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Shear Lock Combs, a St. Peters hair salon, gets our vote for best pun name in America.
Even if you’re the kind of person who finds most puns cringeworthy, there’s something delightful about a pun in a business name.
That’s why Atlas Obscura asked people around the country to submit the best pun business names in their cities and compiled what it calls the ultimate crowdsourced map of punny business names in America.
Sadly, Atlas Obscura’s map leaves out one puntastic St. Louis treasure: Make It Sew, a fabric shop on Watson Road. But it’s easy to see how they’d overlook it. St. Louis has 13 pun-packed businesses on the map, more than half of the total number of punny names listed for all of Missouri.
As for us? We’ll leave the puns up to the experts. Here are Missouri’s punniest business names, starting with the locals:
St. Louis area
Bars/Restaurants/Food Trucks
Pour House (St. Louis)
Ex Cop Donut Shop (Oakville)
Vincent Van Doughnuts (St. Louis)
Manee Thai Restaurant (Ballwin)
Nachomamma’s (St. Louis)
Hair Salons/Barber Shops
Jack of All Fades (St. Louis)
Nail Me Good (Hazelwood)
Shear Lock Combs (St. Peters)
A Cut Above the Rest (St. Louis)
Other
Glazed and Confused ceramics studio (Oakville)
Flowers to the People florist (St. Louis)
Ash Wipers Chimney Sweep, Inc. (St. Louis)
Groomingdale’s pet groomer (St. Louis)
Make It Sew fabric store (St. Louis)
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This general store has been packing fudge in Uranus, Mo., since 1999.
Missouri
Bars/Restaurants/Coffee Shops
Uranus Fudge Factory (Uranus)
Big Dick’s Halfway Inn (Gravois Mills)
iPho Tower (Kansas City)
Little Pizza Heaven (Caruthersville)
Pho Kim (Springfield)
Wok Star (Springfield)
Chez When Cocktail Lounge (Sedalia)
Other
Back 2 Health chiropractic (Hannibal)
Itchy’s Flea Market (Lees Summit)
BookMarx bookstore (Springfield)
Hair Force One hair salon (Camdenton)
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