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Sweet Dixie Kitchen, a Southern-inspired restaurant in Long Beach, Calif., was called out on Yelp for passing off Popeyes chicken tenders as its own. Yelp user Tyler H. reportedly saw a staff member carrying a Popeyes box and proceeded to ask the server “how they cooked their fried chicken.”

According to Longbeachize and FoodBeast (via Eater), Tyler H. received confirmation from the employee that the fried chicken was indeed from Popeyes. “The manager compensated us for the entire meal,” he wrote.

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In a surprising twist, restaurant owner Kim Sanchez responded to the review, not just copping to the accusation but expressing pride in Popeyes.

“We PROUDLY SERVE Popeyes’ spicy tenders — the best fried chicken anywhere and from New Orleans — which are delivered twice a day. We also in case you need to know buy our gumbo from a friend who sells it at a local farmers market,” she wrote.

“We promote usually small batch local producers in our menu. The exception is Popeyes – we can’t fry at this location – and it (sic) the fried chicken I love so much and I ate a ton of it in the ATL. So I serve it.”

Sanchez told Fox News that she’s been using Popeyes fried chicken for the past two months; in a fried chicken sandwich and chicken and waffles, which sells for US$12.95. “I tried Costco chicken, I tried Restaurant Depot chicken, and then I went to dinner at Popeyes and knew this was the chicken we had to use for the store. It’s the best chicken.”