Complaints are flooding in about a popular European candy’s new packaging.
The fruit figures on Haribo MAOAM sour candies appear to have been caught in flagrante delicto. In other words, it looks like they’re doing it.
Here’s how London’s Daily Mail reports the sordid story:
Simon Simpkins was buying Haribo MAOAM sour candies for his children when he noticed the “pornographic” illustrations of limes, lemons and cherries romping with each other. Mr Simpkins of West Yorkshire said: “The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter.”
“The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face,” he said.
He told said: “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.”
A spokesman for Haribo said the “fun” packaging of the sweets was introduced in Germany in 2002 and added: “This jovial MAOAM man is very popular with fans, both young and old.”
The lemon insisted she doesn’t normally do nude scenes, but said the producers assured her that the label would be handled artfully.
Source: Daily Mail UK
