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Title: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: ctaylor738 on December 28, 2010, 08:11:02
Last week, we were walking the docks in the harbor in Port Nelson, New South Wales.  We came upon a power boat that obviously had some "condition issues."  It had various cans of stuff laying around the rear deck.  One was a spray can of starter fluid named "Start Ya Bastard."  I am not making this up.
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Richard Madison on December 28, 2010, 09:18:33
What is WOT?

Richard M, NYC
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: ctaylor738 on December 28, 2010, 09:28:24
Way Off Topic
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: MichaelB. on December 28, 2010, 20:23:37
Wide Open Throttle
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: 66andBlue on December 28, 2010, 21:07:53
Wide Open Throttle
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Peter van Es on December 28, 2010, 22:16:55
So no need to move this post to the Off Topic forum then?  :D
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: ctaylor738 on December 30, 2010, 00:59:34
I thought it qualified under "topics of general interest."  But I thought I would warn the reader that it was somewhat off-topc.
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Richard Madison on December 30, 2010, 09:29:15
Saw this message thread while making one of my "Moderator Sweeps" and thought, "We don't have a 'Ridiculous Item Forum' so maybe General Discussion is OK.

The product name fits our image of Aussies as even more straight speaking than Americans.

Richard M, Moderator
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Garry on December 30, 2010, 09:46:39
As an Aussie that lived in the USA for three years, a US product that always made me laugh was a 'thing' called "I Can't Believe its not Butter"
It wasn't.  American truth in advertising. ::)
Dont know what is it was made off and I am not sure what it did for your good health, but it amused all the Aussies that I was working with at the time.

Garry
Title: Re: WOT - Wide Open Throttle
Post by: 114015 on December 30, 2010, 19:35:55
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As an Aussie that lived in the USA for three years, a US product that always made me laugh was a 'thing' called "I Can't Believe its not Butter"
It wasn't.  American truth in advertising.  ::)

Hey Garry,

It's buttermilk margarine.
I used to consume that regularily when I lived in the States. Was not bad for my taste & expectation. ;)

Achim
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Garry on December 30, 2010, 21:36:25
yer sure Ashim, I won't spoil your illusion, mind you you are thin so maybe it really was good for you.  ;D ;D ;D

Pinch of buttermilk powder? in genetically modified canola oil or some such with an emulsifier, an artificial colouring, a chemical preservative, plenty of sodium, carbohydrates, sugars and lots of other 'stuff' then give it all a whipping to make it all stick together.  And you ate it!

I couldn't believe it wasn't butter either, I couldn't identify it so I didn't actually eat it :D :D :D
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: glenn on January 01, 2011, 15:10:17
SYB....Every can of 'Quick Start' ever sold   -- was implemented with 'Start Ya Bastard' either vocally or sub rosa. ..
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: Ulf on January 02, 2011, 11:44:13
Once you could get a UK spray-on product to keep car windows from misting - it was called "Fog Off". Not to mention the famous and politically uncorrect "Fag-U-Lite" - a device that dropped a lit John Player (cigarette) into a little serving bowl ready for the drivers' enjoyment. :-)

Ulf
Title: Re: WOT - Australian Product Names Tell It Like It Is
Post by: 114015 on January 04, 2011, 19:21:30
"Can't believe it isn't ..." :D

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Pinch of buttermilk powder? in genetically modified canola oil or some such with an emulsifier, an artificial colouring, a chemical preservative, plenty of sodium, carbohydrates, sugars and lots of other 'stuff' then give it all a whipping to make it all stick together
:o ;D :D

Yes, sure Garry..., ;)
But most of today's food has some sort of these ingredients.
It's extremely hard to keep out of any emulsifiers, artificial colouring, salt, etc...
It is more a question of the total amount of each of these ingredient you are consuming.
Anyway,...
"what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" ;)

Best,
Achim