Whenever a doctor prescribes medicine for an embarrassing condition, I’m usually not worried about leaving it in the medicine cabinet because nobody will understand miconazole nitrate is a treatment for foot fungus, except maybe my friend Andrew, who is the type to look things up on Wikipedia and also the type to look through a medicine cabinet. I don’t worry about anyone finding miconazole nitrate in my medicine cabinet, but I do worry about someone finding this product:
Not sure what these capsules do, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want anyone to know I was taking them.
Here’s another product I wouldn’t anyone finding in my medicine cabinet despite it’s promise of ‘much quality assurance’:
Make sure and check out the caption contest winner and submit captions in the new contest.
The Good Greatsby 
shreejacob
October 23, 2011
hehehehe! There are loads of this Engrish pictures out there and yes, I would not want anyone to find the first medicine in my cabinet either, since well you know..being female and all..ahem..hahahaha
Laura
October 24, 2011
Right — it would be weird to have those in your medicine cabinet. You should have them on your coffee table, and offer them to all your male guests.
shreejacob
October 24, 2011
LOL or at the very least, it would make a great conversation piece! Forget coffee table books and go straight for the erm..testicles?
ahahahahahahha..oops.
The Good Greatsby
October 24, 2011
These kinds of products do make good conversation starters; that’s why we often bring them to parties as gifts.
Snoring Dog Studio
October 23, 2011
Perhaps the Chinese are far less self-conscious than Americans, because I couldn’t even stand at the checkout counter with those products. But I can imagine the buyer saying, in Chinese, “These are for my brother/sister/uncle/aunt.”
The “Much Quality Assurance” is reassuring. Not believable, however. But, hey, who are we to talk? Land of salmonella, listeria and e-coli!!
Glynis Sylvia
October 24, 2011
Testicle Care for your Aunt? “Poor Aunty Harry, (s)he has that unmentionable condition. But (s)he’s saving up to have them removed.”
savesprinkles1234
October 23, 2011
“Can I get a price check on aisle 4 for the Testical Care? The American gentleman in the smoking jacket is purchasing them!”– What you don’t want to hear over the PA system at your local pharmacy.
rumpydog
October 23, 2011
ROFL! But Jen should buy that testicle medicine just to throw anyone that went thru the medicine cabinet- since nobody living here HAS testicles! (I’m neutered)
randomlychad
October 23, 2011
Borsiger is a douche, I presume?
“Get rid of nasty smell.”
Terrible
And the first one?
How funny would it have been if the caption read:
“Give oneself giant, manly pair with Testicle Care.”
She's a Maineiac
October 24, 2011
Just what the hell kind of store are you shopping in, Mr. Greatsby, and why?
The Good Greatsby
October 24, 2011
I wish I had a great story to answer that question but these were merely taken at the very respectable looking pharmacy on my street.
She's a Maineiac
October 24, 2011
Bummer.
nancyfrancis
October 24, 2011
My friend Cherie was given an ointment (one of my least favourite words) to help cure some rash she had around her mouth – turns out she was allergic to the Nickel in her tongue ring – but the tube clearly stated ‘For Use on Jock Itch only’.
We still bring this up – and this was over ten years ago 🙂
The Good Greatsby
October 24, 2011
I’d have a hard time forgetting Cherie had Jock Itch of the mouth even after ten years.
k8edid
October 24, 2011
I just realized I don’t even have a medicine cabinet!! We would have to keep that stuff out in the open. Perhaps the “enhanced hormones” lead to the need for the large condoms from a couple weeks ago.
And randomlychad, perhaps the Borsiger is also a testicle product…just saying.
randomlychad
October 24, 2011
Hmm… With an apparent ballerina on the packaging? That’s no dang Man’s product. That right there is in the feminine care aisle… right next to the loofahs. Just sayin’.
k8edid
October 24, 2011
Ah, I see the ballerina. Perhaps it is a shoe deodorizer for her toe shoes, or perhaps her tutu is too, too smelly.
John Erickson
October 24, 2011
I definitely want a translation before going near product #2. #1 is easy – PASS!
thelifeofjamie
October 24, 2011
It’s odd that they sell testicle care in a place where they limit the number of children you have…I bet it’s a scam and that it lowers your potency!
Kathryn McCullough
October 24, 2011
The Chinese clearly believe one of two things: that these are primarily the problems of Chinglish-speaking ex-pats, or that Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Brits are visually impaired people who need their ailments spelled out for them in BIG, BOLD PRINT. All squinting sarcasm aside, the Mandarin is tiny by conparison.
Dana
November 10, 2011
Good point, Kathy! TESTICLE CARE is only a pressing issue for the English-speaking folks.
lynnbiederstadt
October 24, 2011
As I read this, I kept getting the mental image of you stalking a local chemist’s, looking for the worst-offfending products and taking surreptitious photos…or, better, still, spending waaaaaay too much time in friends’ loos, looking for incriminating products. Remind me to stash stuff when you come over…. 😉
-lynn
The Good Greatsby
October 24, 2011
You’ve described me perfectly. Customer service always ask if they can help when they see me wandering around the store, but I’m not sure they’d be helpful if I told them I was searching for any product that nobody would actually want to buy.
ajg
October 24, 2011
I don’t need to look up something on Wikipedia if I am intimately familiar with the subject matter. Fungus ailments are near and dear to my heart already. But this would explain why a lot of the items in your medicine cabinet have the labels peeled off or blacked out with the words “Just vitamins” written in black Sharpie.
Louise
October 24, 2011
Too funny! I love the translations!
pegoleg
October 25, 2011
It seems obvious that the Borsiger product is for the relief of Ballerina Odor Syndrome. I didn’t realize that was such a big problem in China.
randomlychad
October 25, 2011
Tutus are sweaty?
omawarisan
October 26, 2011
Now if you take a product that combines those two you’d have a lot of reasons to be lonely
pattisj
October 31, 2011
Now I see what I’ve been missing. Going to have to make some friends so I can go through their medicine cabinets…if I could just get rid of this nasty smell…