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Our favorite reader complaint of the morning comes from a woman who called to say that the following Associated Press photo in Wednesday's Life section is pornographic:
The reason for the offense? That big, upright baguette, which evidently for this reader carries with it such strong phallic connotations that even those innocent cherry tomatoes look vaguely complicit.
It's an Associated Press photo, by the way, that ran with a story by Bee food writer Joan Obra about the Slow Food movement.
Next week maybe we'll feature cucumbers.
Comments:
Now I know why I was so turned on this morning while reading the Bee. There's nothing like a nice, warm and firm baguette to get this warm-blooded American going. Too bad she didn't have a cube of butter in her other hand.
Posted by: Mediahack at September 3, 2008 12:52 PM
wow. i was looking @ that picture thinking what could be offensive. i didn't even see the baguette until i read the full quote.
i better the reader was also incensed that it was french bread and not a hamburger bun.
Posted by: ed at September 3, 2008 1:20 PM
this is so cool. I actually attended this event. I was in San Francisco to perform that night..and we were meandering about the City and happen to come upon the Slow Food festival..so we had to stop and.it was really cool. It the Fresno Bee reader would really like to see phallic suggestion, just come out to one of my shows ;)
Posted by: Patrick Contreras at September 3, 2008 1:47 PM
Wow, some people just LOOK for dirty don't they? Then they're all outraged when they find it.
Posted by: C1 at September 3, 2008 2:15 PM
It reminds me of that old SNL skit about Sigmund Freud, in which he tells his daughter, Anna, that "sometimes a banana is just a banana."
Posted by: felicia matlosz at September 3, 2008 2:41 PM
What the heck??
I didn't even see the baguette until i read it below. Seriously. It's just BREAD.
People have their minds in the gutter. I know...our high school paper got so many immature people sniggering at double entendres, and a couple people complaining. but then that was high school...
Posted by: enny_buddy at September 3, 2008 2:55 PM
That's my favorite SNL skit ever! I say that all the time.
Posted by: Famous at September 3, 2008 3:34 PM
Bread Envy, --that's all it is...
Posted by: wet towel at September 3, 2008 5:52 PM
It is my unfortunate duty to announce that Stephen has been placed in a mental health institution for life, involuntarily.
It seems he was found wandering the streets in a delerious state, screaming and singing and dancing, fully nude.
"WET TOWEL GAVE JUST A FIVE-WORD COMMENT!! WET TOWEL!!!! JUST FIVE WORDSSSSS....WOOOOOHOOOOOO I'M CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS!!!"
Poor guy. He may never recover.
Posted by: Stephen at September 4, 2008 12:06 AM
Well Stephen,
I've always thought the performing arts is a serious institution, and have often felt that you should be seriously institutionalized...
so glad to be of service...
and for the record?
That thing DOES look like a massive 'how-do-ya-do'
(and even like somebody kinda photoshopped the end of it...)
Though I doubt the tagline:
'Is that a baguette you have in your pocket, ---or are you just glad to see me...'
will go very far.
Posted by: wet butterfly net at September 4, 2008 5:27 PM
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