Obscene Ikea product names

Posted by | April 18, 2003 | trivia | No Comments

Not being a fluent Swedish speaker, I could be wrong, but I sometimes wonder if Ikea product names are one big practical joke. Billy bookshelves, Lac or Dik wallhangings or a bedside table called Tracy

“Home-furnishing giant Ikea has apologized for accidentally naming a child’s bunk bed after an obscene German expression.
The $175 bed is called the ‘Gutvik’ – which means ‘good f- – -‘ in German. The company insists it was named after a tiny town in Sweden.”

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