Here’s a whole page of them - List of tautological place names - Wikipedia
Major Major Major Major.
I read about him in a book.
McDonald’s salads that are adorned with chicken strips offer the option of Grilled strips or “Crispy” strips. No way were they going to call them Fried strips, as that would make the buyer realize the absurdity of them eating a salad in the first place. Similarly, KFC has re-defined their company acronym in recent years as “Kitchen Fresh Chicken” to distance their brand from both the word “fried” and a non-relatable (to a national or international customer base) Southern state designation.
Didn’t Chevy have to rename its Nova in Spanish speaking places because it means no go?
No. Although ‘No va’ can mean no go, nobody was confused and Chevy made no name changes because of it. This has been debunked so many times here.
There’s no evidence this is true. Their own website still calls itself “Kentucky Fried Chicken” and the corporate name is KFC Corporation. Googling “Kitchen Fresh Chicken” turns up some random websites, Reddit threads, and similar non-official sources. KFC ditched the “Kentucky Fried Chicken” name in most advertising decades ago in favor of “KFC” but never tried to shy away from their fried chicken roots – or the fact that they still serve mostly fried chicken, as their own website proves.
Apparently it was an attempted rebranding from around 2004/2005; they had some ads that were an attempt to redefine their acronym to Kitchen Fresh Chicken, but it didn’t take off?
I was alive way back then… I certainly don’t remember that, and would have mocked it mercilessly if I had heard about it.
I think it’s more likely that, since “Earl” was the title used by the pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility, the Normans decided to keep it to maintain continuity with the old order.
Dolphin Fish now goes by Mahi Mahi presumably because people didn’t want to eat Flipper.
A bit of insider knowledge but when my group was putting together a lymphoma diagnostic the working name was LymphDx, but someone pointed out that when pronounced as a single word it came out similar to “limp dicks” so we changed it before marketing.
Rumor has it that the reason why Windows versions jumped from Windows 8 to Windows 10 was that there were some old pieces of legacy code that would assume that “Windows 9” meant Windows 95 or Windows 98.
Sugar Smacks cereal was changed to Honey Smacks to downplay the sugar content, even though they did not change the amount of sugar used in the cereal.
I knew a woman with that last name. Took her husband’s name. Told me she’d have done the same if he was a Hitler.
Royal Flush provides porta-potties. They’re located near us!
Patagonian toothfish is sold as Chilean sea bass. From Wikipedia:
The name “Chilean seabass” was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977. He was looking for a name to make it attractive to the American market.[16] He considered “Pacific sea bass” and “South American sea bass” before settling on “Chilean sea bass”.[17] In 1994, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted “Chilean seabass” as an “alternative market name” for Patagonian toothfish,[17] and in 2013 for Antarctic toothfish.[citation needed]
Chum salmon, or dog salmon in Alaska, is the least desirable of the 5 eastern Pacific salmon species. But I’ve seen it sold as “keta salmon”. It’s not terrible.
Lots of fish are sold as “cod” when they’re not related, notably black cod which like the Patagonian toothfish is really sablefish, and tasty but not an attractive fish. Or gindara in Japanese restaurants.
Who promoted him anyway?
So what is the actual name?
Bull testicles
I totally forgot about the Royal Flush! Good one.