# Store and other business names that bug you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001 "2020-04-17T19:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/21 "2020-04-17T22:25:31Z")
Milillo’s Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/22 "2020-04-17T22:26:50Z")
From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_(company)): > [@](#): > > The chain’s name comes from the site of the company’s first milk plant and corporate headquarters in the Wawa, Pennsylvania area. The name of the town Wawa is in turn derived from the Ojibwe word for the Canada goose ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/23 "2020-04-17T22:52:38Z")
Fifth Third Bank is a silly name. Frickers is a chain of sports bars, mostly in Ohio. Years ago, I had some professional contact with a now defunct local testing company called H. H. Holmes. That name is closely associated with a serial killer in the late 19th century here in Chicago. Testing company: [https://oakpointpartners.com/transaction/h-h-holmes-testing-laboratories-inc-remnant-assets/](https://oakpointpartners.com/transaction/h-h-holmes-testing-laboratories-inc-remnant-assets/) Killer: > **[H. H. Holmes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes)** > > Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. Until his execution in 1896, he chose a career of crime including insurance fraud, swindling, check forging, three to four bigamous illegal marriages, horse theft and murder. > Despite his confession of 27 murders (including some people who were verifiably still alive) while awaiting exec... ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/24 "2020-04-17T22:54:44Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > But you’re ok with the “bottom” part? 😉 No, sir, I am not. Beartop _might_ work, if only I was gay myself. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/25 "2020-04-17T23:02:13Z")
There’s a company that makes multimeters called Fluke. Terrible name. “If it works, it’s a fluke.”. Also, any company called Badcock. Sent from my hand-held telephonic communication device using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/26 "2020-04-17T23:08:49Z")
Cheesecake Factory. Who wants a cheesecake made on an assembly line? It also makes it sound like they have nothing but cheesecake. Quiznos - a faux Italian name with no significance selected just to use two unusual letters. Häagen-Dazs - likewise phony Danish. I also agree with Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/27 "2020-04-17T23:56:27Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > **WaWa** (gas station / convenience stores). I can scarcely say the name in a normal tone of voice. I typically do the sad trombone sound when I drive past one. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/28 "2020-04-17T23:57:31Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Fifth Third Bank is a silly name. > Frickers is a chain of sports bars, mostly in Ohio. Where many of the recipes came direct from that _baaaad mother frickers (shut yo’ mouth!)._ > [@](#): > > Years ago, I had some professional contact with a now defunct local testing company called H. H. Holmes. > That name is closely associated with a serial killer in the late 19th century here in Chicago. Not only Chicago. Thanks to the book _The Devil in the White City,_ H. H. Holmes is infamous everywhere now. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/29 "2020-04-18T00:05:13Z")
My entry is always the [Drury Inn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drury_Hotels). I see it as Dreary Inn. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/30 "2020-04-18T00:10:07Z")
There’s a chain of promotional goods here called [Embroidme](https://embroidme.com.au/). Which drives me crazy as I think it really should have been EmbroiderMe. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/31 "2020-04-18T00:10:45Z")
> [@me](#): > > What is this? Ruth’s house of ‘Chris’ steaks, which are specially prepared by Chef Chris in back? Ruth’s steakhouse of the ‘Chris’ variety as opposed to the ‘Tom’ variety which has longer tables? Your steaks have been christened, maybe? > > Is there a “Ruth” and also a “Chris” involved in this? If so, why isn’t it “Ruth & Chris’s Steakhouse”? from [my own pit thread on the subject](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259788) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/32 "2020-04-18T00:21:04Z")
Milillo’s sounds almost… mellifluous. Something in a dialect of Elvish. What would Elvish pizza taste like? I agree wholeheartedly that the name Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse is the worst cacophony in business names. I’m inclined to agree with the dislike for the pseudo-Danish ice cream. If I were from Denmark I’d meet that with raised eyebrows and a flat “what” sufficient to express cold disdain with finality. I never registered Quizno’s as pseudo-Italian; it doesn’t track close enough with real Italian to sound like a match, it just sounds pseudo-businessese/commercialese as an excuse to use Q and Z at the same time, probably the inspiration for coining the original word _quiz_, however that may have come about. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/33 "2020-04-18T00:24:19Z")
Marie Callender’s? I get that it is actually the name of its founder, but I still picture a snooty boutique in a New England coastal town that only sells calendars. On an opposite note, when I lived in New Haven, CT there was a bar called C.O. Jones. Probably my favorite name for an establishment ever. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/34 "2020-04-18T00:42:02Z")
Yahoo and Google seemed pretty puerile to me, then the topper, GoDaddy. But then, grown-ups were not part of their business model. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/35 "2020-04-18T05:02:02Z")
I’ve never been crazy about the name of a furniture outlet around Texas called “The Dump”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/36 "2020-04-18T06:03:48Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I cannot bring myself to buy any of the foods make by “Boar’s Head.” > > The name simply grosses me out. I feel the same way about “Off The Bone” lunchmeats. I eat meat and have no issue with eating meat off a bone, but there’s something about that name that I find very unappealing. When I was in college, one of my male friends referred to Kum & Go as “Spurt & Split.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/37 "2020-04-18T06:06:53Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > I drove by a sign for a church in Memphis, Ram in the Bush. I almost had a wreck. There used to be an organization in my area called World Thrust Ministries. I see that the organization still exists (barely). [https://www.ecfa.org/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=11080](https://www.ecfa.org/MemberProfile.aspx?ID=11080) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/38 "2020-04-18T06:16:09Z")
“Fuddruckers” always struck me as sounding like a euphemism for something you _don’t_ want people doing in the same place where they cook your burger. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/39 "2020-04-18T06:57:05Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > There’s a donut shop in town called Glory Hole that makes me cringe whenever someone mentions it. One wonders what they hang the donuts on. There’s a long-running gay bar in Bangkok’s Patpong red-light district called Screw Boy. There is a line of bluejeans in Thailand too call BJ. When I worked at the _Bangkok Post_, a lot of the Thai business editors got a free pair from the makers, and they thought they were great. They could not figure out why all of us Westerners there were cracking up. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001/40 "2020-04-18T10:12:19Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Fifth Third Bank is a silly name. Recently encountered this foolishness. “Look, I’m _bad_ at math, and even I know that’s effed up. Why would I bank with someone who can’t even count on their fingers?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/store-and-other-business-names-that-bug-you/852001.md?page=3)