Thinking about this chicken wing joint where I used to live called “Lord of the Wings." They had a sign in the window that said "Fry, you fools!" and they closed years ago but their top notch food punnery lives forever through me.
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On this note, I found a first American edition printing of the Silmarillion today at an antique store. Yes, I snatched it up. Missing the jacket cover, but $30 seemed well worth it. I’ve never read it.
Really you ought to have different dishes comprising three, five and nine wings, with different flavours; although you might think a One Wing were maybe a bit stingy. Unless I suppose you get the other seventeen with it.
I know that place, they had the velvet ropes to queue you towards the counter with a life size Gandalf holding his staff and a speaker box saying "You shall not pass" on repeat.
I always remember: House painter goes to confession and confesses that he's been watering down the paint to increase the profits. Told to "Repaint, and thin no more."
There’s a place near me called “Bunghole Liquors”, been in business for decades.
NOT what you think it is, a binghole stems from Prohibition Era and refers to a cork hole in a liquor barrel.
Nonetheless, they are capitalizing on the name and sell lot of merch, in addition to booze.
My husband and I got fish & chips in London (Greenwich) this past July, at a place called "Jack the Chipper." We chose it primarily because of the name - but the food was quite tasty.
Then there is my hometown of ⚜️New Orleans⚜️, we pride ourselves on being classy lmao…
Our infamous local butcher shop with huge billboard on the I-10 with its tag line
My dentist in Barnet North London c 1975 was manned by three dentists Husband Wife and Son. Their surname was Shreik. The establishment was "Shreik, Shreik & Shreik"
I may have misrecalled the actual spelling.
Only Foods and Sauces
I Believe I Can Fry
Chip Shop Boys
Doner Trump
Jason DonerVan
Carlsburger
Cod Almighty
House of Cod
Jack the Chipper
A Salt & Battered (assault)
Wok this way
Brim Full of Rasher
The Plaice To Be
Chipswich (in Ipswich)
Lamb of Cod…
We have a place here in Redlands called Crepes of Wrath, which is remarkably not bad, but even if it was I’d take visitors there just for the name. I’m a sucker that way.
For years I’ve wanted to open a pizzeria called Cheezus H Crust. Not because I want to run a restaurant or because I’m a particularly skilled chef, but because the merch and ad campaigns would be amazing.
You know, you could just make the merch anyway. I guarantee people would buy it. Starting with me. The whole premise is built on something mythical after all - why not a pizza restaurant that doesn’t actually exist but people really want to believe?!
Similarly, I have always wanted to buy the church in My small town and turn it into a coffee shop called He Brews, which would be a bar at night called Bloody Mary's
There’s a Vietnamese place near me that’s infamous - Pho King Good. (I think it goes over the more conservative folks heads cause they don’t know how to pronounce pho LMAO)
Nope, it’s in Orem! The actual building just says Pho King from what I know, but their menus and promos all say “We’re Pho King Good!” etc, they sell merch and everything. I think they have to be a little sly of it being located in Utah County!!
Ours was the Coop De Ville. The Cadillac of wings. But the one I really miss was the coffee shop with a special large cold brew with three shots of espresso called “The Heart Condition.”!
I’m thinking about the sporting goods store that once had a sign out that said, “Come check us out. Our pants are half-off.”
Their signage lives through me. Do with that what you will.
(This is also a visual pun. I always think that shawarma being cooked, backlit by fire from a nearby oven, looks a bit like Sauron whenever I see it in a restaurant kitchen.)
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It got fried
“Em R Wings”.
NOT what you think it is, a binghole stems from Prohibition Era and refers to a cork hole in a liquor barrel.
Nonetheless, they are capitalizing on the name and sell lot of merch, in addition to booze.
Lord of the Wings https://g.co/kgs/pncLx4k
Walt’s Inn
Dew Drop Inn
Dick’s Halfway Inn
Our infamous local butcher shop with huge billboard on the I-10 with its tag line
I came to the comments looking for this and you did NOT let me down, Mike!!!!!
There was a takeaway that delivered to both called Cas Vegas and Ponte Carlo.
Did they serve po-ta-toes?
I may have misrecalled the actual spelling.
Frying Nemo
The Codfather
Codrophenia
A Fish Called Rhonnda
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I Believe I Can Fry
Chip Shop Boys
Doner Trump
Jason DonerVan
Carlsburger
Cod Almighty
House of Cod
Jack the Chipper
A Salt & Battered (assault)
Wok this way
Brim Full of Rasher
The Plaice To Be
Chipswich (in Ipswich)
Lamb of Cod…
Sucker for a good pun.
Grateful Dreads &
Lunatic Fringe
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Or in Queensland, there’s a pun on every street - gravy train cafe (next to railway), Fancyplants, …
Hair salon in the Blues Brothers movie.
H/t to Flanders and Swann
"We fry Halibut for the Halibut!"
🤣😂😅
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Their signage lives through me. Do with that what you will.
It closed 20 years ago, but the catchy witty name is seared in all the locals brains.
Our Credit Manager is Helen Wait.
If you need credit, you can go to Helen Wait.
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And the worst offenders are journalists.
When the wing is hurled into the fires of Mount Doom!
"I am no man!"
Seriously, that's the supply closet, the restrooms are over there.