Recently, I was accompanying a friend grocery shopping. Walking down one aisle, something caught my peripheral vision, and I did a doubletake to the right. The snack product I saw:
I wondered briefly at the marketing department’s decision process, but then I realized–I had to buy one package solely for the purpose of taking its picture. I can’t see repeat business (it’s sort of a hybrid of stale-tasting cheetos-equivalents wrapped around low-quality peanuts), but any sale is a good sale I suppose.
I have recently found in my shed a can of paint from the 40’s called RETARDO.
Also, I have seen the books Cooking with Pooh (a childrens cookbook with Winnie the Pooh) and Games you can play with your pussy (I saw this in an old catalog many years ago [when I was too young to see anything wrong with the name], it is about games you can play with your cat).
Well it’s not a double entendre like these but on the old Newlywed Game they were always giving away Amelia Earhardt luggage. And I was never surprised that they had to give it away. I mean what’s their slogan… “It gets on a plane and never comes back to you”?
The best place to find things like this is in Maxim magazine. They have a section called “found porn” which contains ads that arent so innocent. Recently they’ve had a smoke shop called “Cox Smokers,” a drink product called “Horlicks,” and a book with an old woman on the cover titled, “Doctor, I Have Trouble Swallowing.” The book was about an actual condition, but the look on the old womans face is priceless!
Very common in the UK and, to be honest, I didn’t realise the double entendre until you just pointed it out. I guess when you grow up with these things you never notice.
FYI: Due to an advertising campaign they ran a few years back “Horlicks” is now a polite and gentile expletive in the UK (like “Sugar” instead of “shit”)
