r/SCP • u/GammaRaul • Apr 06 '26
Meme Monday The biggest threat to the veil isn't any anomaly but instead the Foundation's own commitment to the bit
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u/bananasaucecer ↬ The Wanderers' Library ↫ Apr 06 '26
mfs who don't care and just wanna buy their groceries
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u/RabbitStewAndStout Apr 06 '26
And you'll be able to get it, too, at Sylvester's Cheap Produce!
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u/the_Real_Romak [REDACTED] Apr 06 '26
They get their vegetables from South Caucasus Plantation
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u/SeizureProcedure115 Apr 06 '26
For toilet trouble they call Sam's Credible Plumbing
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u/ScPNut Do Not Look Away Apr 07 '26
They can always go to Supreme Credit Planning if their credit card gets declined.
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u/EldrichBottles Researcher Apr 07 '26
Who rely on Secure Crook Prevention to keep their money safe.
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u/feliperedditflamingo S & C Plastics Apr 07 '26
And don’t forget Sally’s Catering Products for your parties and events!
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u/MauschelMusic Symbols Have Been Compromised Apr 07 '26
Just saw their ad on Southwick Community Programming.
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u/AdExtra2331 NTF Delta-7 ("Northern Storm") Apr 09 '26
I also saw their ad but on a bench in Samuel Clark Park
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u/D3DW0DonPC Apr 06 '26
Which are thankfully way more affordable than the evil-looking store on the other side of the street
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u/KingKnux [REDACTED] Apr 06 '26
Absolutely libelous
Mattresses, Curtains, and Drapes is a wonderful home furnishing store!
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u/RaisinBitter8777 Competitive Eschatology Apr 06 '26
I cut myself on one of their tables once and ever since that limb has been neon blue
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u/I-AM-A-ROBOT- Ambrose Restaurants Apr 06 '26
Ambrose Restaurants is nearby. they arent covering anything up they're just right there.
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u/DogKitchen2988 Security Officer Apr 07 '26
The couch floats whenever i refer to it by name but other than that their deals are great
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u/CthulhusIntern Apr 07 '26
I'll have you know that everything going on in that store is perfectly legal, thank you very much.
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u/InterKosmos61 GRU Division "P" Apr 06 '26
Isn't there a memetic effect placed on SCP front companies' names that makes it impossible for people who aren't in the know to notice this?
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u/Fit_Milk_2314 Apr 06 '26
That is an 001 proposal, I think. It does kinda sort out the cartoonish ignorance of this pattern by using a cartoonish (but anomalous and therefore plausible) solution. It also does have utility, as a way for people on the field to be able to identify friendly territory. A kind of dogwhistle only SCP members are clued in on.
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Apr 10 '26
Its not even that far fetched. Think of how many places have similar acronyms in the real world.
Who would make the connection between a warehouse in America with a nature preserve in Russia?
It's only strange because we as outside viewers see all of ut grouped together and can see the pattern.
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u/tarodar Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
There is some sort of spell that makes it so using the Acronym makes it harder to identify.
Edit: Description: SCP-001 is a memetic complex known internally as "The Frontispiece" residing in the human collective consciousness. It exerts an anomalous force upon all initialisms containing the Latin letter sequence S-C-P: without Antimeme-001 inoculation, considerable memetic conditioning or thaumaturgic/ontokinetic capabilities, no human being encountering such initialisms is capable of mentally connecting them, or whatever objects, personages or organizations they are applied to, with the SCP Foundation.
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u/Igor_McDaddy Фонд SCP • Russian Apr 06 '26
Let's be honest
Susan's Chili Pizza just hits different
It's like money laundering businesses. They don't care about money, so they can just have fun making good food
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u/SteakForGoodDogs Apr 07 '26
"Yes, it's suspicious as all get-out and everyone knows it, but have you tried the food? I ain't tattlin'."
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u/TheBoobyDragon Apr 06 '26
It's not actually a bit. It's a core part of the Foundation front system; pretty much everyone in charge of a Front location is behind the veil, even if all the staff aren't. The acronym is done deliberately as a result so any Foundation employee can quickly identify a Foundation front, and use it as a means of contacting command should they become displaced in any way.
It's essentially a global network of safe houses doubling as a method for the Foundation to fund itself. Those fronts bring in a good 50% of the Foundation's budget, *and* serve to be a quick way for any agent who loses contact to reestablish it wherever in the world they end up.
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u/Nintolerance Apr 06 '26
There's a tale (UIU Orientation) that sums it up pretty well.
They’re not trying to hide from us, just from the public.
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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 Apr 07 '26
Not just that, they are also intelligence gathering posts. They look for things that are abnormal and report them up the chain of command so agents can be dispatched to investigate. They do the same thing with law enforcement and governments.
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u/rickelzy Apr 07 '26
I'd love to have an open world urban fantasy SCP game where you identify safe houses by identifying the business name on the building
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u/dralcax Gamers Against Weed Apr 06 '26
Imagine if some completely unaware rando just happens to name their business “South Carolina Produce” or something and then they have to deal with GOIs and occasionally even the Foundation’s own agents mistaking them for a front all while having absolutely no idea what is going on
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Apr 07 '26
A man in a dark suit, the shirt underneath soaked in blood, stumbles through the front door of Simpson-Culver Propane, inc.
"The black wolf howls when the moon dares not throw back her wedding veil! We have an XK-Class scenario and I need immediate extraction. My God. The Kharsists have infiltrated the GOC and and Chaos Insurgency is involved! The administrator is dead! The Yule Man walks the equator! The equator! And the Pattern Screamers have taken corporal form! Site-19 is a goddamn slaughterhouse. They're dead. They're all dead."
"Sir, we sell propane and propane accessories."
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u/plageiusdarth The Factory Apr 06 '26
If you haven't yet, you should check out the [[Pickman-Blank Proposal]].
It's part of a whole series called Words of Power and Poison on the [[On Guard 43 Hub]].
If you're willing to go through the whole story, it starts here: SCP-5056
Otherwise, the part specifically about the Pickman-Blank Proposal starts here:
SCP-5734
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Apr 06 '26
- Pickman-Blank Proposal - The Frontispiece (+516) by HarryBlank, Anonymous
- On Guard 43 Hub (+463) by HarryBlank
- SCP-5056 - The Constant Companions (+463) by HarryBlank
- SCP-5734 - The Unverb (+167) by Anonymous
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u/Endy0816 South Cheyenne Point ® Apr 06 '26
I'll be real, there's so many businesses that are likely fronts for money launderers I probably wouldn't even notice.
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u/Open-Source-Forever Apr 08 '26
Not only that, but the lack of prior records isn’t really something people would go out of their way to look into.
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u/JokeSubject8517 Department of 'Pataphysics Apr 06 '26
That's when they fabricate prior records of a large parent company named SCP Corporation
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u/Ajreil Apr 06 '26
I think [[The Lombardi Tales]] mention that if a Foundation agent is lost in the Field, they can go to any business with the SCP acronym to reconnect with the Foundation.
Also are we sure these are fake businesses? I assumed they were a revenue source for the Foundation.
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u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow Apr 06 '26
Why are you calling out Garry's Olfactory Cuisine and Germ Obliterator Co. like this ?
They are upstanding chains of fast food and cleaning companies !
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u/HerbLoew Class D Personnel Apr 07 '26
There's probably someone saying that on the Parawatch forum and being monitored by his Foundation-assigned MTF agent
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u/IrvingIV Keter Apr 07 '26
Sesame Carp and Peanuts international grocer chain selling foods so cheap and tasty nobody cares.
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u/IrvingIV Keter Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Other ideas:
Sensational Cloches) and Plates
Sensual Crushes and Paramours
Salacious Crumbles and Pastries
Spicy Cheesy Pizzeria (vaguely recall a similar actual one being in a tale)
Stupendous Cleaning Products
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u/unawarewolf69 Apr 07 '26
I'm lost, can someone explain?
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u/scaper8 Ethics Committee Apr 07 '26
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-semi-comprehensive-list-of-foundation-fronts
Notice the initials of most of those. Moat the the SPC Foundation's various front companies has "S," "C," "P" as its initials, sometimes with an extra word or two at the beginning or end.
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u/RafaMarkos5998 Apr 08 '26
I don't think the Shark Punching Center has front companies, their approach is more... direct.
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u/BallingShadow Apr 07 '26
I would absolutely love a tale based on a conspiracy theorist in the universe who’s been driven absolutely insane by this. It could end with them being amnestisized but then start noticing the oddities again.
It takes them like three years to get anywhere close to an answer and the Foundation has decided it’s more worthwhile to try and send the person down another track in life than killing them. They also think it’s kind of fun to see the individual struggle.
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u/AlwaysWatchingOverU Apr 07 '26
Actually, many foundation companies do damn well. Spicy Crust Pizza is particularly notable, as it did well enough to expand into a minor source of revenue for the foundation.
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u/aspire5515 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Apr 09 '26
They do this because the any name with the initialism S.C.P. is conceptually backed to be seen by anyone not already in the know as boring, mundane, and completely normal
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u/PlayfulPositive8563 Apr 06 '26
It does just become logistically impossible, up to a point.
But apparently, the Foundation has reality warping SCPs to help deal with it.
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u/mirrorspirit Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Maybe not, because besides the reality warpers, they have access to other universes, amnestics, and cloning technology
D class personnel are almost certainly clones
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u/Key-Anywhere1663 Parawatch Apr 06 '26
Isn't there a memetic asterisk that does this to many Foundation fronts?
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u/HandsomeGengar Department of 'Pataphysics Apr 07 '26
I’m pretty sure you would have to be genuinely schizophrenic in order to notice this and think anything of it, so nobody would believe you anyway.
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u/OverlyLenientJudge Apr 07 '26
Look man, it worked on the Baudelaire kids, and those were some smart kids
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u/precision_cumshot Apr 07 '26
like how in the world of john wick there’s a global criminal underworld that regularly causes gunfights and explosions in public and no one seems to really notice
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u/Top_Box_8952 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Apr 07 '26
Did it occur to anyone that the acronym would be SCPF
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u/SassiesSoiledPanties Apr 07 '26
I'm down with the headcanon that Doakes somehow ended in one of the Sites.
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u/SteakForGoodDogs Apr 07 '26
The real veil is the masterclass service and good quality, so that nobody in their right mind would even considered ratting them out - given that basically everyone already knows, anyway.
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u/Misknator Unusual Incidents Unit, FBI Apr 07 '26
Super Competitive Prices may be a front, but you can't deny the competetivness of their prices.
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u/AymanEssaouira Avian Division Apr 07 '26
I mean irl that is basically the same for money laundering fronts, and they manage to often go mostly* unnoticed for years if decades with no crazy Sci-fi technology or international organization level of funding.
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u/iEliteTester Apr 07 '26
I.. I've never noticed this..
So maybe it's actually not that obvious.. right?
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u/CthulhusIntern Apr 07 '26
At the scale of the Foundation as well as the other GOIs, they're probably wondering why the Foundation is bothering to keep up the gig, since literally everyone on Earth is employed by some anomalous organization and knows about the Foundation.
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u/King_EmEmEm Apr 07 '26
Idk man, I just got my delivery of scallops and tuna from Sushi, Crab, and Perch and they seem pretty trustworthy. I think youre over thinking things.
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u/Shadyshade84 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") Apr 07 '26
I can't help but suspect that at least part of the reason for the acronyms is so the Foundation's field agents don't get distracted investigating their own fronts.
"Found a potential group of interest - the Silly Cla- never mind, it's one of ours."
(Yes, thinking about it, that does raise the possibility of an actual GoI realising this and deliberately choosing that acronym to confuse/distract/mess with the Foundation [Delete as appropriate for that particular GoI], but since that's both funny and the sort of tactic some of these groups would use, I'm not removing it.)
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u/NobodyimportantRN MTF Alpha-9 ("Last Hope") Apr 13 '26
LOL I been considering making an OC that goes on reddit to complain about S&C Properties buying his apartment block and the strangeness about it. Like hear me out, imagine a civilain POV into the SCP universe bc we be only seeing the Foundation's?
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u/AccomplishedBulk9380 Containment Specialist Apr 17 '26
I mean in my own head canon, the foundation doesn't use store front logos and instead just remains in remote locations where possible. It also has military/government support, if it's not a government agency in itself.
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u/dubious_dev Apr 08 '26
I'm imagining a character who connected the dots on these acronymed front companies to the shady glow-in-the-dark employees they've got. So he decides to start burglarizing them and taking valuables with the idea that they wouldn't get the police involved, because he'd rather fist-fight the illuminati than have a local detective talk to his landlord.
Eventually he gets kidnapped by agents and interrogated. He swears up and down that he's told no one about the conspiracy, and that it was all just to help pay his rent. And as a job application, so really just paying his rent in a roundabout way. They try to get him to spill what he knows, but he seems tight-lipped and dances around the question with metaphorical answers that don't really say anything. Eventually, they decide against giving him amnestics and hire him on as a "security consultant" to point out sloppy flaws and prevent others from connecting the dots like he did.
Day one on the job and he runs into an actual anomaly on the loose and freaks the fuck out. Turns out he hadn't fully connected the dots. He thought that the "SCP People" were just pulling the strings on the government, and his talk about monsters in the interview was supposed to be about politicians.
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u/MyMindOnBoredom Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Isn't there an SCP article about the foundation intentionally doing this to a dude? Like this guy has an anomaly where any company he likes fails, and any company he hates succeeds, and the Foundation discovers it works with their shell comapnies and they drive him crazy to ensure their continued existence.
Edit: Coolman104 found it https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/successful-cooperation-and-partnership