Talk:Kiwi (shoe polish)

First modern shoe polish?

Despite the blurb on today's (Dec 15 2005), "Kiwi" was not "the first modern shoe polish". The German brand "Erdal" was patented in 1901.Kar98 16:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

For further discussion of this matter, please see Talk:shoe polish.

Merged-in text from shoe polish

Having just now merged in a lot of text from that article, I've done the basic clean-up necessary to make the article not broken. No doubt it's still rather clunky, though. Doops | talk 20:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Counterfeiting

I heard from Diggnation episode 47 that Kiwi shoe polish is the most counterfeited product in the world, if it is true, a reference to that would be appropriate in the article. --Jcmaco 20:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

It would indeed. Do you have a reference for this? If you do, then it's definitely encyclopedic information. Proto///type 08:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ownership

Do Sara lee still own it? Not clear. Rich Farmbrough, 15:26 11 December 2006 (GMT).

I just bought some at New World and it appears to be owned by Sara Lee and was made in Indonesia. I'm adding the latter to the list of countries made in. Roche-Kerr (talk) 09:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Jingle from the 1950s or earlier

Yes, everybody loves that Kiwi shine,
Twice the polish in half the time.
K, I, W, I!
The shine for you and me.

I don't think advertising claims had to be backed up by research in those days. Koro Neil (talk) 10:21, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

the kiwi shoe polish was a very famous polsh in the 1990's everybody —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.7.144 (talk) 12:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I am looking for larger cans of Kiwi shoe polish am having hard time finding them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.32.157 (talk) 19:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Kiwi shoe polish named after the bird, not the people

I'm pretty sure New Zealanders were not widely known as Kiwis back in 1906, so it would seem likely that the polish was named after the Kiwi bird??? Ernest the Sheep (talk) 21:34, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

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