How I had forgotten about PoFolks. In the car driving through Alabama headed back to Atlanta, a commercial came on the radio, "for a bucket of chicken...just come on down to Po' Folks!" I almost fell over.
So, I'd always thought that PoFolks stood for poor folks. We used to eat there when I was a kid, over twenty years ago now. I never thought it was because we were poor, just that they had home-style country cooking good for families with kids.
There are only 10 locations anymore in Alabama and Florida mostly, although there used to be many more. I'm guessing the po part of the name became stigmatic and bad for business at least in Atlanta. Maybe things don't change quite so quickly in Alabama.
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