Folks from southern Illinois may have to take a second look at this statue, which bears a striking resemblance to other statues associated with a certain grocery chain from long ago. According to employees, Carmi's Little Giant grocery store was never a Big John store, despite there being a former Big John statue out front. According to management at the Little Giant Grocery Outlet, the statue was bought after a number of Big John grocery stores were sold off.
By focusing on “love” rather than “sex”, Hays Code-era musical comedy The Second Greatest Sex was trying to communicate a deeper meaning about how the emotions and thoughts of women ought not to be controlled.