--- title: Popeye's Jokes About Chicken Sandwich Shortage on Twitter description: The Internet was definitely not amused after Popeye's made a joke about their infamous chicken sandwich shortage on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-12T19:47:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:16.595Z og:title: Popeye's Jokes About Chicken Sandwich Shortage Got Things Heated og:description: The Internet was not amused og:url: https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Popeye's Jokes About Chicken Sandwich Shortage Got Things Heated twitter:description: The Internet was not amused twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Is Not Amused With Popeye's Joke About Their Chicken Sandwich Shortage > Sponsored content. 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The fast food chain discovered this on Thursday after they posted a joking tweet about a new “BYOB” chicken sandwich, suggesting that customers “bring your own bun” to make a chicken sandwich with their three piece chicken set. “Try our new BYOB! It’s basically The Sandwich! Only no mayo. Or pickles. And you just bring your own bun…Really it’s just three tenders…” they wrote in a tweet on their official account on Thursday morning. Popeye’s chicken sandwich became the [stuff of Internet legends](https://time.com/5662536/popeyes-chicken-sandwich-lines/) after some [spicy banter on Twitter with competitors Chik-fil-A and Wendy’s](https://time.com/5659913/popeyes-and-chick-fil-a-memes/), which led to the chicken sandwich (which made its debut in August) being the center of a debate over who had the best offering. Consequently, Popeye’s sandwich was so popular that they sold out of their inventory, which was supposed to last until the end of September, within two weeks. > [](https://twitter.com/popeyeschicken/status/1172118882154364929) As might be expected, the Internet was less than amused with this joke, especially since it couldn’t be tempered with the soothing qualities of a chicken sandwich. > [](https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1172165186263965697) > [](https://twitter.com/CraigSJ/status/1172166420664332291) > [](https://twitter.com/TheKitchenista/status/1172142503019057152) > [](https://twitter.com/XLNB/status/1172143003911090176) And so the chicken sandwich wars continue. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Not Amused With Popeye's Joke About Their Chicken Sandwich Shortage","datePublished":"2019-09-12T19:47:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:16.595Z","description":"Can you blame them?","url":"https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5676141/popeyes-jokes-about-chicken-sandwich-twitter-outrage/","name":"The Internet Is Not Amused With Popeye's Joke About Their Chicken Sandwich Shortage"}}]}] ```