5.25.2009

10 Most Unfortunate Product Names

No 10. Shitto is an allegedly delicious Ghanaian sauce with a name that makes Americans laugh, while everyone in Ghana seems to love it.


No 9. Sars. This drink from New Zealand shares its name with SARS: Severe acute respiratory syndrome.


No 8. Australian repellent "used by the armed forces." They surely need it.


No 7. Golden Gaytime is an iconic ice-cream in Australia, its name survived intact despite the homosexual connotations in modern decades. The company just decided to play up the camp name with the boxes, holding the words "4 chances to have a gay time."


Here's a classic Golden Gaytime TV ad from the 80s, "Let the Gaytimes roll!"


No 6. Vergina (beer)


No 5. Pee Cola, a soft drink from Ghana.


No 4. Jussipussi. So that's how finnish bread taste like.


No 3. Megapussi (potato chips). Priceless.


No 2. Cock flavoured mix (soup). Mmmmm spicy!


No 1. Ayds (diet candy). Ayds (pronounced "AIDS") was a diet candy from the 1980s. Years later, the name would have its current meaning.



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43 comments:

Anonymous said...

Both of the Finnish cases are bit bad.

Pussi means bag, and thus doesn't refer to the actual product but to the packaging.

The bread one is a "Jussipussi" of wheat bread, and the chips is a "megapussi" (larger package) of chips.

The whole title of this post, "10 Most Unfortunate Product Names" is quite overacted, and in the end these are very shallow and also pointless - these can be done from the point of view of any language.

jules older said...

Oh, please. They're hilarious.

GoFastCoaching said...

I agree with Jules... they're funny. But, one has to have a slightly twisted mind to take these the 'wrong' way. Hate to say it Jules, you're in that boat with me and our mirandized friends. Jokers!!! Andrew

Unknown said...

LOL! They're fun! Unlike stuffy anonymous who sounds like as much fun as a toothache :P
I'll go along with Andrew and the fun people ^.^

Anonymous said...

I just intended to point out it can be done from any point of view. Don't be surprised when non-English laugh at similar English stuff. :P
(I've seen that happen. Quoting the usual reaction: "ARE YOU DUMB? THAT'S NOT FUN!?")

One good example I distantly recall is French washing pulver/liquid makers who marketed their products with names starting like with word "perse"... I don't know how nice word it is there and how shiny image people get out of it, but it means "ass" in Finnish. And it isn't a scientific word for it, it's vulgar.

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