"Rod Hewitt" wrote in message
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Parish wrote in
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Mary Fisher wrote:
Why did they change the name? What was wrong with Jif? It meant
something ...

Apparently it was due to being marketed world-wide - the name didn't
work in languages with no 'J' in their alphabet.


Also, apparently, it wasn't called Cif in the UK to begin with as people
might have associated it with syphilis. Funny how they don't mind now...

Rod

We had a D-I-Y ng Northern Meet last night and talked about this subject.
One suggestions - believed to be true - was that the name Jif was changed to
avoid confusion between the cleaning product and the squeezy plastic lemons
designed to deliver plastic lemon juice.

Mary