# Favorite fake product names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158 "2021-02-03T19:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/181 "2021-02-14T16:14:19Z")
How about Engulf+Devour, the evil conglomerate trying to take over Big Pictures Studio in Mel Brooks’ _Silent Movie_? The “fun” note is that a few years later, Gulf+Western did actually take over Paramount Studios. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/182 "2021-02-14T18:19:28Z")
In _L.A. Story_, there are a few references to a very trendy restaurant whose name sounds like “lay-dee-oh”. When some characters finally go there, we see the sign is “L’idiot”. Patrick Stewart plays the very snooty French maître d’, and he’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/183 "2021-02-14T18:24:26Z")
Pelotaunt from SNL last night. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/184 "2021-02-14T18:33:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In _L.A. Story_, there are a few references to a very trendy restaurant whose name sounds like “lay-dee-oh”. When some characters finally go there, we see the sign is “L’idiot”. > > Patrick Stewart plays the very snooty French maître d’, and he’s awesome. - There’s a real one in Taiwan. > **[L'IDIOT RESTAURANT](https://www.lidiotrestaurant.com/en/)** > > 驢子餐廳致力於採用手工料理，以新鮮當季的食材入菜，將料理本質中的美味，變成一道道精緻的料理呈現給您。 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/185 "2021-02-14T19:58:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In _L.A. Story_ , there are a few references to a very trendy restaurant whose name sounds like “lay-dee-oh”. When some characters finally go there, we see the sign is “L’idiot”. Not a fake place name, but I used to live near a French fancy restaurant named _Chez Léon_. One of my waggish friends insisted on calling it “Cheesy Leon’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/186 "2021-02-14T22:31:18Z")
Chez Guevara. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/187 "2021-02-16T00:23:11Z")
I have looked up and down, and even searched. It seems no one has mentioned Soylent Green. Now, I realize that you can buy crackers called “Soylent Green,” made from soy and green lentils as they are in the book, not people, as they are in the movie, but they are an ostentation, a term coined by snopes for an Urban Legend deliberately made to come true, and began production many years after the movie came out. I understand they are pricey, but a fairly decent cracker for dips, high in both fiber and protein, and compared to potato or corn chips, low in carbohydrate. There is also another product which is called soylent green, and is a protein drink that claims to be a food adults can live on solely, with nothing else (except possibly water). It came out in 2013, and is also a deliberate ostentation. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/188 "2021-02-16T05:05:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Not a fake place name, but I used to live near a French fancy restaurant named _Chez Léon_ . One of my waggish friends insisted on calling it “Cheesy Leon’s”. Well, since _chez_ translates more less as _the place of_ something like Chez Pierre could be seen at Pete’s Joint. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/189 "2021-02-17T08:07:14Z")
More SNL: Puppy Uppers and Doggie Downers. “Ethereal Cereal” from the movie “Putney Swope”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/190 "2021-02-17T23:53:04Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > “Ethereal Cereal” from the movie “Putney Swope”. No shit! Even more memorable to my teenage self was Lucky Airlines ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/191 "2021-02-18T08:47:36Z")
May I commend you for your assiduous Bachelor Chow archival work. Are fake pets stretching it, like Rex the robot dog in _Sleeper_? “I’m Rex…woof, woof…” James Bond’s favourite vintage: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uoQgKAb16nY/maxresdefault.jpg "Phu Yuck? — The Man with the Golden Gun") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQgKAb16nY) “…I approve…” 😉 To add to the Carlin posts…For a rich library in any respectable, oak-panelled den… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IyEf1_jBqSM/hqdefault.jpg "George Carlin - Join the Book Club") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyEf1_jBqSM) fine titles, like: “How To Give King a Really Hard Time” “A Complete List of All Things That are Still Pending” “Chances are Your Sister’s Full of Shit” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158.md?page=9)