>>>I saw this for the first time at Trader Joe's yesterday. The word sounds nauseous, and for those who know no better a beer to leave on the shelf! Yuck!
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>>As you probably know, Phuket is a city (town?) in Thailand, and I recently learned that the "P" and "h" are pronounced independently, not as a blend.
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>>Tamar
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>I recall a few years ago the Japanese introduced a model of a new car into the United States, and did not take into consideration what the name sounded like in our country. The name excapes me but it was not nice and was taken off of the market! :)


When Datsun was ready to roll out their first sports car in the U.S. they wanted to name it the Pink Fairlady. Their top guy in the U.S., who had been stationed in California for many years, told them the American market would never accept that name for a sports car. He asked them to change the name and the honchos back in Japan refused. So he did an end run and released the car using its production model name: 240-Z.