From Victor Steinbok on ADS-L, a link to this Daily Meal piece on “7 Most Inappropriate Restaurant Names” by Sarah Fuss:
Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively were spotted this week, according to Page 6, eating lunch side by side at Pink Taco, an upscale Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles. The thing that sucks about Pink Taco, aside from its somehow chauvinist name, is that they recently painted a donkey pink in a publicity stunt that got them a lot of negative attention from animal lovers. But what do you expect from a restaurant with a title like that?
Fuss goes on to list 7 further dubious restaurant names, in the spirit of the posting on this blog on:
Plumed Serpent for a gay bar; Pink Taco for a restaurant; and Tube Steak for a hot-dog stand
Fuss’s candidates:
1. Mother Clucker’s Iroquois, Ontario
2. A&K Lick-a-Chick Bras d’Or, Nova Scotia
3. Dirty Dick’s Crab House Nag’s Head, NC
4. Hooters Every. where.
5. Big Pecker’s Bar & Grill Ocean City, MD
6. Thai Me Up New York, New York
7. Hung Far Low Portland, OR
Gerald Cohen, in Rolla MO, added the local restaurant Randy’s Roadkill BBQ and Grill. And Doug Wilson unearthed a site with “10 of the Worst Restaurant Names Ever” — with photos! The list:
Fu King Chinese Restaurant in Lake Worth FL
Kum Den Bar & Restaurant in Melbourne, Australia
My Dung Restaurant in Rosemead CA
Gassey Jack’s near Orange C ity FL
Hitler’s Cross in Mumbai [with a swastika; name changed after protests]
Flavors of Negros in the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Philippines [Negros, an island in the Philippines]
Sar’s Oriental Cuisine in Tacoma WA
Mc Wank’s in Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada
Poopsies Food & Drinks in Pembroke MA
Colon Restaurant Bar in Barcelona, Spain [Colon ‘Columbus’]
Many further suggestions from readers in the comments.
April 15, 2012 at 8:58 am |
A bit south of Fairbanks we’ve got “Dirty Dick’s Halfway Inn” (I guess it’s roughly halfway between Fairbanks and some spot on the Parks Highway). I gather it exists mostly to sell t-shirts and Bud Light.
April 15, 2012 at 2:33 pm |
From Ken Callicott on Facebook:
April 15, 2012 at 6:39 pm |
I worry that number 2’s town is bad enough. I’m assuming it’s pronounced to be homophonous with “bra door”.
April 16, 2012 at 6:07 am |
I always assumed tht the “unfortunate” association with Hooters’ name was deliberate.
April 16, 2012 at 6:16 am |
The names in these lists are a mixture of intentional choices (wink wink nudge nudge) and inadvertent misfortune. Hooters is clearly of the first sort.