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Article #23531Re: Worst restaurant names
From: Jim Youngmeyer
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:31
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:31
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> I recall seeing some flap about a Mexican restaurant up in Yankee-land > somewhere that had the locals all a-twitter. Seems that the owner had a > waggish sense of humor, and named his place with a term that he thought > would go unnoticed. And it did, for a while. I'm not sure how it > turned out, but knowing the levels of righteous indignation that our > civic moral guardians are capable of, he probably had to change it. > > Oh, the name? C. O. Jones Mexican restaurant. Ballsy name, IMHO. > > > Matt I remember seeing a Mexican restaurant in Buffalo, New York called "Spic and Span". I'm not kidding. Jim
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