# Worst Product Names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 12, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836 "2004-10-12T16:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/21 "2004-10-12T22:20:30Z")
Back in the 1920s **Esso** petrol didn’t go down too well in Japan as the word sounded too much like a Japanese word meaning “gangrene” or “putrefaction” - as in “Put some putrefaction in your tank!” They soon changed the name to Exxon. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/22 "2004-10-12T23:44:13Z")
I’m not sure which is a worse product name – Nasalcrom or Flonase. Either one = yuck. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/23 "2004-10-13T00:17:13Z")
**Anusol** and **Vagisil**. ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/24 "2004-10-13T00:30:17Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I have seen mentioned on this very board a chain of drive-up convenience stores known as… _Kum 'n Go_. :eek: The mental images this calls up are disturbing, to say the least… I’ve seen those! My S.O. is offended every time he visits Minnesota and has to fill up at the _Pump ‘n’ Munch_. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/25 "2004-10-13T00:34:42Z")
There’s always [Bimbo](http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/brand.html). Love their conchitas. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/26 "2004-10-13T00:41:27Z")
A colleague of mine brought a pack of jelly sweets back from a trip abroad; the (prominent) brand name on the pack was ‘Sperm’. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/27 "2004-10-13T00:43:48Z")
As seen in the ads in the back of my wife’s US Weekly: [Grobust](http://www.all-naturalbreasts.net/grobustberc.htm). Always cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/28 "2004-10-13T02:34:27Z")
Then there’s Chi Chi’s restaurants. I mean eating at breasts is fine for a baby, but as an adult… ---
**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:** [October 13, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/29 "2004-10-13T03:07:08Z")
I’ve got a box of instant pudding here. The brand name is _Pud n Fun_. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/30 "2004-10-13T03:21:56Z")
There once was a restaurant in Denver called the Pup ‘N’ Taco. Now upon reflection you realize that this is a place that likely sold hot dogs AND tacos. Not . . . tacos made out of pups. And in fact you would have been correct. But I never could get past the name. This restaurant lasted years longer than I would ever have expected, but it’s gone now. (Replaced by a Wahoo Fish Taco place.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Niceguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mr.Niceguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Niceguy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/31 "2004-10-13T03:24:42Z")
Don’t forget the more recent “Outhouse Springs” bottled water. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/32 "2004-10-13T04:17:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I have seen mentioned on this very board a chain of drive-up convenience stores known as… _Kum 'n Go_. :eek: The mental images this calls up are disturbing, to say the least… I saw one of those once! Man the whole van was laughing their asses off. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/33 "2004-10-13T04:27:36Z")
Several years ago I was at ECTS, the European video game trade show. From across the show floor I saw a box title that caught my eye. It was a kid’s software game where forest animals competed in track and field events. It was from a non-English speaking country (France, I think), but they’d translated the box hoping that they could get someone interested in distributing it in America. Unfortunately, they hadn’t run it past a native English speaker. The title was, I shit you not: Stinky & Beaver’s Wood Olympics By the end of the show the box was gone. Someone must have told them … . ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/34 "2004-10-13T04:30:42Z")
> [@legion](#): > > I while back, Mrs Legion and I where hitting the shops looking for a new fridge. One of them on display made me do a double take. On the front of the upper freezer section it had ( I’ve since learned) the makers name in big shiny letters: > > **SMEG** > > At first I thought, eww, what kind of weirdo freezes their smeg? We have a Smeg stove/oven. It’s actually not bad. I still giggle though, occasionally (my immature side speaking). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/35 "2004-10-13T04:40:36Z")
Come to think of it, **Burnt Sugar** sounds like a … product name! Yeah, a product name! ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/36 "2004-10-13T04:44:49Z")
> [@hiebram](#): > > And [here’s](http://www.jdbshow.com/bad_product_names.html) quite a smorgasbord. Oh, God. I have a headache from laughing at [this](http://www.jdbshow.com/art/food4.jpg) one. > [@Sunspace](#): > > I have seen mentioned on this very board a chain of drive-up convenience stores known as… _Kum 'n Go_. :eek: The mental images this calls up are disturbing, to say the least… We have those in Tulsa now! I’ve seen the billboards. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/37 "2004-10-13T04:50:42Z")
Oh, I can top you all. I win this one, easy. Granted, it’s sort of a service, not a product. But here it is; in Mississauga, Ontario, there is a day care service. It’s called… **Lolita Gardens Day Care.** I swear to God. [http://www.cdrcp.com/cgi-bin/ccws.pl?type=lc&cmd=rec&op=LC-CD-31](http://www.cdrcp.com/cgi-bin/ccws.pl?type=lc&cmd=rec&op=LC-CD-31) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/38 "2004-10-13T06:32:34Z")
A while back I started a thread about a line of pharmaceutical products I’d encountered. The names (all from the same company) that really stuck out among them included [Reptilase, Healthan Guts, Cytokarma, Lovetoppy and Peon Tablets.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=136391) Now the same client is back, and they’ve got some new ones. They had a medicine for upset stomach called Stomacool. A bit awkward, but you could see what they were thinking. When they released their new medicine for diarrhea, they apparently decided to continue in the same vein and named it Asacool. This same company has been putting up posters in the trains for their new laxative, Withone. Now, the name’s not so bad (a bit odd, though), but the horrible part is the graphic: A little cartoon nurse with purple hair holding a roll of toilet paper, under the caption “detemasu ka?” (“Is it coming out?”) Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/39 "2004-10-13T06:37:52Z")
> [@seosamh](#): > > Back in the 1920s **Esso** petrol didn’t go down too well in Japan as the word sounded too much like a Japanese word meaning “gangrene” or “putrefaction” - as in “Put some putrefaction in your tank!” They soon changed the name to Exxon. Soon? Wasn’t that in the 70s or 80s? ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836/40 "2004-10-13T06:43:23Z")
In 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, presumably drowned, while swimming at a dangerous beach. So they built a memorial to him. Fair enough, right? But it was the _type_ of memorial that was a little odd. I present - [The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool](http://melbournevc.ags.myareaguide.com/?detailID=78993&SSC=566). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-product-names/268836.md?page=3)