Popeyes Gives $10,000 to Game Show Contestant Who Confused Chicken for Spinach

Canada's Eve Dubois thought of the chain, not the character

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If there was any doubt that Popeyes exited 2019 with a firm lock on the hearts and minds of chicken lovers, this just put it to rest.

On Canada’s Family Feud, a contestant botched the final question—costing her family $10,000—because the fast food chain was clearly the first thing to come to mind when she heard the word “Popeye’s.”

Asked “What is Popeye’s favorite food?”, Eve Dubois quickly buzzed in and, with exuberant emphasis, answered “chicken!” Of course, if she’d been a bit less quick on the trigger, she might have realized the question was about the cartoon character Popeye, known for loving spinach.

However, things worked out just fine for Dubois in the end, after the clip went viral on Twitter thanks to Canadian blogger Mike Morrison.

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