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Cluck You Chicken in Columbus, Ohio...it's not even funny and I have no desire to ever eat there.

Thai places are easy; Thai Wun On, Beau Thai, etc.
Many years ago there was aplace in L.A. called the Itchy Foot.
I never ate there. The image did not conjur up wholesome dining for some reason!!

There was 'The Golden Shower', a Chinese restaurant in I cannot remember which Italian city.

In Albany, we have "A Taste of Greece."

BTW, could someone please explain "Eat and Two Veg," as discussed in the article? I don't get it.

In Owego, NY there was a restaurant called Shards. All I could think of when I heard the name was shards of glass. I spoke to the woman who owned it where she got the name from and she said it was the name of her dog. She had always wanted to open a restaurant and finally did. Well as you may expect the restaurant didn't last.

Someone else bought the place and did such great business that they had to move because they could expand the site. It now sits empty. :(

Mongoose: Was it in San Francisco? ;-)

Down the road a piece (that means somewhere out on the rural highway nearby) there was a Shell station that had a lunch counter inside it.

They featured something called "Angel Steaks". I do not know what they were, really. It was posted on the big sign outside to see as you drove by.

One day the Shell sign lost the letter "S".

So when you drove by what you read was

hell
We serve Angel Steaks!

It stayed like that for some time.
I never did venture into hell to dine upon angel steaks.

Growing up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. We had a great pizza place right across from our High School, called Gagglios. Best pizza, and meaty anchovies!

I LOVED the Ducky Wok! SOOOOO GOOOD!!!!! The name is funny, granted, but not really what I would consider unapealing.

Their food was awesome. We would go there in groups of 6 - 8 on Saturday nights after having stayed up all night partying Friday night and sleeping all day Saturday, and absolutely demolish the place.

They had a noodle dish with roast duck and duck broth served on the side that I still crave to this day. In all my years of eating Chinese food, and with all the Chinese restaurants in NYC, they are still my favorite. I was very sad when I learned that they closed.

There's a Honolulu place with the clever name Ciao Mein. You can guess what it serves.

"Lovely Hula Hands" serves NW local food in Portland OR. It is supposed to be very good, but I hate the name so much that I refuse to try it. Any thoughts on what they are getting at with the name?

While on a road trip in the U.K., my family & I ran across a Chinese take-out called "Fried Lice," (No kidding.) I think it was in Wales, but it may have been Scotland; I'll have to ask my husband if he remembers.

"What the Pho' " in Atlanta. I've also heard that there is a Vietnamese place somewhere called "Pho' King," but I've never actually seen that one.

It doesn't get worse than a chain of fast food fish shops with the name "Something Fishy." It's a South African chain and when I saw my first one I swore that the name would never work in the U.S..

Years later we moved to Santa Barbara to find a sushi joint with the same name. Very appealing.

We saw a place in Houston called "Chewy Balls"--amusing and disturbing.

There's a "Something's Fishy" in Malibu. Don't know if it's part of the South African chain rudbeckia mentions, but that one has definitely caught my attention as particularly unappetizing.

Also suspect in sunny LA-LA land: "Wacky Wok" and "Killer Shrimp," both on Washington Blvd, in Venice. Wackiness and lethality are just not attributes I like to associate with my food.

Honorable mention: the now defunct Mo' Meaty Meat Burgers on Pico and Fairfax Blvds. (They didn't specify what kind of meat, or what state of meatiness had existed prior to the onset of "Mo'.")

There is/was a "Mother Cluckers" in New Orleans.
When I was in London in '94, there was "Phuckets" which we pronounced with an "f" sound (we were in high school and thought it was hilarious)
And another place in London was called "The Crusty Loaf" which I thought was kinda cute.

"The Oinkster" on Colorado in LA's Eagle Rock neighborhood is the best worst name I know. While the name is a total joke, the food is not!

I stopped in there in late December and got a generous serving of their belgian fries w/ garlic aioli. So damn good, I finished them all.

Oink, oink, baby.

http://www.oinkster.com/concept.htm

Around the corner from my house (in a neighborhood with a large Latino population) there is a restaurant called "Pupuseria My Family's" I'm dying to know how they managed to have a sign created without anyone pointing out the problematic grammar. thepictsie - There's a "Chinee Takee Outee" in Gainesville, FL too.

Mrs. Fly's Bakery (now defunct) was famous for shoo-fly pie.

There's a Chinese restaurant here in Portland, OR called Hung Far Low. I have no idea why.

There used to be a place called Takee Outee in the French Quarter. There was one right up the street from Pat O's. The eggrolls were huge, delicious and exactly what we needed after a few Hurricanes. Good times.

My favorite is the chinese restaurant in Cooperstown, NY.

Foo Kin, as in "I want some of that Foo Kin Chinese Food!"

Phuket, let's Thai one on.

A friend of mine at Vassar told me about a place in Poughkipsee called the "Yeung Ho Chinese Restaurant"