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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ll go out on a limb and guess that “Boy” was offensive.

[irishjuggler]

Last week, I had car-hop service at the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy (onetime hangout of The Beatles and daily diner David Lynch). I’m skeptical that that iconic restaurant will be going along with this name-change gimmick.

[Vendome]

There’s one in Los Angeles...

[thinden]

gender disphoria

the “big boy” mascot is now a little girl??

new icon must have been the PC brain child of a recent public school product?

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

90% of them that still exist are in Michigan. Spent a lot of time sparking Mrs. Buckeye there back in the day. Ahh, well, another warm memory shot to hell by Liberals.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Because New Coke worked out so well...

[Vendome]

I’ve been to Shoney’s somewhere in Oklahoma...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Dolly is a waitress. How servile! How demeaning to women! /s

[DouglasKC]

White male. Can’t have that.

[llevrok]

Dolly is a blond girl with big blue, eyes

Racist

[hanamizu]

It was Bob’s Big Boy in SoCal. In the midwest it was Shoney’s—same Big Boy though.

[Red Badger]

They cut ties with Big Boy years ago....................

[ConservativeStatement]

More reason to support Hooters.

[ConjunctionJunction]

If that’s the case, then why keep “Big Boy” as the name?

[silverleaf]

So what pronoun are we supposed to use?

Is Dolly a BFF with Little Debbie or is she going to transition too?

[dfwgator]

[discostu]

Actually it did in the long run. Sure New Coke itself bombed, but when they brought back regular Coke sales were much higher than they had been for years. It reversed a slide that had been ongoing for nearly a decade. Which is actually probably a big part of the reason for these temporary changes. Like IHOP to IHOB and this thing. Generates a lot of publicity, and renews energy for your “old” thing which you fully intend to bring back anyway.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I can only plead 1) my reading comprehension is at an all-time low today or 2) my skimming skills aren’t what they used to be.

[spiderpig]

Oh great, now we will have to go back and edit the funny satellite tracking scenes out of The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Dr. Evil escaped in in the Big Boy rocket.

It looks like a giant... Johnson.

[elcid1970]

Always thought he looked sorta like Gov. George Wallace.

;^)