Can you think of any store names that caught your attention?
Two names have stayed with me. I ate at a restaurant in North Carolina called Lizard Lickin’s, and I browsed a used book store in Seattle called Twice Sold Tales.
I did a Web search and found that Lizard Lick is the name of a town in North Carolina, which I suppose accounts for the restaurant name. The sign on the restaurant had the face of a lizard.
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A chain of small stores in Oklahoma called Cum n Go.
Yes, spelled like that.
Winking Lizard restaurant in Akron, Ohio. It sounds crude to me.
Schnuck’s supermarket chain. Schnook means idiot in Yiddish, and Schnuck’s is pronounced like the word Schnook.
In Japan there was a store named Pinga. Pinga is slang for penis in Spanish.
Also, in Japan there was a 100 Yen store, similar to a dollar store here. I don’t know, I just found it funny.
In the Netherlands, a furniture shop, slash department store, called Xenos.
I find that strange.
And in my hometown, a hairdresser called Art of Cut.
It always makes me giggle, as it is pronounced exactly as the common word for vagina.
Restaurant “OH, My Lard” it might be fried with lard.
Used book store from many years ago “Dusty Jacket”.
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I see them in Iowa all the time, but I think they’re spelled Kum N Go.
Yes! Rockfan you are correct. I giggle every time I pass one when I’m in Oklahoma.
There’s a store that sells industrial fans called “Big Ass Fans”.
In North Carolina they have Brew Thru which is a drive-thru convenience store that mostly sells alcohol.
Down I-44 there’s Uranus Fudge Factory. It’s so popular that they changed the town’s paper’s name.
That remark about the newspaper was too good not to be googled. According to this link, the paper has been closed down due to “judgmental people”.
@LostInParadise Really? They were getting subscriptions from all over, from people who wanted it delivered…now I have to google. I mean it’s a hole in the wall town, known only for having a military base.
The first time I went to visit family in the Seattle area was when I heard of “Piggly Wiggly” grocery stores. It made me giggle. I was in my early teens.
In a small town in Italy I stumbled upon a store named “The Generale Lee” complete with orange Charger on the sign.
@ellespark Wow, they were super racists then right?! Wow!!!! Wouldn’t expect that in Italy.
@KNOWITALL I wouldn’t say they were super racists… Probably just fans of American TV. Though I wouldn’t have expected them to be fans of Dukes of Hazzard haha
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To be fair, the confederate flag that was so prominent in Dukes of Hazard wasn’t a mainstream symbol of racism while the show was on the air, at least not to most people, I don’t think. I don’t know how people from the South viewed it then.
@Dutchess_III I am happy to hear that from you actually. That is the common sense I knew you to have that is sorely lacking on this site now.
@KNOWITALL Ya know, I was wondering if you were being sincere or sarcastic with your first reply. Should have remembered it was the internet and gone with sarcastic.
Anyway, to take my response back to the spirit of the question and away from politics, it was pretty funny to stumble across that shop in a tiny walled city in Tuscany. And it was just a clothing store, no Dukes of Hazzard related memorabilia at all.
It has changed meaning over the years, though @KNOWITALL. Back then I didn’t realize that it really offended some people, especially black people, especially black people from the south. Now that I know it, I can’t just close my eyes and pretend I don’t know.
It’s like the word “Squaw.” I’ve always thought it was a perfectly fine word, meaning a mature Native American woman. I’ve heard it all of my life.
However, several months back I learned it is actually considered a slur. Gosh I had no clue. It still doesn’t sound like a slur in my ears, like, “nigger” does, but I won’t use it.
These are all genuine shop names in Sheffield…that’s in the North of England by the by.
Spruce Springclean: Carpet cleaner
Surelock Homes: Locksmith
Floral & Hardy: Florist
@ellespark Apologies. That wasn’t fair to do to a newbie who is unaware of the political undertones on this site. My bad.
@KNOWITALL I appreciate and accept your apology. To be really fair though, I’m kinda an old newbie. Or a new oldie? I dunno. New account but I used to hang around here about 6 or 7 years ago.
There’s a house cleaning business around here, the name is on their car and I cringe every time I see it… Two Girls One Bucket.
@ucme Brits, and particularly Northerners, are wonderful with word play.
@janbb This is true & being a true northerner myself, I dabble in the art also
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