Popeyes again. DoorDash had a special where you get a free item if you spend twenty bucks so I jumped on that shit.

Brisk (formerly Lipton Brisk) fruit punch: This shit is one habit I need to break. I’m not worried about the calories because it’s half sucralose (which damages your DNA, but…) and I burn enough in daily life where I more or less don’t have to worry about my diet, but Brisk fruit punch is quite the seductress. It’s rare enough that whenever 7-11 has it, I stock up to the tune of four bottles. At 2/$3 you’d be a fool not to. I’m unsure of how much my stockpiling contributes to the drink’s rarity. But it’s getting expensive.

Brisk Blueberry Pomegranate iced tea: I finished my fruit punch midway through so I changed my drink. This is delicious stuff, if a darker sweetness and flavor than the punch, but what sets this drink apart from any other is that it turns my shit green. It’s also half sucralose.

6 boneless wings in sweet & spicy sauce, no sauce on the side: No sauce on the “wings”, either. Back in the day KFC had boneless wings before they were called that that you could order with sweet & spicy sauce and it was like having KFC General Tso’s chicken (with the potato wedges, which made KFC stand out as a destination and which they’ve also junked). No such luck with these. Little sauce and a hell of a lot of breading that got soggy in that small amount of sauce. To top it off they were old. Not recommended. Thankfully this was my bonus item.

Mild chicken sandwich, no pickles but yes mayo: Hot and delicious. Have you seen the Facebook meme with a picture of a Popeyes chicken sandwich next to a thin layer of chicken salad between two pieces of white bread aaking, “if Americans call this [Popeyes] a chicken sandwich, then what is this?” Typical FB foreigner stuff, but what was truly bizarre was the suggestion that it be called a chicken burger because it’s on a hamburger bun. We have very different ideas of what a burger is, and I feel sad for them.

Large Cajun fries: The Cajun really doesn’t mean anything because they’re their only fries, and it’s not like Five Guys where it’s regular fries with a spice powder dumped on top. At Popeyes they put the spices in the batter itself, so the spice is reg’lar in the fries. Still it’s not really Cajun – think Ore-Ida seasoned fries. I wonder what McCain’s (frozen French fries and Ore-Ida’s majn competitor) business was like in 2008, between the majority who don’t give a shit, abd Republican partisans, plus it goes up against an “O”.

6 ghost-pepper bone-in wings, unsauced, no sauce on the side: A good flavorful heat, without tasting overtly “peppery” like Tabasco or Buffalo sauce. Sauce would completely ruin these.

Stone Ridge Creamery cookies & cream ice cream, 1.5L: that’s Shoppers Food Warehouse store-brand ice cream to you any me. Transparent attempt to leech off the Cold Stone Creamery name: before I looked closer I thought they were connected but no. It’s decent ice cream, not as good as gelato but not worse enough than Häagen-Dasz to justify the price premium. Let it thaw a little bit before you dig in (except it’s way too easy to eat too much ice cream when it’s soft.)

Crowns menthol cigarettes, 100mm: Now this is the Aristocrat vodka of cigarettes. It sells for $5.00 when even Mavericks (the Old Grand Dad of cigarettes) run you $6.50. I don’t normally smoke menthols but it’s really necessary when you have to mask the flavor of shit-tier cigarettes that you’re forcing yourself to smoke to save about 30% a pack. Next tume I go to Shoppers I’ll probably indulge on a pack of Marlboro Southern Cut or Camel Turkish Royals. I much, much prefer kings/shorts but they only make 100s of these.

Great Value Crème Brulée ground coffee, two cups: that’s Walmart store brand to you. Dirt cheap decent flavored coffee. Three things you should always buy at Walmart are ice cream, pharmaceuticals, and coffee. Good products ar rock-bottom prices.