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Goodbye Big Boy, Hello Dolly: Restaurant chain announces mascot change
WZZM ^ | July 6, 2020 | Amy McNeel

Posted on 07/06/2020 11:12:19 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: bigboy; food; gender; hellodolly
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To: ConservativeStatement

The “female” on the right doesn’t have to worry about being “decoration.


81 posted on 07/06/2020 12:45:45 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Anyone remember an episode of “Saturday Night Live” back in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s?

Jane Curtin was reading the “news” on camera and she said “Bob Big Boy’s” is changing their name to “Bob’s Jew Boy.”

Apologies to Jewish Freepers, but that’s what she said! I don’t believe they would use that anti-Semitic slur in 2020, even on SNL.

I remember Bob’s Big Boy when I lived in Southern California
YEARS ago.


82 posted on 07/06/2020 12:53:34 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: shelterguy

Around here Eat n’ Park was a Big Boy franchisee for a long time. They dumped out of that around 1970. Then Elby’s Big Boy from West Virginia came in, but those went away around 15 years ago when the franchisee went bankrupt.


83 posted on 07/06/2020 12:55:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Berosus

You must live in Cincinnati!


84 posted on 07/06/2020 12:55:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

*** a new mascot named Dolly.***

I remember a hamburger chain known a SANDY’S, also a Kip’s Big Boy.

They seem to be going the way of Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken.


85 posted on 07/06/2020 1:13:47 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Perseverando

He’s trans now


86 posted on 07/06/2020 1:14:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: itsahoot

it’s the Big Boy who became a transgender so back off.


87 posted on 07/06/2020 1:28:25 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: ConservativeStatement

88 posted on 07/06/2020 1:34:29 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Ann Archy

Not quite 100 miles down the road: Lexington, KY.


89 posted on 07/06/2020 1:55:42 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The term “Boy”, is racist/demeaning to Blacks. As in C’mere BOY!


90 posted on 07/06/2020 2:55:46 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Jamestown1630

I remember they had a pretty good breakfast buffet too.


91 posted on 07/06/2020 3:09:37 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy

I wish they were still here, just for the Big Boy burger. It was sort of like a Big Mac, but much better.


92 posted on 07/06/2020 3:11:25 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

My husband just remembered something from his childhood town in Pennsylvania.

If kids got an ‘A’ on their report card, and brought it to Big Boy, they’d get a free meal. He says that with four kids at the time, it was a nice, cheap treat for his family, every school-report cycle.

(He says he always got the Big Boy burger with ‘everything’ :-)


93 posted on 07/06/2020 3:17:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ezekiel
It's a musical. Musical statues.

Next: Ronnie McD....Burger King.

94 posted on 07/06/2020 4:55:32 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Mega Dittoes and Mega Prayers* & :))
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To: Jamestown1630

Wow - that was a good “promotion” from that restaurant!


95 posted on 07/06/2020 5:49:05 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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Early 60s there was a Big Boy around Mountlake Terrace are called Keboe’s Big Boy, I think it was spelled Keboe’s.


96 posted on 07/06/2020 9:13:59 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
For the love of mike.

Just make Nugget the mascot and get rid of humans entirely.

97 posted on 07/06/2020 9:22:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: dfwgator
He made it into a video game altered just enough to avoid copyright infringement.

And of course Sarah Connors told "Big Buns" to guard her motor scooter in "The Terminator".

98 posted on 07/07/2020 7:50:15 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (If they can show up to protest they can show up to vote.)
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