Store with unintentionally dirty name near Lancaster, PA?

April 21, 2017 11:43 PM

A while back I spotted someone carrying a reusable grocery bag that gave me a good laugh - the store's name on the bag was something that was unintentionally dirty. I think the store's name was someone's last name, which was unfortunate, because their name was also the name of a sex act or something having to do with something sexual. I've been wracking my brain to figure out what this store was but I can't remember! Any ideas? It would have been in or near Lancaster, PA and would have probably been a market or grocery store of some sort.
posted by emily37 to Grab Bag (29 answers total)

Are you sure it was a person's name and not the town name? There are a lot of dirty-sounding place names in PA, many of them in the Lancaster area, like Intercourse, Virginville, and Bird-in-Hand. There are definitely stores that play on that in their marketing. (There are also bags/shirts/etc with the list of dirty town names sold at, like, truck stops and such.)
posted by okayokayigive at 11:49 PM on April 21, 2017

Response by poster: Yes, positive it was the name of the store and not the town. It was also something that maybe was analogous to a slangy sex term (not something obvious like "Intercourse"). I remember telling a couple co-workers about it and one of them thought it was hilarious and the other didn't "get it" and I had to tell him to Google it.
posted by emily37 at 11:54 PM on April 21, 2017

Lapp's Meats?
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:28 AM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

Something to do with Blue Ball in Lancaster county?
posted by gnutron at 5:00 AM on April 22, 2017

Not sexual, but could it have been King's Kountry Korner? (I.e. KKK?)
posted by dayintoday at 5:01 AM on April 22, 2017

Kum & Go is a fairly large convenience store chain in the Midwest; not sure if they've expanded into Pennsylvania.
posted by something something at 5:03 AM on April 22, 2017 [3 favorites]

Stauffers of Kissel Hill?
posted by Lanark at 5:37 AM on April 22, 2017

Cocalico Creek Country Store?

The problem is that basically all the store names look dirty to me, now that I'm looking for potential filth.
posted by howfar at 5:41 AM on April 22, 2017 [4 favorites]

Possibly the store owner's surname was Felcher? I couldn't find any businesses named that online but the name occurred to me.
posted by daisyk at 5:56 AM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

Hummer's Meats?
posted by supercres at 7:02 AM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

There's a realtor in north central PA named Bob Boob.
posted by scratch at 7:20 AM on April 22, 2017 [2 favorites]

Does your coworker have any recollection of what it might have been? Or similar hints?
posted by Juniper Toast at 7:29 AM on April 22, 2017

A wild guess, but Butt Drugs in Croydon, IN is an iconic one -- former Hoosiers might still be carrying that torch.
posted by thesmallmachine at 7:48 AM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

Could it be Harry Good's?
posted by mont the drifter at 7:51 AM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

In the vein of Kum & Go, there's also a gas chain called Pump & Munch--but I think they might be limited to MN or the Midwest.
posted by pepper bird at 8:29 AM on April 22, 2017 [3 favorites]

BJ's Wholesale Club? There is one in Lancaster.
posted by Seeking Direction at 8:45 AM on April 22, 2017

Response by poster: Oh man! It is not any of those! It's driving me crazy! It definitely was along the lines of something like "Felcher's", but not quite so dirty. It was, after all, something I felt comfortable about asking a coworker to Google at work. But it was a term that not everyone would know. Yes, Hummer's falls into the right category, but it wasn't that, and it was more funny than Hummer as well.
posted by emily37 at 9:56 AM on April 22, 2017

Response by poster: I've emailed me coworker who also thought it was funny to see if she has any recollection...
posted by emily37 at 9:57 AM on April 22, 2017

Not in PA, but in Wisconsin there is a restaurant called Nutz Deep which my friend from the area assures me no one considers sexual in any way.

Nutz Deep I and II
posted by JennyJupiter at 10:21 AM on April 22, 2017 [3 favorites]

Please tell me it wasn't advertising the Bologna Fest.
posted by MonkeyToes at 11:25 AM on April 22, 2017

There's a Balan Mini Mart in Lancaster, which could sound like ballin' I suppose.
posted by neko at 12:35 PM on April 22, 2017

Any chance it was Doggie Style Pets (of Philly)? Seems unlikely, but it belongs on this list either way.
posted by dizziest at 12:51 PM on April 22, 2017 [1 favorite]

Big Bob's Flooring Outlet?
Rutters?
posted by oxisos at 4:25 PM on April 22, 2017

Was it involving the last name "Kuntz?" That's a fairly popular Amish surname.
posted by tippy at 9:06 PM on April 22, 2017

Was it Harris Teeter? I think they're a bit further south than PA, though.
posted by yuwtze at 6:47 AM on April 24, 2017

Was it Sanchez Grocery Store?
posted by CoinOp at 7:02 AM on April 24, 2017

Kum n' Go?
posted by trbrts at 7:02 AM on April 24, 2017 [1 favorite]

Manns Sausage? (Oops. It's in VA.)
posted by booth at 1:10 PM on April 24, 2017

Throwing this on the heap because I saw it mentioned elsewhere today – a couple of states over, but: Bunghole Liquors in MA. Just in case.
posted by taz at 9:08 AM on April 30, 2017