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Old 11-27-18, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ksryder
That's what I've always heard too (and I remember winning a quiz bowl match in high school with that answer) but out of curiosity I checked it out on Snopes and as it turns out, it's BS:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ch...-name-spanish/
OK it still makes a good story, and some things like that have actually happened. But thanks for the snopes article. It's good reading.

My father (RIP) liked to tell the story of a policy Proctor and Gamble had in the 1950s of hiring no Jews. They developed a new laundry detergent, and they named it Dreck, which is Yiddish for crap. Because there were no Jews, it almost went to market, but someone caught it in time.
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