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This Once-Largest Restaurant Chain In America Just Shuttered Its Last Location
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| 6/8/22
| Melissa Fiorenza
Posted on 06/11/2022 10:42:10 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Soul of the South
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:11:02 AM PDT
by
Piranha
To: eyedigress
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Buc-ee%27s_beaver.svg/800px-Buc-ee%27s_beaver.svg.png)
Buc-ee's is the new, supersized Stuckey's (though no relation I believe).
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posted on
06/12/2022 12:17:30 AM PDT
by
avenir
(Information overload = Pattern recognition)
To: Impala64ssa
I remember the HoJo clams.
Their breakfast menu had names for the meals. The three HoJo pancakes, plus 3 sausages, plus OJ and coffee was called "Good Morning."
To: HollyB
Some HoJo restaurants were part of a motel or hotel (most were motels), and some restaurants stood alone.
It was a family restaurant chain, like Sizzler or Red Lobster or Black Angus. Nothing fancy, but uniform product (as in all chains), and decent quality at a decent price.
To: HP8753
Their name irrated rich white liberals who took offense for a minority that didn’t seem care one way or the other about the name."Sambo" was portrayed as an East Indian ("Dot Indian") boy, wasn't he? If I recall, the restaurant's mascot was relatively fair-skinned, and wore a turban, slippers with curly toes, etc. He was NOT portrayed as being lazy, stupid, or as having any other negative qualities.
His "main adversary" was a tiger - not native to Africa.
So who, exactly, complained? And did they manage to present a coherent argument for why it was "bigoted?"
Nah, didn't think so!
Regards,
45
posted on
06/12/2022 12:31:20 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Impala64ssa
Loved the fried clams. Yummy!
46
posted on
06/12/2022 12:38:21 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: alexander_busek
What’s truth got to do with it?
47
posted on
06/12/2022 12:40:44 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
To: lee martell
I think Stuckey was the family name of the founder.
48
posted on
06/12/2022 12:40:45 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: eyedigress
49
posted on
06/12/2022 12:41:26 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Angelino97
I went to my local HoJo’s a few times. ( It’s probably been 35 years since) But, I just didn’t recall the chain as a stand alone restaurant.
50
posted on
06/12/2022 12:49:33 AM PDT
by
HollyB
To: HollyB
I saw a few. I guess the last one, that just closed, is also a standalone.
To: Impala64ssa
I got food poisoning from their fried clams.
52
posted on
06/12/2022 1:01:10 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Long live the Great MAGA King!)
To: cherry
And for their “chunky” mint ice cream with all the green chunks of mint candy in it.
53
posted on
06/12/2022 1:22:39 AM PDT
by
.44 Special
(Taimid Buacharch)
To: Impala64ssa
MAD magazine had a lot of fun at Howard Johnson’s expense with some hilarious satire. MAD called them Johnson Howard’s to avoid legal problems but got sued anyway - which prompted more hilarious satire.
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posted on
06/12/2022 1:33:35 AM PDT
by
howlinhound
(Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
To: avenir
We love Buc-ee’s. We started going last Summer when they opened in Calhoun, GA, which we go by a fair amount.
55
posted on
06/12/2022 1:37:57 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: cherry
“they had the best maple nut ice cream....what a treat....”
I ate that a few times but the real treat I looked forward to were their deep fried clam strips. They came in a toasted (maybe buttered) Frankfort bun. I dipped them in ketchup not tartare sauce. I my youff those were the only times I got to eat clams.
56
posted on
06/12/2022 1:45:50 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: howlinhound
Speaking of Mad magazine, my older brother loved mad magazine. I'll never forget the issue when the Ford Falcon first came out. They called it the Furd Foulcar
No one was safe with them. Another one I remember was: What If Miyoshi Umeki (Award winning Asian actress in a movie titled Sayonara) had a brother named How Mush Money (Umeki)?
57
posted on
06/12/2022 1:59:31 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(The Murdochs might be citizens but they aren't true blue Americans.)
To: dennisw
![See the source image](https://newengland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bangor-howard-johnsons-clam-roll-tall-463x650.jpg)
HoJo clams in a Frankfort bun. Their frankfurters came in the same toasted buttered bun
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posted on
06/12/2022 2:08:49 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: Impala64ssa
59
posted on
06/12/2022 2:40:31 AM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(Blessed are the peace makers.)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
06/12/2022 2:42:34 AM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(Blessed are the peace makers.)
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