Edumacate me: What do I do with Popeye's Biscuits?

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Okay, this is going to sound like a funny question. I get that Popeye’s is a fried chicken fast food place. There’s two of them in Singapore. I get fried chicken.

What I do not get, however, are the biscuits that come with the chicken. What do I do with the biscuits? I don’t get any gravy to pour over the biscuits, and they’re rather dry to eat on their own. They do provide a portion of jam, but that tastes more like a scone, and scones with fried chicken are weird.

So… what do I do with Popeye’s biscuits?

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Hmm… I guess you complain that the Singaporese don’t know how to make moist biscuits.

Which allows you to talk about how your grandma used to make biscuits, all the other things your grandma did, how the world is going to heck, and what’s wrong with Tennessee football this year.

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You can disassemble a bit of the chicken and put that on the biscuits, with or without the jelly. Alternatively, you can bury the biscuits under the chicken as you eat your first piece; by the time you’re finished with it, the biscuits should be nice and greased up.

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Roland, I like the cut of your jib.

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I haven’t eaten at Popeye’s for a long time but I remember getting butter as well as jelly. I butter the biscuits and eat them.

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I try to barter with them. “Listen, I gotta tell you, I’m not going to eat the biscuit, I just don’t like them…is there any chance you could keep the biscuit and maybe throw in an extra chicken wing instead?” wink-and-grin It works maybe 40% of the time.

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At KFC, I used to get honey to put on the biscuits. Haven’t eaten there in a long time, though. To this day, I loooooove bicsuits with honey as part of my fried chicken meals.

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Now, KFC doesn’t have honey. They have “honey-flavored spread.” Mostly corn syrup.

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Unfortunately, in an apparent effort to cut costs without cutting prices, KFC no longer offers real honey with their biscuits. They offer a “honey-flavored spread”. Hmmmph. I’d rather they give me the real honey but charge 10cents a pack for it or something.

As for the OP, if the biscuits don’t come with butter (or at least margarine), ask for it. Many fast food type establishments no longer give condiments the customer doesn’t ask for, another way of cutting costs (but one that makes sense to me; no point in all of us paying for three packets of ketchup to be thrown into each bag if at least half of that is going to go unused).

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Well, whatever you do, don’t let Olive Oyl find out! Wakka wakka wakka…

I really like Popeye’s biscuits. I usually get their mashed potatoes & cajun gravy as a side item and break the biscuit up over it so I can eat it all together. Mmmmmmmmmm…

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Throw them at beggars on your way home.

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I ask for butter, but the chicken is greasy enough that the biscuits work even without butter. I’m not complaining about the chicken - it’s much better than KFC.

The dirty rice isn’t as good as real Cajun dirty rice, but its the best around here.

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In Singapore? He’d get caned!

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If they offer mashed potatoes and gravy at a Singaporean Popeye’s, ask them to give you (or sell you) a side order of the gravy.

Or you could just put butter on them (and honey, if you can get some).

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NOW YOU TELL ME? I guess I don’t KFC often enough to notice.

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You should do as I do with Popeye’s Biscuits: Devour them like the Cookie Monster on a post-pot munchie rampage. And then bring me a box of them and a small cuban boy.

I freaking LOVE the crackbiscuits they sell at Popeye’s Chicken. Absolutely the tastiest thing you can find to eat on an Air Force base (high praise indeed, I’m sure :D).

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Umm… eat it. Assuming they’re made well at all, they should be delicious! It’s just your bread to go with the chicken. A side. Yum yum. No questions asked.