There is a takeaway in Birmingham called Chicken.com

[xmxmxmxmxmx]

but they don't even own that domain name.

www.chicken.com

[Consignia]

There was a takeaway in Sale that used to be called Pizza.com[nb]Was McTuckys at some point, don't know what it is now[/nb]. When one of my friends asked the staff if they owned the domain name, he was just me met with a blank look.

[Morrison Lard]

I want to believe this is a genuine typo-

[Jim_MacLaine]

Discocunt is delicious, quite spicy though.

[QDRPHNC]

Probably a hold over from the the early days of t'internet, when most people didn't know what a .com was, but knew that it was fashionable with the young people.

See also: replacing any random a in your company name with @, for whatever reason.

[QDRPHNC]

[KLG-7A]

Two things that duck meat made me think about:

1) There's a butcher shop I walk past every day. When they've closed and put the meat back in its meat prison the butchering men put some large plastic models in the window, where the meat was. One of the models is a bunny rabbit. Is it just me, or is that quite an unusual thing to do? The cow and chicken and pig I can accept, but the rabbit is quite jarring.

2)[nb]This one is almost even on topic![/nb] What does an industrial duck farm look like? I can't quite imagine a battery duck farm, with their poor little beaks clacking against metal railings.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I live near a Polish shop called Polonium Deli.

All I can think about is Alexander Litvinenko.

[marquis_de_sad]

They must be taking the piss with that one. My Chinese is not great, but my translation would be "dried roast duck". I can understand where they got "exploded" (as the character used for roast here literally means that) but "fuck"...

EDIT: Mystery solved "The first word, 干 gan, means dried, but can also be translated oppose, offend (and in chinese, used in the sense of the f-word). The second 爆, bao, means explode. 干爆 is how the 鸭子 (duck) is cooked." http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/archive/index.php/t-138443.html

[chand]

There was a takeaway in Sale that used to be called Pizza.com[nb]Was McTuckys at some point, don't know what it is now[/nb]. When one of my friends asked the staff if they owned the domain name, he was just me met with a blank look.

It's called 'Taste Buds' now.

[Harpo Speaks]

I live near a Polish shop called Polonium Deli.

All I can think about is Alexander Litvinenko.

There was 'The Polonium Restaurant' on London Road (as featured on HIGNFY), but it's not there any more.

[Blumf]

1) There's a butcher shop I walk past every day. When they've closed and put the meat back in its meat prison the butchering men put some large plastic models in the window, where the meat was. One of the models is a bunny rabbit. Is it just me, or is that quite an unusual thing to do? The cow and chicken and pig I can accept, but the rabbit is quite jarring.

Rabbit does taste nice though. Great in stews.

[KLG-7A]

Stew is an excuse for people who hate meat and animals to practice their particular brand of evil.

[mbedd]

Although not a meat based sighting. I have to get this off my chest. I always remember being very very confused by the proprietor of a shop in Forest Gate that called their shop '007 Licence To Sell Belts' It had a badly painted black and white picture of Timothy Dalton posing with a gun on the sign. Weird because it was just a normal clothes shop, there was no film posters or memorabilia in the shop, they weren't selling utility/gadget belts or anything. It just looked like a normal shop. There weren't even that many belts, so why not License to sell clothes?

It was so odd that it has always stuck with me, it didn't help that I had just been in a shop that was a funeral based supermarket. Three wreaths for a tenner, actual gravestones on shelves, jolly muzak pumped in adding an eerie atmosphere while you pushed your shopping trolley around, freaked the hell out of me. This sort of thing might be quite common now, but I've never seen a shop like before or since.

But the Bond thing really was odd. The only way I had made sense of it before was to think maybe it was Number 7 in the street numbering system or something, and the owner was a Bond fan, but after finding it on the internet I now find it is number 366  Katherine Road.





EDIT: Gutted, after trying to find it on google maps, it has now become a rimming shop that specialises in covered buttons, which sounds a bit saucy. Google still has it listed as 007 Licence to Sell Belts Ltd‎ though.

[Icehaven]

There was a takeaway pizza place called Terrys where I went to Uni, which had loads of silent Film memorabilia on the walls, and a great Chaplin clock with his swinging legs as a pendulum, all for no discernible reason.

[thenoise]

There's a massage parlour in Bristol called 'The Swallows Club'.  Hopefully not false advertising.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

What's the obvious name for a boutique offering 'Sicilian-Italian Couture'. 

Why...'Benny Hamish' of course!



This used to be on Argyle Street in Glasgow and then closed down.  Happily Benny has now resurfaced in the St.Enoch Centre with a new expanded outlet for his sharp suits.  He's sharing with some chancer called Jackson the Tailor though.

[non capisco]

Although not a meat based sighting. I have to get this off my chest. I always remember being very very confused by the proprietor of a shop in Forest Gate that called their shop '007 Licence To Sell Belts' It had a badly painted black and white picture of Timothy Dalton posing with a gun on the sign. Weird because it was just a normal clothes shop, there was no film posters or memorabilia in the shop, they weren't selling utility/gadget belts or anything. It just looked like a normal shop. There weren't even that many belts, so why not License to sell clothes

Maybe it was owned by the same person who set up this off licence


A View To A Drink?! It's not even a pun. Schocking. Positively schocking.