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.

Capt'n Midnight

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.

https://www.ocado.com/productImages/529/52932011_0_640x640.jpg?identifier=6d0dfa5fb8f731ac6236b055dbdf4486

It's not Jif.

It's

Guy Person

Guy Person wrote: »

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

Raconteuse

anewme wrote: »

Or Fas. Or AnCo.

What's AnCo?

Xertz

The history of it actually involves Ireland.

Cif is a French product made by a company that Unilever merged into itself (they’re the Borg of washing powder). It was always called Cif from day one.

Anyway, it launched in the UK as Vim originally but Unilever Ireland called it Jif, as it was deemed more like a word and someone else owned Vim here at the time.

There was an issue with Jif squeezy lemon in the UK, which is a much older product than Jif/Cif.

Anyway, Unilever also bought that and ever since Jif cleanser became Cif in the UK and Ireland.

It’s still called Jif in Scandinavia, Australia and it’s called Viss in Germany and for some reason Handy Andy in South Africa.

Loads of these products exist though in Unilever and P&G.

For example Omo is Unilever’s top end laundry brand but in Ireland and Britain they own the Persil brand (which is Henkel owned almost everywhere else) and call it that, in France it’s known as Skip and so on. The logo is identical and marketing campaigns are shared.

Same goes for products like Fairy liquid (P&G) which is known as Dawn in the US, Dreft in France and has several other names.

The best of the lot is probably “Heart Brand” which is the Unilever international ice cream brand. There are umpteen names for this including HB, Walls, Miko ans so on but it’s identical heart brand packaging and products in every market.

Post Brexit I would suspect Ireland will see a lot more continental supply chain items so, you might be seeing Skip or Omo replacing Persil branding and so on.

anewme

Raconteuse wrote: »

What's AnCo?

Before Fas there was AnCo.

An Chomhairle Oiliúna, in English “the training council”, was commonly referred to as AnCO.

Really showing my age now!

Xertz

An elderly relative of mine refers to Eir Mobile as “P&T Mobile” and she gets her “piped television” from RTE relays apparently and refuses to listen to any of the new fangled names Liberty Global has stuck on the cable company. She seems to find Virgin Media a bit of an over dose of Richard Branson, so “the piped telly” it is!

She also still refers to Tesco as H. Williams! Skipping over even Quinsworth.

She also was asking what the hell they renamed Marathon as something that just reminds her of knickers. She had to give up eating them as apparently it just put her off lol.

Peatys

TuringBot47 wrote: »

I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

Your mam wouldn't like being called womenfolk

Leg End Reject

anewme wrote: »

Oil of Ulay forever.

It was very posh back in the day.

I was convinced it used to be Olay and changed to Ulay.

phormium

I still buy good old powder Vim, can't beat it

DavyD_83

BuboBubo wrote: »

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

Jif
Snickers
Opal fruits
Nissan

Do I win?

Raconteuse

Candie wrote: »

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



Not to mention the unfortunate Fart Bar.

Where can I get a Fart bar?

AllForIt

I believe the reason the name was changed from Jif to Cif is because some ppl were putting Jif cream cleaner on their pancakes.

Gael23

AllForIt wrote: »

I believe the reason the name was changed from Jif to Cif is because some ppl were putting Jif cream cleaner on their pancakes.

You were one ,admit it!
,

anewme

AllForIt wrote: »

I believe the reason the name was changed from Jif to Cif is because some ppl were putting Jif cream cleaner on their pancakes.

Given that Corona beer has taken a nosedive because of the Corinavurus, nothing about people should surprise you.

Xertz

AllForIt wrote: »

I believe the reason the name was changed from Jif to Cif is because some ppl were putting Jif cream cleaner on their pancakes.

Given the last few years of politics in certain countries, nothing would surprise me anymore.

Unilever actually own both Cif (Jif) cleaner and Jif squeezy lemons.

Leg End Reject

anewme wrote: »

Given that Corona beer has taken a nosedive because of the Corinavurus, nothing about people should surprise you.

Some people really are morons.

the purple tin

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Some people ladies really are morons.

Corona is a girls beer.

One eyed Jack

I remember Vim and Ajax being out around the same time, the powder in the cardboard tubes. Always thought they had merged to become Cif.

And now I just realised when I googled that this chaps name is spelled with a K -

Riesen_Meal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGooQ8yYC0c

Go on the Barry Scott...

Gael23

Xertz wrote: »

Given the last few years of politics in certain countries, nothing would surprise me anymore.

Unilever actually own both Cif (Jif) cleaner and Jif squeezy lemons.

Let’s hope you don’t get the h m mixed up!