# Funny product names. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 26, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338 "2003-11-26T06:26:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/1 "2003-11-26T06:26:40Z")
In the Isle of Man you can buy bags of ‘fairy poo’ It’s chocolate for children. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/2 "2003-11-26T06:32:24Z")
**Mr. Brains Faggots** (some sort of British sausage thingie) has my vote as a yuck producer. ---
**Author:** ![cankerist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@cankerist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cankerist)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/3 "2003-11-26T07:22:42Z")
mmm Brains Faggots. In Japan we have “Creap” coffee whitener (I guess it’s a combination of Cream(y) Powder). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/4 "2003-11-26T07:31:32Z")
Somewhere around here, I have a box of low-grade mock Turkish Delight (a Polish import, if memory serves?) The package says: EMENA - Ratluk Unfortunate, that. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/5 "2003-11-26T08:53:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cankerist \* > \*\*In Japan we have “creap” coffee whitener (I guess it’s a combination of Cream(y) Powder). \*\* We also have **Pocari Sweat** sports drinks and **Collon** chocolate cookies. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/6 "2003-11-26T11:54:30Z")
It’s everywhere in the US now, but for some reason we overlook the name. _Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies._ ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/7 "2003-11-26T12:07:15Z")
Funny product with a funny name: I’ve seen butt padding on sale here. Basically performs the function of a padded bra, but for flat behinds. The name? **Sodo.** Mitsubishi Motors, as of last year, was making cars in Japan with the following names. **Legnum** (must not be a lot of room in those) **Dingo** (A dingo ran over my baby!) **Delica Space Gear** (huh?) **TownBox** (um… yeah) **Dion** (the obvious celebrity tie-in strategy has thus far been ignored) **Toppo BJ** (ok, now they’re just doing it on purpose) You can also drive a Daihatsu **Naked** and the Mazda **Bongo Friendee**. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/8 "2003-11-26T12:08:00Z")
In Ireland there’s a pub called **The Waters of Collon**. I went in and on the menu they offered a **Collon mixed grill**. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/9 "2003-11-26T12:12:00Z")
Dublin slang for sandwich is “sambo”. It’s used without any racial connotations, but imagine my surprise when I saw billboards all over town for O’Brien’s Sandwiches that offered: > [@](#): > > **Sambos built like Rambo.** ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/10 "2003-11-26T12:51:01Z")
Honda was going to launch a model called **Fitta** but when the Japanese were told that in Scandinavian (at least in Swedish) the word means the naughtiest part of the female anatomy they decided to call it _Jazz_ instead. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/11 "2003-11-26T14:14:44Z")
**Bimbo** bread. [Problems with Foreign Product Names](http://www.shanemcdonald.com/laughs/l-product-names.html) - I think this is funny, even if not all are true… ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/12 "2003-11-26T14:46:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*You can also drive a Daihatsu **Naked** and the Mazda **Bongo Friendee**. \*\* You forgot the Mazda **Laputa**. The drink **Calpis** , although having an interesting origin has an unfortunate last syllable. There’s the clothing brand **Comme ça du mode** , a meaningless string of French words. Considering its name, there’s a surprising mild pop music magazine called **Barfout**. And of course, foreigners who can read Japanese usually get a good laugh out of the phonetic transliteration of City Bank: **Shiti Banku**. And on the topic of sandwiches, in Japan, the word is often shortened _sando_, which sounds just find. Unfortunately, some people think it’s okay to spell that **sand** in English. So you end up with “Delicious egg sand”. Which is only marginally better than the “ **Fresh mush** ” sign I saw the other day. (Mush = mushroom) ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/13 "2003-11-26T15:03:18Z")
There’s a brand of Teddy Grahams knockoffs sold at the Dollar Tree called “Huggy Bears.” Unfortunately they look like regular bears and are lacking platform shoes and fur fedoras. “Kinkos” the copy center always gives me a chuckle. It puts me in the mind of the song “Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown – once the parents find me out, they run me out of town.” ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/14 "2003-11-26T15:04:04Z")
There’s a canned coffee drink made in Taiwan called **Hello Boss**. (It’s comparable to Starbucks’ canned Frappuccino but it tastes better and it’s about a third of the price.) And there’s **Meltykiss** candies (made by Meiji, I think) - delicious, fudge-like squares that are like a bite of heaven. ---
**Author:** ![1kBR\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/dc4da7/32.png) [@1kBR\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1kBR_Kid)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/15 "2003-11-26T17:19:04Z")
About 20 years ago in the US there was a diet supplement for bodybuilders called “Gorilla Balls”. The package had an cartoonish gorilla lifting weights. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/16 "2003-11-26T17:38:30Z")
I’ve always been amused by the home pregnancy test called **Confirm**. Mostly because that’s _not_ the test I’d choose if I were in the market. I’d buy the one called “No, Of _COURSE_ You’re Not Pregnant!” And continuing on the subject of pregnancy-related product names, a friend of mine recently discovered that the brand name of the Morning After Pill is **Plan B**. I still kinda snicker every time I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/17 "2003-11-26T18:21:31Z")
I always loved the Czech car called the “Skoda”. A truly awful product name that we bastardized to “Skroda”. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/18 "2003-11-26T19:00:14Z")
in Israel, there is a brand of toilet paper called “TUSHY” ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/19 "2003-11-26T19:21:18Z")
on topic -[naughty food names](http://www.cockeyed.com/naughty/naughty2.html) _Highjack_ **Draelin** - the bigger market for at home pregnancy tests are women dealing with infertility who DO want to be pregnant - they buy them closer to every month for months or years at a time. They are the more regular customers who will actually try enough to develop a brand preference, rather than your occassional buyer who is hoping not to be pregnant and just had a bad month. Confirm is a very good name, actually. Maybe not for you, but for the bigger piece of their market. _End Hijack_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338/20 "2003-11-26T21:19:29Z")
Pssshit! Enjoyed it while I was in France years ago. Do they still make it? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-product-names/215338.md?page=2)