Shelf Life

Would you wash your clothes with Colon detergent? Offer an assortment of Tit Bits and Bum Bums in your candy bowl? Or, on a quiet evening, serve your guests some Bonka coffee? In this age of globalization, brand names are increasingly checked for international propriety, and these products may well be endangered species. We can only be glad that for now, some companies still proudly assert their independence from English-language mores by naming canned fish Atum Bom or butter Noisy. Here, in glorious full color, are examples of such accidentally amusing packaging collected from shelves all over the world.Walford, Rosie is the author of 'Shelf Life', published 2004 under ISBN 9781582344942 and ISBN 1582344949.