Classics on the Billboard
The one-legged cook on a fish-and-chips sign
A pirate from a Victorian novel now hangs over American fried-fish counters.
On the billboard
Long John Silver's is an American fast-food chain selling fried fish and seafood. It takes its name from Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. A menu that smells of the sea got a sailor's name.
In the book Treasure Island · Robert Louis Stevenson
In the novel, Silver is the ship's cook, who gets about on one leg with a crutch. He spins friendly yarns for young Jim Hawkins, and Jim cannot easily tell what lies behind the smile. Silver introduces the bird on his shoulder like this: I calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous buccaneer
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