The cinetrix had no idea.
[Al] Copeland added more than a sprinkle of cayenne pepper and a few more secret Cajun-inspired hot spices, changed the name to Popeyes (he said he was too poor to afford an apostrophe) and by the end of the 1980s owned or franchised more than 800 of the restaurants.
The name Popeye did not come from the spinach-eating cartoon character but from the hard-nosed film detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection.
Wait, so does that mean one of the secret spices is...? Nah. Couldn't be.
