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12 Most Unfortunate Product Names

Published on 5/25/2009 under Names - 132,889 views

TAGS: funny product names, stupid product names

Real product names: from "Pee Cola", to "Megapussi" and australian "Golden Gaytime" ice-cream, what were they thinking?

top1.gif Golden Gaytime (ice-cream)

a96682_goldengaytime.jpgGolden Gaytime is an iconic ice-cream in Australia, its name survived intact despite the homosexual connotations in modern decades. The company just decided to play up the camp name with the boxes, holding the words "4 chances to have a gay time."

Here's a classic Golden Gaytime TV ad from the 80s, "Let the Gaytimes roll!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pq8TFptKR4

And a more recent Golden Gaytime TV ad (hilarious!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-2Z1qrrHs

top2.gif Vergina (beer)

a96682_vergina.jpg(Photo)

top3.gif Pee Cola (soft drink)

a96682_peecola.jpgA soft drink from Ghana. (Photo)

top4.gif Ayds (diet candy)

a96682_ayds.jpgAyds (pronounced "AIDS") was a diet candy from the 1980s. Years later, the name would have its current meaning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaiSWspfaiw

top5.gif Shitto (sauce)

a96682_shitto.jpgShitto is an allegedly delicious Ghanaian sauce with a name that makes Americans laugh, while everyone in Ghana seems to love it. (Photo)

top6.gif Megapussi (potato chips)

a96682_megapussi.jpg--Our readers Oona, Lance and Peppar from Finland wrote us to explain "Megapussi" is a finnish word for a "mega bag" and not actually the product's name. Thanks! (Source | Photo)

top7.gif Wack off! (insect repellent)

a96682_wackoff.jpgAustralian repellent "used by the armed forces." They surely need it. (Photo)

top8.gif SARS (drink)

a96682_sars.jpgThis drink from New Zealand shares its name with SARS: Severe acute respiratory syndrome. (Source | Photo)

top9.gif Jussipussi (bread)

a96682_jussipussi.jpgSo that's how finnish bread taste like. (Photo)

top10.gif Cock flavoured mix (soup)

a96682_cock.jpg(Photo)

top11.gif 666 (cold medicine)

a96682_666cold.jpgRecommended by hell. (Photo)

top12.gif Vergatario (Chavez' penis mobile phone)

a96682_vergatario.jpgIt is perhaps the world's cheapest mobile phone, and the latest offering from Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez: behold the "Vergatorio," a name that's derived from a slang word for penis.

While in Venezuela the word does have another meaning (reliable), the rest of Latin America is still laughing.

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