The following products were found in Buenos Aires and inspired a joy in me I find difficult to describe.
Barfy Hamburgers in a Flow Pack
Dismay cookie
Maybe after dining on your Barfy burgers, you’re ready for some dessert. How about a Dismay cookie?
Penetrit Lubricant
This lubricant says it’s multi-use, but as far as I can tell, a lubricant called Penetrit has only one use.
Polyana Deodorant
If you didn’t get that last one, maybe it’s time you had a Polyana Moment. Teen Spirit has nothing on this deodorant.
Ades
This juice might not share the same success in the U.S. as it does here. Drink Ades, crap lightning!
The Bichy
La Bichy Ahora or “The Bichy Now.” I imagine it best helps the drinker live up to its name when mixed with tequila or gin.
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Love the dismay cookie! I can think of many situations in which I'd like to lean subtly over to someone and ask, "Would you like a dismay cookie?"
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Oh how I wish they sold La Bichy Ahora near me. I would be sure to drink it as a way to warn others it may not be a good time to bother me. Buying this for someone would also be a good way to clue them in that they may need an attitude adjustment.
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But, Heidi – when you’re in a bad mood dragging around that heavy ass two liter is not going to make you feel any better!
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Liked the article. Here in the next country over (look, I’m waving) in Chile, we have a soda called Pap. I am not making this up. And yes, Rob, thought I haven’t seen Chocalatits in a long time, I remember it as well. And I recently bought some gum, the small print on which said “sandía bites” (watermelon bites).
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I have friends from Brasil who cracked up when they saw a candy bar in the US called “PayDay” cause that means something like crap over there.
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I have all those beat. Here in Nicaragua we have a toilet bowl deodorizer puck called “Terror”.
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For god’s sake, man! Send a picture!
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You can check it out here Kate
http://www.nicaliving.com/image/view/13381/_original↵ -
I don’t have viewing privileges. Phooey.
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Here’s an accessible link… http://casasilasbb.posterous.com/
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I was strolling around the local supermarket, near my place in Bangkok, when I stumbled upon a multi-purpose insecticide named, ‘ARS liquid’. It made my shopping trip.
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I still wish I’d bought the mold fighting “anti-mofo” when I was in Sao Paulo. Hey! that stuff could really come in handy!
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la fabrica se encuentra situada en buenos aires, argentina, y en nuestro pais dismay no es una ofensa a la poblacion igualmente lo que publican en este blog para mi entender es basura ya que mis productos son lideres en el mercado gastronomico de buenos aires.
saludo a la gente ignorante y deberian informarse e pedir perdon por esta ofensa. ademas del uso ilegal de las fotografias de nuestros productso sin previo aviso a nuestra compañia dejando asi en ridiculo afectando moral y economicamente a nuestra empresa.↵ -
Dismay en ingles significa consternación.
Cada cultura tiene su propio leyes, pero no hay una cultura en que es un crimen sacar un foto de algo que Ud. Compra a si misma.
No dije nada de los galletas, solo que tiene un nombre chistoso – en ingles. Igual, la palabra “barf” en ingles significa “vomito” pero cocine los haburguesas para mi novio igual.
Dismay galletas son bastante bien – es el nombre que es chistoso. Si Ud. no entiende el articulo, ni la palabra que use para su producto, no entiendo porque no pide al menos que alguien traduzce el articulo antes que dejar un comentartio absurdo asi!
Que no tengas dismay en su vida.
Chau.
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Forget individual products: the pharma company Wellcome Burroughs had to change their name when they entered Brazil. Burro is a donkey, and none of Wellcome’s employees enjoyed telling people where they worked!
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In Pucon, Chile, there’s a supermarket called ‘Tit’. It’s quite a small shop but there’s a bigger one just outside town…. It’s known locally, yes you’ve guessed it, as ‘the big tit’.
Childishly, I never stopped finding it funny the whole time I was there.
Loving the Argentinean biscuit pride btw.
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Don’t forget you can buy Homo Milk in Canada. For sure they will NEVER sell that in the uptight US.
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Short for homogenized….or something else?
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I spent some time in Buenos Aires and got a kick out of their products… Have you seen “Assy”? There’s tons of Assy there, which is supposed to be a lice treatment product. All I know is that no matter what’s going on in my hair, I probably wouldn’t be considering washing my hair with the scent of Assy.
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I laughed out loud seeing some of these products! I would totally have a glass of “Bichy” any day.
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These are all so fun. In Mexico the bread company is BIMBO..for all of us girls that are one!
Hey Kate–my maiden name was also Sedgwick, there are many of us in Montana.↵
