Fruit Filth
This was in my email when I got up this morning and honestly, I just couldn’t wait until tomorrow to share it with the rest of you. Don’t forget to follow the jump to the offending image!
UDATE! Thanks to commenter Kevin, we have added a photo after the jump of more of the MAOAM fruit filth from other flavors.
My sweet wrapper leaves a sour taste
The other day, while doing our weekly shop, I bought for my two children, Benjamin & Ofelia, a packet pf Haribo Maoam lemon-and-lime confectionery. It was only after I was leaving the check-out that I noticed the appalling illustration on the packaging.
This consists of a lemon and a lime locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter. The lime, who I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid and distasteful expression on his face. I demanded to see the shop manager and during a heated exchange my wife became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park. I was told to register my complaint with the manufacturer.
I’m glad I spotted this before my young children, who are both very sensitive. My wife and I have always tried to protect their innocence – and to think all our years of careful parenting could have been wrecked by a sweet rapper makes me livid.
I received a reply from the company saying that the wrapper design had been introduced in Germany in 2002 with a view to making the fruit figures ‘more modern and lively’ to ‘better appeal to the consumer’.
It said: ‘At no point was it intended to create sexual images’ It has been shown to a number of children and adults of different age groups, none of whom has made any comments referring to sexual content. I consider this reply to be less than satisfactory. As a member of our local church, I’m now urging members of our flock to bycott Haribo products until this illustration is removed.
Simon Simpkins
Pontefract, West Yorks
“Offensive Image” after the jump:
Submitted By: Anonymous via Cakehead Loves Evil
@crazyemails
Wow, i never noticed this and these things are really popular where i live. I always notice misconstrued innuendos and this wasn’t one. I think that man is just a pervert.
Orange you kidding? Look at the lime on the lower left square… he’s got weird “weird fetishes” written all over his green skin.
Seriously now, this gy isn’t a Troll. Republican maniac maybe, but not stupid. That does clearly like a lime getting laid by several different fruits.
There was a german schoolclass who decided to write to the company.. in the name of a catholic school (which they did not attended, it was a joke) … the company told them the same…. it had been shown to adults and kids and there was never any negative reaction.
These sweets are really sold as seen above (I work at a supermarket) nobody seems to care…
but it fits the music they play there… there are songs with lines like “slipping into you my fingertips” and stuff like that but none of the customers seems to speak english so there were no negative respones to that music
It appears to be consensual.
The cherries especially seem to be enjoying it.
..and the orange seems quite eager.
This story got onto Fox News! Haha everyone should check out the article.
If all your “years of careful parenting could have been wrecked by a sweet rapper”, then you’ve got much, MUCH bigger problems than candy at the supermarket. Honestly, if you can’t raise your children to be prepared for all the things they’re going to see and hear as they grow up and something like this ruins their minds, you should be medically altered in order to keep you from breeding.
Yes, some parents seem to think the “talk” should consist of saying:
“IT DOES NOT EXIST AND IF YOU EVER BRING IT UP AGAIN SATAN WILL COME UP FROM THE BOWELS OF HELL AND MURDER EVERYONE YOU LOVE!”
I totally agree. Kids should be prepared to deal with the things they will encounter in thier developing years, so that when they become adults, they can be mature and make good decisions. Not because they are experienced in the world, but because they have been properly educated about the worl. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. Sheltering them and hiding them from the world will only harm them later in life. I thank God for my dad. Sex is one of those thing I am very glad I knew about and was prepared for. I am sooo glad he didnt just let me turn 18 and and find out everything on my own.
Not saying the friuts dont look a little too into…whatever they are doing
Im a christian and i think its hillarious 
people like this who get so easily offended over things like this amuse me. c’mon dude…its a friggin candy wrapper…calm the F down 
if a candy wrapper will flush years of parenting, i suggest you change your parenting tactics cuz you still have billboards, commercials, Halloween, other kids…
When I was a kid and I saw something like this, I wouldn’t have even known what it was. Children haven’t developed sexual natures yet and don’t pick up on things like that. I know because when I would watch movies as a little kid I didn’t have any idea what was going on in the “bad scenes,” and when I grew up I would watch the same movies and see the innuendos and sexual images and I would think, “man, I can’t believe I was allowed to watch this as a kid.”
In short, kids can be “messed up” sexually in one of two ways: either intentionally or unintentionally exposing the children to too much sexuality or trying to be over-protective. If a parent freaks out and gets all bent out of shape over something like this, it’s just going to make the kid more curious.
At any rate, as soon as that kid hits middle school, the “innocence” is going to be gone whether those parents like it or not.
Ugh! Parents like this drive me nuts. The death of innocence is the start of adulthood… it’s inevitable. I’m not saying let your 5-year old watch dwarf porn and listen to Jay-Z, but you’ve got to phase out the “parent shield” gradually or your kid’s going to go into shock when the real world hits him/her.
Or worse, they could go into denial and become a maladjusted pariah with epic FAIL in all future social settings. Like a forty-five year old man who’s thinks candy wrappers are dirty pornography. *gasps* waittasecond!!
“during a heated exchange my wife became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park”
Really? What kind of person gets THAT distressed over a wrapper? She was probably playing “sick” to get her dumb husband to STFU. That’s my opinion.
She was probably embarrassed of him and wanted to get out of there before someone started taking pictures to post on the internet.
sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but this one is a hoax.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1342/
There’s nothing on that page you linked that says this particular email is a fake, it’s talking about a completely different email.
Frankly, I thing the Cherries are getting “tea-bagged”.
Come on. We all know sexual innuendos move products. I’m more concerned with what the green guy is supposed to be and how I can get into a threesome with a pair of cherries. The green guy does pretty well for himself.
I think this is a fake email. Weak
hmm,never noticed before.ok, so the people who wrote the message where a little exaggerated, but the maoam pic is really disturbing
What’s so disturbing about it? If it weren’t for sex, none of us would be here.
indubitably
My favorite part is “years of careful parenting could have been wrecked by a sweet rapper.” Damn you, Ludacris! You and Eminem have wrecked YEARS of my parenting!! Damn your sweet, sweet rapping!
LOL
I remember the email from the german school class. They really made some good points in it.
For example that all the fruits are having a female gender (in german our words have genders as male female and neutral) and that their positions suggested sexually serving the…. well “male something” (I could never make out if its a bean or something, but for sure it is no fruit) and that the movement lines emphasized this idea. They went so far to say that the green bean could be a pimp or something for the fruits.
Well for the people who say kids don’t get the sexual content you can’t be sure. There is something like subconsciousness such things go into.
And even though….. if there are such images on the wrappings….. some guy must have created it. Just think of the sick mind who would design something like this for a child’s sweet wrapping. O.o And that must have been grown up person.
I noticed this when I was about 6(back in 2002, i’m now 13) and back then I knew all about that kinda stuff(due to an older brother and sister and a dad that would always watch films with it in whilst I was in the room).
I just laughed at it. Surely the designers didn’t realise. Still, they’re mass produced. No need to get so worked up over a bloody sweet wrapper.
Well to be fair, those fruit are totally doing it.
But I’d like to see how good his parenting is if it can be completely demolished by a picture of fruit doin’ it.
The green thing is a pear. Duh.
Pears have stems…and are not the color of limes…he’s not a fruit that I know of…
HAHAHA!!! “The cherries especially seem to be enjoying it.” Oh thank you bridget…
Lol. Those fruits on the wrapper are definetly getting it on. The company is trying to play innocent. Instead of making store clerks life hell for a wrapper they had nothing to do with. Just don’t buy that candy anymore
man he really is giving it to that lemon.
HAHA. I read about this earlier on a “parenting” site.
and it totally is pervy. but when i asked my 8 year old brother, he just thought they were cute. then he said “theyre eating eachother.” hahah.
Call me crazy… but it looks like the lime is screwing that lemon to me.
Evil to him who thinks evil.
Wow, this screams of overly religious parents.
These parents have some serious issues. The point of parenting isn’t to “protect” your child from all of the perceived evils in the world. That just leaves them weak and vulnerable. I mean … come on. Parent your child! Teach them what life is, what’s going to happen, what could happen, and how to deal with it. That’s why so many kids today are fucked up. They aren’t taught how to deal with real problems.
they dont look super sexual, it just looks like theyre having a good ol time
The lemon and the green thing are just kind of cuddling; it’s obvious the green thing is crazy for fruit. If they were being innapropriate, wouldn’t the lemon be squirting it’s juice?
Honestly yes, there is no doubt in my mind that those fruit are getting it on like nobody’s business. It’s like a delicious kama sutra! At least they’re clearly enjoying themselves, I think someone else mentioned that it looks consensual. However, the man who wrote the original e-mail is what I like to refer to as CRAZYGONUTS. It’s insanely conservative religious anal-retentives like this that make this world such a tolerant place. Protect your kids from robbers, not life. It seems to be overprotective parents like this who turn into grandparents by the time their offspring are 12, because everyone knows that ignorance is the best education. Just tell your kids that the fruit are happy and leave it at that. Enjoy your “bycott”, Simple Simon.
Definitely over religious parents, but that is definitely not entirely innocent either.
Kind of reminds me of an incident that happened years ago, when I worked in a theater.
A father and his two sons (looked to be about 9 and 11-12) came to see Star Wars Episode II. About three minutes after entering, the father comes out absolutely foaming-at-the-mouth livid and, seeing me first, started ranting at me about a certain trailer that had just played (for a movie called The Good Girl). It seems that during this trailer, Tim Blake Nelson’s character says “If I was a woman, I’d be a lesbian” and the guy is ranting at me, saying that ‘[his] children did NOT need to hear THAT WORD’ and such and wanted to know “what [I] was going to do about it.”
I patiently explained that the theater played trailers for upcoming films, that those trailers were played before all of the films shown, and that we had no control over the content of the trailers, as they were deemed appropriate by the MPAA.
This answer was unsatisfactory to him. The general manager just happened by and I explained the situation to him and this angry guy went into further detail about how he’s trying to watch a movie with his two sons and they don’t need to hear words like “lesbian” and what is he (the gm) going to do about it. The GM told the verge-of-insanity guy the same thing I’d just told him and the guy went back into the auditorium in a huff.
I think he and his kids stayed to watch Ep II. However, I should note that while this guy was out and screaming about his grievances over a word, his children stayed in the auditorium continuing to watch watever “filth” (as the guy put it) was continuing to play to their fragile little minds.
I thought to myself that if those children didn’t know what a lesbian is (by now/already) and they asked their father, he could always use the immortal, “I’ll tell you when you’re older” line and if they knew better than to ask either parent (no doubt both parents were of the same mind), they’d certainly hear it at school, provided they weren’t home schooled.
I think with the name Ofelia, this kid will have a lot more to worry about when she starts school.
Hint: If you’re going to name your children with an outlandish name, please make sure you spell it correctly – Ophelia.
I think this might be the best advertisement for sweets I’ve ever seen! God, next time I’m going to my girlfriend’s, I’m bringing this! Shit! Fuck chocolate, fuck cigarettes! The new after-sex sweet is here! Haribo’s Maoam! Watch the sweets go “Aaahhhh”
I saw this in the Daily Mail when it was originally published and just WTF’ed at it for a good ten minutes…
That orange is totally goin’ down on the lime (or pear or whatever). And the lemon and lime are getting after it too… looks like a fun position!
@Ophelia not Ofelia
“Ofelia” is the Spanish spelling of the name. See Pan’s Labyrinth.
Actually I’ve also thought the wrappers seem somewhat sexually suggestive but a child would not realize this since they normally haven’t seen porn or live sex, and thus don’t have a mental image of what it looks like. Compare it to the “is your mind dirty?” test that has a picture with dolphins that outline an image of a couple having sex. Children only see the dolphins while people with a “dirty mind” see the couple having sex. So although the message proves the fussy Simon has a dirty mind, the best way for him to protect his children would be not to tell them he sees anything offensive in the wrappers. Otherwise the children would be likely to get obsessed with staring at them because it was something naughty and mysterious.
@Kelly
I lol’d.
… the fact is, if your child makes something dirty out of the picture, they already know far too much. If they don’t know what sex is, they won’t think the fruit is having sex. Simple.
At first i thought this email was ridiculous. Then I saw the pictures. Yup, thats definitely sex.
It only appears dirty to a dirty mind. Are you telling me this overprotective dad’s kids have filthy enough minds to view this as sex, WITHOUT having prior knowledge of what sex even is?
You know, most of the time this is just bull crap. I mean, people make claims about this looking wrong or that looking offensive.
But you know what? Looking at the way that lime is licking at those cherries…..well, I think I actually agree with this nut ball, call me crazy.
Oh dear lord, an entire generation of minds has already been molested by this…this…this total outrage! We’d better do something about this! Call the Pope! No, no, wait, call the cops! Get the FBI on the case! Get ahold of the S.W.A.T. team, the Queen of England, and God Bless George Bush! Burn the company down! We can’t undo what has already been done, ladies and gentlemen, but we sure can prevent it from happening again! This is…the single biggest crisis that has befallen America since the Great Depression.
ok. you’re crazy. right? right? I’m confused.
They do slightly look like they could be doing something Carnal. But the possibility of any kid, much less this guy’s incredibly sheltered kids, seeing this as sexual is extremely low
Good think he didn’t see the lime licking the cherry while it gyrated on his crotch.
…it really does look like the fruits are doing it, though. :/ Cartoonish fruits doing it on a kid’s candy wrapper is just gross. Even on an adult’s product, those characters having sex would be gross. Badly-drawn-cartoon-fruit porn is a non-existent genre for a reason.
I rape young girls everynight
I expsosey emdlesslessly hard genitals and squirty white stuff into them several times a night and let then loose chained and gaged naked till someone finds their naked deipping body I will be back for them my erect penis is ready .
Stop me or will rape more young slutS and I will.make them begg
My penis is so big it willake them bleed
If you females do not replply these virgins put there pussiese to my will…
@Robin: geez, forum posts from crazy people.
comes with the territory sean
The lime is clearly female, but unfortunately, Simon came out a little damaged at birth. Anyone can tell that lime is just scissoring with the lemon, who is clearly enjoying it. I *did* say love thy neighbor, after all. Some fruits just like to scissor while they’re doing it.
Oh wow. I thought the guy was overreacting until I saw the pictures. I mean, really, a kid’s product. Even if the kids shouldn’t know what it is, it’s still gross and out of line.
Muahahahahaha!! My evil, nymphomaniac fruit-porn will soon take over the new following generations,
And there’s NOTHING you can do to stop us!!
I think it’s kind of funny how the lime is never on top. Bahahaha. It’s like,
The other fruits only want to give head. Or maybe the other fruits are guys as well??
GASP! GAY FRUIT PORN. The world is fucking ending. XD
I don’t know what the green thing is (isn’t a lime shaped like a lemon, only green?), but why is it the only one with limbs?
Yeah the letter is a fake, but that doesn’t change the fact that the lemon wants to give his lemonade to that whore lime. You can tell she really wants it too. WTF is up with the cherries? Maybe I have a perverted mind, but it looks like they are teabagging that whore lime. Looks like it was welcomed. I feel sorry for that orange though. Looks like that whore-of-a-lime is trying to convince him that “if it smells like fish, it’s a yummy dish” I don’t think he’s convinced yet, seems hesitant. Lastly, our fruity slut looks like she’s trying to make that sweet little strawberry a lesbian. It’s obvious the strawberry is also female, but she doesn’t seem very interested. Maybe the lemon and orange told her how much of a skank that lime is. Not sure, but that damn lime is practicaly on her knees attempting to shake some seeds off that strawberry. Maybe that lime was originaly a lemon, and because she’s a nasty skank, she let her yeast infection get out of control bad enough to cause mold. Giving her a new idenity to whore around with. I’m just guessing, I haven’t been able to prove my accusations…..yet.
Yes people, that was written as a 100% joke. I thought it sounded like something one of these idiots would really think. I’m sane, as far as I know…..but I honestly did this solely as a joke…..or did I?
Clearly the fruits are engaging in TICKLE FIGHTS, come on people.
OMG this much crap over some cartoon fruits supposedly gettin’ it on? They’re cartoon fruits, people! Aren’t there better things for us to focus our anger on? ….Seriously though, they’re totally spooning
HI ya’ll.
Howdie do you all (YA’LL), Have a nice holliday! Marry nell.
HI folks, this is a riot! Have a nice holliday
To Jack Sprat. you are right. This is funny stuff. People today need a little comic relief in their life. So laugh loud but in moderation so you don’t get a sore throat! Little Red Ridding Hood. Have a good day.
Oh. Wow. Those are actually kind of racy.
Candy Porn! I want a three way with those hot juicy cherries.