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Going the other way. When I lived in Japan I would collect Japanese products with unfortunate English names or ad copy. And there were so many. "Angel Relief
by SeanLuke 7y ago
Going the other way. When I lived in Japan I would collect Japanese products with unfortunate English names or ad copy. And there were so many. "Angel Relief" cookies ("Relieve the Relief!"). Dunk Beer. Grape and Lemon "Skat" drink. Creep. But easily my favorite were boxes of Kleenex which showed up regularly at my local 7-11. They were festooned with cute pictures of puppies or kittens. But on the outside they said simply "Tissues of Puppy" or "Tissues of Kitten".
Japanese friends would ask why this was so horrifying sounding. I gave up explaining what "tissues" meant beyond Kleenex. So I eventually asked them to consider how you might get a "tissue of puppy", perhaps by freezing the puppy and then slicing very thinly. They got the idea.
- IIAOPSW 7y agoThere's an obscure island somewhere in Japan where they force the native Pocari to do hard labor and then they get wrung out like wet laundry for their sweet Pocari Sweat.
- 29athrowaway 7y agoSounds a lot like http://www.engrish.com/ http://www.engrish.com/
- jansan 7y agoI received a phosphorescent Sony Beans Walkman as a gift from my gym in Tokyo. It read "They grow in the dark!" on the package. Here is an image. The orange one has the type, while on the others it seems to be corrected. https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/948158/TB2nUm9ni0TMKJjSZFNXXa_1FXa_!!948158.jpg https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/948158/TB2nUm9ni0TMKJjSZF...