title: Yum Yum, Tennessee
text: # Yum Yum, Tennessee
  
  Yum Yum is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States, just 7 miles north of the town of Somerville.
  
  ## History
  
  The community derives its name from a 19th-century brand of candy. Local tradition states that the community was named when U.S. Senator Kenneth McKellar asked storekeeper John J. Garnett what to name the new post office and Garnett answered, "Just call it Yum Yum. There won't be another name like that."
  
  