@Jack_Burton: The slices look a little like holes in her body. Reminds me vaguely of that female artist who made a picture of herself as Jesus being crucified naked. #boobs
Nestled "suggestively" between a pair of naked breasts? Is there any other way sausauge could be nestled, you know, between breasts? Just the fact that there are sausages between breasts is pretty damn suggestive. Not to mention porny and gross. #boobs
@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Who is this about? Many Slavic languages have both "v" and "w" sounds. It's German that lacks "w" and the substitution of "v" for "w" is a typically German mistake. #boobs
@Misiula: At the risk of trying to parse a fifteen-year old SNL joke, I'll confess to cribbing the text from Wikipedia. The "v" and "w" substitutions are theirs.
But a typical German would tell you that typical Germans don't make mistakes. ;) #boobs
Can we also discuss (or perhaps *not* discuss) the disturbing conflation between a woman's breasts and chopped meat? While some might argue that a slice sausage is a phallic threat, here it seems to argue that the female form is a carnal smorgasbord: consumable, replaceable. #boobs
@abunbn: Really well put. "Carnal smorgasbord." I'd love it if I didn't hate it.
And by offending or distancing women and some men, to whom do they expect to appeal here? As a vegetarian, I'm turned off anyway and never was looking at this as a possible consumer. But I can't imagine seeing this and being moved to consider the product between the breasts, whatever it was. In addition to being socially irresponsible, it seems to be failing at what in theory it's meant to do: sell. #boobs
@JerseyGrrrl: Great question about target audience. Who digs this ad?
Strangely rapt, I now wonder about the bondage imagery here: the woman's arms are clearly lifted above her head, a gesture that we might well read as voluntary if the intact sausage weren't restraining both the woman and the sliced sausage--an observation that in turn raises the question of how we might want to interpret an image of what I can really only describe as double-dicking. #boobs
@abunbn: I don't even think that much thought was put into the creation of this. I think it was an issue of getting attention with BOOBS! and placing the product between them. I wonder if the issues you're raising were even considered by those responsible. #boobs
I realize that I cannot imagine living in a culture in which naked breasts are allowed to appear (GASP!) in advertising to the general public. Something like this is honestly SHOCKING to me, the product of the same culture that ran for months on the story of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and named it Nipplegate.
And I also realize that for this I am in the global minority. Where else in the world but the US are boobs so simultaneously shamed and fixated upon?? And how is it that elsewhere they can be viewed so casually?
@JerseyGrrrl: I live in a culture where naked breasts are... just that, naked breasts. You see them on TV, at any time of the day, in movies, all the time, on the beach... and you don't even think about it. Nothing you haven't seen anywhere else.
But this one, oh boy, it is gross and vulgar and even here (France), this one would not fly.
Maybe it's because I'm vegetarian, but the meat/human flesh connection presented is too strong to imagine anyone feeling hungry after viewing it. #boobs
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WHERE ARE HER ARMS?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS "SAUSAGE CROSS" SHE MUST BEAR?!
Help me understand, oh BaconJesus! #boobs
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BRING ME SUPERTEXT!!! #boobs
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Now is the time on Sprockets vhen ve make disturbing advertisements! #boobs
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But a typical German would tell you that typical Germans don't make mistakes. ;) #boobs
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And by offending or distancing women and some men, to whom do they expect to appeal here? As a vegetarian, I'm turned off anyway and never was looking at this as a possible consumer. But I can't imagine seeing this and being moved to consider the product between the breasts, whatever it was. In addition to being socially irresponsible, it seems to be failing at what in theory it's meant to do: sell. #boobs
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Strangely rapt, I now wonder about the bondage imagery here: the woman's arms are clearly lifted above her head, a gesture that we might well read as voluntary if the intact sausage weren't restraining both the woman and the sliced sausage--an observation that in turn raises the question of how we might want to interpret an image of what I can really only describe as double-dicking. #boobs
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And I also realize that for this I am in the global minority. Where else in the world but the US are boobs so simultaneously shamed and fixated upon?? And how is it that elsewhere they can be viewed so casually?
**MIND BLOWN** #boobs
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But this one, oh boy, it is gross and vulgar and even here (France), this one would not fly.
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"mmmmmmm........sausage" #boobs
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Maybe it's because I'm vegetarian, but the meat/human flesh connection presented is too strong to imagine anyone feeling hungry after viewing it. #boobs
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It makes me think of a penis getting the tip chopped off.... #boobs
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@rokenrolzombie: I dare say that I am scandalized indeed!
(also - this is the only monocle popping pic I could find) #boobs
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THERE'S SAUSAGE!!! God this ad is so hilariously awkward! #boobs
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Gavrilovicka is the brand name and it's supposedly one of a kind. #boobs