Porking: Sometimes a product comes along that makes you wonder whether you're having a stroke as you read the name. For example: Mr. Brain's Pork Faggots. What are they? Pork Faggots are a meatball invented by an Englishman named Mr. Herbert Hill Brain in 1925. Over 100-million Faggots are eaten in the U.K. each year. Recently, the company undertook a quest to find true "Faggot Fanatics" to become the first "Faggot Family" to represent the product. They found the Doody family from Wolverhampton, who now appear in TV ads. You couldn't make this up at www.mrbrainsfaggots.com.

Turkin' Japanese: When Ulker, a Turkish confectionery giant decided to introduce a domestic, nationalist cola drink called Cola Turka to compete with Coke and Pepsi, they decided to promote it with a series of ads starring Chevy Chase as an American whose world, and all its inhabitants, suddenly turn Turkish. Register and look for the fez-y drink at www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=38390.

Comments? Michael Citrome