{"id":612,"date":"2014-12-15T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T04:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-12-16T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T05:16:55","slug":"yodas-big-boy-salem-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/612","title":{"rendered":"Yoda’s Big Boy (Salem, VA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Restaurant_Yoda\"<\/a>Apparently, Yoda’s Big Boy was one of the earliest Shoney’s restaurants. It later merged with Lendy’s, also of Salem. Back when it was Yoda’s competitor, Lendy’s was simultaneously a Big Boy and a Kentucky Fried Chicken. Confused? That makes two of us.<\/p>\n

I got the above info from the Lendy’s section of oldroanoake.net<\/a>, which contains plenty of pictures. This page<\/a> shows Col. Sanders (in person and in sign form) in front of a Big Boy, along with a newspaper ad for “Shrimp, golden fried the Yoda way”. For a picture of the actual Yoda’s building, scroll down this page.<\/a> Spoiler alert: not as cool as the drawing, but it does<\/strong> have a Big Boy statue. <\/em><\/p>\n

Most importantly: YES, they gave out Big Boy Comics!<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m not sure who drew this one. I seem to remember the artist’s last name was Yoder, but maybe that’s just me seeing “J.Y.” in the signature and wanting a Yoda drawing by a Yoder. Ideas, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Yoda’s Big Boy was one of the earliest Shoney’s restaurants. It later merged with Lendy’s, also of Salem. Back when it was Yoda’s competitor, Lendy’s was simultaneously a Big Boy and a Kentucky Fried Chicken. Confused? That makes two of us. I got the above info from the Lendy’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,7],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1966-national-restaurant-association","category-theme-sketchbooks","tag-unknown-artist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Restaurant_Yoda.jpg?fit=800%2C1007&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1iEpY-9S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}