Friday, March 13, 2009

UNINTENTIONALLY AMUSING FOREIGN FOODSTUFFS: Hornimans Manzanilla con Anis

HORNI... MAN... MAN... ANIS... the comedy permutations are limitless. Over to reader "Dan" to spell out in detail exactly why this page ought to get 1,000,000 Diggs and become the most popular thing on the whole internet for the next two-and-a-half days.

This page will be SO POPULAR we'll be selling 30% of it to Microsoft for $2.1bn.



"I took this picture of a packet of tea in a small-supermarket kind of a shop in Andorra. It says 'Hornimans' which is funny enough, but then read further and it says 'Manzanilla con ANIS' which almost sounds like anus. Also the word 'manzanilla' is comical. It's made by a company called 'Pickwick', which might elicit mirth in some people; it's impossible to know. Love, Dan, a fan" - Dan.

19 Comments:

Blogger phil said...

Horniman, as in the Horniman musuem in Forest Hill London. I used to have a neighbour who was the founders grandson.

Anyway yeah Hornimans i about the No.1 tea brand in spain , not that they know fuck all about tea. Of course anyone who drinks camomile and aniseed and thinks its a good idea needs to be shot.

1:10 PM  
Anonymous pingus said...

Phil, you are missing the point. Horniman and anis hehe

2:19 PM  
Blogger phil said...

Nah i get it its just i have seen a fuck sight better ones over here in Spain. I will to have nick the digital camera off my missus at some point to capture some of the wonderful weird and just fucking odd thign they call stuff.

The other day i was given a sweet which proudly boasted it was 'Jesus Brand' Not the type of thing you are used you when you are shoving a gobstopper in your mouth. There are defintely some better ones about.

Can we start a 'Piss poorly named foreign products' section?

3:26 PM  
Blogger Badben said...

If you say "Hornimans Manzanilla con Anis" over and over again to yourself in your head, it does eventually become funny.

You have to keep going at it through the long periods when the words lose their meaning, then your brian loses the power of comprehension, funny follows soon afterwards.

4:27 PM  
Blogger Badben said...

Shit - anyone else here got a Brian?

4:28 PM  
Anonymous Enn said...

My brian found it funny on the first try :(

7:02 PM  
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5:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's some breaking battery news here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7938001.stm

10:29 AM  
Anonymous Trilby said...

FIX THE RSS

12:19 AM  
Anonymous Trilby said...

THANK YOU

9:51 AM  
Anonymous Idiot said...

I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.

7:02 PM  
Anonymous Enn said...

JUST THE CREDIT AND RUN

8:57 PM  
Anonymous Enn said...

FUCK, I FORGOT AN ENTIRE WORD THERE.

"TAKE".

DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHERE TO INSERT IT.

8:58 PM  
Anonymous OnlyReaderInHKMaybe... said...

I have whole weeks where I miss out days so missing out a word just shows you're on your way to dementia.

4:55 AM  
Anonymous James said...

You're not the only reader in HK, OnlyReaderInHKMaybe... - I've been here sending Idiot pictures of batteries and holding for almost a year now.

Er. Maybe it's time I made a comment about going to watch some blokes ride round a happy valley with you, Only. Seeing as we're on first name terms now.

epturfa - surprised Yorkshireman seeing somebody urinate turf. I'd be surprised too, come to think of it

6:45 AM  
Anonymous OnlyReaderInHKNot said...

TWO readers from Hong Kong! Who would have thought? North Point!

4:37 AM  
Anonymous James said...

Surely there can't just be the two of us. I'd have thought Wan Chai's combination electronics-superstore-and-sex-worker-centre would be the epicentre of Idiot Toys' demographic

8:47 AM  
Anonymous OnlyInHKNoMore...NorthPoint said...

I just wonder why he's not discovered the annual sexfest AKA The HK Computer Games Show featuring near-naked Asian babes in Cosplay outfits.

Surely better than kettles!

shamm - not.

4:58 AM  
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http://www.renchi.com/renchi/NewsDetail?newsID=778

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8:55 AM  

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