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Cif or Jif

  • 28-02-2020 11:12pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,123 ✭✭✭✭


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Cif sounds like an obscure name an asshole would have.


  • Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,123 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

    Your not a modern man then that dons the marigolds


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


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


  • 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:


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Bang! And the name is gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Only junts call it 'Cif'.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TIL that Olay was once Ulay. Huh.


  • 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.

    52932011_0_640x640.jpg?identifier=6d0dfa5fb8f731ac6236b055dbdf4486


  • 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 �� Like speaking in tongues so it was!


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • 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.


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


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


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


    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:


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    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.


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


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


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,123 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


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

    Oil of Ulay forever.

    It was very posh back in the day.


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


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

    Or Fas. Or AnCo.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    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

    200224082523-20200221-jif-gif-exlarge-169-1.jpg


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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



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


    anewme wrote: »
    Or Fas. Or AnCo.
    What's AnCo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    I leave the details of the cleaning to the womenfolk.

    Your mam wouldn't like being called womenfolk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭phormium


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭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?


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


    Candie wrote: »
    Names always mean something else somewhere else. Behold, Pee Cola.

    pee-cola.jpg

    Not to mention the unfortunate Fart Bar.

    fartbar.jpg
    Where can I get a Fart bar?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,123 ✭✭✭✭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!
    ,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Some people ladies really are morons.
    Corona is a girls beer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,203 ✭✭✭✭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 -


    Kif_Kroker_8217.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,123 ✭✭✭✭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!


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