I’m guessing you probably also avoid the Heart Attack Grill.
Agony can mean orgasm in Jamaican patois.
I forgot about Sleep Train. Their name annoyed me, and their ads annoyed me because their logo used an old timey steam locomotive, but their jingle used an air horn sound effect like a modern locomotive.
Speaking of mattress stores, there’s a local store called European Sleep Design. I guess they want you to think that European mattresses are somehow better than American ones, and they make their mattresses the European way. But having been to Europe a few times, I didn’t notice anything particularly different about the mattresses.
We have both of those in my town, along with BJ Cinnamon (donut place). All fairly successful - I guess these businesses opened here in order to get ahead.
We also have another donut place called “Baker’s Dozen” - however, when you buy a dozen you only get 12.
Or M.T. Heads.
I passed a billboard the other day for Pro-Pest Pest Management.
I’d rather hire someone more anti-pest, thanks.
To be fair, they did say “pest management”, not “pest elimination”. Maybe they’re really good at providing little spas and chaises longues for them. 
In attempted mitigation (and fetching up a bit of railway-enthusiast-type extreme micro-trivia): it has been known for steam locomotives to be fitted with air horns, used instead of the more familiar steam whistle. The Polish state railways, which used steam locos in regular service until quite a late date: had some equipped with one sort of warning-sound-maker, and some with the other sort.
Does naming sports arenas after corporations count? Unless it’s part of the local culture, like Heinz Field, it’s so…ick.
And this is probably one of the worst examples.
Cup Noodles. It’s a Cup O Noodles; they never should have changed the name.
Empire Today carpets and floors. What was wrong with just Empire. Moreover, they didn’t commission a new jingle so they could fit in the “today”. Instead they use the same jingle but just say the word “today” at the end of it.
Makes me think of that old Bob the Angry Flower cartoon, where Bob is exhorting his snake warriors and skilled accountants to wreak a terrible revenge upon society…
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The very uncomfortable Trace Adkins’ commercial for ASCO.
The Chicago White Sox call their home Guaranteed Rate Park. Chicagoans call it either Comiskey (the homes [two different parks] of the White Sox for decades) or simply Sox Park. It was U.S. Cellular Park in between.
The Civic Center in Asheville was the US Cellular Civic Center for a few years. I think it’s the Harrah’s Civic Center now. Most everyone in town just calls it the Civic Center like we always did.
There was a combination Chinese food and fried chicken restaurant in Norfolk, VA called the Chinkee Chickee, back in the 1970’s. But the top of my list of least-favorite restaurant names goes to the pair (presumably under the same ownership) “That Steak Place” and “That Fish Place”.
And what happens when one branding becomes embedded in the people’s consciousness before the change?
For example, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. For 20+ years it was the Air Canada Centre. I think there was an effort to call it The Hangar for short, but everyone ended up calling it the ACC.
Then Scotiabank swooped in and bought the naming rights for the next twenty years. The signs were all changed (and not just the ones on the arena itself; there are any number of way finding signs in the railway station next door, too). But we don’t have a short form for the name anymore.
Johnsonville sausages.
Gilead Sciences, the research company. The name always conjures up The Handmaid’s Tale.
Dude Solutions sounds like a bunch of stoners