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Back for a limited time at Popeyes… Garlic Butter Popcorn Shrimp.  $3.99 gets you the combo box.  What exactly are regular fries?  All I’m familiar with is Cajun Battered Fries when it comes to Popeyes.

Crispy Popcorn Shrimp tossed in a garlic herb butter sauce.  Served with regular fries and a buttermilk biscuit all for only $3.99!

Popeyes Butterfly Shrimp is back for a limited time.  Check out our full review from 2009 featuring yours truly sporting a Jason mask for Friday the 13th.

Popeyes Butterfly Shrimp Tackle Box features 8 premium Butterfly Shrimp, marinated in our signature Louisiana spices and cooked to perfection.  Served over a bed of our Cajun Fries and with a Buttermilk Biscuit.  For a limited time at participating restaurants.

Popeyes Wicked Chicken is back with a new flavor and dipping sauce.  Introducing Garlic Pepper Wicked Chicken with Garlic Parmesan Dipping Sauce.  Check out my love for the original Wicked Chicken.

Say hello to a whole new Wicked.  This is our Garlic Pepper Wicked Chicken!  If you loved the original, you are gonna fall out of your chair for this.  We take thin strips of premium chicken breast marinated in roasted garlic and cracked pepper and serve it with our killer Cajun fries, a buttermilk biscuit, garlic parmesan dipping sauce and your very own mini bottle of TABASCO sauce all for just $3.99.

Crawfish is back at Popeyes.  It’s the unofficial 3rd annual Crawfish Festival (they’ve definitely been doing crawfish for a lot longer) featuring such delectable choices like the Crawfish Tackle Box. The limited time celebration of crawfish will be available for the next five weeks at participating locations.

Popeyes 3rd Annual Crawfish Festival is here! Crawfish Tackle Box for $4.99 along with local option favorites like our delicious Crawfish Etouffee and our popular Crawfish Po Boy.

Popeyes is currently promoting its Dip’n Chick’n (I’m a fan).  Next up on the Popeyes promotional item tour is annual Crawfish Festival.  I like how Popeyes is advertising a “soon to be released” menu item.  The advanced notice on what’s next is helpful for a food blog .  Here’s my review of the Crawfish Tacklebox.

The scoop-shaped chicken known as Dip’n Chick’n is the latest from Popeyes.  Served with a nice sized portion of smoky blackened ranch dipping sauce.  Delicious smoky, peppery blend.  I held back on doing a full on review because this is the same Popeyes chicken that we’ve written about here and here and here…  (plus these are phone pics, sorry).  So anyways, I’ll keep this brief, but let me just say, at $3.99, this is one of the best fast food deals out there.  Especially when you consider a premium sized fast food burger runs at about 4 bucks on its own. For $3.99 you get the Dip’n Chick’n with double portion blackened ranch dipping sauce, a side and a biscuit.

I loved Dip’n Chick’n.  Also from reading some of the comments on the news post, I decided to go with Mashed Potatoes with Cajun Gravy as my side instead of the Cajun Fries.  It’s under there somewhere.  Don’t hesitate to use the Dip’n Chick’n as a scoop for the Mashed Potatoes and gravy … wow that makes me sound super fat.  There were 10 pieces of chicken of various nugget/strip/tender sizes in my box of grub.  Plenty of food for $3.99.

Upgrading a drink to the order will make your combo go from $3.99 to a little shy of $6.  I avoided the Sweeeeeet Iced Tea and just stuck with the $3.99 deal.  So the only thing new about Dip’n Chick’n is the shape, name and sauce. No complaints here, work with what you’ve got Popeyes.  I’m a fan.  Now if only my local Popeyes didn’t take an eternity to get my order together…

• Pros: Great tasty value.  Double sized portion blackened ranch dipping sauce.

• Cons: The unlucky ones that might only get 5 or 6 pieces compared to my 10.

Taste: 9.25/10

Value: 9.00/10

Grubbing on the Go: 5.75/10

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GrubGrade: 9.00/10

(Overall GrubGrade is not an average)

Price: $3.99

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Yet another chicken concoction at Popeyes.  There was Wicked Chicken and Rip’n Chick’n… now there’s Dip’n Chick’n.  Just another way to eat the same chicken, but at least there’s a blackened ranch dipping sauce. *** Click here for our full review. ***

Dip’n Chick’n is chicken breast medallions marinated in Louisiana herbs, breaded, fried and served with a double-sized portion of blackened ranch dipping sauce.  It’s served with Cajun fries and a biscuit for $3.99.

Halloween comes early to Popeyes this year with their horrific looking Rip’n Chick’n. They have finally tackled the annoying problem of fried chicken resembling an actual body part of a chicken and made it look like how we all really want it to look… like a deep fried shrunken hand. I tried making a wish and no, it didn’t come true, the fingers didn’t curl, and nothing horrible happened to me or any one close to me. I did however feel that at any moment my horror movie titled Rip’n Chick’n could leap from the box and start killing prostitutes.

The Horror...

My first impressions aside, Popeyes describes it differently:

We cut a plump, all white meat chicken breast into big strips, marinate it in four different peppers and Louisiana seasonings then hand batter and bread it in our signature coating then fry it up crispy. We call it Rip’n Chick’n because you just rip it and dip it. Get it right now with our Cajun fries, buttermilk biscuit and Ranch dipping sauce.

Thanks to An Immovable Feast, I discovered that the “signature coating” is a blend of four peppers; jalepeno, habenero, white and black peppers. While there is no relation between chiles and peppercorns (a pet peeve of mine when a restaurant describes their product), it comes from Popeyes, so I will let it slide. Combine that with batter and hot oil and you should have a winner. (more…)