# 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:** 3
**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 28, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/41 "2008-03-28T13:56:26Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] Internet Explorer \> Internet Exploder. [/QUOTE] I sometimes call it that, and sometimes call it “Internet Exploiter”. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/42 "2008-03-28T14:23:28Z")
Steak ‘n’ Snake = Steak ‘n’ Shake (based on a sign with a burned out light seen years ago by my mom and me) Dirt Mall = the local flea market, stolen from Mallrats. Also from Mallrats came “Fasionable Male” for preppy-male mall stores. Ghetto Gas = a Marathon gas station on the edge of a notoriously bad neighborhood in Indianapolis, that also has the cheapest gas of any station I ever pass. Dead Bread = Hostess Bakery Outlets International House of Prayer = some omni-denominational non-church church housed in a building that looks suspiciously like one of those old high-roof IHOPs that has been remodeled. It’s a block away from Ghetto Gas. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/43 "2008-03-28T14:31:35Z")
My girlfriend is kind of a Ms. Malaprop. The most enduring example is “chicken cab” for “checker cabs.” In high school my friends used to call Taco Bell “Discount Meat Hut,” after something from Matt Groening’s Life in Hell. After it became a combination Taco Bell-Pizza Hut, the resemblance was even more striking. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/44 "2008-03-28T14:53:09Z")
Jack in the Box=Crap in the Box This is quite an apt nickname, given their history with E. coli-contaminated meat. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/45 "2008-03-28T15:11:05Z")
When I lived in Tallahassee, there was one “Badcock and More” furniture store whose first three letters were almost always on the fritz. From then on, most furniture stores have gotten new names: Cock and More (Badcock) Ladyboy (La-Z-Boy) Shame’s (Kane’s) Ass Wee (Ashley) That Shitty Furniture Store or Shit That Breaks Quickly (Rooms to Go) We also have names for other stores: All Butt Sons (Albertson’s) Winn Dick Me (Winn Dixie) Pube Licks (Publix) Tarzhay (Target) Home Despot (Home Depot) Blowe’s (Lowe’s) Pizza Slut (Pizza Hut) Things that have gotten renamed: nun-nuns (onions) peelows (pillows) banennas (bananas) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/46 "2008-03-28T15:29:27Z")
My dad used to call Sears & Roebuck Rears & Sawbuck. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/47 "2008-03-28T17:00:08Z")
Taco-Smell has overtaken every other name for fast food; Taco-Smell, Wendy-Smell, Checker’s-Smell, etc. ---
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/48 "2008-03-28T17:25:57Z")
Shuttle Express (local airport shuttle): Shithole Express Home Depot: Home Epot (one near me had defective sign for a few weeks) Bed, Bath, and Beyond: Birdbath and Beyond or Bloodbath and Beyond USA Today: Useless-A Today Jack in the Box: Jackoff in the Box ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/49 "2008-03-28T18:53:14Z")
From the days before digital cameras, we used to buy phlegm when we wanted to take pictures. And better make sure the camera has bat-trees in it, or the flash won’t work! I’ve come to call Wal-Mart by the name “Har-Mart” because that’s what my grandmother misremebered it as after a stroke, when she had to visit their in-store Pharmacer to pick up her meds. Wally World, Taco Hell, and Pizza Slut are all within walking distance of my house, and just a short drive away you can find the Awful Waffle (Waffle House). I love the “Temple of Doom” for the Jehova’s Witness temple. One of my close friends is a JW, so I may have to steal that one to use on him. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/50 "2008-03-28T20:02:38Z")
Home Depot-Home Despot , or Agent Orange Red Lobster-Scarlet Crustacean J C Penney-Jacques Pen-yay City Market(local AKA for Kroger)-Shitty Market Sinclair gas is dinosaur gas. K-Fart Pizza Butt Maybe more later. I gotta go back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/51 "2008-03-28T20:18:17Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Publix grocery stores, Pubix (where shopping is an orgasm). [/QUOTE] I lengthen this out to “The Lix of Pube,” much as I say “The Cart of Shopping” and “The Controller of Remoteness.” The Reddy-Mart (or whatever the hell it’s called) on the corner is, of course, Kwicky-mart. Super Wal-Mart is “Das Uber-Mart.” ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/52 "2008-03-28T20:33:57Z")
We refer to Bob Evans as Bob’s. There’s a Chinese buffet nearby that we call Bad Chinese. It’s not bad food, but it’s pretty bad as Chinese food. I’ve also been known to say Pizza Slut. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/53 "2008-03-28T20:45:01Z")
Chez Tarjay here; we’re fancy that way. Similarly, Kay-Rojay is Kroger. I never eat at the Awful House; my husband prefers dining with Mr. Evans. I like talking about computer mouses … though I don’t even know if “mice” is even technically correct! ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/54 "2008-03-28T21:39:01Z")
Radio Shat ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/55 "2008-03-28T21:51:10Z")
[British West Indies Airways](http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/bw.htm) But will I arrive? ---
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Popeye’s Chicken: “Pope Yes,” which evolved into “The Pontiff of Poultry” Chipotle: Chipoodle KFC: Kentucky Clucker Burger King: Burger Thing Toys R Us: We Be Toys ‘n’ Shit Jack in the Box: JFK Memorial Dining Room (not often, we almost never eat there) Mr. Chao’s (a local fast food Chinese chain): Mr. Chao’s Wild Ride ---
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[QUOTE=Atomicktom] Also, Toys R Us = We B Toys. [/QUOTE] We used to call it, “We B Toys n’ Shit” One of the suburbs of Kalamazoo, MI is Portage. Here in Paw Paw, we call it, “Portage Land”. There used to be a drive-thru fast food franchise around here called, “Hot n’ Now” that sold burgers, fries, drinks, etc at very cheap prices. We called it, “Cold n, Later”. It’s no longer in business. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/58 "2008-03-29T18:43:08Z")
The Kroger closest to us was a Chathams 20 years ago. I always call it Chathams. It pisses my wife off ,so I will continue. McDucks Taco Smell Burger Noodle For Burger King ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/59 "2008-03-29T19:04:31Z")
Waffle House----\> Awful Waffle Home Depot—\> Home despot or Gnome Depot Radio Shack—\> Radio Shark Robb and Stucky’s-----\> Rob and Stick me Lowes----\> Blows renames in addition to Nashiitashii’s Roast beef----\> Roast beast corn----\> Corms (lolcat invading normal speech here) raviolies—\> ravel-lolies Macaroni-----\>Mastadons and cheese Beer—\> Biru (got engrished) ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/60 "2008-03-29T21:03:05Z")
When we first moved to Carson City an otherwise nice Mexican restaurant had a stabbing in their bar on two consecutive weekends. We call it the, “Stab and Eat.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935.md?page=4)