Club 33

Club 33 is a five star restaurant hidden away in Disneyland.  It was at one time the only location at which you could get alcohol on the property.  Now there are several Club 33s at Disney properties all over the world.  Its name probably comes from its address, but there are several other theories.

Peter Drucker

The thing I learned today is that Peter Drucker was an Austrian-American consultant sometimes called "the father of modern management." He is known for his book "Concept Of the Corporation," a study of how business leadership works. Drucker taught that management is a liberal art, and that managers should provide leadership for the common good.

The Underwood Company's devil logo (for its deviled ham) was introduced in 1870 and is the oldest food trademark still in use in the United States. Although a jolly fellow in a jacket now, originally he was rather more demonic in appearance.

bulge bracket

"Bulge bracket" is a term that describes the company or companies in an underwriting syndicate that issued the largest number of securities on a new issue. The bulge bracket is usually the first group listed on the tombstone—a print advertisement of a new issue.

Left-Handed Whopper

On April 1, 1998, Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.). However, the left-handed whopper had "all condiments rotated 180 degrees, thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of the condiments will skew to the left, thereby reducing the amount of lettuce and other toppings from spilling out the right side of the burger."

Every baseball used in MLB games is made by hand in Costa Rica. All baseballs used in major league games are made by the official producer of baseballs, Rawlings.

Mrs. Butterworth, the advertising icon who originated in 1961 and is owned by the syrup brand of the same name, almost never goes by her first name: Joy.

Sailor Jack and Bingo

The logo for the Cracker Jack snack, featuring a boy and his dog, was introduced around 1918. The boy's name is Sailor Jack and his dog is named Bingo.

The Hawaiian island of Lanai was once known as "Pineapple Island" because it was owned by the Dole corporation, governed by James Dole, and was the world's foremost exporter of pineapples. Yep, just sittin' on the porch, eatin' pineapples.

Montgomery Ward, later known as Ward's, was the first mail order business, and the first major business to use the slogan "satisfaction guaranteed or your money back," in 1872.

Bayer developed heroin, presumably named for how "heroic" it made testers feel, from morpheine and codeine. Bayer marketed it as a cough suppressant from 1898 to 1910. It was claimed that heroin was ten times more effective against tubercular cough than codeine.

Benihana is named after the coffee shop that the founder's parents owned in Tokyo. "Benihana" means "red safflower." Many of the restaurants have plates that feature a stylized image of this flower.

Since 2003, Ronald McDonald has been designated McDonald's "Chief Happiness Officer."

The Passat, which is German for trade wind, is a make of car by Volkswagen.

Wall Drug is a kitschy tourist attraction in the town of Wall, South Dakota, off I-90.

Ducati is an Italian motorcycle company founded in 1926 by three brothers.

Kellogg's mascots

The mascots for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes were originally Tony the Tiger, Katy the Kangaroo, Elmo the Elephant, and Newt the Gnu. Only Tony and Katy appeared on boxes of cereal, and Katy was soon phased out, leaving Tony the sole mascot.

Rimmel is a cosmetics brand founded by Eugene Rimmel in London in 1834. In French, "le Rimmel" refers to mascara.

The boysenberry was discovered and developed by George Darrow of the USDA and California farmer Walter Knott, of Knott's Berry Farm fame. Its name comes from Rudolph Boysen, the farmer on whose land the initial, moribund berries were found.

The Pineapple Island

The island of Lanai, in addition to being a porch, is also known as The Pineapple Island because of its history as a pineapple plantation under the auspices of the Dole corporation.