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What's the weirdest product name you have ever seen?

Asked by marinelife (62485points) December 1st, 2010

I am totally nonplussed by the name of Barnes & Noble’s new reader: it is nookcolor. Huh? What kind of a name is that? I don’t even like to say it.

What’s the weirdest product name you have ever come across, and is it worse than nookcolor?

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chyna's avatar

I have issues with Bag Balm. I know it’s a good moisturizer, but I can’t seem to get around the name to buy it.

Supacase's avatar

@jonsblond Their taglines are great!

chyna's avatar

@marinelife Yeah, BookNook or something along those lines would have been a better name.

zenvelo's avatar

Marmite sounds like a kind of spackle to me. Hmmm, maybe it is.

Jude's avatar

I have this hanging in my bathroom.

DeanV's avatar

I have a pair of skis called the “Rossignol Scratch Ghetto”. I remember buying them and thinking “Ghetto? Really?”

Cruiser's avatar

Just in time for the holidays….Spotted Dick

perspicacious's avatar

I just saw a picture of a truck with a company name of “Turd Collections.” That would have to be the weirdest business name I have seen.

Odysseus's avatar

A soft drink in Dubai I seen in a can similar to cola but blue was named Pocari SWEAT.
Mmmm nice cold fizzy Sweat.
“link” www.travelblog.org/Photos/3913377

Also a shop in NZ called ‘Cane & Pot Warehouse’ was pretty funny “link” www.caneandpot.co.nz/ images/canepot.jpg

live_rose's avatar

baconnaise . . .it is in fact bacon flavored mayo, so the name gets right to the point but it still sounds unpleasant to me.

ucme's avatar

Spunk sweets! I know it means courage in America, but it’s got a totally different meaning here in England Town. Pop some spunk in ya gob! :¬)

zenvelo's avatar

@ucme , a lot of people in the US have a different meaning for “spunk”, and view it the same way you do..

rts486's avatar

Prick Cola

Supacase's avatar

@perspicacious There is a company here called Turd Busters and their logo is like the Ghostbusters except they replaced the ghost with a piece of poo with a face. Turd has to be one of my least favorite words ever.

ucme's avatar

@zenvelo Well that’s okay then.

marinelife's avatar

@Cruiser I have long been a fan of Spotted Dick!

Cruiser's avatar

@marinelife My BIL who hails from Scotland first told me about this and he LOVES the stuff! I have never tried it and never will….Doctors orders!! XD

perspicacious's avatar

@Supacase Agree about the obnoxious word.

andy_baptist's avatar

Skins (Crisps). Never liked the name of these and it gets even worse if you want to buy 4 of them.

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