# What are your pet nicknames for various products/businesses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935 "2008-03-27T17:02:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 27, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/1 "2008-03-27T17:02:37Z")
My buddy and I are always coming up with these (yes, often with a sexual or scatological bent): For Netflix, Nutlix Blockbuster Video, Ballbuster Publix grocery stores, Pubix (where shopping is an orgasm). Taco Bell, Taco Hell (or Taco Smell) Yes, I’m sick and bored with a long lunch break, so sue me… ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/2 "2008-03-27T17:28:58Z")
> [@John DiFool](#): > > Taco Bell, Taco Hell (or Taco Smell) Also Toxic Hell. When Pacific Bell changed their name to SBC, a friend of mine and I were trying to figure out what it stood for. The best I could come up with was “Sucks to Be a Customer” (I had had some not-so-good experiences with Pac Hell), but he came up with a really good one- “Satan’s Bastard Children”. The realtor who sold us our house called one of the Giant Eagle stores near us “Giant Evil”. So now we call it that, too. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/3 "2008-03-27T17:36:27Z")
Taco Hell or Taco Smell Little Sleazers Pizza Slut Domin-hoes Crack Whore Barrel We’re pretty bad, sorry. There are a lot more, I just can’t think of at the moment, but the funniest (to us) is we call Wal-Mart “the M store.” When my son was little (maybe 2?) and learning his letters, the local Wal-Mart had a McDonald’s inside it. There was the big golden arches logo on the front of the (Wal-Mart) store, and my son would always point and proudly exclaim “M, mommy, M.” He progressed to asking if we were going to “the M store” and so on, and it just stuck. He’s 8 now and gets peeved at us when we say it (he feels like we’re teasing him) but it really has just stuck in our house. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/4 "2008-03-27T17:54:15Z")
Tar-zhay Mac’s Supper Club Jacques Pen-NAY Wally World (duh) ---
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[QUOTE=Scarlett67] Tar-zhay Mac’s Supper Club Jacques Pen-NAY Wally World (duh) [/QUOTE] Here we call it Tar-zhay _Boutique_. We also have Home Pisspot, K-Mapart, and the Mall-O (or Megamall) of course. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/6 "2008-03-27T18:06:19Z")
McDonald’s is _Micky’s D’s_. Or if’n I’m feeling particularly surly, _Corporate Death Burger_. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/7 "2008-03-27T18:29:38Z")
Yucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken) ---
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We seem to concentrate on the grocery items: Queerios for Cheerios Cocoa Shitties for Cocoa Crispies Alpha Shits for Alpha Bits Yucky Farts for Lucky Charms Cocoa Poops for Cocoa Puffs Faggotos for Spaghettios Penis Butter for Peanut Butter We also do Pizza Slut and Taco Smell ---
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[QUOTE=ChiefScott] Or if’n I’m feeling particularly surly, _Corporate Death Burger_. [/QUOTE] I’m stealing that. - I sometimes refer to Home Depot as Home Despot. - When I worked for the Red Cross, I usually called it the Red Plus (and typed “Red +” in emails to friends.) - Similar to Tar-zhay, I sometimes call Kroger Kro-zhay, but it sounds too much like crochet. Kind of a generic one, but one day I decided that neckties are really just large arrows pointing to a man’s genitals. Being a fan of Flannery O’Connor stories, I put two and two together and began referring to every tie as a “manly pointer”. My wife was unamused. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/10 "2008-03-27T18:53:24Z")
[ul] [li]Crapital One- I’m sick of getting their shit in my mailbox at least once a week.[/li][li]Gayco car insurance- same reason, plus their incessant advertising on TV.[/li][li]Dead Steer (Red Steer, a long defunct local/regiona fast food chain)[/li][li]Sewers (Spewers), Buttwiper, Flat Tire, Dead Dog, Killer, Dichelob, Coronary (I don’t drink beer, can’t you tell?)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/11 "2008-03-27T19:11:40Z")
Down on Seattle’s waterfront you can visit Pirate’s Plunder, though I don’t recommend it. It’s devolved into a cheesy, made-in-China, tacky tourist joint but back in our day, it was along the lines of a Pier 1 or Cost Plus. As kids, we used to love roaming through it looking for that perfect (inexpensive) item we just had to have. We called the place Pirate’s Plunger. A local seafood chain, Ivar’s, is said in a piratey voice. Arrrr-varrrrrr’s. Bavarian cream donuts are barbarian cream. Eddie Bauer is Eddie Bowser. About a year and a half ago, the Dead Sea Scrolls came to Seattle. My sister started calling them the Dead Sea Squirrels. A few months ago a comic strip (Mother Goose and Grimm, I believe) stole her idea. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/12 "2008-03-27T19:21:57Z")
Kentucky fried pigeon kentucky fried H5N1 (around medical/geek types) that scottish restaurant (McDonald’s (like MacBeth, never to be said a loud) Nurses call Haldol “vitamin H” alot… a really urgently required sedative is known as a STAT-ivan ---
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Not a business, but: We have a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall just up the street from where we live. One day I tried to make reference to it in a conversation with my husband and couldn’t remember the proper term. I ended up saying: “You know, that place up the street … the … Temple of Doom. You know what I mean!” It stuck. ---
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Whole Paycheck for Whole Foods. Sheets N’ Shit for Linens N’ Things ---
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[QUOTE=Anne Neville] The realtor who sold us our house called one of the Giant Eagle stores near us “Giant Evil”. So now we call it that, too. [/QUOTE] My parents called it “Giant Beagle” for some odd reason. Around my area we have: Little Cesars=Little Sneezers Taco Bell=Taco Yell Wal-Mart=WallyWorld ---
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Internet Exploiter Nutscrape AOHell Orlando Slantinel User Today ---
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Taco Bell = Taco Hell Pizza Hut = Pizza Slut Waffle House = Awful Ho (the one on Hillsborough St had some letters burned out a la _AFFLE HO_ \_ \_) Wal Mart = Wally World Target = Tarjzay Raleigh News and Observer = the News and Disturber Chik-Fil-A = Chick I’m sure there are more, but the brain refuses to rotate them to the top of the pile. ---
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Strangely enough, none. Not sure why, but these are businesses that you are free to visit or not. Believe me, they would not be in business if they deserved a degrading moniker. You think you sound savvy calling Pizza Hut, Pizza Slut? ---
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Burger King = BK Steakhouse. It sounds so much tastier when you say it like that. ---
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Burger King = BK Steakhouse. It sounds so much tastier when you say it like that. Also, Toys R Us = We B Toys. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935.md?page=2)