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Lucy Snow · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 218 Location: US

In Hungarian, cheese is "sajt" pronounced "shyte."
The first time I ordered a "sajt burger" I felt a little uncomfortable.

We also have a brand of toilet paper called "Crepto."

Isn't there a brand of "non-dairy" coffee creamer in Japan called "Creap"?

Steiner · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 573 Location: Hunan China

In France, the Perrier company owns a soda/pop/soft drink named Pschitt. Wouldn't go over too well in English speaking countries. In the U.S. there's Squirt, another soda. Would you like a squirt?

kimo · Joined: 16 Feb 2003 Posts: 668

In China there is some kind of stuff you drink. Supposedly it will make you grow taller. The infomercials on TV even show you the before and after pictures as proof. You can grow as much as 15cm (in height). I think it's called "Short Happy."

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Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

In Saudi there's a deteergent called Barf

lajzar · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 647 Location: Saitama-ken, Japan

Just come back from the convenience store. Theres some kind of confectionary called "cream collon".

Bertrand · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 293

Here in HK we have a clothing label entitled 'W a n k o'.

khmerhit · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:05 am Post subject: more puerility

Does that start with a 'B' and end with a 'd'? Very Happy

NumberOneSon · Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 314

China has Kumho cookies and Jissbon condoms.

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

I just bought some washing powder called
"foca"
which has a cute picture of a seal on it, maybe cos seal in Spanish is "foca".
I must get to the zoo at some point and point and shout "you cute little foca"

Linda L. · Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 146

Schlitz beer was a hot seller in New York a while back.

Bertrand · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 293

Someone (a native speaker of Putonghua) once said to me that the original version of the KFC advert. literally meant 'good enough to make you want to bite your own fingertips off' (or a similar gloss, I can't really recall). This, apparently, was a consequence of trying to translate the English of 'Finger licking good'. I don't know if this is true and valid, however.

Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

There was a marine engineering company which had a bit of difficulty opening a branch in Spain. Maricon, as most readers will know, is Spanish for pooftah.

SweetOne · Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 109

(Try to read this with a valley-girl' in your head)

Like, okay, back in the day, ya know, like when I was like, totally into getting st*ned, ya know, DUDE, there was this chocolate cake-like substance, that wow, was called, 'Ho-Hos". Dude, they were AWEsome. It was kinda gnarly a name, but ya know, oh-my-gawd, they were just sooooo yummy. But, Dude, it was so hard to eat them and not, ya know, like TOTALLY laugh my a*s off. Dude!

(everynow and again, i just have to break out the old girl) Ahem..... I am much better now. It was just a flash-back, is all.

In the south (and maybe some northern states, too, but I am not sure) a chain of grocery stores is called Piggly-Wiggly. Also, there used to be a laxative in the US called "Aids" but, for obvious reasons that went off the market.

isabel · Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 510 Location: God's green earth

In Korea there is a flavored water drink called O2, "Human Water." We have the "sweat" drink here also. But I haven't tried it.

Cobra · Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 436

Has "Darkie" toothpaste changed its name? It still has the black man spokesperson?