Accurate labelling

[oggbashan]

This evening I opened a bottle of French Rosé Table Wine.

I am now washing my mouth out with Australian Lager.

I should have known better. The wine is called (in French of course!) Onion Skin.

The blurb on the back label says 'remarkable for its splendid nose and redolent of the heat of the meridian'.

Remarkable it is. Splendid it ain't. It tastes exactly like stale onion skin.

What else could I expect? They warned me in bold type.

To be fair to the producers I have kept it far too long - about 5 years too long. It should have been drunk within weeks of bottling.

Has anyone else any examples of accurate and unflattering labels?

Og

 

[kendo1]

Yep.
The size label in my jeans: accurate and unflattering.

 

[BlackShanglan]

They sell a brand of wine out here called Cat Piss. I've taken them at their word and decided not to sample it. Oh, and there are (or were) Black Death and Green Death cigarettes, complete with skull-and-crossbones logo.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

This evening I opened a bottle of French Rosé Table Wine.

I am now washing my mouth out with Australian Lager.

I should have known better. The wine is called (in French of course!) Onion Skin.

The blurb on the back label says 'remarkable for its splendid nose and redolent of the heat of the meridian'.

Remarkable it is. Splendid it ain't. It tastes exactly like stale onion skin.

What else could I expect? They warned me in bold type.

To be fair to the producers I have kept it far too long - about 5 years too long. It should have been drunk within weeks of bottling.

Has anyone else any examples of accurate and unflattering labels?

Og

Og, I think you mistakenly got a bottle of the Rev. Rumple D. Foreskins Sacramento Sacramental Whappa Grappa All Purpose Communion Wine and Degreaser....

 

[Aurora Black]

There's a brand of cigarettes out here called "Black Devil."

 

[oggbashan]

Og, I think you mistakenly got a bottle of the Rev. Rumple D. Foreskins Sacramento Sacramental Whappa Grappa All Purpose Communion Wine and Degreaser....

No. I had a bottle of that labelled (in French) Mule's Kick. It cost the equivalent of a whole dollar for 75 centilitres. It didn't taste like being kicked by a mule, it just made you feel that kicking a mule might be a safer activity than drinking.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

No. I had a bottle of that labelled (in French) Mule's Kick. It cost the equivalent of a whole dollar for 75 centilitres. It didn't taste like being kicked by a mule, it just made you feel that kicking a mule might be a safer activity than drinking.

Og

Og, Og, you misread the label! You are not supposed to drink it yourself, it's for your mule.