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Explicit Scenes On Haribo’s Fruit Chews?
Do the new graphics on boxes of Haribo's Maoam fruit chews show scenes of explicit sex? The members of St. Blasien Jesuit College think they do, and have publicly complained about them. The boxes depict various fruits frolicking with a blobby lime-colored creature. Are the scenes as bad as the college says? Well, you've got to admit that the College has a point. After all, what is that lemon doing with the lime-blob? Even Haribo admits that the packaging is "very racy." So my guess is that the sexual overtones are deliberate. But on the other hand, we are just talking about fruits and a lime blob. So maybe all of us who think the lemon and lime-blob are getting it on, just have dirty minds. The controversy reminds me of that rogue tin of Huntley & Palmers biscuits, but on a much larger scale. Update: The story gets even better. Turns out that the faculty of the Jesuit College never complained about the racy candy packaging. The letter of complaint actually was "a hoax perpetrated by pupils at the school who admitted writing it and posting it on the Internet 'as a joke'." The German tabloid press found the letter, thought it was real, and reported it as news. You gotta love the tabloids. Of course, this still doesn't answer the question of just what is that lemon doing with the lime-blob?
Posted By: Alex | Date: Tue Aug 31, 2004 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 26
Category: Food, Sex/Romance
Category: Food, Sex/Romance
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Just to answer a question I saw above:
MAOAM is pronounced: Ma (like mum without the 2nd m)- oh - um (like mum without the first m)
And an other funny fact is that St. Blasius might be an existing place and name...but having in mind that "blasen" ist the german word for blowing (would make the name St Blowious in english)...i guess I'm not the only one who thinks it's funny that the hoax letter about "explicit drawings" came from a place that makes one think of a blowjob *g*
Posted by German Guy on Sat May 21, 2005 at 09:32 AM
MAOAM is pronounced: Ma (like mum without the 2nd m)- oh - um (like mum without the first m)
And an other funny fact is that St. Blasius might be an existing place and name...but having in mind that "blasen" ist the german word for blowing (would make the name St Blowious in english)...i guess I'm not the only one who thinks it's funny that the hoax letter about "explicit drawings" came from a place that makes one think of a blowjob *g*
haha! me and my friends point that out all the time. i swear, that little green blolb is such a whore. sleeping with all that fruit! the cherry one is the worst, though. can you still buy lemon maoam ?
maoam sure is tasty though.
Posted by hattie on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 03:37 PM
maoam sure is tasty though.
"Thousands of young people raised on these MAOAM palindromic gumdrops might grow up thinking that fruits actually reproduce in this manner and remain completely ignorant of the facts of pollenation."
I seriously hope that was sarcasm.
Posted by hattie on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 03:39 PM
I seriously hope that was sarcasm.
mow-am
Posted by anonymous on Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 08:45 AM
Posted by Miss Cakehead in UK on Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM
The Daily Mail has decided to write the above letter up as a story:
http://tinyurl.com/nn675b
Clearly they did as much research on this as they do for their other laughable excuses for 'news'.
Posted by Richard Littlejohn (expat) in Florida on Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM
http://tinyurl.com/nn675b
Clearly they did as much research on this as they do for their other laughable excuses for 'news'.
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