Place: Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits (or is it "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen" now? Whatever)
Lunch: Dip'n Chicken (with blackened ranch dipping sauce), spicy thigh, biscuts, Coke
Everybody in line is ordering Dip'n Chicken. Dip'n Chicken is an LTO I'm apparently just getting in on at the end. The VERY end. When I ordered mine, the manager called back to the kitchen and asked how many orders they had down. "Three!" was shouted back. "But I only have (enough chicken for) about ten more!"
A few minutes later, I saw the manager outside the store pulling all the Dip'n Chicken posters down. This didn't stop others from ordering it anyway. Somebody even CALLED THE STORE asking about it.
Anyway, Dip'n Chicken is (was) breaded fried chicken breast pieces cut into medallions that sort of look like Fritos. They're REALLY good, as is the dipping sauce. Based on the response I witnessed here, I'm thinking they should become a permanent menu item.
You probably heard Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. The name alone is certainly familiar, though you may not understand why. Nor why your Twitter feed is flooding with memories of him. Nor why your local Apple storefront is covered in post-it notes memorializing the man. The guy wasn't a reality TV icon, not a major political name, not a pop star.
Well...actually, he sort of was a pop star.
The man co-founded Apple, which has always been popular with the hip. He basically invented the home computer. In the years between being shunned by Apple and being brought back to rescue the company, he picked up a small animation division of Lucasfilm called Pixar and sold it to Disney for billions years later. He dreamed up the iPod and changed the music industry forever. And in a world that had all but given up on the tablet computer concept, he succeeded with the iPad and has nearly killed the laptop industry in the process.
He wasn't just the head of the company who did this...these were largely his ideas executed under his scrutiny. Even if you've never owned a Mac (I just bought my first this year) and don't understand why Mac people are so fiercely devoted to them and all things Apple (and why they're so willing to pay serious premiums for their products vs Windows-based competition), the man has touched your life in one way or another.
His company today is completely debt-free with reportedly an astounding $72 billion in the bank as of June, which put them on par at the time with the US Treasury. Their stock trades in the $350-400 range. And analysts think the stock trades LOW. They don't pay dividends, and their product returns a 20-30 percent profit margin. You'd think that would be enough to make the anti-corporate crowd hate Apple, but even the biggest critics seems to be resigned to, at worst, referring to Jobs as being "less evil".
There aren't many people you can honestly say quite literally changed the world.
Steve Jobs is one of them.
