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Names of products that you loved.
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:46 PM
Since products began getting named, they have strived for titles which evoke images that move the spirit. Some are classic like Spiced Ham=Spam. Marshmallow spread “Fluff” rather than marshmallow spread. The middle letters of “cREam” being placed between two wafer shaped letters yielding O-re-o. The Harley Davidson “Fat Boy” is an amuzing example of a product targeted at a select market that would find it funny while most across the board consumers might not choose that. I love that it is so different than the slick and stealthy “Shadows and Ninjas… There were some magnificent named products for many years….(Rambler Scrambler, Hudson Terraplane, Plymouth Super Bee… then for a long while it seems Cars were named after European Cities, and Trucks after Indian Tribes to the point of nausea What product name do you admit to falling for? |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:52 PM
MAGNUM. |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 12:56 PM
The Car or the Malt-Likka. (Malt Liquor is another product named after bold stuff) There is an English Beer named "Speckled Hen" which I find charming. |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:01 PM
The condoms :wink: |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:37 PM
Scooter pies and chocolate Yoohoo.Great names for dubious products. |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 2:05 PM
The P.I. |
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Mon, Mar 14, 2005 2:23 PM
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 10:27 AM
Hey Pablus, nice Reemco website. I was worried at the "Enter Reemco" area, and what I might end up with. Funny that they have a toy section. |
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 4:30 PM
As much as the product names, I miss the product adjectives. I long for the days when cereal was "sugar sparkled" and cars were "spanking fresh". Sabu |
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 6:59 PM
When I was in High School I had a priodically worked doing window paintings on shops. In this kit which seemed mostly to be made for used car lots, were such Calworthingtonian phrases as "Fire Cracker","Hot" and "Cream Puff". My favorite was the moronic "LOOK!" with the eyeballs in the OO's. I spraypainted LOOK! all over town...dumpsters, optimoligists offices, a waste treatment plant, all in festive in day-glo. LOOK! I have not thought of that in 20 years or so. Cheers Sabu |
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 8:21 PM
I didn't love these products, but they stuck in my mind. Take it off, take it all off Ancient Chinese secret, huh? and I always liked ol' Josephine the plumber [ Edited by: exotica59 on 2005-03-15 20:26 ] |
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 9:27 PM
When I was 15 I got mono from a boyfriend. I can remember him coming over when I was sick, holding up one of the caulking guns and singing. I can't think of anything else when I see that brand. "got the mono, mono |
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 9:33 PM
Etch-a-Sketch. My brothers were in awe of my ability to draw a perfect circle. |
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purple jade
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Tue, Mar 15, 2005 9:38 PM
Mr. Wiggle One thing I do remember but do NOT miss is Boston Baked Beans candy! Ugh! Apparently they still make them, my friend sent me one of those nostalgic candy boxes and they were in there. Oh, they are vile! [ Edited by: purple jade on 2005-03-15 21:40 ] |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 1:14 AM
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific! NOT! The Ferarra Pan company that makes the Boston baked Beans recently re-named all of their candies to make them more "PC" Now all the flavors are "heads" as in LemonHeads, GrapeHeads, AppleHeads, CherryHeads, etc. Their former names were "Johnny Apple Treats","Alexander the Grape","Cherry Chans" (these had little cherries with chinese hats and slanted eyes on the box, they then changed the name to "Cherry Clans" which wasn't really a better name but it rhymed. I guess they thought people wouldn't notice it was more offensive than Chans.) I still giggle whenever someone offers me "Pirate's Booty" --Bootylicious! [ Edited by: stuff-o-rama on 2005-03-16 01:15 ] |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:00 AM
One word: Weeble. heehee tikivixen, who wobbles but does NOT.. ...much. |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 7:50 AM
Purple Jade, is there still a chain of restaurants in New Orleans called "Takee Outee"?"Gee, your hair..." and Pssssst...I remember those from my sisters. Hair products seem prone to frequent trends such as Balsam, Botanicals, Jojobe, and Herbal essences. Janitor in a drum was a product that was unforgettable, and the [unchline of every ethnic joke involving testube babies. On the romantic side there was a cat food (and may be still) "Glamour Puss" and Dessert named "Whip N Chill" Also does anyone remember a curious product that was floral contact paper that kept roaches away called "No Bugs M'Lady"? |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 8:20 AM
Astronaut Ice Cream |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 9:21 AM
Screaming Yellow Zonkers |
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purple jade
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:01 AM
Is THAT what Cherry Clans are? I remember seeing a box with that on it by the register at Monk's on Seinfeld and wondering what that could be, and why it was visible in that particular show. Not too a shrewd a marketing scheme in that name change. I doubt the Scots rejoiced and said "At last, a candy fer US!". Used to love Lemonheads though. Takee Outee! Yeah, I think there's still one in N.O. East. That's what I've always called any kind of Chinese takeout! And probably a lot of other New Orleanians do too. (I never ate from an actual Takee Outee however, always seemed a little iffy. And whiffy.) |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:28 AM
Takee Outee had 94 cent 20 oz beers in paper cups to go. There's a cartoon in VIZ called "Fat Slags" and they eat at a place called "E-Ko-Li" which seems to be based on Takee Outee in the UK. Screeming Yellow Zonkers, who could pass them up for Fiddlefaddle or Poppycock? in the '60 there was actually a vile fruit flavored punch called "Spook" King Vitaman. Cars Swinger |
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purple jade
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 11:30 AM
Bur more important, cheap food on sharp sticks late at night when you're good and stupid drunk. |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 7:55 PM
They also make one of the all-time greats...Atomic Fire Balls! What duck and cover kid could resist that name. |
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purple jade
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 8:09 PM
Oh yeah, there's one kind of product that always got me...doggie treats shaped like people food, like Pup-a-roni or Doggie Donuts. |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:31 PM
I love product names that are sentences, as mentioned before - 'Gee Your Hair Smell Terrific' and 'I Can't Beleive Its Not Butter!' and 'Chock Full of Nuts'/ Im trying to think of funny canadian product names but all I can come up with is Homo milk. And thats not a product, thats just what we call full fat milk (homogenized). Though now I have notices they have stopped putting that on the label. |
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Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:31 PM
Moo Juice |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 12:42 AM
Hoooly shit Gigantalope, thats awesome! I didn't think anybody remembered that cereal. Every time I bring it up nobody remembers. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 2:51 AM
Pup-a-roni had the Postal Carrier shaped cookies. Genius! but no camparison to: Oh, and I almost forgot the ladies' choice: [ Edited by: stuff-o-rama on 2005-03-17 03:26 ] |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 5:08 AM
Q: Why did the Italian girl sleep naked? A: She wanted to keep her Tony home permanent. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 6:18 AM
how about pop rocks + coke + mikey's mouth = kaboom |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 7:53 AM
oh ya, I remember clackers! Got a pretty big knot on my head from them, but I still played with them. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 10:00 AM
Gotta be Squirmel. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 10:29 AM
Fizzies! These were a packet of tablets that you dropped into a glass of water that started to fizz and transformed into a fizzy soda-pop. Made possible by the artifical sweetener sodium cyclamates. When a rat died of cancer after being given twice it's body weight in cyclamates every day for half of it's life, cyclamates was banned as a carcinogen and that was the end of fizzies. I was reminded of fizzies recently when using a relatively new product called Airborne. Airborne is a dietary supplement that is supposed to prevent cold and flu. It actually works faily well, too. It is a tablet that you drop into water and it fizzes just like fizzies and alka-seltzer. While Alka-Seltzer does not remond me of Fizzies, Airborne did. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:10 AM
i remember having Incredible Edibles (tastier version of creepy crawlers)~ a fairly dangerous toy.. no safety guards around the heated metal platens, pulled out with wobbly plastic tweezers ~ and as an impatient child, peeling and eating the hot saccharine-filled Gobble-DeGoop as soon as possible! good times... and abba zabba (luckily they still make these) |
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purple jade
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:15 AM
Gobbledy GOOP, that's right! Can't believe I forgot about all the K-Tel and Popeil products... |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 12:34 PM
I smoke "Bali Shag" |
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Hau 'oli Tiki
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 2:22 PM
Tangaroa: I remember dropping about $10.00 in quarters to get each color of those Squirmels!! And the Incredible Edibles were a fav. What a walk down memory lane with all these great (and not so great) products! My Nana always stocked the cupboard with Ring Dings and Royal Crown Cola. My Mom would have a fit cuz we'd stuff ourselves with Ring Dings and get sugar comas. |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 2:32 PM
Did you mean or Ditto's? Dittos?? You are not the only one who is old |
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 2:37 PM
Incredible edibles! How about ShrinkyDinks?The melting plastic doodads that you would color and then put in the oven and watch them contort and shrink to a tiny size? Another "burn the hell out of your fingers as a little child" fun project.I don't recall really doing anything with them,except marveling at them reduce in size through the oven door.I'm showing MY age now! |
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Hau 'oli Tiki
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 3:09 PM
DITTOS!! And Chemin de Fer, Sergio Valente (Oh Oh, Sergio!) Which one did Brooke Sheilds model? Some to remember (or forget): [ Edited by: Hau 'oli Tiki on 2005-03-17 15:28 ] |
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purple jade
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Thu, Mar 17, 2005 4:18 PM
I believe nothing came between Brooke and her Calvins. |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 7:17 AM
I still have multiple pairs of Cons, including a pair of Wine-red Crushed Velvet Platform Oxford-style AllStars. I'd love to find a pair of AllStars in my favorite style: Flourescent Orange Knee-hi Roll-downs with flourescent lining (either yellow or green), my last pair died & I haven't been able to find a replacement since. Although I'm not currently wearing a pair of AllStars, I am wearing a pair of Converse Warriors in White, Green & Black. |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 8:05 AM
doc martins used to be the best. now it appears they're not made in england anymore. i find the quality pretty disappointing. |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:17 AM
I have like 10 pairs of REEF flip flops. I loose them and have to buy another pair just to find the old pair a year later. My flip flops go back 20 years and I have green ones, striped ones, fancy straps and plain black straps. Last year I saw a pair with a crown on it and it was the first pair I bought not for necessity. I'm a flip flop man for sure. Never fell for those "river sandals" and let me tell ya, it was lean years for us flip flopers. |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:47 AM
Oh, we're talking shoes? Wavy-soled Famolares and spatulate Earth shoes. With toe socks. (Never liked any of the above...) And P.S. I still can't believe the crocheted poncho made a comeback. And I just got a look at those blood red Target Peeps...UGH! They look like marshmallow roadkill! [ Edited by: purple jade on 2005-03-18 11:49 ] |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:51 AM
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polynesian posh boy
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:59 AM
Marshmellow "peeps" always make into my Peter Rabbit Easter basket. |
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Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:59 AM
I'm not sure if this was a midwest only thing or not, but I remember some sort of platic Sheet that you could hang over your tv screen, and then you could draw on it to help out a cartoon by the name ( if think) of Winky Dink, Winky dink would be running away from a bad guy, but "oh no!" "the bridge is out Winky dink needs your help kids, draw in the bridge now." I always wondered how many kids drew directly on the tv screen. |