# Unflattering names for restaurants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959 "2000-05-31T00:56:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/21 "2000-06-02T00:33:27Z")
AAAAAAAnthracite!!! Howarya? I live in KC, too. I think we’re the only two here. We should have lunch. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/22 "2000-06-02T04:22:02Z")
Toxic Smell & Booger Fling ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/23 "2000-06-02T06:19:42Z")
I had a girlfriend (a long while ago) who insisted on referring to McDonald’s as Corporate Death Burger. There are also restaurants out there with legitimate off-puttingnames: Schlotski’s Deli - a Schmutz-atorium; Fudruckers - great burgers, questionable name; and who in the hell was responsible for naming Spunkmeyer’s cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/24 "2000-06-02T06:52:11Z")
There used to be a scuzzy little restaurant in Libertyville, Illinois called the Hot Spur. Late one night, someone climbed up on their big sign and spray-painted an “M” on the end. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/25 "2000-06-02T06:57:02Z")
Anyone here remember Burger Death…I mean Burger Chef? In and Out - An Out an Out an Out’s. Sarovar (Indian Cuisene)- Sucha-bore. Togos - Don’t Go’s. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/26 "2000-06-03T08:52:46Z")
Like I originally said, sometimes you just don’t need to re-name a restaurant in order to be derogatory… Just up Ventura Avenue is a restaurant called Fat Burger. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/27 "2000-06-03T18:05:00Z")
Up where I live, there’s this ‘family-style’ (read: mediocre with cheap breakfast served all day, popular with truckers and rather dirty families) restaurant called 4B’s. It’s an old Montana chain that’s extended a good ways through the Northwest. Anyway, I call it More Fleas. (Told you it wasn’t always the cleanest. At least it doesn’t have a Keno game running in the dining area.) Most of the rest of the eateries are actually pretty good, if you can stand the constant gambling going on around you. ---
**Author:** ![Kipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kipper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/28 "2000-06-05T07:30:42Z")
Kentucky Fucked Duck ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/29 "2000-06-05T08:17:38Z")
The worst pizza I’ve ever had was at a Berkeley place officially called Fat Slice, but known to many locals as Rat Lice. In both DC and San Francisco there are Thai restaurants called Phuket. And Narile, I do indeed remember Burger Chef. There is (or at least as of a few years ago, was) a perfectly preserved Burger Chef somewhere near Hagerstown, Maryland. All I can remember about eating there is they had great toys. ---
**Author:** ![Bullroar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Bullroar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullroar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/30 "2000-06-06T02:29:20Z")
Taco Bell is always called “Run For The Bathroom”. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/31 "2000-06-06T05:29:16Z")
I work two blocks from a place called the “Cat and Cleaver.” (No, it’s not a Chinese restaurant.)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/32 "2000-06-09T04:06:04Z")
Home of the Finger ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/33 "2000-06-09T04:12:08Z")
Home of the Finger ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/34 "2000-06-13T02:45:17Z")
How about: Kentucky Fried Rodent International Out-House of Pancakes Drop to Floor Chinese Restaurant ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/35 "2000-06-13T03:19:24Z")
Howard Johnson’s is Hard-on Johnson around the card club. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959/36 "2000-06-14T17:41:12Z")
Hmmmmm, well, all mine are taken, but I am posting anyway because of the chain of convenience stores in the Midwest called Kum-n-Go. Spelled just like that. I nearly caused an accident pulling over to take a photo of the sign, first time I saw it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unflattering-names-for-restaurants/20959.md?page=1)