Popeyes Brings Back Ghost Pepper Wings and Two Desserts

A brand new yr comes with new potentialities to revisit your favourite fast-food restaurants, and Popeyes is kicking 2023 off with a few old favorites. Beginning at the moment, you possibly can deal with your self to an order of tremendous spicy hen wings or two returning candy desserts, however act quick, as this stuff will solely be accessible till February 12.

First up, fried hen followers will get to have their significantly scorching Ghost Pepper Wings again in motion, which have been on and off the menu since their launch in 2014.

In line with the website, diners can rating six wings for $6 or 12 wings for $12 by the official Popeyes app or by ordering on-line. There are additionally further promotions which embody “a Free Apple Pie within the type of 200 bonus factors” in addition to a $5-for-six-wings deal for those who order the Ghost Pepper Wings at choose Popeyes areas.

popeyes ghost pepper wings and apple pie — Courtesy of Popeyes

Ghost pepper efficiency is not any joke, and this number of pepper stays one of many spiciest you possibly can ingest. We previously reported that, in keeping with the Scoville scale, ghost peppers can have as excessive as 1,041,427 Scoville warmth models. By comparability, jalapeños have a warmth vary of two,500 to eight,000 Scoville models, making ghost peppers over 400 occasions hotter than a gentle jalapeño.

Plainly the recipe will just about keep the identical because it has been, with hen items being “marinated in a ghost pepper spice mix for at the least 12 hours” in keeping with the official press release. They will even be served with a aspect of Popeyes buttermilk ranch to offset the warmth.

And for dessert, some candy treats are again on the menu, together with the Strawberry Cheesecake Cup, which was first launched in 2021. It is an awesome, individually-sized dessert choice of creamy cheesecake filling, graham cracker crust, and strawberry purée in a handy to-go cup for no-mess eating.

Moreover, the Blueberry Lemon Pie can be again, as a substitute for the fried apple pie which is a part of the Ghost Pepper Wings freebie offers. It is full of a sweetened blueberry filling and lemony cream cheese, which counterpoint one another properly. The Blueberry Lemon Pie is a part of the Popeyes fried hand pie family which has seen blackberry, strawberry, and raspberry fillings over the previous few years.

This stuff are the newest re-releases since Popeyes introduced again the Blackened Chicken Sandwich this previous fall. Be certain that to reap the benefits of the promotional affords so it can save you some money and take a look at extra new choices that may come about this yr.