in with the club crackers is
cayenne pepper black pepper
garlic, and then they have a
Leaving yellow honey mustard sauce, that's actually see right here
the Mardi Gras Mardi Gras
Mustard sauce right there see it front and center
So anyway, that's all the hype that's what it is. And again no matter what you want. It's always gonna be $5
That's just how Popeyes does it the $5 meal deal
they say
Anyway, yeah at the box here. I'm gonna get the socks out of its little
plastic bag
And I'll see those
shrimp
front and center
There's the Popeyes logo and icebox
Chicken more Popeyes and there's the big P which stands for
Tom Pines
All right, here's what it looks like let me get this up close for you right here
See that
There's the seasoned fries you can see the biscuit. You can't really see the
Shrimp too. Well, there's an extra mustard sauce right in there
The shrimp are kind of buried underneath the
Underneath the fries here's a close-up view when I move it in front of my face
Now you can see that that's what it looks like very heavily breaded
You know, you can't really tell that there is any sort of cracker based breading on it
Just looks like the threaded shrimp. But either way it's gonna be interesting to see what they taste like how good they are
How bad they might be that Popeyes redeemed themselves with this
Time. Well, Tom, we'll just have to see so with that being said it's their southern
Butterfly shrimp from Popeyes. It's going in
Either way you can see even if it doesn't focus you can totally sink a little bit of seasoning right there in the shrimp
That's something yes. You actually can eat the tails
Remember the last time some people were actually saying is this it says bleepity bleep actually eating the towns. Yes. Yes
You can believe it or not. He's popped by his shrimp anyway
Alright I'm gonna keep it short and then we're just quickly trying the
Mustard sauce cuz I want you to just start act up I can feel it
Honestly, I'm impressed by them
I thought that they did a good job with these I I didn't know what to come up this at first because I haven't had
Popeyes in a while. I was very disappointed by them, you know the last few times I was there
I thought that the shrimp weren't that good. I thought that the chicken, you know could have been better
I didn't know what to expect of these shrimp now tell you this
It's kind of it's it's not quite as good as it was built back in the old days, but I will tell you this
these shrimp
Definitely taste better than they did a few years ago
It definitely has just that nice
melt-in-your-mouth
consistency that they used to have that I enjoy doesn't come across as too fishy or anything, which is good and definitely
while they advertise it having this kind of cracker based breading and
That's not really what you can taste but you could definitely taste the Cayenne in the black pepper
You know, it sounds very intimidating, but it comes off very nicely. It's not overpowering. It's not overbearing and it isn't too strong
But it just it just blends together really well
I just think honestly it's a big improvement from what we had the last time. Alright, so last things here. We're just gonna try out
This honey. We're just a Mardi Gras mustard right there for big Mardi Gras
I'm just gonna clip it in you know what it tastes like and that'll be that
But I gotta say overall. I think I think they definitely did
Improve these a lot compared to the last time I tried it
You're gonna get it with the sauce
Get it with the mustard
Because it just works out really well blends together good
hands us a little bit of sweetness a little bit of spice just a really good accompaniment for these shrimp all
Now the price for this again, like I said is $5. It's just a $5 meal deal. All things considered
Like I said, I think it's just a really good improvement compared to well, you know
Just how it was in the past. So with that being said
Out of 10. What am I gonna be rating their southern?
Butterfly shrimp out of 10. I'm gonna be giving these an 8 point 3 out of 10
Not the best thing in the world, but certainly it's a huge improvement from what we got in the past. All right
So with that being said ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to be wrapping up today's review. Again. I apologies my apologies for the allergies
It's just that time here and sometimes when they hit they hit hard on one final note
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