Nick Armstrong: Colorado's Storytelling Small Business Marketing Expert and Funny Public Speaker » It’s Friggin’ May http://www.iamnickarmstrong.com Nick Armstrong is Colorado's storytelling small business marketing expert and funny public speaker. He specializes in creating funny speeches, revamping failing social media campaigns, community building, and creative problem solving for small businesses. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:04:21 +0000 en hourly 1 Food Porn – Sexual Candy: #Skittles and Twilight Candy Hearts http://www.iamnickarmstrong.com/2009/05/food-porn-skittles-twilight/ http://www.iamnickarmstrong.com/2009/05/food-porn-skittles-twilight/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 19:17:35 +0000 Nick Armstrong http://www.iamnickarmstrong.com/?p=715 I never knew candy could be sexualized until I saw #Skittles…

If you were paying attention, you might have noticed Skittles briefly changed their homepage to show the stream from Twitter of #Skittles.  Any time someone mentioned Skittles, a new message would appear on their homepage and push the older messages down.  What ended up happening is a lot of sexual innuendo and posturing from snarky idiots.  I guess that’s why you could say I wasn’t surprised when I found this in Walgreens: Sweethearts Twilight candy hearts.

Twilight Sweethearts

Lower Left text: “Secret Scent, Rub to Reveal…”.  Lower Right text: “The Forbidden Fruit Tastes The Sweetest”.

Apparently the candies also Sparkle and feature such messages as “Bite Me”, “Lamb”, “Secret”, “With You” and “Live 4 Ever”.

The weirdest part?  What the hell month are we in???  It’s freakin’ MAY.  MAAAAAY.

I’ll let you know if they’re also aphrodesiacs.  My guess?  They’ll make me bloodthirsty enough to play Halo again.

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