# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1590
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31784 "2014-12-09T14:51:38Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) 9. Cable TV stations 10. Alcoholic beverages ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31785 "2014-12-09T15:37:01Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) 9. Cable TV stations 10. Alcoholic beverages 11. Sugar Heavily subsidized. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31786 "2014-12-09T15:59:20Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) 9. Cable TV stations 10. Alcoholic beverages 11. Sugar 12. Japanese woodblock prints. _Ukiyo-e_ originally sold for a penny apiece, but today, courtesy of marketing and the fine art world, some sell for tens of thousands of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31787 "2014-12-09T16:01:19Z")
Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies. 1. Breakfast cereal 2. Bottled water 3. Pharmaceuticals 4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters 5. Coffee 6. Diamonds 7. Mozzarella Cheese 8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin) 9. Cable TV stations 10. Alcoholic beverages 11. Sugar 12. Japanese woodblock prints. 13. Ambulance service Next: Movie/book titles that were the names of business estblishments 1. Mystic Pizza ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31788 "2014-12-09T16:33:28Z")
Next: Movie/book titles that were the names of business estblishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31789 "2014-12-09T16:42:18Z")
Next: Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café A little movie I liked a lot. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31790 "2014-12-09T16:45:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 1. Bagdad Café > > A little movie I liked a lot. I loved it. I almost used that as my opener. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31791 "2014-12-09T18:05:57Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I loved it. I almost used that as my opener. nm ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31792 "2014-12-09T18:08:54Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31793 "2014-12-09T18:23:09Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads Spike Lee’s final project for film school. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31794 "2014-12-09T18:35:24Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel ---
**Author:** ![REF1972](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@REF1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/REF1972)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31795 "2014-12-09T18:47:54Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31796 "2014-12-09T18:48:00Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31797 "2014-12-09T19:31:52Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31798 "2014-12-09T20:17:42Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium As someone pointed out to me, did Dustin Hoffman’s character’s name dictate his line of business? If his name had been, say, Mr. Snaffeteria, would he have opened a coffee shop? ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31799 "2014-12-09T20:22:03Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 11. Boogie Nights The name of the nightclub where the movie opens and the characters are introduced. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31800 "2014-12-09T20:26:15Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 11. Boogie Nights 12. Donovan’s Reef ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31801 "2014-12-09T21:03:09Z")
Movie/book titles that were the names of business establishments 1. Mystic Pizza 2. Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon 3. Bagdad Café 4. Rachel’s Garden 5. Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 7. Empire Records 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium 11. Boogie Nights 12. Donovan’s Reef 13. Coyote Ugly Pass, I can’t think of anything good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31802 "2014-12-09T21:16:50Z")
Actors playing a guilty or otherwise disreputable person portrayed favorably. (Besides Bonnie and Clyde and Bucth and Sundance,) 1. Ray Liotta as Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31803 "2014-12-09T21:31:18Z")
Actors playing a guilty or otherwise disreputable person portrayed favorably. 1. Ray Liotta as Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. 2. Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1589) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=1591)