Products That Won’t Be on My Shelves

As I made way down to Philadelphia last Friday, I stopped in Rhode Island to visit friends in Barrington. While there, they gave me something that they thought would make me laugh. It did.

I sometimes wonder what marketing executives are thinking when they come up with some of the names of product-names we see each day.

Previously I wrote on this subject in reference to Snapple’s disgustingly named tea bags, Mangoooooo.

This time around, I present you with Heinze’s Spotted Dick Sponge Pudding. This tasty treat is described as a traditional English steamed suet (beef) pudding containing raisins. **ack**


I really can’t foresee an occasion where I’ll suddenly find myself getting a craving for spotted dick. Ever.

But maybe it’s good with Mangoo….

Snapple...Really Made from the Best Stuff On Earth?

Though I'm usually a coffee drinker in the morning, I will sometimes break it up by having tea on the occassional daybreak.

And it is as an occassional tea drinker that I just have to question Snapple's decision on one of their current tea flavors. I'm sorry, but I just don't see how a flavor called Man-goooooo could be a big seller for them.


Who is a tea flavored with Man-goooooo going to be aimed at? Girls? Hell, boys maybe? I just gotta wonder, though, since this tea flavor is definitely not for me, is it really made of "the best stuff on Earth?" And if so, who's supplying all the goooooo?

Sounds like the kind of job Kevin Federline would apply for.

Thanks, Snapple, but No Thanks. While I'm sure there are lots of people out there who would love to start their day off with a mouthful of your warm Man-goooooo, I'm not one of them.

I think I'll just stick with coffee.