10 L.A. Restaurants and Trucks with Double Entendre Names
Hungry for meaty balls? How about a greasy wiener, a pink taco or some hot “wangs?” These 10 Los Angeles restaurants not only satiate these cravings, but pique the public’s interest with their creative identities. Do they mean to offend their way to your heart? Or do you just have a dirty mind?
Big Wangs
From the streets of Hollywood to suburbs of Santa Clarita, you’ve likely been to or at least heard of the hot wing chain Big Wangs, whose motto is “size matters,” with a logo of a yellow, bicep-flexing rooster.
“It comes from the saying ‘aint no thang like a chicken wang,” Big Wangs Hollywood manager Ashlee Buchanan says. “That’s the pun.”
As a sports bar for people of all ages (at certain times of day), you’d think they’d receive at a few strongly-worded letters from concerned parents, but Ashlee reveals that they’ve run into more confusion than controversy.
”The biggest thing is people think it’s a Chinese restaurant,” Ashlee says. “Some people also thing it’s a gay bar.”
While definitely not a Chinese restaurant with its nachos, burgers and something called a “wangzookie,” any place could arguably be a gay bar depending on the company you keep. But whatever “wang” means to you, here sports fans fight for tables to watch twelve sporting events at once while chewing on some hot, spicy wangs — all the way down to the bone.
Egg Slut
The term “slut” really doesn’t leave much room for interpretation, but Egg Slut co-owner Hazel Suazo explains why her food truck’s name doesn’t actually refer to an unfertilized chicken fetus with daddy issues.
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![Midnight Snack: A-Frame with Alex Blagg
I sit at the A-Frame bar sipping a ginger beer and waiting for Alex Blagg, comedian and self-proclaimed digital media expert. His satirical social media site, Bajillion Hits, features a video of Blagg bragging about his dominion over the entire internet. (He’s read it about five times, you see.) “I don’t think outside the box,” he says. “I put the box on Twitter [and] get it a million followers…” His character is too funny to be real, but Blagg is so great at acting self-obsessed that a small part of me fears he’ll show up and berate me for my paltry Twitter following. Turns out, Blagg is a grown-up foodie who is definitely Internet savvy but doesn’t even like Yelp. We sampled the A-Frame menu and talked adulthood and the word “moist.”
Laurenne: So … Can you get this article a bajillion hits? Alex: I’ll definitely do my best to cross-promote and virally brand-jack your content by leveraging the appropriate platforms and social graphs.
Laurenne: Does Bajillion Hits take clients? Alex: Bajillion Hits started as a joke. I was in between projects, and I made it just for fun. I knew so many real social media ‘experts’ like that, so that character was easy to write. And then it sort of took off. I get to speak at conferences now and I’m actually developing a show about that character. But, no, I would feel too bad actually taking money from people to put their box on Twitter.
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