Products with badly chosen names

[Dirk]

A butcher in Beaminster.
Purveyor of stolen meat products?

 

[Profpointy]

And these ...

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I had an American guy in my team and he really couldn't bring himself to say the word in our canteen when they were on the menu. Incidentally faggots day was very much a treat, as of course was spotted dick.

As an aside why are proper puddings from a basic staff canteen so much better than a posh desert in a swanky restaurant?

 

[Profpointy]

There's thr famous Wayne Kerr, a manufacturer of electronic test gear.

Even worse, its a made up name, comprised of the founders parents surnames, or somesuch. So bad enough to be a w*****, but to go put of your way to choose to be one seems mad.

I too have used their kit, and we did of course snigger like schoolboys. I assume they're American and they simply don't use the word and it means nothing to them. Just like fag and faggot over here being inoffensive even if we are nominally aware of the American meaning

 

[Profpointy]

In Glastonbury, there's a bakery called Burns the Bread. .

There's the old joke about the bakery in Norfolk with the tag line "in bread for three generations"

 

[Profpointy]

No one mentioned a certain brand of electrical appliances yet?

 

[captain nemo1701]

I always buy my bread there.

Did they used to have two branches, one called Burns the Bread...again'??

 

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[C R]

When Chevrolet tried to sell the Nova small sedan in S America, no one bought it until they called it a Caribe. No va in Spanish means it doesn't go.

That's most likely an urban myth. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I first heard of that association in the UK in the story you relate. To give you a worse example, the mitsubishi pajero was sold with that name in Spain, even though pajero is slang for w*nker.

 

[figbat]

That's most likely an urban myth. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I first heard of that association in the UK in the story you relate. To give you a worse example, the mitsubishi pajero was sold with that name in Spain, even though pajero is slang for w*nker.

And the Ford Pinto - Brazilian slang for pecker.

 

[figbat]

That's most likely an urban myth. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I first heard of that association in the UK in the story you relate.

Indeed. I have to admit to being taken in by this one, but no longer.

 

[PapaZita]

I too have used their kit, and we did of course snigger like schoolboys. I assume they're American and they simply don't use the word and it means nothing to them. Just like fag and faggot over here being inoffensive even if we are nominally aware of the American meaning

They’re actually a British company, based in Bognor Regis. According to their web site they were founded in London in 1946 by two ex-BBC engineers. “The company was named after their favourite actor and actress, Naunton Wayne and Deborah Kerr.”

 

[DRM]

That's most likely an urban myth. I am a native Spanish speaker, and I first heard of that association in the UK in the story you relate. To give you a worse example, the mitsubishi pajero was sold with that name in Spain, even though pajero is slang for w*nker.

The Toyota MR-2 was renamed in France, due to the French pronunciation sounding like the the word Merde, they didn’t think it a suitable name for some reason

 

[Threevok]

I remember buying my daughter, one those three-wheeler scooter things called a Y-Flicker

It got a bit embarrassing if someone asked what you had bought your kids for Xmas, especially when they added "surely that's for the Missus?"

 

[Sharky]

Allegro - I think this translates to "Brisk speed".
Don't think my Allegro lived up to this.

 

[raleighnut]

Allegro - I think this translates to "Brisk speed".
Don't think my Allegro lived up to this.

My Uncle had one that did, the 1750 Vandem Plas version