# If you make gummies in the shape of an arrow, they're going to end up looking like a phallus **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622 "2022-09-15T14:17:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/1 "2022-09-15T14:17:27Z")
You’d kind of think that was obvious. And if you add a little twerk at the other end, it’ll look like a scrotum. Again, you shouldn’t have to actually make one to figure this out. But some people evidently HAVE to be shown. > **[OOPS! Far-Right German Party Gives Out Gummy Bears With X-Rated Flaw](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/germany-political-party-gummies-inappropriate_n_6322d702e4b0eac9f4de4f7d)** > > The attempt to design the candy based on the party's logo led to what a parliamentary leader called a "completely unsuitable" gummy look. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/2 "2022-09-15T14:24:14Z")
🤣 > The AFD gummies’ package includes messages such as “there is an alternative” and “you just have to choose them,” [![](https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/3eb15341-5c0b-4f3e-8921-e2ff799a86d6_w594_r0.9124423963133641_fpx52.87_fpy46.4.jpg) ](https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/3eb15341-5c0b-4f3e-8921-e2ff799a86d6_w594_r0.9124423963133641_fpx52.87_fpy46.4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/3 "2022-09-15T14:31:51Z")
Worse still, their candidate is named Etta Bagodix! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/4 "2022-09-15T14:37:34Z")
Brings new meaning to “go eat a bag of dicks.” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/5 "2022-09-15T14:46:43Z")
Don’t use your teeth to eat them. Use only your gums. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/6 "2022-09-15T14:50:16Z")
Could have been worse. They could have been lollipops. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/7 "2022-09-15T15:04:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > They could have been lollipops. Or… [![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0669_small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0669_small.jpg) Two years / 146 strips later: [![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0815_small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0815_small.jpg) [![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0816_small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0816_small.jpg) [![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0817_small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0817_small.jpg) [![](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0818_small.jpg) ](https://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0818_small.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/8 "2022-09-15T15:31:27Z")
How will they rule the world if they can’t get this right? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/9 "2022-09-15T15:54:08Z")
> [@](#): > > If you make gummies in the shape of an arrow, they’re going to end up looking like a phallus Wow. Seems the well has really run dry on that Laura Numeroff book series. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/10 "2022-09-15T15:56:14Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Wow. Seems the well has really run dry on that Laura Numeroff book series. Well, sales fell off after they published **If you give a Mouse a Carcinogen…** ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/11 "2022-09-15T16:22:10Z")
Simple fix-- rebrand and market them as bachelorette party favors. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/12 "2022-09-15T16:58:19Z")
Or send them to Trump’s reelection campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/13 "2022-09-15T17:14:51Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > How will they rule the world if they can’t get this right? Very poorly, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/14 "2022-09-15T17:15:11Z")
The whole AfD is a bunch of pricks, so what else did you expect? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/15 "2022-09-15T17:39:01Z")
You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/16 "2022-09-15T18:00:28Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > How will they rule the world if they can’t get this right? Reminds me of a rhetorical question from a letter to the editor (back in the old days when people bought and read dead tree news) that I think was in the Real Paper, published in Massachusetts: “If Harvard is so great, and Harvard rules the world, then how come the world sucks?” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/17 "2022-09-16T00:30:04Z")
Rhetorical answer: Because it doesn’t suck for Harvard grads and they don’t much care about anyone else? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/18 "2022-09-16T02:48:33Z")
And then there’s this. [https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-ZgauO0gn/](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-ZgauO0gn/) ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/19 "2022-09-16T02:55:59Z")
Someone’s already gotten around to it (possibly NSFW): [https://bagofdicks.com/collections/bachelorette-party-ideas-bag-of-dicks-in-bulk-with-color-options](https://bagofdicks.com/collections/bachelorette-party-ideas-bag-of-dicks-in-bulk-with-color-options) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622/20 "2022-09-16T03:27:38Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > How will they rule the world if they can’t get this right? Obviously their chief weapon is surprise, and ruthless efficiency is a subsidiary matter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-make-gummies-in-the-shape-of-an-arrow-theyre-going-to-end-up-looking-like-a-phallus/971622.md?page=2)