While I have been bumbling about collecting odd shops, Jason has been busily collecting rude food. He has only just downloaded all his photos, which is why you are getting them now, despite the fact that he has been assiduously amassing them ever since we arrived. These are the items which have taken his fancy so far.
In Walmart there is an entire range of these:
Bum equipment. Now here bum is not a fantastic word, meaning down and out, or broken. At home it means yer arse, or your bottom. So why anyone would want to name an entire range of products BUM is beyond me in anyone’s language. Perhaps it was someone like Jason who thought: ‘This will be hilarious….’ That would be the only acceptable explanation.
How about this?
The Randy Bag is both reusable and practical. Brilliant. Now here Randy is simply an innocuous bloke’s name. At home it means someone who is permanently up for sex. Marvellous. Always fecund ground for misunderstanding and general sniggering behind one’s hand.
With the size of the supermarkets here you know there is a product for everyone. Hence this:
Homosexuals have their own milk here. We have yet to find lesbian or bi milk, but it will come. This is progress.
And to show how open minded they are here, you can now get this:
It is actually powder that you put around the rim of your cocktail glasses. Unfortunately the word rimming has unpleasant connotations and seeing this made Jason snort down his nose quite a lot.
Although if you think that his scurrilous picture taking is confined to this continent be cheered when you think that he took this back in Blighty in the hallowed halls of John Lewis:
I must confess to chortling in a less than mature fashion, whilst simultaneously drinking my body weight in coffee. This makes me nervous that I’ll explode all over the laptop and the bed and that would be expensive.
auntiegwen
Yes. Please don’t break another laptop on my account.
Snigger, snigger.
And while we are being puerile… My aunt emigrated here some 40 years ago and got a secretarial job. She was somewhat perturbed on her second day to have her boss call her into his office and to bring the durex! Turned out to be a brand of sellotape but she was not a happy lady for a while there!
Sharon
I had heard sellotape was called Durex and was never brave enough to ask if it were true. Thank you for clearing that up!
A man should have a hobby, and I approve mightily of this one. I recall seeing shampoo in Holland with the brand name ‘Glans’ – I wonder if they sold shampoo specifically for other parts of the body….?
Mrs Jones
Glans. How biological!
‘…confections for the circumference of your cosmo’indeed.
Jenny
The things we wouldn’t know we’ve missed.
Cosmopolitan rimmer! *snigger*
I always found it hilarious when the name Randy came up in American books.
bev
It is an unfortunate name!
They really don’t understand the Queen’s English across the Atlantic, do they!
alienne
No they don’t.
I’m not necessarily a rimmer type of person but the sugar on the rim of my cosmo does make me happy. What does that say about me, I wonder?
Let’s try not to think about it Ginger!
Could you bring me back some rimmer powder please xxx
Gina
Certainly. Any particular flavour?xx