Fruit are genitalia! :eek:
I laughed when I saw the article, too, but unfortunately it looks like the letter was a publicity stunt.
Those fruits are definitely screwing, though I can’t figure out why the lime would “obviously [be] the gentleman”.
Don’t tell Mr Simpkins that, or he’ll ban his kids from eating apples and oranges 
Royal Doulton did it first with their Bunnykins collection. Here are a selection of back stamps from this charming collection of children’s plates and figurines.
Me neither. But it obviously is.
That’s no gentleman!
Um, really?
Are your kids not allowed to watch the Discovery Channel? 'Cause, you know, there might be actual animals fucking. Not just cartoon fruit.
People judge books by their covers. That’s just a fact of life. Are you proposing we not take the packaging into account when making a purchase? There are at least hundreds of millions, perhaps billions spent on graphic design and layouts for product packaging. The industry seems to take it seriously. Except for these guys and Big Ass Fans, who are up front about bucking the system, it seems to be pretty standard to not treat your packaging as an anything-goes joke space.
I don’t think I would sue someone or be outraged about it, but I can see not wanting to patronize a company which treats its product’s image as a risque joke. There are some products this kind of thing is appropriate on, candy for children, not so much.
Enjoy,
Steven
They’re fucking like rabbits!
:D:D:D
The best part is the captions! Be sure to read this in Eric Idle’s voice:
Fruity: According to Mr. Simpkins, the lime has a ‘particularly lurid’ expression on its face during its encounter with a lemon
followed by
Debauched: The lime enjoys a similar experience with a willing pair of cherries
God save the Queen!
I thought furries were weird, fruities, zomg.
I thought the limeys had gotten over their obsession with popping cherries in public?
Enjoy,
Steven
I think it’s pretty clear that they did that on purpose. Why I would want to think about my fruit candy boinking I do not know. Ew. But why should I buy something if I don’t like how it’s packaged? They put a lot of effort into those images; why reward them for it if I don’t like it?
Anyway, I think any kid over about 8 would know there was something about those pictures. I know I would have, and I was a pretty naive kid. Go ahead and call me crazy, but I don’t particularly like the idea of putting sex on kids’ candy wrappers. It’s mostly stupid, but it’s also oogy.
And yes, I let my kids watch nature programs. I think there’s a difference between sex in nature (you know, how it actually happens, circle of life and all that) and the commercialization of sex in order to sell every product possible. To get quite a bit more philosophical about it than a stupid candy wrapper deserves (but hey, you asked for it), I think it damages all of us when we are constantly bombarded with varnished and commercialized sexual images and told to connect our sexuality with buying things. Or, conversely, when sex is used as a silly joke to sell more things we don’t need.
I wouldn’t buy them because I hate fruit candy and prefer things like chocolate. If a company I already liked did that (made the little Nabisco guy play with himself, or if the Milky Way wrapper included graphic space sex), I’d still buy them because I like the way those things taste.
I can only imagine the myocardial infarction he would have had over these. (And yes, they’re real. I’ve seen 'em myself.)
No, I don’t think this is just her. Lots of people object to advertising on products.
Regards,
Shodan
The lemon and cherries are without limbs and helpless. Obviously the result of a misogynist artist with violent rape fantasies.
Not much of a gentleman, that lime.
I guess I should add a quick note. Maoam, as you can see, is made by Haribo, which is based in Northern Europe–AFAIK it’s German but it seems to have a lot of Danish connections as well. I used to live in Denmark, visited Germany often, etc. and these sorts of silly sex cartoons were quite common, though I never saw any on children’s candy, which usually went for the plain gross.* So to me it looks quite obvious and deliberate. It’s done all the time–Haribo has just moved it into items for the younger set.
*One highly popular line of candies consisted entirely of items like “Gull Poop,” “Dog Farts,” “Sour Sewer Candy,” “Dirty Diapers,” that sort of thing. They were yummy, I liked the Gull Poop best.