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Filed under: In The News, Weird But True, Sex
A dad was disturbed by what he saw on his kids' candy wrapper. Credit: Europics / CEN
Simon Simpkins of West Yorkshire was at the market shopping with his wife. They decided to buy some Haribo brand Maoam (pronounced ma-o-am) candy for their children, according to London's Daily Mail.
Then he noticed the labels.
Simpkins' quotes, from the Daily Mail, are perfectly priceless and brilliantly British. "The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter," the chap said. "The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face."
Are these wrappers inappropriate or just silly? Credit: Europics / CEN
Simpkins caused quite a row (American translation: made a fuss), having a "heated exchange" with the store manager, according to the Daily Mail. His wife, "became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park." (In America, we call that a parking lot.)
A spokesperson for Haribo, the German candy maker that manufactures the offending sweets, told the Mail that, "This jovial Maoam man is very popular with fans, both young and old."
Based on those pictures, we can see why he would be popular. The company slogan, by the way, is "Kids and grown-ups love it so, the happy world of Haribo." Haribo, which is an acronym for Hans Reigel, Bonn, the founder and the company's headquarters, made its name in the United States when it introduced gummi bears in the 1980's.
Further digging on the Haribo website found the sound of a moaning man on Planet Haribo, the company's interactive play space for kids. Since it's a pop-up window, we can't link to it, but go to the candy company's site yourself and take a listen.
"Ever since I was a little girl, Maoam had funny TV commercials for kids," said Dagmar Kappel, a German teacher now living stateside, and the friend of a ParentDish staffer. "That's what they are known for."
What do you think? Are the candy labels offensive? Or sweet?
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ReaderComments (Page 4 of 10)
8-29-2009 @ 8:05PM
Terry said...You only see what you're looking for. The parent's minds are 'disgusting', not the candy.
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8-29-2009 @ 8:02PM
Kim said...I never and I mean NEVER would've seen anything "sexual" in these wrappers even if I had been looking at them for a million years, unless someone pointed it out to me. Then again, I'm not a pervert. :-|
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8-29-2009 @ 8:06PM
Yaya said...lol I think it's cute. I doubt any "child" would find anything offensive about the wrapper. The gent who complained about the wrapper probably has sex the old fashion way TRADITIONAL and probably has issues with women who take control sexually. lol What a sap!
* The fruit seem to be getting MORE pleasure than dear ole Simpkins.
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8-29-2009 @ 8:47PM
monkeysuncle said...The father and all those posting who see the label as sexual all have dirty minds.
Really! Is that all you people think about? Are you so repressed and dysfunctional that you now imagine sex acts with fruit?
Someone needs therapy, here. . . .
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8-29-2009 @ 8:12PM
David said...I have a souvenir pack of candy cigarettes from Australia. First, they are candy cigarettes, very un PC. On the box is a depiction of a very young boy and girl, skipping along hand in hand in the hillsides. Associating children with cigarettes, again very un PC. Emblazoned across the top of the box in big letters is the slang name for cigarettes: FAGGOTS.
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8-29-2009 @ 8:25PM
t said...i could see if it was a dick or a pair of tits, but come on......its just fruit getting freaky. and further more, i think the parents should care about their kids teeth more then whats on candy wrappers...i mean come on... those guys teeth over there look like 50 year old chicklets that were soakin in mustard and tar
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8-29-2009 @ 8:51PM
Roswellianism said...*just bashes his head against his desk in frustration at the stupidity of humanity*
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8-29-2009 @ 9:51PM
calvin said...Highly suggestive at best. I think the manufacturers knew from the outset. It doesn't take a twisted mind to see what is being depicted. It does take a twisted mind to think nothing is wrong with it.
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8-29-2009 @ 9:07PM
chris said...is he for real?
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8-29-2009 @ 8:55PM
Bill said...If Dad see porn in these images, he has a twisted and sick mind obviously focused on porn. Sounds like he's the problem not the candy wrapper.
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8-29-2009 @ 8:59PM
dale said...That's as bad as pen holders.And limes having tongues?Seems like someones been at the top of the mast for a while.
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9-07-2009 @ 6:27PM
unkown916 said...LMAO. There's no doubt about it, the images are definitely sexual. The real concern is the kids (obviously). I wouldn't think that your average young kid would look at the imagery and see it as sexual, however, that doesn't mean its not. In a perfect world, people who market sex to little kids should be tortured and ultimately killed (Disney). The realistic solution would be for the parents to write the co Impany and/or boycott the selling of the particular candy. They could do something legally (I'm guessing) too. However, since big business is big business, parents should count on themselves to prevent their young kids from seeing such imagery. Also, parents could just buy different candy until the imagery in question is sorted out.
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8-29-2009 @ 9:26PM
Jay said...I am very proud to be an American, but in general Americans are WAY too uptight when it comes to sex. There is nothing offensive whatsoever in these candy wrappers. No normal small child would ever relate the images on those wrappers to sexuality if they even knew anything about sexuality. Lighten up people!
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8-29-2009 @ 9:18PM
Chevy15camaro80 said...wow its candy so what people are way too uptight these days i mean, come on this guy has nothing better to do then complain about candy.
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8-29-2009 @ 9:21PM
getalife said...I think any perv can read something sexual into anything they see.. as they say "in the eye of the beholder".. explains the wife having to go sit down in the car park..lol
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8-29-2009 @ 9:31PM
oz said...I would not have even given it a second look.
It's amazing and twisted that someone would even think that this is somehow a lime doing a lemon.
All it is, is their company logo liking the candy, no porn, no conspiracies, no hidden message.
And the poll! Holy shit, you people are uptight, 46% of you think it is "appalling"
People, you all really need to get outside and get a life.
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8-29-2009 @ 9:37PM
Gary said...I KNOW THAT GUY! He might live in England, but he's definitely related to the guy In San Francisco, who in the '80s & '90s, constantly wrote letters to the editor of the San Fran Chronicle paper complaining how pigeons & chickens are sensitive, intelligent creatures, how it's cruelty to animals to pour salt on a snail, and how parents are criminals for feeding sugar to their children. And more recently, earlier this year in fact, he bitched about a publication printing a photo of a combat soldier smoking a cigarette!
I have just one question to ask of him: In the world you live, what color is the sky?
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8-29-2009 @ 9:37PM
BoredinOC said...Does the lime ever get on top? LMAO Sorry - that fruit is having all kinds of sex.
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8-31-2009 @ 12:39AM
Bon qui qui said...clearly this lime gets around.... and he likes it sweet AND sour ;)
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8-29-2009 @ 9:46PM
Donna said...Well at least it wasn't a picture of a cherry licking a banana!
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