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Cif or Jif

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  • 28-02-2020 11:12pm
    #1
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭


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


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    #2
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.


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    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,385 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Cif sounds like an obscure name an asshole would have.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


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


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

    Your not a modern man then that dons the marigolds


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Cif is appalling nonsense. Jif 4eva.

    Ditto Olay/Ulay.

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


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    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,385 ✭✭✭✭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.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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    L1011
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    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.


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    PeteEd
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


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


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭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:


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    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭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.


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    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,385 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Bang! And the name is gone.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

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    #13
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Only junts call it 'Cif'.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TIL that Olay was once Ulay. Huh.


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    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


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

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    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    When they changed Smith's Cream to Soothing Cream I could just about handle it. Then the bastards changed it to Sudocrem &#55357;&#56864; Like speaking in tongues so it was!


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.

    pee-cola.jpg

    Not to mention the unfortunate Fart Bar.

    fartbar.jpg


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    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭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.


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Candie wrote: »
    TIL that Olay was once Ulay. Huh.
    And it was Youlay, not Oolay. Important to know.


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    Raconteuse
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    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:


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    [Deleted User]
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    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


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    L1011
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    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.


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    Better Than Christ
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    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.


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    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


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


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    [Deleted User]
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    I remember when it was all fields as far as you could see.


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,783 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭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.


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    #28
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


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


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    #29
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    And it was Youlay, not Oolay. Important to know.

    Oil of Ulay forever.

    It was very posh back in the day.


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    Rufeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


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

    Jillit Bang sounds like a pornstar.


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    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    There are now young adults who won't remember Telecom Eireann.

    Or Fas. Or AnCo.


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