When candy goes wrong

[Wiggum]

Warning: they're a little accidentally phallic.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/gummi-lighthouses

[The Ace]

I shouldn't laugh........but I'm going to.

[Ursa major]

An accident? I find that hard to swallow. (Someone had to say it. )

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Now that's just not right......

[Lady of Winterfell]

Lmao!

[littlemissattitude]

Oh, dear. And then I had to explain to my mother why I was laughing so hard that I got a coughing fit.

So...at least now I know that there's a reason why the title of this thread sounds like the title of a dirty movie.

[Overread]

well this goes to show that bookworms had dirty minds one and all :

[Dave]

McDonalds had to withdraw a happy meal toy a few years ago for a very similar reason. Some might say that the people who see these phallic symbols that were never intended, are sick themselves, but I blame the marketing people who are so sure that they have such a great idea, that they fail to spot the bleeding obvious!

BTW if you collect McDonalds toys that one is as rare as you can find. It has even been withdrawn from Ebay.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/46...abbf99.jpg?v=0

In case you were wondering, it is a Dragon sitting atop a rock pinacle.

[Overread]

and now Dave (as you know the toy) you need to show it to us -- curiosity!

[Dave]

I've found an online image and linked. I love google!

[Leisha]

Ummm.... my mint has failed.

Mint? Mind! Arghhh! See? It's gone.


Reminds me of the Coke fiasco of a while back, where someone had purposefully put an...er... interesting image onto Coke labels, before it got noticed and recalled. I remember seeing a picture on the internet...

[Talysia]

Oh my goodness! It must have seemed like such a good idea in the production stages...

[HardScienceFan]

I'm dead serious here: over here Candy chain store Jamin sells candy that was made purposefully (more phallic,even,than the ones shown in the link)in that shape,and other shapes as well.
They're sold amongst the ususal candy(for kids),but there hasn't been much of a consumer outcry(except in the consumer TV program/magazine 'Kassa').
The complaint(if any) was basically that there should be a separate department('adult candy)
all of you know i come from a pretty enlightened country.
So what do i make of all this?
Anything that trivializes sex is very very ver very very very very bad.
am i oldfashioned ?
No.

[Perpetual Man]

I don't see what the fuss is about.
They just look like little jelly lighthouses. What else could they be mistaken for?

[BookStop]

Someone must have noticed and kept thier mouth shut because they too thought it funny, right?