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January 10, 2009
Trivia For The Masses
I was tormenting some woman on an airport shuttle yesterday with some useless trivia. She was so sure I was wrong, that I figured I'd look it up to make sure my memory hadn't failed me. Sure enough, I was spot on, per usual.
The trivia I laid on her was this:
1) Where is London Fog based?
2) What country is Häagen-Dazs from?
3) Denver is home to a chain of Mexican fast food restaurants named Qdoba. What does Qdoba mean in Spanish?
Go ahead and give up. You won't get any of them right.
London Fog is based out of Eldersburg, Maryland. I know because I did some work for them at their corporate headquarters back in '93. They're not originally from London. They're nothing to do with London. London Fog is now, and always has been, an American company.
Häagen-Dazs is an American ice cream company founded in the Bronx in 1959. The name is not Scandinavian, Bulgarian, or Dutch. It's a a name that they made up. It doesn't mean anything in any language.
Qdoba doesn't mean anything in Spanish, or any other language. The restaurant chain was originally named Z`teca, and they got sued due to copyright infringment and had to change their name. To make sure they'd never be sued by anyone else, they created the name Qdoba, which means nothing in any language.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM
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