those who are not followers of Red Dwarf will probably not notice.

or of Liberty Meadows.

though Frank Cho might follow Red Dwarf, who knows...

They just might. 'Smeg' is a contraction of the real-world word 'smeghma.'

Look the term up; it has a lot of potential as a vulgarity.

Ooh, look! They make Talkie Toaster!

(* also available in bloody smeg *)

Reminds the Capn' of this...
What's the best thing to name a food product?
https://www.soylent.com

I've heard of them. Apparently they never heard of the movie. At least they don't offer Soylent Greens.

Aye, that would be a little too on the snout XD

I disbelieve. The quick google of the word soylent turns up lots of references to the movie,(once i get past the references to the drink) and a few to the novel. The second suggested question on google was "Is Soylent made from humans?" Which should lead to the movie. Due diligence nowadays requires searches on all the internet search engines, and also trademark searches, which easily leads to the movie.

How would you explain their use of the name Soylent then? I agree that it's doubtful they weren't aware of the connotations, but then why use it? It doesn't make any sense to me.

The company web site has a story that its a mashup of soybeans and lentils, the main ingredients.

Makes a sort of sense for a naming procedure, but it still begs the question of why they ignored the bad connotations. Or maybe they're just dumb. *shrugs*

I think they thought they were making a nerd injoke that twelve other people on the planet would get.

Maybe. I wonder how good their sales are? Perhaps they counted on a young customer base who might not know about Soylent Green? I dunno. But it just seems like a dumb move to me.

Isn't gazpacho supposed to be a cold soup? Or am I thinking of something else?

Yes, it is, and it's a reference tp a Red Dwarf episode.

Heh. Yep, that sounds about right.

The phrase was Arnold Rimmer's version of "Rosebud."

Here. https://youtu.be/511VL3VEvQM?t=23s

Oh SMEG. What the smegging smeg you've smegging done?

He's smegging killed it.

Whoever owns one of those must be a real smeghead or as Kryten put it, a 'smee hee'

Yes but do they do a SMEGging garbage pod?

Mr. Lister called. He told them to smeg off

this smegs of a badly researched brand name for foreign markets.

germany is full of badly applied english terminology for everyday things. for example, someone had the idea to name a new line of sleeping bags "body bags". I don't know if they are still marketed, though...
or public shows of main sports events at big city places is named "Public Viewing". aside the verb being wrongly used, some people here actually know the historic context of it. and, considering the german soccer national teams' performance during the 2006 world sucker champignonship it might not be off the mark too much...

Coca-Cola was originally marketed in China by converting the English syllables into the closest phonetic symbols in the Chinese script.

The soda was soon rebranded; sales of "Bite The Wax Tadpole" were slow.

gee, I wonder why. XD

I saw the stand mixer and kind of hoped it would cost a little less than a Kitchen Aid... boy, it does not........

Cooking with SMEG... hmmm I doubt it'd make Iron Chef.

Finnish Ham

I want my talky the toaster without all the smeg...

Just Saying.