Willy Biscuits - your thoughts?

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The below just popped up on my Instagram as I follow the account, traditional Swedish biscuits reworked into a cock & balls shape to promote prostate cancer, and sold in a chain of convenience shops. Funny, eye-catching, excellent promotion IMO.

It got me thinking what the reaction would be if say, Greggs, brought out a range of dick shaped biscuits for the same cause.

I just can't imagine it happening in uptight old Britain, at least not without tabloid uproar and much pearl-clutching (although to be fair they might be clutching their pearls in Sweden, I'm basing this whole musing on one Instagram post).

What thoughts please Mumsnet? Would you buy a bag of dick-biscuits for the office or the in-laws? Would you shield your children's eyes at the counter? Would Piers Morgan actually implode (I suppose if they were gluten free he might)?

Nothing to do with raising awareness for prostrate cancer it’s all about sly advertisement of the store/brand.

All of these ‘raising awareness’ promotions are marketing techniques.

Nothing to do with raising awareness for prostrate cancer

I’m not going to take that lying down

I don't think it's uproar/pearl clutching. It's just eye-roll-inducing and childish. Boorish, if you will. Like those brides who dress up in penis costumes at hen dos.

IDK why any grown adult women get giddy thinking they're doing something naughty by buying penis shaped pasta or colouring books, but they've been around in the UK for decades OP. Unless the people who think it's "out there" are very young/immature?

My DS would probably find it hilarious, but he's 5.

The truth is that no-one in the UK would give a shit but on a quiet day a few tabloids like the Daily Mail would whip up a froth about it as a space filler and pretend there was a furore.

'Parents' anger as Greggs stocks penis-shaped biscuits'

'Parents took to Mumsnet today to express their shock and anger at the new 'penis biscuit' on sale in Greggs. One mum talked of shielding children's eyes at the counter and 'uproar' ...' [see what I did there?]

I love it when a galaxy-brain comes on to tell people this 😂Just like after the JL Christmas ad.

I think these biscuits would go down very well in Britain. I suspect most tabloid coverage would be very positive (Sun headlines saying things like "Let's say BALLS to cancer!") Anti-cancer plus something "cheeky" but not too out there- perfect tab fodder. The only pearl-clutching would be from some dick on Twitter writing a long thread about how biscuits contribute to obesity which contributes to cancer.

Raising awareness? - bollocks!

Some every clever advertising.

😂I, in fact, actually bought a selection of dick shaped biscuits for the office a few years back!

Our works Christmas do had a 'dirty Santa' themed secret santa. Even writing this out sounds so incredibly inappropriate, but I work in a sexual health clinic, so we aren't really your typical office colleagues and we see/talk about a lot of things that most people would be aghast at. So it seemed completely appropriate given the circumstances. My secret santa gift was penis shortbread biscuits. It was actually one of the tamer contributions to Santa's sack if you can believe it. They ended up being shared out in the staff kitchen and they sadly weren't the best shortbread I've ever had despite their fun penile shape. 😂

Wouldn't they need to be bum hole biscuits for prostate awareness?

I thought they were little columns. What’s the opposite of a dirty mind?

I wouldn't really want to eat them in public.