# Favorite fake product names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158 "2021-02-03T19:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/101 "2021-02-05T21:47:31Z")
How about a real product name that _should_ be fake? Let’s say… a hemorrhoid cream named Anusol. Supposedly pronouned “ANN yew saul” but I know “Anus Hole” when I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/102 "2021-02-05T22:16:33Z")
Simpsons again: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/yQQJAyH.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/LEm9Ky8) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/103 "2021-02-05T22:38:57Z")
“Mr. Sparkle” from _The Simpsons_ If you look closely you can see “Tomacco Juice” in the opening sequence a reference to an old episode where somebody genetically combines tobacco and tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/104 "2021-02-06T01:04:12Z")
old glory robot insurance from SNL [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/g4Gh_IcK8UM/maxresdefault.jpg "Old Glory Insurance - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM) ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/105 "2021-02-06T01:13:01Z")
In _The Simpsons_, Milhouse has a prescription for Repressitol, which sounds delightful. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/106 "2021-02-06T01:34:02Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Repressitol, which sounds delightful. But you had some just last… oh, you don’t remember that… ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/107 "2021-02-06T02:04:30Z")
My favorite fake product is [Duff Beer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Beer), another _Simpsons_ creation. The show’s writers created an entire ecosystem around it. There are variants such as Duff Stout and Duff Zero, and a “premium” version, Henry K. Duff’s Private Reserve. Homer and Barney took a tour of the Duff brewery, where it’s revealed that Duff Light and Duff Dry are regular Duff in different packaging. The Duffman mascot/spokesperson appears in many episodes, and Bart and Lisa visited the Duff Gardens amusement park. There’s even a competing beer, Fudd, which is preferred by rednecks and/or residents of Shelbyville. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/108 "2021-02-06T02:10:58Z")
And you can buy Duff Beer (and you don’t have to spend a ton of time Adobe’ing your own labels, like I have to do to drink other mythical spirits). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/109 "2021-02-06T02:47:23Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > like to think I coined the name “Particle Bird” for Chicken McNuggets. I find this to be completely wonderful and it shall enter my vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/110 "2021-02-06T03:07:57Z")
Invader Zim: beverages sold at the Crazy Tac include Poop, Diet Poop, Classic Poop and Salty Lemonade. ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/111 "2021-02-06T04:19:22Z")
Many years ago we were shopping for a case to hold our stereo gear. Many stores had them set up with cardboard boxes printed to look like a receiver or tuner or equalizer or whatever. The product name on the boxes was Proptronics. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/112 "2021-02-06T12:42:50Z")
From Futurama I think: Admiral Crunch Brian ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/113 "2021-02-06T13:05:02Z")
Fake license plates, newspaper headlines, cereal boxes, _Playpen_ magazine etc.? You can thank Earl hays Press for a majority of it. They have been creating and supplying props like these for many years. [About Us — The Earl Hays Press](https://www.theearlhayspress.com/about-us) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/114 "2021-02-06T13:10:25Z")
When the Jetsons were shopping for a new car the salesman was pushing the Supersonic Suburbanite. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/115 "2021-02-06T14:05:33Z")
[![](https://morbotron.com/meme/S02E11/141157.jpg?b64lines=IE9ORSBXT1JELS0KVEhVTkRFUkNPVUdBUkZBTENPTkJJUkQu) ](https://morbotron.com/meme/S02E11/141157.jpg?b64lines=IE9ORSBXT1JELS0KVEhVTkRFUkNPVUdBUkZBTENPTkJJUkQu) ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/116 "2021-02-06T14:55:49Z")
Oceanic Airlines > **[Oceanic Airlines](https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Oceanic_Airlines)** > > Oceanic Airlines, Oceanic Airways or Oceanic Air is an airline company most prominent in Lost but featured in several other media. The various media that Oceanic Airlines appear in do not have a connection with each other, the airline company is... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/117 "2021-02-06T15:53:50Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Here’s one for Dopers of a certain age: > > _VIP_ , from the Doris Day / Rock Hudson film _Lover Come Back_ . Those familiar with it know that it’s a fake product name for a fake product name. Very meta. I saw that movie (or part of it, at least) on TV when I was a kid. The only thing I remembered about it was the fake product, Vip. For decades I wondered what movie it was from. A couple years ago I happened to see it again. Oddly, I remembered one very specific slogan for Vip and watched the whole movie waiting for them to say it, and it wasn’t there. > [@erysichthon](#): > > Henry K. Duff’s Private Reserve I suspect that name was inspired by Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve, a Portland (Oregon) beer that had a surge of popularity about when _The Simpsons_ was getting started. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/118 "2021-02-06T18:53:39Z")
> [@EnolaStraight](#): > > Oceanic Airlines Tom Weller’s “Culture Made Stupid” had “MountainAir,” an airline whose logo shows an airplane descending into a mountain. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/119 "2021-02-06T18:57:22Z")
And Baron Chocula. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fake-product-names/932158/120 "2021-02-06T19:10:42Z")
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