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Long John Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor—or mockery—of his former captain, [3] who generally perches on Silver's shoulder, and is known to chatter pirate or seafaring phrases like "Pieces of Eight", and "Stand by to go about". Silver uses the parrot as another means of gaining Jim's trust, by telling the boy all manner of ...
A typical meal from Long John Silver's: a platter with battered and fried fish and chicken, french fries, battered fried shrimp, hushpuppies and coleslaw Long John Silver's, formerly known as Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes and sometimes abbreviated as LJS, is an American chain of fast-food restaurants that specializes in seafood.
He again played Long John Silver in an Australian-made film, Long John Silver (1954). It was shot at Pagewood Studios, Sydney, and directed by Byron Haskin, who had directed Treasure Island. [13] The company went on to make a 26-episode 1955 TV series, The Adventures of Long John Silver, in which Newton also starred.
"Shiver my timbers" was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as "shiver my sides", "shiver my soul" and "shake up your timbers". Another pirate, Israel Hands, also uses the phrase at one point.
When Long John Silver is later given a black spot on a Bible page, he swiftly turns the situation to his advantage. 2000: The video game Skies of Arcadia presented players with a black spot, a message from a bounty hunter that they would soon be hunted down and killed.
By March 2002, the Tricon-Yorkshire multibranding test consisted of 83 KFC/A&Ws, six KFC/Long John Silver's and three Taco Bell/Long John Silver's and was considered successful by the companies. [16] In 2001, KFC started test restaurants in Austin, Texas, called "Wing Works", a chicken wing line sold with one of a few flavored sauces.
Seafood chain Long John Silver's recently announced that its entire menu now has zero grams of trans fat due to a transition from partially hydrogenated cooking oils to 100 percent soybean oil in ...
The 200-lap 105.2 miles (169.3 km) race is currently known as Long John Silver's 200 for sponsorship reasons. In 2020, as part of schedule realignment , the fall race became the only Truck Series race at the track as NASCAR decided to give the track one Xfinity Series race instead.