Goodbye Big Boy, Hello Dolly: Restaurant chain announces mascot change

WZZM ^ | July 6, 2020 | Amy McNeel

[ConservativeStatement]

It’s time to say farewell to the red-checkered, overall-wearing Big Boy mascot. Originating in 1936, Big Boy has become a beloved American symbol, but a change is now underway, and a new symbol is upon us.

Big Boy restaurants has announced the takeover of a new mascot named Dolly. While the name Big Boy will stay, the original rosy-cheeked mascot will not.

[ConservativeStatement]

First they came for the statues...

[Jamestown1630]

I didn’t realize there were still Big Boy restaurants around. They had a good hamburger.

[itsahoot]

Blond? Racist.

[JohnnyP]

It used to be called Bob’s Big Boy.

[ConservativeStatement]

Or male.

[Mr. K]

OK of ALL the symbols I thought would be safe, this was one.

“Big Boy” is offensive?

[Berosus]

We still have them here, where they are called Frisch’s Big Boy.

[madrastex]

If Dolly Parton is the model, I am okay with the change!

[Perseverando]

Oh nooooo! Big Boy is now Transgendered

[ClearCase_guy]

“Boys are stupid. Let’s throw rocks at them.”

[Spok]

Was he too sexist or too white? BTW the last Big Boy I ate at no longer carried the Big Boy hamburger, which was the only reason I was there.

[BigEdLB]

RACIS! RACIS! Dolly is white and blonde!

[DrGunsforHands]

It’s for a limited time promotion, if I’m reading it correctly, “The Dolly Chicken Sandwich”.

[j.havenfarm]

No, not offensive. But I must say that the explanation in the linked article is about the stupidest thing I’ve heard recently, and that’s saying a lot

[Jim W N]

White men and boys not politically correct but who gives a sh#t about PC?

I loathe and despise PC - IMO it is the manifestation of the satanic spirit of antichrist here to “weaken the nations”, America specifically.

Men are the God-given leaders of families and society. But Satan HATES families and society.

The Left are Satan’s minions.

I wish everyone would do everything they could to be non-PC including Big Boy Restaurants.

[Red Badger]

Our’s was called Shoney’s Big Boy............

[posterchild]

It will now be called “Ageless Person of Size not Ashamed of Zir Body Type.”

[READINABLUESTATE]

boy[ boi ]SHOW IPA
SEE SYNONYMS FOR boy ON THESAURUS.COM
noun

1 Racist term now being eradicated from the English language.

2 Formerly used to describe a a male child, from birth to full growth, especially one less than 18 years of age.

[Red Badger]

[upchuck]

Why does the article have nothing to say about why the change was made. Did Dolly insult with her whiteness?