Stars Who Were Lucky Enough to Try Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Before It Sold Out: Serena Williams, Gayle King, More

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Stars Who Were Lucky Enough to Try Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Before It Sold Out: Serena Williams, Gayle King, More

That was fast! Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen announced via its Twitter account on Tuesday, August 27, that its newest chicken sandwich had sold out nationwide roughly two weeks after making its grand debut. “Y’all. We love that you love The Sandwich. Unfortunately we’re sold out (for now),” the chain shared, later encouraging customers to download the Popeyes app so they could be the first to know when the menu item makes its triumphant return. [ami-related id="1286129" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/food/pictures/savage-fast-food-tweets/" title="Savage Fast Food Tweets" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/savage-fast-food-tweets.jpg"] The dish, which featured buttermilk fried chicken topped with pickles and a spicy Cajun spread on a brioche bun, quickly went viral once consumers realized it was pretty darn tasty. In fact, the new sandwich proved to be so popular that fellow fast-food chains including Chick-fil-A and Wendy’s gleefully threw shade at the delicious newcomer via social media. Still, despite the sandwich’s insane popularity, many celebrities were able to get their famous hands of the coveted Popeyes menu item. Cardi B, for example, first tried to order the sandwich in her native New York. Though the rapper wasn’t able to get a hold of the food in her home state, she did track one down in Los Angeles. [jwplayer ZJNBMein-l3ahXupL] “It’s 10:32 in the morning and I beat y’all to it. I finally got the goddamn chicken sandwich,” the Grammy winner declared on Twitter. “These fat b--ches and fat motherf--kers in New York ate all of them in motherf--king New York and shit and I couldn’t get one. But you know I got one in L.A.” The “I Like It” singer went on to hypothesize that it was easier for her to track down a chicken sandwich in California because “these motherf--kers be eating vegan burgers and s--t.” Scroll down to see other stars who managed to snag a Popeyes chicken sandwich before they sold out!

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Stars Who Were Lucky Enough to Try Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Before It Sold Out: Serena Williams, Gayle King, More

That was fast! Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen announced via its Twitter account on Tuesday, August 27, that its newest chicken sandwich had sold out nationwide roughly two weeks after making its grand debut. “Y’all. We love that you love The Sandwich. Unfortunately we’re sold out (for now),” the chain shared, later encouraging customers to download the Popeyes app so they could be the first to know when the menu item makes its triumphant return. [ami-related id="1286129" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/food/pictures/savage-fast-food-tweets/" title="Savage Fast Food Tweets" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/savage-fast-food-tweets.jpg"] The dish, which featured buttermilk fried chicken topped with pickles and a spicy Cajun spread on a brioche bun, quickly went viral once consumers realized it was pretty darn tasty. In fact, the new sandwich proved to be so popular that fellow fast-food chains including Chick-fil-A and Wendy’s gleefully threw shade at the delicious newcomer via social media. Still, despite the sandwich’s insane popularity, many celebrities were able to get their famous hands of the coveted Popeyes menu item. Cardi B, for example, first tried to order the sandwich in her native New York. Though the rapper wasn’t able to get a hold of the food in her home state, she did track one down in Los Angeles. [jwplayer ZJNBMein-l3ahXupL] “It’s 10:32 in the morning and I beat y’all to it. I finally got the goddamn chicken sandwich,” the Grammy winner declared on Twitter. “These fat b--ches and fat motherf--kers in New York ate all of them in motherf--king New York and shit and I couldn’t get one. But you know I got one in L.A.” The “I Like It” singer went on to hypothesize that it was easier for her to track down a chicken sandwich in California because “these motherf--kers be eating vegan burgers and s--t.” Scroll down to see other stars who managed to snag a Popeyes chicken sandwich before they sold out!

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Lauren Manzo

The Manzo'd With Children star gave the sandwich a shot in November 2019, but she wasn’t exactly blown away by it. After ordering a bunch of Popeyes — including rice, mashed potatoes and the sandwich — to her New Jersey salon, the reality star had no choice but to give the popular food item a taste. "I'm gonna put this on record," Manzo said via her Instagram Stories. "Popeyes: Your sandwich sucks balls. Trash. Trash! Disgusting."

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Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian

The husband and wife duo celebrated their second wedding anniversary in November 2019 by giving the Popeyes chicken sandwich a try. “I did not want to try it, but it’s my anniversary,” Williams said of the popular food item on her Instagram Stories. She was further deterred after realizing that the location she and Ohanian visited was out of pickles — a key ingredient in the sandwich. However, the tennis great went against her “better judgement” and sampled the meal anyway. Much to her surprise, she loved it. “Have I known life before this day?” she asked. In fact, the athlete has since searched for Popeyes locations near her so she can order more of the popular dish.

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Porsha Williams

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star tried the sandwich in November 2019 and gave her verdict via Instagram Stories over a picture of the popular food. “Pretty dayum good!” she declared. A friend of the podcast host captured her slightly more detailed reaction in a separate Instagram Story. “They got Chick-fil-A," the Bravo star dished, making a reference to the rival chain’s competing menu item. “This is good. We should've ordered about three!”

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Justin Bieber

The “I Don’t Care” singer definitely didn’t care about this trendy food. When the Canadian crooner got his hands on three of the sought-after sandwiches in November 2019, he tried one and gave it an honest review. “It’s good but it’s not worth the hype,” he declared in an Instagram Story. A menu item that did get the Grammy winner’s approval, however, was one of the chain’s most popular drinks. “Sweet tea’s bangin’ though,” he added.

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Deshaun Watson

The Houston Texans quarterback got his hands on the sandwich when Popeyes reintroduced it in November 2019 and he credited the coveted food item with healing his eye following a football injury. The pro athlete’s eye was bloodshot and swollen after he got kicked in the face during a game in October 2019, but apparently the sandwich was enough to get him on the mend. “The key is, it was the Popeyes spicy chicken sandwiches that I ate this week that helped the eye,” Watson told the NFL Network’s Melissa Stark after his team bested the Jaguars in London on November 3.

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Isis King

The America's Next Top Model alum also nabbed the sandwich when it made a comeback in November 2019, but she wasn’t exactly blown away by it. “Just had the spicy chicken sandwich from Popeyes since it returned today,” she declared on Twitter. “It was ok.” In an accompanying video, the actress explained she was “expecting more.”

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Diplo

After the DJ expressed interest in trying the sold-out sandwich, Popeyes went to work. According to an Instagram post from the Grammy winner on September 1, the Louisiana-based chain sent him several sandwiches via private jet. “Popeye’s heard I wanted to try their sandwich so they sent me some in a jet,” he wrote on the photo-sharing platform alongside a snapshot of himself with the coveted food in hand.

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Cardi B

The “Please Me” rapper failed to get her hands on a sandwich in New York, but managed to snag one early one morning in Los Angeles. Though the Grammy winner didn’t reveal what she thought of the trendy food item, she did declare: “This s--t better burst of flavor in my mouth like a starburst.”

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Cynthia Bailey

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star and her fiancé, Mike Hill, took their respective daughters to a Popeyes in Atlanta and waited in the drive-thru line for 45 minutes before getting some chicken sandwiches of their own. “Very crunchy but it's very light — not as meaty. Seasoned very well,” Hill said on Bailey’s Instagram Stories. However, the model’s daughter, Noelle, was less impressed. “It was not worth the wait,” she quipped.

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Devon Sawa

The Final Destination actor tweeted his review of Popeyes’ chicken sandwich on August 27. He noted that the food item is “Fantastic in a very simple way,” before noting that it boasts a “soggy bun, salty chicken and a great hot sauce mayonnaise mix. The Casper star concluded: “[It] looks like it spent 24 hours in a high school kid’s locker when you unwrap it. I liked it.”

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Gayle King

The journalist was determined to find a Popeyes sandwich to try, so she called 15 restaurants before finding one that still had the chicken dish available. “It really lives up to the hype. It’s really good,” she said of the sandwich on Instagram on August 26. “It only took me 3 days … but it was worth it.”

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Billy Kimmel

The youngest son of Jimmy Kimmel got a taste of the in-demand sandwich on August 26 thanks to his famous dad. “Even 2 yr olds can’t resist the #popeyeschickensandwich,” the talk show host wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of his toddler digging in.

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Quavo

The rapper was seemingly in possession of multiple Popeyes chicken sandwiches on August 23 and joked he was going to sell them and make a pretty profit. “$1,000 a chicken,” he said on Instagram as he opened the trunk of a car and revealed a bag full of Popeyes eats.

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Uche Ndubizu

The American Idol contestant posted a Twitter review of the Popeyes sandwich on August 27. Despite stating that the dish was “really good,” the singer admitted he still prefers Chick-fil-A’s chicken sandwich to Popeyes version.