
Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken
Season 4 Episode 2 | 2m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken
Located on South Fifth Street as you’re entering Hartsville, Yogi Bear is the last of its kind, serving honey-fried chicken. On this episode of Backroad Bites, see why people keep coming to Hartsville from across South Carolina to grab a bite.
Backroad Bites is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.

Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken
Season 4 Episode 2 | 2m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Located on South Fifth Street as you’re entering Hartsville, Yogi Bear is the last of its kind, serving honey-fried chicken. On this episode of Backroad Bites, see why people keep coming to Hartsville from across South Carolina to grab a bite.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(Happy music playing) - You know that honey fried chicken, that's got a little secret in there.
Parcel's a great little town, and so we have people now moving into Hartford from up North, and Canada and- and I asked them, 'Why do you- what brought you to Hart?'.
They said, "we love the small town atmosphere and people are so friendly here".
This of course has been an institution for years, and I bought it about 18 years ago and I told the original owner, I said 'If you ever want sell, just let me know.'
and so one day he walked in my office, said "I'm ready to sell and I'm ready to sell it right now".
Everybody ate at Yogi Bear.
I mean for years it's been an institution and of course it's the best chicken anywhere around.
You know that honey fried chicken, that's got a little secret in there.
So, that immediately draws you the Yogi Bear.
- The honey and- and the hospitality, and the cooking it with love.
Everybody work together, everybody works as a team.
Everybody always have- they always got each other's back.
- But we have a good Charlotte business.
We have a good Greenville business, people coming down this way.
We've diversified.
We have snowballs and ice cream during the summer, and soup and sandwiches during the winter.
We had a big pork chop business.
We have a big seafood business.
But uh, most people that come in from out of town, they don't want our pork chops, our seafood food.
They want Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken.
The three piece box with two sides, that's probably the most that we sell.
And then of course, second would be the Boo Boo.
- The Boo Boo is a thigh and a leg, a roll and a side item.
Then the three piece you get two sides, two rolls, two legs and a short thigh.
We got all kind of specials.
- This is the last Yogi Bear.
Originally there were 20 up and down the East Coast, and um, this was the only one to survive.
But uh, Yogi Bear will definitely continue on ya know.
The secret's in the recipe.
(Happy music playing)
Backroad Bites is a local public television program presented by SCETV
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina.