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McDonald'southward has Ronald McDonald. Burger King has "The King." And Popeyes has... a fictional constabulary detective trying to take downwards an international heroin-smuggling operation.

Popeyes, or Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, has become so synonymous with fried chicken and fried chicken sandwiches that it'due south like shooting fish in a barrel to forget about every other famous "Popeye" that came before it. Merely seeing as "Popeye the Sailor" has no real connection to chicken (he preferred spinach), there must exist some explanation equally to the chain's proper name.

Indeed, in that location is. And information technology has virtually nothing to do with anything.

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Al Copeland, the founder of Popeyes, had originally opened a restaurant chosen Craven on the Run to very little success in 1972, the L.A. Times reported. He closed downward to rework his recipes and reopened only three days later as Popeyes Mighty Proficient Fried Chicken, taking the name of Gene Hackman's graphic symbol in the film "The French Connection," which was released only the year before.

In the movie, Hackman played Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, a New York City cop obsessed with taking down a drug performance. It won five Oscars at the 44th Academy Awards. And it had zero to do with fried chicken.

Of course!

Of course! (Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen)

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Withal, this is, indeed, where Copeland got the name for his presently-to-be chicken concatenation, a representative for Popeyes confirmed to Flim-flam News. It'southward besides office of the brand'due south official "story."

Over the years, yet, Popeyes (the chicken chain) had licensed the characters from Popeye the Sailor comics for the use of marketing its chicken, at a cost of well-nigh $1.one million per year in the 2000s, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Simply in 2012, the licensing agreement was officially terminated.

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That said, there's however one question surrounding the concatenation'south proper name: Why isn't there an apostrophe? If information technology was named later on a character just nicknamed "Popeye," wouldn't it make more sense for Copeland to proper noun it "Popeye's"?

Yes. The answer is yes.

Yep. The answer is yes. (Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen)

Appropriately plenty, this question also has no good respond. According to a spokesman for the brand itself, Copeland simply joked that he "couldn't beget" the apostrophe.