To not shop somewhere because of the shop name?

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I was passing on my way to an event with my DS this morning and saw this.

I wouldn't step foot in there with a name like that!

Do people not think these things through?

Chinese in town called “Legal Food”. Never got that.

I don't refuse to go into Fat Face but I do wonder what on earth they were thinking! Just why? You wouldn't call a shop Blotchy Cankle or Beer Gut. (Or maybe you would... I'm just not with it.)

I wouldn't shop at Happy Nightmares though but not because of the name. Just looks scary.

FCUK is the initials of the company, tbf.
Didn't make me want to buy any of their stuff, either.

Chinese near MIL

Yau Kee

I once saw an article about various daft names used by hairdressers. One was called "It Will Grow Back" :o

There's a small chain of stores that sell electric guitars, amps, drum kits etc. Its full name is Professional Music Technology... known as PMT.

BringOn- I went there with DD, and had to explain why I was laughing! Particularly as I had said to DH I was going, and it was called PTM...

Fast food place in Huddersfield: Hari's Pizza Ranch.

I’m guessing if you lived in Singapore (as we did til recently), you wouldn’t have bought your clothes from ‘Wanko’ then?

Lol - I don't think that existed when i lived there. I think I could wear that - like I wore Naf-Naf as a kid.

Oh, yes, Sweaty Betty is a no from me, and Nasty Gal (and my feminism is happy as it is).

I agree that fat isn't a swear word/horrible word, but fat face, fat head, these are definitely used as insults more than descriptions!

Does anyone remember Spud-U-Like, a baked potato place in 90's?

What happened to all those baked potato places? There was one called Jackets, too. Have they all gone out of business? Haven't seen one for years.

I bought a fleece once and then realised the brand was "Kangaroo Poo" as advertised by a massive badge on the shoulder.

I love Fat Face clothes and shop in there a lot... especially when DD Is home as she gets student discount.

I will never buy anything from French Connection because of their 4 letter branding which I really dislike.

"Athelete's foot" always makes me laugh.

Where I live there is a chain of high street clothing/homewares shops called Sissy-Boy

And a new Chinese restaurant called Wang's Flavour.

Spud-u-Like is still around - there's a couple in Bristol (Cabot Circus and Cribb's Causeway), and I think there's one at the big outlet place in Chester. Always make me smile when you look at the line demographic - it's mainly women queuing at Spud-u-Like, whilst the queue for McDonalds/KFC has a male majority.

I think that the Harry Enfield Slobs sketch did a bit of damage when Waynetta called one of her children Spudulike (pronounced Spudoolicke).

A chinese takeaway near me is called Calorie. Ffs if I want a takeaway I do not want to be reminded of calories.

DH just told me that he heard the shop Fat Face is named after a ski run in France.....

Spud-u-Like

Didnt Victoria Wood pronounce it Spu Doo Lee Kay in a sketch once?

What happened to all those baked potato places? There was one called Jackets, too. Have they all gone out of business? Haven't seen one for years.

Because of UK obesity increases, I would assume

Spud-U-Like makes me giggle, I remember seeing one in Basildon and thinking "Why would I waste a lunch out having potato?"

Yucka Thanks... I will join that queue next time I'm in Bristol!

We have a 'what!' (no question mark). DH refuses to shop there

I've always found Sean John/P Diddy's line of men's cologne oddly named. 'Unforgiveable'? 'Unforgiveable Man'?

Unforgiveable sounds a bit nasty and not at all desirable.

Will the next launch be 'Dogmatic Twat'? 'Intolerant Arse'?

There is a Spud-u-like concession or a spudoulickai as I insist on calling it, in Woking's Peacock Centre. Woking is in Surrey of course so obviously the customers eat spuds while discussing house prices. (references other thread).

There's a gift shop and cafe in a town where a relative lives called Nice Things.

Relative loves going there and refers to it all the time but I just find it so twee and wet that I can't bear to refer to it by name, it just makes me cringe.

It's very googleable, I suppose!