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[[File:Wienermobile OURDOG plate.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Go ahead and guess what it sells...]]

Sometimes the easiest way to tell what a store sells is by looking at the shape of the store itself. Like a library shaped like a stack of books or a Burger Shack that's a giant burger, '''Shaped Like What It Sells''' is a building that is modeled and designed to look like the product(s) that's inside of it.

Should a giant entity mistake it for the real deal, [[This Billboard Needs Some Salt]] will likely ensue.

A Subtrope of [[Bizarrchitecture]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Several buildings on the small planet of [[A Piece of Phantasmagoria|Phantasmagoria]] are built with this trope on mind. The Café is shaped like a coffee pot, and there are a bread factory and surrounding town that go beyond being bread-shaped, they are also made of actual bread.

== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' story started with an [[Establishing Shot]] of Mega-City One that included a [[Flying Car|fly]]-thru [[Future Food Is Artificial|munceburger]] joint shaped like a giant burger.
* In ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'', the fish-themed mad scientist Fishtein's secret hideout is shaped like a giant cod.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The Pie Hole of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' is shaped like a giant pie.
* There was a joke along these lines in one episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Ted was designing a building shaped like a 10-gallon hat for some cheesy Texan franchise. Instead, they went with a Mecha-Godzilla shaped building. No businessman is going to have a building design that needlessly complex if he's not going to sell souvenirs inside...unless, of course, he's been charmed by the powers of Sven.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'': The Bluths' one consistent moneymaker is the frozen banana stand, which is shaped like a banana.
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'': A client, Beebee Gallini, freaks Mike out when she asks him to design her makeup factory first in the shape of a powder puff, then a lipstick, and finally a compact, complete with hinged roof.
* ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'': Marshall Darling is an architect who seems to specialize in these.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': [http://images.wikia.com/mynameisearl/images/e/ea/1x13a.jpg Pop's Hot Dog Cart] in "Stole P's HD Cart."

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The balcony of the pizzeria from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' is shaped like a slice of pizza when seen from above. The floor is the cheese and the tables are the pepperoni.
* In ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' some of the buildings in Pleasure Island, including a smoking house shaped like a pipe and a pool hall in the form of an eight-ball.
* Used in ''[[CatDog]]'', in the case of [[Makes Sense in Context|bodily parts]].
** As well as food, such as Taco Depot.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has a few:
** Glove World is made of many different buildings shaped like gloves.
** The Chum Bucket is in the shape of a giant bucket.
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* ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]'' has McSpankey's Burgers, shaped like a giant burger (though it also has a giant Scotsman's head on the side).

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]'' has several:
** A lemonade stand shaped like a lemon.
** A burger stand shaped like a cheeseburger.
** Almost every concession stand has an option to be shaped like the things it sells.
* ''[[Theme Park]]'' has the Coffee Shop, Pokey Cola, Big Time Fries and the Big Time Burger shops.
* ''[[Banjo Tooie]]'' has Big Al's Burgers and Salty Joe's Fries, a hamburger stand and french fry stand shaped like their respective products.
* The "Faultline" zone of ''[[City of Heroes]]'', after its revamp, included a donut shop with a giant donut on top, inspired by the real-world Randy's Donuts (see below).

== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://www.neopets.com/objects.phtml The main shops] of ''[[Neopets]]'' are themed like this: The food shop is a hamburger, the book shop is a book, the auction house is a mallet, the post office is a postal parcel, the pizza shop is a pizza, the school supply shop is a pencil, the music shop is a tuba of sorts, health food shop is broccoli, the defence item shop is a helmet, the gift shop is a gift box, the bakery is a peppercake house, the collectible card shop is a cardhouse, the hot dog shop is a hot dog, and the chocolate factory has chocolate topping.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* The patio walk-up to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is [http://johnkosich.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-rock-hall-record-player-design/ shaped like a giant record player].
* The [[w:Wienermobile|Oscar Mayer Wiener-Mobile]] (shown above) is shaped like a giant wiener.
* The headquarters of the Longaberger basket company is [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Newark-ohio-longaberger-headquarters-front.jpg shaped like a giant basket].
* [[w:Tail o' the Pup|Tail o' the Pup]] in Los Angeles and [[w:Coney Island Hot Dog Stand|Coney Island Hot Dog Stand]] in Bailey, Colorado are both shaped like hot dogs.
* Here's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127005459/http://ego-alterego.com/2011/07/piano-house/#.T5z4nKtYvgA music building].
* The central part of  [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5511464,-74.4099125,3a,75y,212.13h,82.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3hvY-uhdeQaQgtVyb3UJaQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en this building] in South Plainfield, NJ, which houses a company that makes boxes and other packaging materials.
* In a borderline case, the original Hard Rock Cafe at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida (now long gone and replaced by a much larger complex) sat upon a raised platform shaped like a guitar (complete with a long neck stretching out into the parking lot).  The walls of the restaurant itself followed the shape of the guitar's box.
* You've [[Seen It a Million Times]] on TV and movies:  [[w:Randy's Donuts|Randy's Donuts]], the place with the giant donut on top.
* Averted by [[w:Lucy the Elephant|Lucy the Elephant]] in Margate, NJ. Over this elephant-shaped building's nearly century-and-a-half lifespan it has been (among other things) a restaurant, a tavern, a hotel and a real estate office, but has never been the site of an elephant dealership.
* [[w:Gibeau Orange Julep|Gibeau Orange Julep]] in [[Montreal]] operates out of a three-storey orange.

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