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Home Spot Surf Shop
Home Spot Surf Shop is a family-run surf shop at 21 Avenue Jean Laffitte, Hourtin-Plage, Gironde, France, run since 2007 by surfer-instructor Stéphan "Fanfan" Lusseyran, selling boards, wetsuits, and clothing and renting about fifty surfboards.
Honey deuce
Honey Deuce, the U.S. Open signature cocktail by Nick Mautone for Grey Goose (2006): vodka, lemonade, raspberry liqueur, honeydew melon-ball garnish resembling tennis balls; nearly 740,000 sold at the 2025 Open at $23 each.
Honey packet
Honey packet: a single-serve sealed pouch of honey (about 7–14 g) used in cafes, airlines, and fast food; also slang for royal honey, a 10–20 g herbal enhancement-honey sachet marketed on TikTok.
Honey Smacks
Honey Smacks, launched as Sugar Smacks in 1953, is Kellogg's sweetened puffed-wheat cereal, renamed in 1980, over 50% sugar by weight, mascot Dig 'Em Frog, recalled for Salmonella in 2018.
Honeycomb toffee
Honeycomb toffee, also called cinder toffee, hokey pokey, or sponge candy, is a brittle aerated candy made by foaming hot sugar syrup with bicarbonate of soda; regional names differ worldwide, with Crunchie (1929) and Violet Crumble as commercial bars.
Honeymoon
A honeymoon is a vacation newlyweds take to celebrate their marriage, traditionally shortly after the wedding; also a honeymoon period. The word dates to the mid-16th century, the modern trip to 19th-century British bridal tours.
Hoodie
Hoodie (also hoody, bunny hug in Saskatchewan): a hooded sweatshirt developed by Champion in the 1920s-1930s for athletes or cold-warehouse workers, later a streetwear, protest, and luxury fashion icon.
Hookah
النارجيلة (narghile, hookah, shisha, argileh): a water pipe for smoking tobacco, originating in Persia and India, with smoke drawn through water; one session equals 100+ cigarettes per WHO.
Hoop cheese
Hoop cheese, also called Bakers or Red Ring cheese, is a traditional Southern US cow's-milk cheese pressed in a round hoop mold, sold fresh in wax, moister than cheddar, and used in pimento cheese and Eastern North Carolina cheese biscuits.
Hoppin' John
Hoppin' John, a South Carolina lowcountry pilaf of cowpeas (black-eyed peas), rice, and pork of West African origin; first printed in The Carolina Housewife (1847) and eaten on New Year's Day for good luck.
Horchata
Horchata (Spanish, from Latin hordeata) is a family of sweet chilled plant-based drinks from Spain and Latin America: Valencia's tiger nut horchata de chufa, Mexican rice horchata, Salvadoran morro seed versions, and Ecuador's herbal infusion.
Horezu ceramics
Horezu ceramics are traditional glazed pottery produced by hand in Horezu and the village of Olari, Vâlcea County, Romania, known for its rooster motif and inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2012.
Horilka
Horilka (горілка) is the Ukrainian term for vodka and strong distilled spirits, legally 37.5–56% vol., historically documented from 16th-century Ukraine, with pepper-infused horilka z pertsem and home-brewed samohon as notable varieties.
Horlicks
Horlicks: malted milk drink powder founded 1873 by James and William Horlick in Chicago; patented 1883; made in Slough from 1908; India's leading health drink (45% share), owned by Unilever since the 2018 GSK merger; 46 g sugar per 100 g.
Horn & Hardart
Horn & Hardart, American restaurant company founded in Philadelphia in 1888 by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, famous for its Automat waiterless coin-operated cafeterias from 1902 to 1991 in Philadelphia and New York; brand revived with Automat Coffee in the 2020s.
Hors d'oeuvre
Hors d'oeuvre (hors-d'œuvre), literally French "outside the work," is a small savory dish served apart from a meal's main courses, as an appetizer or reception finger food, distinct from paid appetizers and the chef's amuse-bouche.
Horse meat
Horse meat (hippophagy): meat from horses eaten as a lean red meat, protein like beef with about 20% less fat, high n-3 and heme iron; taboo in much of Europe and North America, common in Central Asia, Italy, France, and Belgium.
Horspath
Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3½ miles east of Oxford, with finds linking it to the Romano-British pottery industry.
Hosay
Hosay is the Caribbean form of the Shi'i Muslim commemoration of Muharram, mourning Imam Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala with tadjah processions and tassa drumming, most prominently in Trinidad and Tobago.
Hospices de Beaune
Hospices de Beaune (Hospices Civils de Beaune): Burgundy hospital institution founded 1443 by Nicolas Rolin and Guigone de Salins; its Hôtel-Dieu is a classified 1862 monument, and its 60-hectare wine estate is sold each third Sunday of November at the famous charity auction begun in 1859.
Hospitality
Hospitality, the host-guest relationship of exchange and welcome, from Greek xenia and Roman hospitium through anthropology, Derrida's hostipitality, refugee guesting, and the modern IoT-driven hospitality industry.
Hospitality industry
Hospitality industry: the service sector providing lodging, food and drink, and travel and tourism services (also called HoReCa, HCT). Distinguished by labor intensity, SME dominance, women forming 60-70% of the workforce, and tourism-scale economic impact.
Hospitality law
Hospitality law, also called hotel and restaurant law, is the body of statutes, regulations, and case law governing hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, and event venues, covering innkeeper liability, licensing, accessibility, and civil rights in public accommodations.
Hospitality management studies
Hospitality management studies is the higher-education field preparing managers of hotels, restaurants, and tourism businesses. Origins: EHL (1893) and Cornell's 1922 undergraduate degree; growth from 128 to 307 US programs; curriculum, competency, accreditation, and industry-alignment debates.
Host and hostess clubs
Host and hostess clubs (ホストクラブ) are Japanese nightlife venues where male hosts or female hostesses entertain customers for fees. Notable facts: 925 host clubs employing 21,931 hosts, Kabukicho concentration, and the 2025 Entertainment Business Act amendment against malicious host clubs.
Hostess Brands
Hostess Brands, American maker of Twinkies, CupCakes, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos; twice bankrupt (2004, 2012), revived by Apollo and Metropoulos in 2013, listed as TWNK in 2016, acquired by J.M. Smucker for $5.6 billion in November 2023.
Hot and sour soup (酸辣汤)
Hot and sour soup (酸辣汤, suan la tang) is a Chinese thickened soup flavored with vinegar and white pepper, filled with tofu, wood ear, bamboo shoot, pork, and egg ribbons; a northern-origin dish also claimed by Sichuan cuisine, distinct from Henan hulatang, and high in sodium at about 917 mg per cup.
Hot Brown
Hot Brown (Kentucky Hot Brown, Louisville Hot Brown): open-faced hot sandwich invented 1926 by chef Fred K. Schmidt at Louisville's Brown Hotel; roast turkey, bacon, tomato, Texas toast, Mornay sauce, broiled; cousin of Welsh rarebit.
Hot chicken
Hot chicken is Nashville's signature fried chicken coated after frying with cayenne spice paste, served on white bread with pickles; created by the Prince family around 1945 at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack and now a Tennessee state food.
Hot chocolate
Hot chocolate, also called hot cocoa or drinking chocolate, is a hot beverage of chocolate or cocoa powder with milk or water and sugar, descended from Mesoamerican cacao drinks such as Aztec xocolatl, brought to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century.