Along with those products which were unknowingly titled in such a way as to distance potential purchasers, there are products which are given names translating to something utterly bizarre in certain languages. Bite The Wax Tadpole is a famous example. The product it came from is not worth mentioning anyway, but even less so since the translated name is so much more fun to say than the original.
One strange name for a product which could seem strange, innocent, or even disgusting, depending on how you view it is Green Piles, a Japanese name for a lawn fertilizer.
Another one from Japan is a brand of beef jerky which they decided to name Homo Sausage. Just another name that could be seen in a variety of ways. Strange? Innocent? Disgusting? Would you buy it?
From Sweden, there’s Krapp, a special brand of toilet paper that believes in true advertising.
Again from Sweden, there’s Plopp, which is a chocolate bar. This name might make you think of something other than what the product really is.
And would you buy an orangeade type drink if it was called Pipi? You can find it in Yugoslavia. (See the image at the start of this article.)
In Czechoslovakia you could buy detergent named Polio. Not really. The Czechs were brilliant in getting rid of the disease polio because they administered the vaccine via sugar cubes and had a campaign endorsing soaps and detergents to further hygiene practices in their citizens. Their country was extremely successful in battling the disease, and the name Polio associated with detergent is a sort of urban legend.
Zit is a Greek lemon lime drink. No kidding. They make it with real natural ingredients. Sounds good to me.
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