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Best pub/ shop names ever!

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honeybeeq · 04/05/2018 22:06

Doing some research on the house we're moving to and it's very near to a pub called.. the Malt Disley!

I love it!! I'm having a bitch of a time with the letting agent and this house is very worth it but aibu to ask you to cheer me up with funny shop/ pub names?

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Weedsnseeds1 · 04/05/2018 23:27

Not a shop, but a brand name for dog food produced in the ROI "Irish Rover".
I have every respect for the genius who came up with that!

UrbaneSprawl · 04/05/2018 23:28

Oh, yes, BestIsWest, now I remember seeing Leanne Wood interviews on the news standing in front of a chip shop called “A Fish Called Rhondda”...

KindOfMagic · 04/05/2018 23:34

I live near the Malt Disley 😃

ScreenQueen · 04/05/2018 23:36

My former butcher in Oz:

"Meat to Please You...Pleased to Meet You" Grin

dingdang · 04/05/2018 23:41

I've gift a few, a convenience store called Alaskan See, fish and chip shop in NYC called Assault and Battery, my friend told me about the oz cleaning company called Bruce Springclean

TheHonSaucyJane · 04/05/2018 23:43

There's a valet car wash in manchester that describes itself as "the best hand job in the north west" on the sign. It also has a snack shop called "drink and drive".

A hairdresser called "hair apparent".

A chippy called "Come Fry With Me" (that was old school, think its long gone!)

Peaheadz · 04/05/2018 23:43

A dry cleaners called Cleaners a Whistle

AJPTaylor · 04/05/2018 23:43

I live in East Sussex. Frequently i seem to follow a concrete mixer
William the Concreter.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 04/05/2018 23:45

There's a florist where I'm from (Liverpool)
called "That bloomin flower shop" which I think is lovely.

Peaheadz · 04/05/2018 23:47

There’s a seafood shop near where I live called the Prawnbrokers.

losingmymindiam · 04/05/2018 23:56

Plumbers called Ballcock and Bits. Bedding shop called Holy Sheet.

buckeejit · 05/05/2018 00:00

Great thread-beaten to it within for COD and Ulster

There is also a 'come on inn' and a bit down the road a 'come on on inn'

Hairdressers are a great one for puns,will have to think of a few but there is a driving school called 'drive with kerr'

maggiecate · 05/05/2018 00:05

Buzzfeed has done a few of these! Bonnie Tiler was one of my favourites. And 'Brimfull of Rasher' were presumably very proud of their bacon rolls.

honeybeeq · 05/05/2018 00:05

@KindOfMagic eek! Is it a nice place? It seemed really nice when I viewed it I mean the village not the pub hahaha!!

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BonnieF · 05/05/2018 00:06

There used to be a pub in Brighton called the Queen’s head. The pub sign was a portrait of Freddie Mercury....

Fluffychickenmonkey · 05/05/2018 00:09

Another Brighton one

cleaning company

Spruce Sringclean Grin

maggiecate · 05/05/2018 00:14

Oh and there's a mobile phone/tablet fixer near me with a splendid visual pun the logo

Best pub/ shop names ever!
Best pub/ shop names ever!
saffz · 05/05/2018 00:25

Ken's Tuck In Fried Chicken, sure he was forced to change it though...

2kidsnopets · 05/05/2018 00:26

A bit cheating as not in England but in Continental Europe there's a chain of shops called "athletes foot". Apparently no-one told them that it actually means something else.

Hidingtonothing · 05/05/2018 00:26

Greengrocers near Birmingham called Melon Cauli and a florist called The Fuchsia's Bright Grin

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 05/05/2018 00:32

Tree Wise Men - tree surgeons

19lottie82 · 05/05/2018 00:38

My dad lives in a very middle class university town in California. The local Chinese restaurant is called Wok of Flame which always makes me giggle as i think of “walk of shame” as in, after a night out. But surely the yanks have no idea what a walk of shame is?!

ImPreCis · 05/05/2018 00:39

Wai Kika Moo Kau, Veggie restaurant in Brighton

19lottie82 · 05/05/2018 00:41

I heard of hairdressers called

  • Curl up and Dye Grin
  • Hairy Poppins
youdialwetile · 05/05/2018 04:12

I used to live above an "Alaskan See" convenience store (....quality part of town it was).

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