Comments on: What’s In a Product Name? Why, Deception Of Course!

By: melinda

melinda — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:30:02 +0000

Do they have Walmart in Oregon? Because I’m in Texas and they have pudding pops there.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:45:33 +0000

That Pudding Pops one is pretty much false advertising, then, isn’t it?

By: Jaycatt

Jaycatt — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:08:26 +0000

Well, they must not sell Pudding Pops in Oregon anymore… I haven’t seen them for over 15 years.

By: HemlockEcho

HemlockEcho — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:08:11 +0000

Here’s a story (perhaps apocryphal) from a friend of mine who worked at Subway for years. Just before the whole Jared ad campaign came out, Subway was looking for ways to market themselves as a healthier fast food alternative. They didn’t have any light or low-fat mayo yet, just regular, so they wanted to try to find a low-fat mayo to over as an option. Well, their mayo was already pretty low fat (as far as standard mayo’s go) and they couldn’t find a low fat version that tested well. So, the solution: rename the normal mayo they sold as Light Mayo and introduce a higher-fat version of their mayo as the plain old normal mayo. Like I said, I don’t know if that story is true, but if you look up the nutrition fact for light mayo and compare it to Subway, it seems to pan out.

By: meg

meg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:21:27 +0000

Man, I guess I didn’t read the article thoroughly enough…anyway I loved that article he wrote!

By: meg

meg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:20:25 +0000

lol, Dave Barry did an excellent column on Dave’s Cigarettes just after they finished their trial run in the Seattle/Tacoma area…he was IRATE that they were using the name Dave for the cigarettes.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:20:47 +0000

Wait… NutraSweet is “natural”?

By: Hut

Hut — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:56:59 +0000

The only good ice cream Haagen-dazs ever made was carrot cake, they give me no good reason for taking it off the market.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:52:58 +0000

mmm pudding pop

::off to the store

By: Bonnie L.

Bonnie L. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:22:57 +0000

If they don’t sell Pudding Pops anymore then how did I buy some this past summer?

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:45:22 +0000

Ah, deception…the marketing gurus best tactic.

By: Jaycatt

Jaycatt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:14:28 +0000

They don’t sell Pudding Pops any more, period. I really wish they did, I loved those things…

By: brem

brem — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:47:38 +0000

I love how it says “Cordova, The Small Chrysler” LOL

By: just a guy

just a guy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:22:13 +0000

Okay, most of these I can understang, but ‘pudding pop’ isn’t ‘deception’, its an outright lie. If you called a product ‘Chicken nuggest’ but it didn’t have chicken in it, that would be the same thing. Calling a product ‘pudding pop’ doesn’t ‘sound like there’s pudding in the pop’, its calling it a pop made out of pudding. oi

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:27:13 +0000

Pepsi was intended to convey connotations of pepsin and peptic as in “Good for the digestion”.

The one that tickles me is Otis Spunkmeyer – made up by a twelve year old girl.

By: luvpumpkns

luvpumpkns — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:31:49 +0000

almost all specialty beers you buy here in the states are made by either budweiser or coors. if you really want a microbrew, check the label.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:36:38 +0000

@Lasse
Do you know that Sara Lee chick?

By: Lasse

Lasse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:58:07 +0000

It gets worse: What you call danish pastry, is called “Vienna Bread” here in Denmark.

By: Sofar

Sofar — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:33:07 +0000

Pepsi’s a made-up word, what’s its name claiming to be that it isn’t?

By: nibiyabi

nibiyabi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:04:50 +0000

I was expecting to see Pepsi here.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:20:40 +0000

LOL. This reminds me of when I heard of the USA prison camps in Cuba. It was WTF did hear that right the USA has a camp in Cuba??? I had to look it up to believe it.

Next I will hear French Fries are Belgian or something!