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We Tried The Spicy Chicken Sandwich That's Better Than Popeye's or Chick-Fil-A

Bro's knows spicy, are you up to the challenge?

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Matt Meltzer
Dec 04, 2025
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The great chicken sandwich wars were the most popular wars in American history, because if ever there were a reason to go to war, it’s pepper breading. Also, there were no casualties. Unless you count the thousands of heart attacks caused by eating fried chicken five times a week. But nobody can prove that anyway. Ultimately, the chicken sandwich wars got America debating over something way less heated than politics, and for a brief few months in 2019 made us all forget about the grave injustice of the college football playoff.

Like Vietnam and the Cola Wars, the chicken sandwich wars didn’t have an official winner. But unlike those wars, we don’t sorta-kinda know who won anyway. Popeye’s likes to claim they’re the champions. Chick-fil-A’s visible-from-space drive-thru lines beg to differ. But out on SW 67th Ave. and Calle Ocho – conveniently across a parking lot from Popeye’s – there’s a place that could end the wars with one sandwich. It is, quite literally, a…

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