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Bad Bottle #8 and #9: Man and Beast

August 14, 2008

If you’re feeling a bit guilty enjoying your ”Human Water” while hitting your dog’s bowl with the garden hose, break open some “FortiFido” and treat him to the ”natural peanut butter flavor” he craves. [...]

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Bad Bottle #7: We’re not doing this for our health

August 11, 2008

Double marketing entendre: good for the body and the corporate kingdom, too. From www.engrish.com.

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Bad Bottle #6: Lettuce buy you a drink

August 9, 2008

There is no niche too small in the Japanese beverage market. I would have liked to have been at the meeting where they tossed this idea around. From the always [...]

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Bad Bottle #5: Homogenized

July 31, 2008

I can confirm that this is an authentic bottled water brand from Peru. It is actually one word, “SOGAY” but still scores big on the branding translation misfire list. From [...]

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Bad Bottle #4: Crack Open a Case

July 25, 2008

From FLY47D’s Flickr page, this memorably-named bottled water, which means “Ace” in the native tongue. Nice touch with the illustration, too!

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Bad Bottle #3: Now available in cans!

October 8, 2007

From the info-bonanza known as Flickr, this gem. I suppose “bottled water” has matured to the point that it refers to the actual product of “packaged water”, and not the [...]

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Bad Bottle #2: Yellow Surprise Lite?

September 20, 2007

Like the revered Yellow Surprise, I don’t think this is providing the promotional impact they intended. (From the Flickr page of Monica Smoot.)

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Bad Bottle #1: Surprise!

June 15, 2007

Hooray for the diversity of cultural expression, which continues to produce such un-global branding as this. I for one don’t like surpises with my drinking water, and especially not yellow [...]

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