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To ask what brand names you hate?

232 replies

sandytoes84 · 07/10/2019 11:09

Expecting first baby and physically revolted by twee brand names...tommy tippee, cudl, cuggle (the worst offender) and the most ridiculous encountered so far...petunia pickle bottom, what the actual fuck?!

I can’t be the only one to have such a reaction - what brand names do you hate?

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mammaandhercubs · 09/10/2019 23:06

A lot of the scandi and Scandi style kiddie clothes company that charge a small fortune for cute pics on thin organic cotton, such as maxomorra, and raspberry republic ( silly names)

Missingthesea · 09/10/2019 23:08

Bickiepegs have been around since the 1920s so perhaps they haven't suffered too much from people not liking the name Grin

MAM is a Continental brand and nothing to do with Mams.

mammabearandhercubs · 09/10/2019 23:08

I can't think of anything specific at the moment but I don't like when people name companies after themselves as it's tacky

malificent7 · 09/10/2019 23:09

Monkai
Primark (ugly)
Once brought a shower gel from a corner shop branded Scumbad!!

nopenotplaying · 09/10/2019 23:13

Gelli Baff
Ickle bubba

Angry
Davespecifico · 09/10/2019 23:15

My daughter has an irrational dislike of Arnold Clark. She thinks it wants to take over the world with those peeling yellow stickers and 2nd hand cars.

Wincher · 09/10/2019 23:17

I agree with Tuppence and Crumble. In my family spending tuppence means having a poo (as opposed to spending a penny...). So the name just makes me thing of crumbly hard poo... Yuck

mammabearandhercubs · 09/10/2019 23:19

Tommy tippee
The north shore
Itsy blitzy baby food blender- i kid you not 😳
Nestling food chopper
As a teen I shopped in a shop
Called 'no name'
Fat face

Nixen · 09/10/2019 23:21

I refused to buy anything by icklebubba on account of that hideous name

SapphireSeptember · 09/10/2019 23:21

RE Superdry. I talk about SuperDRUG all the time and people have misheard me. I've never been in a Superdry shop in my life. 😛

I suppose Superdrug itself is weird sounding. It sounds like somewhere you get 'the good stuff' and not make-up. (Okay, that IS my good stuff, but still.)

Urban Decay is weird sounding too (although I like them.) It just make me think of grunge and grime, (backed up by some of their shade names, like Roach,) not make-up.

booksandcaffeine · 09/10/2019 23:23

Not brand names but product names... Such as Nars Orgasm/Super Orgasm and Deep Throat, Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. So cringy!

EarPhones · 09/10/2019 23:27

Uniqlo?

Rathkelter · 09/10/2019 23:31

Anusol...

HearMeSnore · 09/10/2019 23:33

I had a rip-off version of the FCUK t-shirt. Same style, same font, but it said d.c.u.k. and had a picture of a duck on the back.

duebaby2 · 09/10/2019 23:39

CEX - what does it even stand for? We end up just calling it sex half the time.
Plenty/plenty towels - really?!
A lot of baby brands are really unimaginative and horrible to look at icckle bubba is the worst!
Smeg - just cringey!
Smiggle - why just why?
Hot tuna and fat face - not exactly the nicest of names for brands
Tea pigs tea bags - couldn't they be more imaginative
Candy kittens sweets - same as above
Kallo rice cakes - I don't get it or know how to pronounce it
Snack a jacks - makes me think of weight watchers for some reason so always stayed away from them

TrickyD · 09/10/2019 23:45

Yes, LadyAndiBella, when you see a child, or worse a mother and child dressed in clothes with those horrible prints of radishes and so forth, you have to say Wankle to indicate that you are part of the Babipur cult.

mammabearandhercubs · 10/10/2019 00:00

@TrickyD oh that's grim (and sad)

BikeRunSki · 10/10/2019 07:09

CEX - was Computer exchange, now Complete entertainment exchange. Rather convoluted for a risqué acronyms.

A pig is a storage pot for loose food like salt, tea etc. I always assumed that this is the route of the Tea Pigs name.

Thehop · 10/10/2019 07:11

Ickle bubba is hideous

HearMeSnore · 10/10/2019 07:43

duebaby2 if I have to pronounce it out loud I perversely insist on using a hard "C", which makes it sound like "kecks."

Probably not quite the saucy angle they were going for but it serves them right.

nakedavengeragain · 10/10/2019 08:05

Here in NZ we have a gin that was called Rogue Society. As they grew and expanded into Europe they came a cropper on EU laws as you can't equate alcohol with social success and the name had to go. So they replaced it with...

'Scapegrace'.

Wtf?! It's AWFUL!

Basil90 · 10/10/2019 08:09

GAP! Cringe

No13 · 10/10/2019 08:20

Samsung but only because they’re so shit

HearMeSnore · 10/10/2019 08:23

Siemens.

I still can't say it out loud in polite company.

Wheat2Harvest · 10/10/2019 09:05

Snack a jacks - makes me think of weight watchers for some reason so always stayed away from them

And the name Weight Watchers .... I have never looked at this name in the same light since someone pointed out the word 'twat' in the middle.