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This is probably (hopefully) the only time you'll see the words "straws" and "penis" in the same story here at Slashfood.
The mom of a 3 year-old Kentucky is upset at Wal-Mart for selling what she says are obscene straws. Some of the straws in the package (ahem) she bought are shaped like...well, a penis. Or so she thinks. I'm not sure if I would have thought that at first, especially since the two straws in question are mixed in with other random shaped straws.
You can watch the video from WSAZ-TV here.
So, Slashfoodies, what do you think? Does the mom have grounds to be mad about the straws, or is it just a fun shape (like a rocket ship!) and she's seeing what she wants to see in them?
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3-19-2008 @8:53AM LinC said... I think it's her own vulgar mind at work. If it was a kid, I would never thing of it.
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3-19-2008 @9:28AM Trisha Smith said... I recently bought a 10lb bag of potatoes on sale. The day I brought them home from the grocery I opened the bag to get some out to peel for making mashed potatoes. And OMG! Right there, on my counter was one shaped just like a male sex organ, with all the parts attached!!
Yep! That's right, and you heard here as an exclusive story! Next, woman sees Virgin Mary in her green peppers!
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3-19-2008 @4:51PM A_Str8 said... If the bag had random shapes, it's an understandable oversight, but they should stop including that particular shape. Those straws in the picture look like something I'd find in Spencer's gifts or some other "novelty" store.
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3-19-2008 @9:54AM Philpott said... It's a rocket ship! or a poorly drawn meat mallet! or a potato masher! or a nose. But there is no way on earth that it could be a p@#%*!. That would make it to easy, because that is one of the only things on this planet, other than rocket ships, poorly drawn meat mallets, potato mashers, and noses, that look like this.
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3-19-2008 @10:06AM Brenda Y. said... I have to agree -- don't we have other more PERTINENT things to worry about with our children than the supposed shape on the drinking straw they are using? People can be so ridiculous -- but I am fighting for a common-sense approach to parenting. Pick a new way to use your influence and energy! How about starting those "talks" with your child about their own body right now? It'll make future talks so much more easy.
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3-19-2008 @10:09AM Numb said... Personally I'm not offended by it at all - but I will say that it's the exact same shape as the "penis pasta" you can find at novelty stores, which clearly *is* meant to resemble male genitalia.
But again, I'm offended by it and I'm pretty damn certain that nobody under the age of 14 would ever possibly consider the straw sexual.
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3-19-2008 @10:10AM Numb said... Gah - "But again, I'm NOT offended by it" was what I meant to say.
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3-19-2008 @10:58AM Mel said... I think she needs to be reminded that there is a market for straws shaped like that (having been to many bachelorette/hen/stagette parties recently, I know...), and the straw-maker could've accidentally thrown some of those shapes in to this mixed bag. Big deal! Tell the kids they're a rocket ship, if that works for you.
Clearly, this woman needs to learn to talk to her kids about sex, and she should have a bunch of girlfriends over to use up the phallic straws for some kind of fun lady party. She obviously also needs to get laid.
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3-19-2008 @11:41AM kevjohn said... I think she should be reminded that if it wasn't for the wonders of the glorious penis, she wouldn't be a "mom" in the first place. She should wave all penile-shaped objects in her precious little kid's face and proudly proclaim "if it weren't for something shaped just like this, you wouldn't even be here today!"
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3-19-2008 @12:10PM Kitt said... Paging Dr. Rorschach!
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3-19-2008 @3:09PM rainey said... Dear god! I hope that 3yo is a girl. ...otherwise mom might have to go on national TV to tell us all how offended she is that her son pees through a penis-shaped "pee pee". @@
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3-19-2008 @6:04PM Michael Schmitt said... I thought it was the Arby's symbol at first and THEN I saw a rocket ship. Wow... I had to keep reading the blog before I saw what the mother was talking about...
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3-19-2008 @7:05PM stacey said... I thought it was a hat.
Some people just cannot get their minds out of the gutter...
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3-20-2008 @2:03AM Arbert said... I'll refrain from making a cocktail joke.
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3-20-2008 @8:27AM Patrick said... "It's a fun shape...like a rocket ship!" is an old pick up line I used to use.
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3-20-2008 @3:43PM kfober said... Oh dear...I am trying to put myself in her place and I am hoping I would laugh about this. Even if the child did catch on I hope I would be matter of fact about a body part. Its a part of the human body! And there's no way that I would have thought anything of this when I was a kid. I hope as a mom I would not make a big deal out of this as its just not a big deal.
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3-23-2008 @3:32PM jessicashepherd said... lady are serious...... throw them away if you are that offended by the shape of a straw. I can't believe the world has come to this. i get weird shaped veggies all the time and i am sure alot of other people do too but to you see us throwing a fit and stomping our feet on the floor
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