What businesses in your area have the best slogans? The worst?
Best
From a Pizza restaurant: “Watch Your Pizza Being Made by Imported Hands.”
Always makes me smile.
Worst
From a Nail Salon: “All Nails Done by Professionals.”
While I suppose it’s nice to know they don’t take people off the street and let them do it for the fun of it, it hardly seems like a major selling point. Any nail salon that pays its workers is using professionals, isn’t it?
What are your choices.
It’s preety much impossible to Google an actual image, but I kid you not that Norfol England hosts a firm by the name: George Bush and Sons: Wholesale Butchers
Culver City Meats: “You Can’t Beat Our Meat.” It’s emblazoned on their delivery trucks.
There is also a car wash in Hermosa Beach called “Hand Job”. Not really a slogan, but people seem to enjoy it.
Well, my fave is here in Los Angeles:
Culver City Meat Company’s slogan is “You Can’t Beat our Meat.”
And their trucks bearing the slogan are frequently seen on local freeways.
I’m rather partial to the slogan you see on the local Tourney Electric trucks…
“Let us remove your shorts.”
Not a slogan exactly, but a few years ago two of our local medical doctors decided to branch out and open a real estate business. The sign above their new business?
“Swindall & Crook Real Estate”
That sign lasted about a week. I think their office manager noticed lots of people stopping to take pictures and had a “D’oh” experience.
There is a dry cleaning business in Albuquerque that used to have “Drop your pants here” on its sign.
I’ve never understood With a name like Smuckers, it had to be good!. No it doesn’t- it could suck AND have an ugly name.
A funeral home in Alabama had the slogan “We treat your loved ones like they were ours”. I’m hoping they’re just referring to their dead loved ones as it would seem sort of cruel to drain Aunt Bebe’s and replace it with embalming fluid before putting her in a box and burying it in the ground while she’s still kicking and screaming.
There’s a gay country-western bar (yes you read that right) in Atlanta called Ho-downs. Their slogan is “You can never keep a good Ho Down”.
In the 1960’s something similar used to be on a sign over a little hamburger joint in Nashville run by little old ladies. It was called The Campus Grill. I used to think that surely they couldn’t know what it meant. Now that I’m a little old lady myself, I’m not so sure. “Bet You Can’t Beat Our Meat”
Someone eventually came along and took the B in “Beat” down.
Also, does Campbell’s Funeral Home in Abingdon, VA really have to use the same font as Campbell Soup on their sign?
For a New Orleans waste disposal company (sorry, can’t remember the name): “Our Business Stinks, But It’s Picking Up.”
I’ll leave you to decide whether that’s a “Best” or a “Worst”…
Not so much best or worst, but in Macon, GA there is a bizarre little cinder block back alley garage called (I’m not making this up) “The Love of Jesus Body Shop”. A handpainted sign states “Our work is our testimony”. Really really really weird (and uniquely southern).
In the booming town of York, PA:
Worst:
Turn the book over!
A law firm - they have a full page color ad on the back of the phone book. It was on the radio with the most horrid inflection, on billboards, even some bad TV ads at one point.
Best:
Not really a business but a local nut-case who campained for every public office with:
Fight Mafia Lawyer Scum!
Worst: Bubba’s bar in Lawrence, Kansas
’Cause You Just Never Know
Best: Stroud’s Fried Chicken in Kansas City, MO (?)
We Choke Our Own Chickens
what does “cause you just never know” even mean?
Sometimes in Jeddah, I pass by a meat shop called ‘Western Butchery.’
There’s a car shop in my hometown that has a sign in front that says “Take a leak here!”
I think they also had “The best place in town to take a leak!” but that could be something that I saw elsewhere and am remembering it as being theirs because of the other sign.
There’s also a burger stand with a big “LARGE GREASY BURGERS HERE!” sign. I guess that’s appetizing.
2 of my gradparents had services in Winemac, Indiana, by a funeral home with match books stating: “Ask those we have served!”
-IUchem
I used to pass a business that specialized in 30 minute oil changes, and it was situated behind another business. Not so much a slogan, but there was a roadside sign which read “Quick lube in the rear”.
There’s a rubbish removal company here who have the slogan:
“Satisfaction guaranteed or double your rubbish back”.
There’s a Curl Up & Dye beauty salon in town here.
I’ve always wanted to open up a garage and call it Head Jobs, Rim Jobs And More.