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Published: Sep 21, 2006

The 700 Club

700 N. Second St., 215-413-3181

This just in: There is no 700 Club in Northern Liberties.

There is, however, a bar everyone calls the "700 Club" and which has the number "700" written above its door, yet whose actual, real name is "Meats Incorporated, The Porcelain Bunny."

"They couldn't use just '700 Club,'" explains Ben Woodward, 700's upstairs resident DJ. Apparently, the Christian Broadcasting Network and Pat Robertson beat owner Kurt Wunder to the name by almost 40 years.

Wunder, skirting legal issues, created an alias. The ground level of the building used to be a poultry shop, hence the Meats Incorporated part. The bathrooms occupy the space where the freezers once stood. And it was in those coolers where the mysterious porcelain bunny surfaced—a pearl-colored figure about 10 inches long, and missing one ear.

"It looks like something your grandmother would put flowers in at Easter," says Woodward.

For posterity's sake, the bunny now sits above the beer cooler in the first-floor bar. What's in a name, anyway?

—Amanda McKenna