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What is that product called in your country?

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roxlad said on April 8, 2006 00:03:

I start....

In Italy
Oil of ulay = Oil of olaz
Jiff = Cif
Twix = (used to be) Raider
Linx = Axe
Daz = Dash

and...
Sex shop = Sexy shop (lol as if the shop itself is sexy)

pwbbounce (moderator) said on April 8, 2006 00:13:

Oil of Ulay - Ulay
Jif is now known as Cif in UK

can’t remember anything else on the list

Rich-UK said on April 8, 2006 00:32:

I think that ’Walkers’ (crisps) in the UK are ’Lays’ in Spain. At least the logos are exactly the same. And I think that ’Walls’ (ice cream) is ’Frigo’. Those are my observations but I may well be wrong! All the best, Rich ;-)

shannyn77 said on April 8, 2006 01:39:

Walls Ice Cream is called Streets in Australia - I noticed the same logos when I was in England a few years ago

Queen_Marie said on April 8, 2006 06:01:

’Lays’ are called ’Thins’ in Australia. They actually were called ’Lays’ for a while.
’Oil of Ulay’ was ’Oil of Ulan’, then they changed it to ’Oil of Olay’, now it’s just called ’Olay’.
’Jif’ is ’Jif’ here aswell.

eBay said on April 11, 2006 10:28:

Wow, Twix used to be Raider in Italy??? It was the same in Germany!

What other countries are out there where Twix used to be Raider??

They used to have this marketing slogan in Germany when Raider changed to Twix:
Raider ist jetzt Twix,
sonst ändert sich nix.

eBay said on April 11, 2006 10:29:

Oh, and Axe in Germany is called Lynx in the UK and Ireland. ;-)

rox-kuryliw said on April 11, 2006 12:22:

oil of ulay = Oil of olaz
Jiff = Cif (USED TO BE CALLED JIFF , NOW CHANGE TO CIF ?)
Twix = IS TWIX
Linx = LINX
Daz = DaZ

ANYONE REMEMBER SNICKERS BEING CALLED MARATHONS
AND STARBURSTS BEING CALLED OPAL FRUITS ? LOL

joyrider said on April 11, 2006 14:32:

Ice Cream:

(UK) Walls http://www.angloamerican.free-online.co.uk/walls.gif
(AU) Streets http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/r_mohr/streets_ice_cream.jp...
(DE) Langnese http://www.huettental-sauna.de/media/Langnese.gif
(AT) Eskimo http://www.pichlereis.at/Eskimo-Logo1.gif

... and I guess, there’ll be many more ;)

joyrider said on April 11, 2006 14:37:

Cola Light vs. Diet Coke

http://www.esencia21.com/NATURAL/Alicamentos/Cola-light.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/8c/150px-Diet_Coke...

rox-kuryliw said on April 11, 2006 18:34:

coke cola lights sounds better than diet.

TinyBubbles said on April 11, 2006 18:35:

Oil of Olay

If i’m not mistaken “Linx” used to be “axe” and before that it was “ego” I use to love the ads on telly!!

And i think we have both Lays and Walkers crisps but that wud be a bit confusing?!?! Maybe i’m just confused cuz i’ve moved around too much. Will investsigate...

roxlad said on April 11, 2006 20:28:

@joyrider here’s another one
http://www.algida.it/gelati/index.jsp

@ebay
cool slogan!

xarrrr said on April 11, 2006 20:50:

Walls ice cream (UK) is called Ola in South Africa :P

ally77 said on April 11, 2006 21:25:

“rox-kuryliw 4/11/2006 13:22 new

ANYONE REMEMBER SNICKERS BEING CALLED MARATHONS
AND STARBURSTS BEING CALLED OPAL FRUITS ? LOL”

Yep I do! :)

Marathons taste better... I swear they did!

Oil of Olay as it use to be called here...

I can’t think of anymore...