As I sit here with a heavy throaty cold - surely guaranteed by my return to colder shores and nothing to do at all with science and viruses - I am contemplating today the state of the Italian psyche with regard to illness.
There are more products on the shelves there for self-medicating than any other country I know. Likewise there are many magazines and programes devoted to health and looking good. Every grandmother has a theory on the best things to eat for health and a special diet to adopt for fever and cold: mine “when feverish adopt a diet ‘in bianco’.”
However, one particular product caught my attention when shopping in my local supermercato recently. The name I think says it all: Gas Contol. At a very reasonable €6.59 too.
So that us ladies don’t feel left out we get Cellustop.
I can just imagine the marketing brainstorm that accompanied these name choices. “Don’t worry we’ll just stick an English word(s) on there that no one will understand and they’ll think it’s cool.”
That must be why the best selling brand of floor cleaner is called Smack.
September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
That bottom looks positively inflated.
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
That bottom looks positively inflated.
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
That bottom looks positively inflated.
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
I will dump the rest of my heroin in a tub of water tonight, see if it brings up the kitchen floor nicely….
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
I will dump the rest of my heroin in a tub of water tonight, see if it brings up the kitchen floor nicely….
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September 29th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
I will dump the rest of my heroin in a tub of water tonight, see if it brings up the kitchen floor nicely….
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:00 pm
I like the way the Gas Control seems to be furtively clutching himself, as though to keep in that pesky gas.
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:00 pm
I like the way the Gas Control seems to be furtively clutching himself, as though to keep in that pesky gas.
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:00 pm
“self-medicating” - I must update my passport! - Dan
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:00 pm
“self-medicating” - I must update my passport! - Dan
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:04 pm
You could have yourself literally minus pounds in your new floor cleaning endeavours SW.
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September 29th, 2004 at 5:04 pm
You could have yourself literally minus pounds in your new floor cleaning endeavours SW.
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