# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/101 "2008-04-03T20:26:30Z")
Like others above, Bob Evans is just “The Bob.” Regional grocery store Giant Eagle is “Big Bird” Arby’s is known only as “Kidney” because you have to sell a kidney if you want to eat there these days. Regional Denny’s-type restaraunt Eat n’ Park is “Spin and Barf” And my favorite creation - Red Lobster is “Dead Hamster” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/102 "2008-04-03T22:35:24Z")
Wachovia made me think of the old song, “Someone to Watch Over Me.” However, the commercials call it “Walk over ya.” ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/103 "2008-04-03T22:55:18Z")
This thread is hilarious! My contributions: Local grocery chain is called **Hen House** …we call it **Chicken Mart** **Waffle House** we pronounce “Whaf-Leh Houuuuse” with a Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman from Taxi) accent. The check cashing/liquor/thrift store/chinese restaurant/pizza place strip mall that’s around the corner is “The Poor People Mall” (we go there all the time BTW!) ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/104 "2008-04-03T23:02:21Z")
The Fort Worth paper Star-Telegram is of course the Startle-gram. I used to call the Sack-and-Save low-end supermarket the Bag-and-Barf. (They changed the name a while ago to something I can’t remember.) And I can’t leave out Rad Shack. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mrs\_Johnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/105 "2008-04-03T23:35:12Z")
Panera Bread = Pantera Trash Cock = Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs… Mr J made that up after I mentioned that Mike Rowe is an attractive older man. “No one Kitchen” - a local Asian restaurant with a sign that actually says “No.1 Kitchen” hoe Carnival… because the “S” wasn’t lit up one night. Grand Am = Grandma a bunny = spatula the space truck = an acquaintance’s silver Montero Circuit Shitty Taco Hell AOHell ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/106 "2008-04-03T23:37:07Z")
almost forgot… There’s some “One-to-One Nursing” place near my house that I guess it for home nursing solutions. The logo for the business used to be in the style of those pedestrian crossing people, with two figures, which I suppose were supposed to represent a nurse bending over a patient to help care for them. But it really looked more like the nurse figure is bending over to um… copulate with the patient. That combined with the slightly suggestive sounding business name means we call it “Naughty Nurses”. Also, there’s some hair salon place whose name is written in a fancy script on a red background, with a picture of a wax seal that looks pretty much like the cover of a famous book. So we call it “The Secret”. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/107 "2008-04-04T00:32:52Z")
I forgot to post this one: A woman came into the store I work at, and was quite embarrassed because she couldn’t remember the name of the cheese she wanted. She finally admitted that she and her kids call it “[Mad Cow cheese](http://www.thelaughingcow.com/)”. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/108 "2008-04-04T00:48:17Z")
Our local newspaper is called the Santa Barbara News Suppress. We called it that even before Wendy McCaw fired all the staff and made the sobriquet actually true. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/109 "2008-04-04T03:24:20Z")
No one’s mentioned this?!? The word processing program, Microsoft Weird 'Course that’s not a only name, more like a dead-on description. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935/110 "2008-04-04T15:01:58Z")
[QUOTE=rjk] I forgot to post this one: A woman came into the store I work at, and was quite embarrassed because she couldn’t remember the name of the cheese she wanted. She finally admitted that she and her kids call it “[Mad Cow cheese](http://www.thelaughingcow.com/)”. [/QUOTE] LOL, that cow does look rather loony! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-pet-nicknames-for-various-products-businesses/442935.md?page=5)