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How Popeye’s obsession with spinach was created from glaring misprint
Read full article: How Popeye’s obsession with spinach was created from glaring misprintAs fans of Popeye pay tribute today, the tale of his obsession with spinach is a life reminder that sometimes glaring mistakes can lead to incredible success stories.
Police name suspect in fatal Popeyes stabbing in Maryland
Read full article: Police name suspect in fatal Popeyes stabbing in MarylandThe manhunt for a murderer is underway after the fatal stabbing of a man over a Popeye's chicken sandwich. (CNN) - Police in Maryland have released the name of a man wanted on murder charges for the fatal stabbing of a customer outside a Popeyes restaurant last weekThe suspect was identified Tuesday as 30-year-old Ricoh McClain, the Prince George's County Police Department said in a news release. Police are asking for the public's help in locating McClain, who is considered armed and dangerous. McClain confronted Davis about his conduct, and 15 seconds later the two went outside the restaurant, where McClain stabbed Davis, police said. Police last week released a photo of McClain and a woman who was with him when he fled.
Quavo jokes about selling Popeye's sandwiches for $1,000 each
Read full article: Quavo jokes about selling Popeye's sandwiches for $1,000 eachJoe Raedle/Getty Images(CNN) - From waiting in hour-long lines to hitting up multiple restaurants -- people are going to extreme lengths to find a Popeye's chicken sandwich. Rapper Quavo, of the group Migos, is ready to save the day and make our chicken sandwich dreams come true. Popeye's first announced their new chicken sandwich on Twitter earlier this month, and Black Twitter was all over it, with the sandwich dominating discussions. The Popeye's sandwich is remarkably similar to Chick-fil-A's. It features a fried chicken fillet on a brioche bun, complemented by a few pickles and a slather of mayonnaise.
Pests, storage nightmares, plumbing issues found in 4 restaurants
Read full article: Pests, storage nightmares, plumbing issues found in 4 restaurantsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Repeat violations, lack of training and plumbing issues were just some of the violations that stacked up at Northeast Florida restaurants. If you love that chicken from Popeye's, but don't love sharing it with bugs, you won't like what inspectors found at the Popeye's in Lake City. Last week, inspectors said they found flies in the kitchen and dirty gaskets with a build-up of some mold-like substance. WATCH: 2 chicken restaurants cited with health hazardsThe Subway on Timuquana Road briefly shut down last week. A Thai restaurant in Ortega is where inspectors said nearly 100 flies were found inside.
Spinach chemical should be put on doping ban list, researchers say
Read full article: Spinach chemical should be put on doping ban list, researchers sayThose who took ecdysterone saw their performance improve by three times as much as those who did not. "We saw drastic increases in maximum performance in bench press in the group that took ecdysterone," co-author Maria Parr, a doping researcher at the university's Institute of Pharmacy, told CNN via telephone. The study was partly funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and researchers recommend that ecydysterone be included on the agency's banned list. Co-author Francesco Botr, director of the Italian anti-doping agency (FMSI), told CNN that the team are now investigating ways to test for ecdysterone. The agency has recently been embroiled in controversy over the September 2018 reinstatement of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA.