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then the order “i dont care” has finally something behind it xP
I want to open a restaurant called I Don’t Know so boyfriends everywhere finally have a place to take their girlfriends when they ask them, “So where do you want to eat?”
This I would be interested in backing with money and manpower!
I am a Chef and i will cook there, we can have dishes like, “I’m not sure” or “I’ll just have a bite of yours” and the ever popular “I’m not too hungry”.
Heh, heh.
“I’m not too hungry” should be an appetizer.
i think a restaurant called “a good place to eat” is a sure fire hit
and another suggestion for food would be “shut up and eat”
or “it ain’t road kill”.
I used to go to high school across from a restaurant called “That place in (town’s name)” Now obviously, I don’t feel like mentioning the actual town’s name, but it always struck me as a great idea.
“Where do you want to eat?”
“Oh, you know… that place in (town’s name)”
There was a restaurant in my old town called Somebody’s House. I guess the food was supposed to taste homemade. Later, someone opened a restaurant called Your House. My mom would say, “Let’s eat at Your House so I don’t have to cook or clean dishes.”
I’d love a sip of Whatever.
Anything would be fine
“We have some juice… some soda… purple stuff… OH Sunny D!”
… I think the Whatever and Anything must be the generic purple stuff.
I won’t drink just Anything!
Yes, you have to mix it with something.
…Darn, they’re all out of Something!
anything taste good with vodka…….
Those drinks better exist. I want one.
They totally exist!
This is my photo- I took it in Brunei. I have to admit, though, I was a little bit scared to try one- this was a country where people loved to drink fruit juice with beans and corn kernels thrown in for added texture while you were drinking it…
It was the text “Any flavor for any taste” that scared me, though…
i tried them before. theyre kinda nice actually. originally from singapore if im not wrong
i tried them before. theyre kinda nice actually. originally from singapore if im not wrong
they are =P
It was invented in Singapore & selling like crazy, marketing profit for them
I know that the drink next to those two is a “Soya Bean drink”, but with the positioning of the can one can read “Soya Bear drink”. Probably not very tasty then…
At first I read ‘bear’ there and started laughing at that even more than at the two main drinks. And then I looked closer and realized that it’s not funny at all.
(all in all: that is a guideline to become emo
)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_and_Whatever
Best Wikipedia article ever.
The drinks have a unique packaging concept such that every beverage has a generic design, with no way of telling what flavour is contained in the can. This prevents the consumers from being aware of the flavour of the purchased beverage until they drink it. (An observant drinker can, however, make an educated guess by looking at the ingredients specification on the side of the can.)
I loves it.
I’m not seeing how this is an Engrish fail. Clever marketing on drinks that you never know what you’ll get.
I just submitted the pic because I thought it was hilarious in a non-fail type of way, and I thought other people might enjoy it, not because I thought it was a typo.
A friend of mine had a bar and put “whatever” for 26€ on the menu.
It was a mixture of “contents of bottles lesser than a sip” and tasted like piss.
How do you know what piss tastes like? O_O
I want this for the potential to use it to mess with people.
“The drinks have a unique packaging concept such that every beverage has a generic design, with no way of telling what flavour is contained in the can. This prevents the consumers from being aware of the flavour of the purchased beverage until they drink it.”
weird idea…
This could cause problems if there was a flavor you didn’t like and you had no way to tell if it was in that can or not.
But would be interesting to see people try and then realize they got the wrong flavor. I wonder what flavors they come in?
You can tell what flavour it is by looking at the ingredients.
Except that it’ll just be “Water, sugar, preservatives, flavour”.
Unless you’re in a country that specifies that you MUST list your E numbers, but even then it’ll be like “E108, E304″.
Not really useful for working out what flavour it is… and yes, I know E108 is a colour, but I don’t know what range flavours fall in… (and screw Google Chrome for telling me that I’ve spelled flavour and colour wrong despite the fact I keep telling it I want English (UK) not English (US))
Yes you can. They list the ingredients only for the specific drink. Eg “green tea” in the ingredients list will mean that you’ve got green tea (duh). Oh yeah, one of them is carbonated and the other is not, I can’t remember which is which. These drinks are cheap.. They cost only about 60cents or so (Singapore Dollars).
Oh, like White Mystery flavored Airheads! But I’m always afraid of those because my boyfriend and I are allergic to different fruits, and I worry that these fruits might be in the Mystery. Same with the Mystery Kool-Aid.
This is actually quite brilliant.
Oh god… I so want a whole refrigerator with those drinks…
JUST to mess with people.
“what do you wanna drink?”
“I dont know… Anything”
Agreed. I wonder if they can be purchased online for shipping…
Whatever sounds GOOD~!
My little image looks stupid today -.-’
Mine looks constipated for some reason – I don’t know why, I ate a lot of fiber
yesterday (it’s 6:15a.m. in my place now BTW)
Yeah, it does look constipated. o-0
it’s like who’s on first.
A:do you have anything to drink?
B:why yes i do.
A:i’ll take whatever.
B:well which do you want, “anything” or “whatever”?
A:what do you mean?
B:what do you want to drink?
A:whatever.
B:ok so you don’t want “anything”.
A:no i do!
B:but you just said you’d take “whatever”.
A:which is the same as anything, isn’t it?
B:no, “anything” is “anything”.
A:i’m so confused.
I have just imagined my friend who has a really short temper being person “A” in your dialog. ROFL In the end he would probably throw big and sharp objects at me.
Having those drinks in my fridge would make such a perfect opportunity for lengthy jokes *starts day dreaming*
Modern day “Who’s on first”! Brilliant!
… do I see Nescafé in a CAN?
Yes, you do.
Yes, and if it’s in Asia, it’s probably a can of coffee that self-heats.
What the Problem ?? it is really a drink
anything is gassy n whatever is non gassy
LOLZ… the drinks from 7-eleven….
Oh I have drunk these, they totally suck by the way.
So are these the canned cola version of 2 Buck Chuck?
These drinks really exist. They’re from Singapore. The creator came up with this idea because when he asked people what they wanted to drink, they always replied, “Anything,” or “Whatever.”
Anything contains carbonated drinks and Whatever contains non-carbonated drinks, or vice versa, I’m not too sure.
From what I understand, long-distance phone companies were set up on the premise that when people used payphones and were asked which long-distance companies they wanted to use, there was actually a phone company called “whatever” that would charge huge rates. It’s probably an urban legend, but I thought of it when I saw this.
i heard that too, but it was on a news program, so yep. pretty ingenious really.
I’ll take Anything over that “Soya Bean Drink.” Gaah! Can’t stand soya at all!
I wouldn’t. Judging by the name, there’s probably melamine in it.
I thought someone said it was from Singapore, not China.
seen it at Malaysia too… but never bought it…
I have tried those and Anything & Whatever are 2 local Singaporean drinks. Did not like them at all, prefer my Coca Cola.
I’m with you. Give me a Coke any day.
They are random drinks.
Anything gives you either Coca Cola, Sprite, 100-Plus, and a few other carbonated.
Whatever is either Green Tea, Lemon Tea, Orange Juice, and a few other non-carbonated
Anything is carbonated and is made in six flavours: Cola, Cola with Lemon, Apple, Fizz Up, Cloudy Lemon and Root Beer.
Whatever is non-carbonated and is made in six flavours as iced tea: Ice Lemon Tea, Peach Tea, Jasmine Green Tea, White Grape Tea, Apple Tea and Chrysanthemum Tea.
So they are pretty much the old ‘suiside’ drinks we used to make at the serve yourself soda fountains as a kid. I liked mixing Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, root beer and a berry flavored drink the best. Mixing all the citrus drinks that a fountain had could be good too. Mixing all the drinks in the fountain together though….not good.
Lol im from singapore and these drinks do exist, the drinks were quite popular for a while, then the fad died out. Heres the catch : “Anything” and “Whatever” were random drinks ranging from ginger tea to apple juice, with carbonated drinks (anything) and non carbonated (whatever). The advertisements were quite funny though.
Yeh they had advertisements like
These 2 thugs going into a convenience store asking for Anything.
The casher dude thought they were robbers, and gave them (really) anything.
They got pissed and just beat the crap out of him.
You can buy them in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos aswell.
haha to all the comments. but seriously, national pride has been stung! don’t quite see what the big deal is over the rather apt naming, owing to people’s indecisiveness and little preference for the plethora of carbonated and non-carbonated drinks there are on the market. XP
OK. Just have to comment here, since I’m in Singapore, and see these drinks all the time.
Pretty much everyone under 40 here is fluent in English. It’s the most commonly spoken language. Actually almost everyone speaks Singlish which a complex hybrid of English, Mandarin, Malay, with a touch of Tamil thrown in. Singlish is fast, clever and evolving. As such, language games and puns are generally well received here. The tricky part for an ang mor like myself is making sure that the puns translate from English to Singlish.
These drinks are named precisely to take advantage of all the jokes that have already been mentioned above. It’s not Engrish, it’s clever marketing.
Also, if you’re going to make fun on the name of any of the drinks here, then it should be the one named ‘Kickapoo Joy Juice’ – named after an old comic apparently. http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/kickapoo/
They’re not saying that Singaporeans are dumb, it’s just that it’s funny. Like you know whenever you ask, “What do you want to drink?” Then you can just answer “Whatever” OR “Anything.” Which we all find amusing.
This photo is made of win.
I want to find a place that sells these and start taking all of my friends there and offering to buy them a drink. I will do this until finally someone answers the question “what do you want” with either “anything” or “whatever.”
It will be a life well spent.
My memory went into a 30-year time loop: Moon Zappa’s “Valley Girl” pronunciation of, “Whateverrrrr…” I love it.
no really
d drink is called anything n whatever
they oso had a funny advertisement on it
that’s actually pretty clever *o*
I want to keep some cans of this in my fridge for when indecisive friends come over.
The website of the company has 2 tv commercials…
http://www.anything.com.sg/
OMG, this is just as scary as Brawndo!!
those drinks do exist. and each tin can has different flavour. you just have to taste it yourself since the flavours aren’t told
Oh, I had one of these! Not bad really.
I’m Singaporean and I’ve tried both Anything and Whatever. It tastes like your average lemon tea, root beer, depending on which flavour you got.
I love the advertisements! They’re so funny!
And yeah the guy came up with this idea because every time he takes his friends out and asks them what they’ll like to drink, the standard answer would be “anything” or “whatever”.
Haha!
Quite brilliant I think. But the drinks are just for fun, really. I have them once in a blue moon when I’ve no idea what to drink but I usually stick to my Heaven&Earth Jasmine Green Tea.
lame… Its funny for the first few times, after a while it sucks when you keep getting the same flavour (I keep getting lime) and I guess its only an initial cheap thrill
Lol this drink is in SIngapore. it has multiple flavors, and it supposed to be like a surprise thing. whatever is fizzy and anything isnt (or is it the other way round)
So, it’s just like these Harry Potter magical beans? I hope I don’t get a vomit flavored one when I get there.
do you have diet somthing?
I don’t quite get what’s Engrish about this, honestly.
This isn’t engrish dude. its a parody on the undecided nature of people with regards to beverages. exactly like how many of you like to put it. whoever put it up is grossly wrong about it being a wrong translation.
Yeah, ide like a can of WTFAIL
ehhh. this is from singapore. where i live.
it’s pretty win.
anything is a soft drink like coke, sprite, root beer etc
whatever is a tea like chrysanthemum, peach etc
so it’s just your luck what u get.
It reminds me of when I was in Japan and Coca-Cola’s current slogan was “no reason”
I want some of those for parties. xD That’d be a hoot.
this drinks sold in asia:).
its like one of them is carbonated and the other one isnt
and u dunno wats inside is so its like either coke, root beer, sprite and other sodas. pretty kool. i think i had the coke
i’ll go with anything.. umm wait, on a second thought.. whatever.
HAHA i always say anything or whatever. This is a dream come true
sure, why not? not for me, though.