Today/recently I learned..
By DJ
@dilleo (1004)
Canada
November 11, 2022 7:30pm CST
Maybe more like months ago.. But I know this is pretty silly, but I got to thinking a few random things:
How similar the fast food restaurant chains "Dairy Queen" and "Burger King" sound.. I guess it's more the King and Queen words, but it never really occurred to me, until fairly recently.
Another thing, this one is a bit of a weird one, but the farming equipment company "New Holland" and the food/chip company "Old Dutch" those ones are a bit more contrasting I suppose, but it's interesting how Dutch and Holland are basically words that are to do with the Netherlands, in one way or another.
That is all.. I know, very silly.. But I had to share
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@dilleo (1004)
• Canada
13 Nov 22
Agreed (but I guess I am a little biased lol). I love ice cream at Dairy Queen as well! So good I also like their food, at least for the most part.. the chicken strips, onion rings, burgers there are half decent I would say (or at least, for fast food).
It is a nice picture, yes. I would love to go to the Netherlands one day!
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@FourWalls (69101)
• United States
12 Nov 22
Not all that silly. Wayyyyyyy back in the 70s what became Dairy Queen used to be called Burger Queen. I tried them once and didn’t like them because they put mustard on their burgers.
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@FourWalls (69101)
• United States
13 Nov 22
@dilleo — yes, then they went to the name Druther’s before DQ. No telling if they were in Canada, thought. Tim Horton’s restaurants only come so far south into the US. (PS: ever read about Horton? Hockey player with a nose for entrepreneurship. Killed in a car wreck after a game in 1974. )
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@dilleo (1004)
• Canada
13 Nov 22
Yes, correct!
I would love to go to the Netherlands one day. I have some Dutch blood in me as well, though it does go back some generations.. If I'm remembering right, it was my great-great-grandparents who settled in Alberta, Canada.. But emigrated from the Netherlands.
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@Herahestia93 (152)
• Indonesia
12 Nov 22
I mean, yeah ?? sometimes I thought that. Sometimes the name of a brand is funny, sometimes it's weird
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