My breast friend (a pillow to aid in breast feeding)
The Ford Probe… marketed to women
Ben Gay was always a little odd to me, as in Dutch “ben” means (I) am…
I clicked on this thread specifically to mention Nads.
Oriental markets are great for finding products with funny names. there is Men’s Pocky, which is some sort of chocolate-covered pretzel, IIRC. My favorite, though, was a packet of chicken soup mix that a friend showed me—it was called ‘Cock Soup’. <insert obligatory jokes about whether women will swallow it or just spit it out. Make a few slurpy sounds just for good measure>
Haha! Man there’s a whole bunch of ridiculous product names here. All the good ones can be found on the site you mentioned. Two I particularly like are Pocari Sweat and Creap. I will never, ever drink Pocari Sweat. It’s just a sports beverage, but anything with “sweat” in the name is just kind of…yucky.
I saw the Nads infomercial in like, 1999 with one of my friends and we SWORE it was fake. I know now that it isn’t, which is just even funnier, because how could it be real? Esp. if you ever saw that infomercial…it was great.
I’ve had Men’s Pocky, even though I am not a man. It’s very good, considering. Another kind of pocky is called Fran. That too is just a sort of odd name for a food…
Oh, and a restaurant near where I live serves something called “American hamburg”. It’s a hamburger. Oddly, they refuse to sell it to Americans.
As the website shows, the correct spelling is Nad’s, not Nads. That must mean it is named after someone named Nad or made by a Nad, which is even worse.
I bought some once. Didn’t work well for me, so I gave it to a friend. The packaging said something about it being named for the inventor’s daughter Nadine. I think they were Australian.
I did enjoy telling people I couldn’t do anything on Saturday because I was staying home to rub nads all over my legs.
This has GOT to be the worst of all time.
Anyone remember the Reebok Incubus women’s running shoe? Use a dictionary, folks…
And I remember seeing the Ayds diet pills at the local drugstore right when AIDS was beginning to get noticed by the general public. At least the diet pills were named prior to the disease, so you can’t blame marketers as above.
Whoops…Cholo beat me to the punch with the picture of Ayds; however, I remember when they were much more modern looking than that.
Back in the 1930s, Q-Tips were called Baby Gays.
I’ve been seeing a lot of billboard ads here in Michigan (not sure how wide spread they are) selling “recycled water”. The brand name is Outhouse Springs. They use slogans like “It’s number 1, not 2”, and “L, M, N, O…” I don’t know who the marketing genius is who thought of this one. Naming water Outhouse springs, and elluding to piss doesn’t make me want to go out and buy their “water”.
best one I’ve seen was for some kind of grease that goes on a fishing rod
for some reason it was called “slick butt” underneath it said
"Slides easily in and out of rod holders for fast action "
is it just me or is this just wrong!?
I just saw this one on the TV.
A CD of country music by women called Queens of Country
Yeah a couple of thos ladies looked like drag queens all right.
Yeah, those billboards are funny, but they’re just a scheme to market guess what…billboards!
Snopes says not quite. The rumor originally went around about the UK power company known as Powergen.
In truth, the company which owns the domain (homepage here) is actually NAMED Powergen Italia. They’re based IN Italy.
So I guess it’s even MORE of an unfortunate name.
The candy named menstrels.
OMG! My mom used to use those in the '70’s. They were actually quite tasty! Chocolatey and chewy. Kind of like Space Food Sticks.
And I can’t believe no one thought of Wang computers! LOL!!!
Various laundry products of the Paxan Company in Iran are marketed under the brand name Barf. The label for Barf laundry detergent reads:
*Use Barf for washing silk clothes, cottons, nylons and wools. Barf washes dishes, tiles and bath accessories. To obtain best results, soak very dirty clothes in a solution of Barf for a few minutes and then proceed normally."
WARNING: Do not wash hands, face and body in Barf. Do not use Barf to wash food materials. Keep Barf out of the reach of children.*
Is Darkie Toothpaste still made? What about 666 Cough Medicine?
One of those places is Canada. Quite a fine chocolate bar, as a matter of fact. It has a kind of tangy creamy biscuit in the middle that tastes great with the chocolate and peanuts around it. In fact, I think I’ll go buy one tomorrow. 
I’ve had Darkie Toothpaste in the house as recently as a year ago. Grinning mascot and all. WTF?
In the same room, one of my housemates buys Canus Hand Soap. Whenever I’m brushing my teeth, I stare down at the bar, and can’t quite decide what bugs me more-- the appearance that it’s a misspelling of CANIS, or that fragmentary ANUS. Neither one really screams “clean” to me.
Yesterday, I noticed some frozen chicken breasts with a company name that turned my head. The name, I guess, is unremarkable, but their marketing people had the misfortune to use the same colour scheme and typeface for their logo as another organization with the same name. I was tempted to buy the package just to scan it in and photoshop some military hardware into it, but it was $15, and I don’t eat chickens.