I once wondered why so many golf features are named after food - potato chip greens, chocolate drop mounds, bear claw bunkers (a stretch, I know) kidney bean or peanut shaped greens, hot dog shaped bunkers,
Before he became a famous gca, Jim Engh was the project foreman on a project of mine in Louisana. He couldn't resist shaping, but unfortunately, the only trick he had acquired in his limited dozer time was a mound shaped sort of like a crescent cookie.
One of my personal favorites is the "Pork Chop" Bunker, which I had designed for me early in my career, when a super took out all the jagged edges of a bunker after the shapers left work one - actually a few nights in a row - and then added a little narrow sand pro escape area.
I was honked and came in the third day saying we couldn't build a bunker that looked like a pork chop, trying to shame him, and he said, "yeah, I always wanted a pork chop bunker." I hated it at first, but over the years have included a few of those damn things, usually on a short approach, where the top edge parallels the green surface, taking away the safety net of aiming your flop shot over the nose of the bunker, just in case.
It seems we give features names, if for no other reason to communicate to shapers - they get the picture immediately if you say pork chop, easy chair, civil war trench, buried body, etc. I once worked with a shaper to describe something and he ended up saying "you mean like a cow udder?" I really didn't but is seemed to click with him and off he went. He later suggested I wanted something shaped like a cow tongue, again, which I didn't question.
Interesting musings for a Friday afternoon!