Stupidest renaming we had here that I can recall is changing Opal Fruits to Starburst.
Clearly the original name is better!
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In German that would probably be quite the association 
as the German word “Siff” (pronounced with a soft “s” though, pretty much like the English “z”) means “gross and disgusting dirt” 
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Heh - I’ve never seen that in Germany before
Never heard of Opal Fruits.
So, Starburst sounds better to me 
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I suspect I look at these things through the lens of nostalgia, hehe.
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I’m sure if they had just introduced them to the US as Opal Fruits, that would sound fine to me. For whatever reason, they didn’t.
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Once you open that can, the only way to close it is with :q
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Looks like it’s indeed Jif / formerly Gif for the peanut butter. My mistake. I’m seeing pictures with-accompanying text for the first time (about the rename). Did not read that as a G - maybe my brain has been primed?
edit: I’m losing it now (it’s too late in the evening here)
that article was not about rename at all, but a photoshop about the difficulty of pronouncing it.
Bleh. Still don’t know where I’ve seen the Cif then. My brain is probably inventing the memory.
The mentioned cleaning products (abrasives):
I do love the fact that Jif peanut butter is accompanied by ‘creamy’ and Cif by ‘cream’ on the packaging.
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The peanut butter is not a photoshop. Jif temporarily had a jar of “Gif” as a joke to say “now gif with a soft g refers to our peanut butter and not Graphics Interchange Format.”
So, it’s a real thing and a joke about the graphics interchange format pronunciation debate.
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Yeah it was cif and then jif but now it’s back to cif.
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