52 years ago today a very important thing happened. It was 1972. A relatively young man in Araby, Louisiana opened a fried chicken joint called chicken on the run.

It was open to compete with Kentucky fried chicken,

which had the dominant position at the time.

That restaurant would fail.

So who restarts another fried chicken restaurant after that one failed?

Because you figure you've asked all your friends, family, wives, family, high school buddies,

next door neighbors for money and it flopped.

And you come back and go,

Ah, chicken on the run, here's what we did wrong.

This time, no, well, there will be no this time for me. You got to find a whole new group of

investors after you've failed. But Al Copeland did not give up, and he would open

Pop-E's mighty good chicken. By 1975 the company renamed as

Popeye's famous fried chicken.

Ramon, what did y'all eat as fried chicken when you were a kid?

Did y'all eat fried chicken?

Kentucky fried chicken? Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Chicken.

Yes, of course, original.

Of course original.

Yes, that's completely understandable.

We all very original. What?

You hate the original? Why would you say that? What is there to hate about the original? It's so crispy, huh? You don't like crunch?

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