Does anyone else have their own names for stores?

[KitchenWitch]

I call Home Depot, Home Despot
Pizza Hut is either Pizza Slut or Pizza Smut
Paper Warehouse is Paper Whorehouse, etc.

[SeattleGirl]

1. I do!

JC Penney is Jacques Penne'
WalMart is WalMarche
QFC (supermarket) is the Quick Fuck Market

[NMMNG]

2. Wal-mart = Wal-fart

Pizza Hut = Pizza Slut
Taco Bell = Taco Smell
The Gap = The Clap

[KitchenWitch]

3. I love "The Clap"

I use Toxic Hell for Taco Bell

[SeattleGirl]

4. The Clap--Good one!

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

5. Yeah, definitely something you don't want to fall into

[SeattleGirl]

6. Eeeewwww!

No way!

[Maddy McCall]

10. LOLOLOL

Our Walmart nickname is almost identical. :D And Taco Smell? :rofl:

The guy who owns the property bordering ours has a habit of hauling the carcasses of his butchered cattle to the backside of his property and leaving them to rot by the creek. (He owns a meat processing place, and he's a freakin' deputy! Yes, it's illegal, and were it not for me wanting to stay in his good graces, I would have already called DEQ and the USDA.)

Anyway, our weimy sneaks off sometimes, and comes back smelling of rotting flesh. Never fails--my son asks, "Where has Bisbee been?" and I always reply, "He's been hanging out at Burger King."

[Arkana]

74. I prefer "The Crap"

[Maddy McCall]

7. Walmart is FartMart. Piggly Wiggly is P Dub. BP is Beenational Peenana.

My son called the BP the Beenational Peenana when he was 3, and we've been calling it that ever since. :D

[vajraroshana]

8. Target, pronounced tar-jhay (nt)

[SeattleGirl]

9. Oh yeah!

That's another one I use!

[eeyore]

12. I use that to, with an added twist

To me it's Tar-jhay Boutique.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Another twist - Targhetto

[Bridget Burke]

27. Another Tar-jhay shopper here....

Far better than WallyWorld & cheaper than Needless Markup.

[eeyore]

11. Yup!

Wal Mart = Sprawl Mart
Taco Bell = Taco Hell

Two I picked up in Santa Fe:
Whole Foods = Whole Paycheck
Wild Oats = White Folks (Only white folks can afford to shop there)

One I picked up from a very sick and twisted friend:
Kentucky Fried Chicken = Cluck and Chuck

[enigmatic]

13. Crappy Tire = Canadian Tire

Though Canadian Tire is one of the big Canadian Institutions , and is a pretty solid, if a bit overpriced..

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Wow, I didn't know that was a nation-wide phenomenon

I always called it Crappy Tire as a kid, haha. Assumed it was only a local thing.

[u4ic]

49. It's very common

I alternate between Cruddy and Crappy Tire m'self.

(Real Canadian) Superstore is Stupidstore, considering their clientele. :eyes:

[enigmatic]

65. Oh God

I DESPISE going into any Superstore on the weekends because of the mobscenes and stupidity; just thinking about it gives me the willies...

I forgot another one:

Rat Shack=Radio Shack

I've been calling it that for years and years, even though they are no more up here..

[u4ic]

80. The southside one

is nuts all the time. One of these days I'll brave the place yet again...they've got the best mixed nuts (now there's a bit of a double entendre), so I go once every 6 months and stock up...lol.

How are you holding up in the weather, enigmatic? My car doesn't heat up at all...was almost an hour in traffic today and the heater was still blowing cold air. x(

Oh, yeah, and McD's = McPuke's

[enigmatic]

81. Not too bad

the last week or so was brutal, wasn't it? And after all the nice weather, too.

I've got my SUV bike all readied up for winter weather; I'm going to ride into work a few more times before it gets really cold again. Mrs E thinks I'm insane, but it's cheaper than riding the bus:)

[u4ic]

85. I don't think you're insane

:-)

My ex is an avid cyclist; he cycles through a lot of crappy weather. He's looking forward to the warming trend, so he can get back on again.

He has a friend who will cycle through anything. Has some expensive winter tires on his bike, and keeps on trudging through, even in blizzards and minus double digit temperatures...

[Skittles]

14. Taco Smell, Jack in the Whack

that's all I can think of

[KitchenWitch]

15. Oh, Jack in the Box - Yak in the Box

Waffle Hut = Awful Hut
Perkins = Pukins

[pdx_prog]

61. My kids call it Crap in the Box....

[AllegroRondo]

42. Taco Hell, Jack in the Crack

Pizza Slut
and many more!

[ComerPerro]

69. Taco Hell, Toxic Hell

[purr]

18. Eat N Park - Eat N Puke

World of Values - World of Garbage
Giant Eagle - Giant Ripoff
Shop N Save - Slop N Shit
Walmart - Derelict Mart

[JVS]

62. Eat N Park is also known as Park N Eat to make sense.

I miss Eat N Park.

[leftofthedial]

19. Taco Hell

(or Taco Smell)

American Furniture Whorehouse

and it's relative Men's Whorehouse

Office Deephole

[WolverineDG]

20. Monkey Wards

unfortunately, no longer in business.

dg

[DanCa]

21. wall mart - hillbilly biosphere kmart - crapco.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Farmer Jack's=Farmer Jerks....Taco Bell=Taco Hell.

:hi:

[msanthrope]

40. Slob Evans, Home Despot, Slowe's, Pizza Slut, Taco Hell,

Fart-Mart, Pukin' Dog-Nuts, and ever favorite, Useless Shit Store, which can be applied just about anywhere.

[ChoralScholar]

23. Cracker Barrel=Cracker Whore EOM

Also, the Flying J Truckstop is the Flying Fuckstick

[Awsi Dooger]

84. To me, Cracker Barrel is Minuscule and Mediocre

I have no idea how people make a big deal out of that place. I eat at all these great Las Vegas buffets all year then my mom and sisters insist on Cracker Barrel when I visit them.

Nice handicapping. You get to wait for 30+ minutes in a cramped room full of Republicans and schlock overpriced gifts, then they serve you one modest plate semi-full of unremarkable grub. Some of the veggies are decent but I've yet to find even a tolerable main course.

[Trigger Hippie]

24. Blockbusters is Ballbusters.

:)

[GOPisEvil]

38. I call it Lackluster.

;)

[Trigger Hippie]

43. Hahah!

That works too! :)

[RevCheesehead]

25. Wal-Mart = Wally World or Stuff-Mart (from Veggie Tales)

Office Depot = Office Despot

In college, we used to go out to the Colonial Diner on Sundays. One night, someone started choking.. ever since, we called it the "Choke-onial"

I once heard someone refer to the new Harris-Teeter supermart in Durham as the "Uber-Teeter." I laughed for 15 minutes. :)

[mattomjoe]

26. Taco Bell = Toxic Hell

[bif]

28. Lobster Pot=Lobster Snot

It's a local seafood store. Also Taco Smell.

[RevCheesehead]

36. Red Lobster = Dead Lobster.

Always stops me from going inside. :)

[Wapsie B]

54. Dead Mobster

[dolo amber]

29. Drug Mart = Drug Lord

(Which is funny when you pick up the 5 yr old from school and she says "Mom, are we going to the Drug Lord now?" :D)

Giant Eagle = Giant Robot...just 'cause robots are cooler than eagles. ;)

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. Discount Drug Mart saves you the runaround.

:hide:













:loveya:

[lizziegrace]

30. Taco Hell and HellMart n/t

[kick-ass-bob]

31. Harris Teeter (a grocery store):

Harry Peeter.

:hide:

[progmom]

33. Whole Foods = Whole Paycheck

[GOPisEvil]

34. Ain't that the truth!

Of course I still went yesterday. :eyes:

[nicknameless]

82. I mentioned that to one of the employees there. He told me that he and

his co-workers called it Food Hole.

[LynneSin]

35. You can get what place is Taco Smell

Or as some call it Taco Hell

[Deep13]

37. yup

ditto on Home Despot

Sprawlmart or Wallyworld for you know who.

Booger King

Ballbuster for Blockbuster

Pizza the Hut (a parody of Jabba the Hut from Spaceballs)

Googleplex for Cineplex

[PassingFair]

39. Starbucks = Four Bucks or Star*ucks!

Big Boy's = Pig Boy's

Burger King = Burger Thing OR Booger King

[msanthrope]

41. Charbucks--all coffee there is roasted the same--BURNT... n/t

[ComerPerro]

70. I like "Starsucks" and Starfucks"

[jane_pippin]

44. Applebees=Crapplebees

That's all I've got that hasn't been mentioned yet.

[Deep13]

46. naturally

That's what we call it.

[peekaloo]

45. Jacque Penn-yay

J.C. Penney

Break Wendy's :eyes:

[malta blue]

47. I use the same names as you for

Home Depot and Pizza Hut. My daughter calls Walmart "Big Wally's"

[alarimer]

48. Neiman Marcus= Needless markup

I heard this from some relatives.

[NV Whino]

50. Kentucky Fried Colonel

Added: Starfucks

[skygazer]

51. Home Deephole

Safeway is Slaveway
Target - Tarjhay
7 Eleven is always the Quickie Mart

[jojog]

52. Awful House

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

53. not really for stores, but for crappy celebrities I do

Shitney Spears
Assley Simpson
Backdoor Boys
N*Stink

I get a kick out of them

[Initech]

55. Some of mine:

Wal-Mart = Hell-Mart

Taco Bell = Taco Hell

McDonalds = McCrap

America West = America's Worst

Southwest = Airline equivalent of Greyhound Bus

Expedia = Ex$pendia

[dcfirefighter]

56. 7-11 = 'slevin

[electron_blue]

57. No, and one of my pet peeves is people who insist on using nic-names

like that in conversation ALL the time.

(like my ex)

[MN ChimpH8R]

58. There used to be a drive in

called the M&H somewhere down by Hastings MN - we'd pass it on our Sunday beer runs to Wisconsin. It was always the Munch 'n' Heave to us.

Taco Hell, Red Barf (Red Barn), Pizza Slut, Burger Thing - just the usual derogatory smartass nicknames. True Minnesotans still call Marshall Field's Daytons.

[Dukkha]

59. Lowes = Blowes

Burger King = Burger Kill
Wal Mart = Sprawl Mart
Pizza Hut = Pizza Slut (the chick that always delivers to my house)

[Cats Against Frist]

60. My boyfriend had this guy at work who put "Larry" into everything

Like, the town "Woodinville," was "Woodenlarry," and Seattle was "Sealarry," and Ballard was "Ballary."

So, we just got used to it, as a joke, and started calling every place something with "Larry," in the title. For example:

Wal-Larry
McLarry
Hy-Larry

and local favorites:

Prairie Larry (Prairie Lights)
Co-Larry (the co-op)
Larry's (Murphy's, the local bar)


etc.

[Left Is Write]

63. Yes, and you in particular might understand this one:

I call all Minnesota Marshall Fields by the same name: Dayton's.

I'm another Home Despot person here.

I never did pick up "Tar-zhay" for Target, but I've been known to refer to JC Penney as "Jacques Pen-NAY"

[KitchenWitch]

71. I am sorry, it will forever be Dayton's

even when it changes to Macy's

[Left Is Write]

78. Exactly. Dayton's is Dayton's and nobody better argue with me on that!

My mother refuses to call it Marshall Fields also.

My dad kind of rolls his eyes at us.

I remember when Dayton's really meant something - it was a special place. My very first store charge was from Dayton's.

[RumpusCat]

64. Slop Gothic

i.e. Hot Topic

Old Country Buffet = Old Cunty Buffet. It's a really random restaurant chain.

Any gas station is a Stop'n'Rob, unless it's a Conoco, and then it's a Conococococo.

[crispini]

66. Garden Ridge = Garbage Ridge.

Acres and acres of irresistable, useless, tat. :shrug:

[chknltl]

67. K-Marche' and Dead Fred's for Fred Meyer's

(Fred is dead...)

[Bucky]

68. I don't use store nicknames. I have more respect for our corporate masters

May Ronald McDonald have mercy on my soul.

[KitchenWitch]

72. Now THAT made me laugh!

:yourock:

[Arkana]

73. Wal-Mart: Wally World

[geniph]

75. Back before Macy's bought the Bon Marche department stores,

people around here used to know what I was referring to when I said K Marche.

Burger King has always been the Burger Thing to me - they go in the back and fry up a slice off the Burger Thing. Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips (are they defunct?) used to be Arthur's Creature - same thing, they sliced off a hunk of the Creature and fried it. Arctic Circle was Ace Eli's (that one confuses people). Nordstrom's is Snobstrom's. Starbucks is Charfucks (they burn the goddamned beans!). Wal-Mart is Sprawl-Mart or Mall-Wart.

On edit: I forgot Kentucky Fried Pigeon.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

76. Wal-Mart=Slave-Mart

I like Home and Office Despots too!
CVS=CVD
Booger King
Taco Hell
Food E-Colion

[WeRQ4U]

77. Mac 'n' Dons, Burger Doodle, Tar-jhay, Applebizzle's, Taco Hell n/t

[mokawanis]

79. Stop-n-Go = Stop-n-Rob

[nicknameless]

83. Neiman Marcus = "Needless Mark-up"

Whole Foods = "Whole Paycheck" (I was told that employees called it "Food Hole")

Not a store, but noteworthy:
PG&E = "Pigs, Greed and Extortion" (Actual: Pacific Gas and Electric)