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Ocado
Ocado (Ocado Group plc, LSE: OCDO) is a British technology and online grocery company founded in 2000. It runs Ocado Retail, a 50:50 M&S joint venture, and licenses its Ocado Smart Platform warehouse robotics to 15 grocery partners worldwide.
Octavia St. Laurent
Octavia St. Laurent (1964–2009), also known as Heavenly Angel Octavia St. Laurent Manolo Blahnik, was an American transgender performer, model aspirant, and ballroom icon featured in Paris Is Burning and How Do I Look.
Oden (おでん)
Oden (おでん) is a Japanese winter simmered dish of tane such as daikon, konnyaku, chikuwabu, and fish cakes in katsuobushi-kombu dashi with soy sauce, descended from miso dengaku, sold per piece at konbini and oden-ya stalls.
Oeko-Tex
Oeko-Tex (OEKO-TEX®) is a textile and leather certification system run by an association of 17 independent testing institutes founded in 1992. STANDARD 100, its flagship label, tests finished products for over 1,000 harmful substances; other standards include ORGANIC COTTON, STeP, ECO PASSPORT, and MADE IN GREEN.
Oenology
Oenology (enology) is the science of winemaking, paired with viticulture. Covers grape domestication origins, alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, OIV analytical standards, UC Davis research milestones, and modern AI benchmarking.
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is a British food-comedy podcast in which guests order their dream meal at an imaginary restaurant; 120 million downloads, fifth place in UK reach, live Royal Albert Hall episodes.
Off-White (company)
Off-White™ is Virgil Abloh's luxury streetwear label, founded 2012/2013, Milan-based, known for quotation marks, diagonal stripes, arrows, and Nike and IKEA collaborations; LVMH held 60% from 2021, sold to Bluestar Alliance in 2024.
Offal
Offal, also called variety meats or organ meats, is the edible non-skeletal-muscle parts of a slaughtered animal: liver, kidneys, heart, tripe, blood, and more, valued for nutrient density and central to many world cuisines.
Office siren
Office siren is a TikTok fashion aesthetic, viral from late 2023 into 2024, that restyles 1990s and 2000s corporate workwear (Tom Ford-era Gucci, Calvin Klein, Prada) with a sensual edge: pencil skirts, fitted shirts, and Bayonetta glasses. Related to corpcore and corporate fetish; linked to Asia Bieuville; faded by 2026.
Oh Henry!
Oh Henry! is a peanut, caramel, and fudge candy bar introduced in Chicago in 1920 by George Williamson, with disputed origins; Hershey makes the Canadian version, and Ferrara holds the US rights since 2018.
Oiran (花魁)
Oiran (花魁) were the highest-ranked courtesans working in the pleasure quarters licensed by the Tokugawa shogunate during Japan's Edo period, above all in the Yoshiwara district of Edo, present-day Tokyo.
Ojiya chijimi
Ojiya chijimi (小千谷縮) is a lightweight ramie crepe fabric made in Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, whose wrinkled texture keeps it from clinging in humid weather.
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き)
Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a Japanese savory griddle pancake of flour batter and cabbage, made mixed-in-batter in Kansai style and layered with noodles in Hiroshima style, descended from Edo mojiyaki and Taishō issen yōshoku.
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest (Munich's Wiesn, Theresienwiese) is the world's largest folk festival, held 16 days from mid-September since 1810. 2026 marks its 191st edition, September 19 to October 4, opened by the mayor's keg-tapping at noon in the Schottenhamel tent.
Oktoberfest celebrations
Oktoberfest celebrations: the Munich Wiesn, world's largest folk festival, founded 1810 for Ludwig I's wedding, held on Theresienwiese; record 7.4 million visitors and 6.7 million Maß of beer in 2026.
Ola Hudson
Ola Hudson (Ola J. Oliver, 1946-2009), American fashion and costume designer for David Bowie, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and the Pointer Sisters; created Bowie's Man Who Fell to Earth and Thin White Duke looks, and was the mother of Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.
Olam International
Olam International, the Singapore food and agri-business founded in 1989 trading Nigerian cashews, became Olam Group Limited (SGX: VC2) in 2022, re-organised into ofi, Olam Agri and OGH, and sold Olam Agri to SALIC.
Old Bay Seasoning
Old Bay Seasoning is a Baltimore-created Chesapeake Bay spice blend, invented in 1939 by German-Jewish immigrant Gustav Brunn, originally sold as Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning and renamed for the Old Bay Line steamship; McCormick has owned it since 1990.
Old Believers in Belarus
Old Believers in Belarus are communities of Russian Old Believers, adherents of the old Orthodox rite who fled persecution and settled in Belarus from the 17th century onward.
Old Bushmills Distillery
The Old Bushmills Distillery, a 1784-founded whiskey distillery in Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, makes Bushmills Irish Whiskey and brands itself the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery on the strength of a 1608 district licence granted to Sir Thomas Phillips. Owned by Becle since 2015; triple-distilled single malt, 9 million litres capacity.
Old fashioned (cocktail)
The old fashioned is a whiskey cocktail of spirit, sugar, water, and bitters, matching the 1806 definition of "cocktail"; IBA spec 45 ml bourbon or rye, sugar cube, Angostura, stirred over ice, orange garnish.
Old Monk
Old Monk: Indian dark rum brand launched December 1954 by Ved Rattan Mohan at Mohan Meakin, Ghaziabad; molasses-based, spice- and vanilla-infused, traditionally 7-year oak vatted, 42.8% ABV; peak 8 million cases, 2026 FSSAI ruling reclassified three variants as rum-flavoured spirit.
Old Navy
Old Navy is Gap Inc.'s value-priced family clothing retailer, opened in Colma, California on March 19, 1994 from the Gap Warehouse prototype. First retailer to $1 billion in sales within four years; fiscal 2025 net sales $8.7 billion across 1,200+ North American stores.
Old-fashioned doughnut
Old-fashioned doughnut: a chemically leavened cake-style ring doughnut (sour cream or buttermilk batter), fried at lower temperature (365–375°F) for a craggy, crackled crust distinct from yeast doughnuts.
Olde English 800
Olde English 800 (OE800, "8 ball") is an American malt liquor introduced in 1964, brewed by Miller since 1999 under Molson Coors, sold at 5.9% to 8% ABV and once the top-selling US malt liquor brand.
Oldest McDonald's restaurant
Oldest McDonald's restaurant: the 1953 drive-up stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd, Downey, California, third built and oldest still operating; the original 1940 San Bernardino site is now an unofficial museum.
Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), American fashion designer of Russian-Italian aristocratic origin, official couturier to Jacqueline Kennedy, Hollywood costume designer, and pioneer of designer name licensing.
Olestra
Olestra (Olean), a sucrose polyester fat substitute developed by Procter & Gamble in 1968 and FDA-approved for savory snacks in 1996; nonabsorbed, noncaloric, reduces fat-soluble vitamin and carotenoid absorption, later largely phased out.
Olga de Amaral
Olga de Amaral (Olga Ceballos Vélez, b. 1932, Bogotá) is a Colombian fiber artist known for gessoed, gold-leafed woven wall works, a Wall Hangings (MoMA 1969) pioneer, represented Colombia at the 1986 Venice Biennale, with major 2024-25 retrospectives in Paris and Miami.
Olipop
Olipop (OLIPOP) is an Oakland, California prebiotic soda brand founded in 2018 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester, built on the OLISMART fiber and botanical blend, with 2-5g sugar per can, $400M 2024 revenue, and a $1.85B valuation.