Most unfortunate name for a restaurant -- Would you change it?

[prolesunited]

Stumbled across this place in Columbia City, MO. Would you have changed the name? Do you think the owners have been harrassed?

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. We have several Ossama's African Hair Weave places in Chicago.

They seem to be OK.

[CogitoErgoDem]

2. "Osama"? Sorry, I don't recognize that name...

:shrug:

[TlalocW]

6. Wasn't there some guy...

Named Osama that Bush promised us that he was going to find? Seems that I heard that name before, but it's been so long...

TlalocW

[underpants]

17. Actualy W was right about him

He is either dead or alive.

[PunkinPi]

3. just as unfortunate as the people who make...

[CatWoman]

8. or this

[newyawker99]

32. Congrats PunkinPi!! 800 posts

:toast:

[hlthe2b]

4. on a lighter vein... I've always been slightly amused

at the string of convenience stores in rural Missouri (and elsewhere, I guess), called "Kum-n-get-it."


They even have coffee cups and travel mugs with it... Am I just horrifically naughty or (admit it, now) would you not be restraining a red faced chuckle?

[JaneQPublic]

9. In Illinois, there used to be grocery stores with an equally naughty name:

The "Grab It Here."

[SmileyBoy]

31. There's a chain of convienience stores in North Dakota:

Named "Kum-n-Go". There's one a couple blocks away from my new dorm, too. I'm gonna get my gas from there ALL the time.:evilgrin:

[jmm]

5. About a year ago I read an article

about a man who owned an Osama's restaurant near an army base. He said many customers suggested he change the name. He always responded, do you think Timothy's were pressured into changing their restaurants name after the Oklahoma City bombing? I don't see why he should have to change it.

[OldSoldier]

27. He changed it.

Osama's was about eight miles from Fort Bragg--and even after 9/11 it was always packed with GIs who came for the good food at fair and balanced prices.

It was owned by a gentleman named Osama who was an American citizen.

Now it's something else--and I'll be damned if I can remember what.

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. Shit, Osama Bin Hidin himself could be the owner....

...and work on the premises everyday and the fucking idiot Fraudministration still wouldn't be able to find him....

Hello... welcome to Osama's. May I take your order?

Yeah. I'll have the Triple Great Satan Burger with super sized Death to America fries and a large Allah Cola.

Certainly sir.... wait a minute... Little Georgie?? Is that really you?

Uhh... yeah, it's me. Who are you?

It's me! Osama! Great Mohammed's ghost don't you remember all the summers we spent together in Riyhad when we were kids??

Sorry... you don't look a thing like that Saddam feller.....

[catzies]

12. Come for the Satan Burger, stay for the Death to America Fries

Mmmmm....Allah Cola... :beer:

[Ellen Forradalom]

30. Now serving Mecca Cola

http://www.mecca-cola.com/en/

[StopTheMorans]

19. Fraudministration:)!

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, that is GREAT!

[short bus president]

10. There's an Osama's cafe in Raleigh

the owner was featured on the local news maybe a year or so ago. His (largely flag-waving yahoo) customer base insisted that he keep the name.

[phatkatt]

11. I saw a chain in Colorodo called "Kum -n- Go"

Sounds like a Republican senator's lunch hour.

[KCDem]

20. they have those in NE and IA as well.

:shrug:

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. Eat It and Beat It

is a hot dog stand in Melrose Park, IL

[Terran]

13. Osama's Cafe in Columbia MO

Yes, the poor guy got harrassed big time, even in that progressive college town. A lot of the community came to his defense and stood guard around his shop for several days.

[prolesunited]

26. I'm sorry to hear that

That's what I thought when I saw this. I'm glad the community came to his defense and I certainly hope the situation has calmed down.

[Khephra]

14. That's a bad one

My favorite naughty one is "Tallywackers". It was a resturant chain that quickly died, probably due to its name.

[underpants]

16. There is a Oriental place here called "Fu-Kim"

I'm not kidding either

[peekaloo]

22. one in Houston too

people thought I was hard to please because after a run down of potential lunch sites I always replied FuKim. :+

[kmla]

21. Their motto?

"If you don't like it, BEAT IT!"

:evilgrin:

[WilliamPitt]

15. There's a place on Haight Street called 'Phuck et'

Seriously.

[underpants]

18. The Atomic Burrito and the Fuk Mi Sushi and Seafood Buffet

http://www.crankychick.net/blog/weblog/archives/000234.html

[UrbScotty]

23. There's a place in either Iceland or Finland (I want to say Iceland)...

named SARS.

[underpants]

24. My brother works in a restaurant and the Rescue Service was called

EMT's showed upto take care of someon who had had a heart attack.

Any way their schronym was on their hate for the S_____ A____ Rescue Services

Their hats said SARS. The owner of the restaurant almost had a heart attack too.

[ForrestGump]

25. There's a popular soft drink in Taiwan, of all places,

named 'Sars.'

[Ellen Forradalom]

29. Ufuk hotel

http://www.ufukpension.com.tr/index.htm
Lots of places named Ufuk in Cappadocia (Turkey).

[dolo amber]

33. There is a place

in Cincinnati called J and W barbeque, and the unfortunate decision was made by them not to put the word "and" on the sign, but rather the symbol for 'and' which when driving past looks frighteningly like an "E". It's a little mom-and-pop place, looks like it's been there for a hundred years, I can't IMAGINE no one has mentioned it to them yet...