Cif or Jif

Gael23

Will it always be Jif or have we got used to the name change

TuringBot47

I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

Leg End Reject

Cif sounds like an obscure name an asshole would have.

BuboBubo

Olay or Ulay?
Snickers or Marathon?
Opal Fruits or Starburst?
Datsun or Nissan?

Gael23

TuringBot47 wrote: »

I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

Your not a modern man then that dons the marigolds

Raconteuse

Cif is appalling nonsense. Jif 4eva.

Ditto Olay/Ulay.

These products had such lovely catchy names - why did they get ruined?

Leg End Reject

BuboBubo wrote: »

Olay or Ulay?
Snickers or Marathon?
Opal Fruits or Starburst?
Datsun or Nissan?

I didn't know Datsun became Nissan.

I'll go with Oil of Olay, Cif, Marathon and Opal Fruits.

L1011

Raconteuse wrote: »

Cif is appalling nonsense. Jif 4eva.

Ditto Olay/Ulay.

These products had such lovely catchy names - why did they get ruined?

Internationalisation and/or cost saving. Avoids having different websites, packaging, reduces the cost of changing ads (just redub them and not re-render all the graphics if you that weird single-ad-for-all-of-Europe thing) and so on.

PeteEd

Barry Scott laughs in its face whatever way it's spelt

Raconteuse

PeteEd wrote: »

Barry Scott laughs in its face whatever way it's spelt

Hope it'll be changed to Jillit Bang. That'll teach the smug git. :mad:

Wayne Jarvis

PeteEd wrote: »

Barry Scott laughs in its face whatever way it's spelt

Barry Scott never laughs, shouting is his only means of communication.... he's probably angry because he has cif-ilis.

Leg End Reject

Bang! And the name is gone.

Better Than Christ

Only junts call it 'Cif'.

TIL that Olay was once Ulay. Huh.

Irish Guitarist

There's an American brand of peanut butter called Jif. I wonder if that had anything to do with the name change.

LETHAL LADY

When they changed Smith's Cream to Soothing Cream I could just about handle it. Then the bastards changed it to Sudocrem �� Like speaking in tongues so it was!

Irish Guitarist

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

There's an American brand of peanut butter called Jif. I wonder if that had anything to do with the name change.

Names always mean something else somewhere else. Behold, Pee Cola.



Not to mention the unfortunate Fart Bar.

dd973

C or J it's the most foul sauce I've ever put on my food. Can't work out why isn't it in the same place as the Ketchup in the supermarket either.

Raconteuse

Candie wrote: »

TIL that Olay was once Ulay. Huh.

And it was Youlay, not Oolay. Important to know.

Raconteuse

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

When they changed Smith's Cream to Soothing Cream I could just about handle it. Then the bastards changed it to Sudocrem �� Like speaking in tongues so it was!

I've never known it to be anything other than Sudocreme! :eek:

Raconteuse

Raconteuse wrote: »

And it was Youlay, not Oolay. Important to know.

I knew about Jif, but only because I thought most of the adults in my life were incapable of pronouncing Cif properly. I assumed it was an Irish thing :P

L1011

Raconteuse wrote: »

I've never known it to be anything other than Sudocreme! :eek:

The last name change was in 1950; so either they're Very Old or taking the piss.

Better Than Christ

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

When they changed Smith's Cream to Soothing Cream I could just about handle it. Then the bastards changed it to Sudocrem �� Like speaking in tongues so it was!

Far be it from me to ask a LETHAL LADY her age, but it's been called Sudocrem since 1950.

Raconteuse

There are now young adults who won't remember Telecom Eireann.

I remember when it was all fields as far as you could see.

whisky_galore

PeteEd wrote: »

Barry Scott laughs in its face whatever way it's spelt

That's not even his real name.

It's all lies.

donegal_man

"How confused were you really, between a lemon shaped, lemon coloured, lemon filled, plastic lemon and a white bottle with a picture of a bath on it?" Jack Dee on those who claimed to find two products called "Jif" confusing.

Gael23

Has always been Cif since I moved out of home but think the old name would be better

anewme

Raconteuse wrote: »

And it was Youlay, not Oolay. Important to know.

Oil of Ulay forever.

It was very posh back in the day.

Rufeo

Raconteuse wrote: »

Hope it'll be changed to Jillit Bang. That'll teach the smug git. :mad:

Jillit Bang sounds like a pornstar.

anewme

Raconteuse wrote: »

There are now young adults who won't remember Telecom Eireann.

Or Fas. Or AnCo.