Funny Shop Names

Funny Shop Names that made Will and Guy laugh

If you opened a shop, what would you call it?  Here are memorable names collected mainly by Guardian readers.

• Funny Shop Names
• Collection of Readers' Funny Shop Names
• Funny Fish and Chip Shop Names
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1) Funny Shop Names

• There's a mobile snack caravan on Dartmoor named : 'The Hound of the Basket Meals'.
• There is a bakery in Sutton called 'Agatha Crustie'.
• In Turnham Green, Chiswick we find a dry cleaner called 'Turn 'em Clean'.
  [Nick Robinson]
• 'A Pane in the Glass' is the name of a glazier's in New York State, USA.
• I have seen two of his examples, one in Croydon named 'The Vinyl Frontier'; a shop which sells second hand records;
• Another example is a restaurant in Belfast called 'Thai Tanic'.
• Teddy bear shop in Penge called 'Bearly Trading'. [Isabel Radage]
• Fish and chip shop in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca named 'Oh My Cod'. [David Harries]
• Will has found a bakery in Albert Road, Southsea called 'Upper Crustie'.
• Bob Forster from Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxon, UK has found a local plumber whose van announces: 'The Lone Drainer - he come pronto.'
• Other funny shop names such as Vinyl Frontier (Final frountier) can be found at a website called Shop Horror owned by Guy Swillingham.

2) Funny Fish and Chip Shop Names

Fish and Chip shops are a particular rich seam of funny shop names.

• We have savoured the hake and chips at a shop called: 'A Fish called Rhondda'. We were on our way to Caerphilly and found the chippy in Ton Pentre, South Wales.
• Not far from the golf course in Santa Ponça, Mallorca there is chip shop called: 'Oh My Cod'.
• There are a number of 'Codfather' fish and chip shops, most notably: 'The Codfather', Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.
• 'A Salt N Battered' is to be found in London road, Sheffield, England.
  Nearby in Walkley, Sheffield is Codrophenia.  (Quadrophenia by The Who)
• Once again Shop Horror has good examples of funny names for fish and chip shops: see below:

Battersea Cod's Home

and also the Frying Scotsman

We thank Guy Swillingham, author of 'Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names', see more at  Shop Horror.  In fact this book of funny shop titles would make a wonderful present.

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Here is Another Collection of Funny Shop Names

• Would you believe a driving school in the Merseyside area called 'L Passo'.
  [David Percy]
• Fruit, vegetable and flower shop in Aylsham and Reepham, Norfolk goes by the name of 'Meloncaulie Rose'.
  [Mary + John Longhurst]
• Barbers shop named 'Herr Kutz'. [David Percy]
• Knockin, in Shropshire has to have a 'Knockin Shop' naturally. What it sells is not given.
  [Peter Smith]
• There is, apparently, a mobile snack bat in Cornwall, UK which goes by the name of, 'The Star Chip Enterprise.'
  [John Aikman]
• There was an Indian restaurant in Radford, Nottingham, UK which went under the name of 'Balti Towers'. [Probably only appreciated by British readers]
• On a butcher's van on Dartmoor - 'Tor to Tor Delivery. '[Roger McCann reports]
• A hire van company in Kent called 'Van Gough'.
  [Bob Humm saw]
• In Havant, Hants, UK a greetings card shop can be found that goes by the name of 'Havant Forgotten'.
  [Nick Morris]
• I am led to believe that in Dulmen, Germany, there is a flower shop named 'Blumen Ecke'.
  [Sent in by Nigel McNeilly, who suspects that the humour may be lost on the owners]
• Between Tenby and Pembroke can be found a specialist horticultural nursery boasting a sign reading: 'Your fuchsia is in our hands.' [Tim Large]
• There is a whole-food shop in Argyll called 'Oban Sesame'. [Cyril Bailey]
• Drop your pants here, and you will receive prompt attention. Sign on a dry cleaners.

Then there is always: The Lunatic Fringe!

We thank Guy Swillingham, author of 'Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names', see more at  Shop Horror.  In fact this book of funny shop titles would make a wonderful present.

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