Some have claimed this clip is racist but well, I’ll save my thoughts for afterwards. What happens when Popeye’s runs out of chicken in Rochester? The news interviews a bunch of unhappy black people.

Now, it’s easy to say this is racist. All too easy. But have any of you white people actually BEEN to a Popeye’s? I grew up in the Bronx and there was a Popeye’s built a couple blocks from me when I was in high school. I went in there once because I’d always heard (from black friends) how awesome Popeye’s was. I’m pretty sure I was the only light skinned person there, perhaps other than an old black guy who had vitiligo. When I walked in, I’m pretty sure everyone in the place dropped their utensils to the ground and made a horrified face while utterances of “Oh know you di’n't” and finger snaps echoed through the restaurant. So no, I’m pretty sure this isn’t racism that only black people were interviewed. You can’t go into a turnip farm and expect to start eating carrots.

Popeye’s is pretty freaking delicious though, but fattening as f. It must have been created after Popeye was dumped by Olive Oyl and had completely given up on life, so he stopped eating spinach and subsisted only off of fried chicken parts and mashed potatoes mixed with a vat of spicy butter. They call that his “Rosie O’Donnell period.”

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