Via Shakespeare’s Sister, word of what sounds like an urban legend, though evidently it’s for real. But like many urban legends, it’s also a cautionary tale. An Atlanta TV station, doing a hard-hitting story on the new whole-wheat donut from Krispy Kreme, used an image someone in the art department probably grabbed online shortly before going on the air:
(You can watch the video at ShakeSis.)
Ordinarily I would expect this to have been discussed at Romenesko by now, but so far don’t see anything. All the more surprising given the nonstop debates there in 2003 over nuances of the journalistic ethics involved in covering the opening of Krispy Kreme stores as news.
Suggestion to the Poynter Institute, which not only hosts the Romenesko news blog but sponsors workshops and seminars for editors and reporters: Devote a course to the perils of Google Images, and soon.
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sidereal 03.09.07 at 11:10 pm
While I would not suck a dick for a Krispy Kreme (and in fact would reject one even if it came with a free dick sucking service), I might consider gently fondling a dick for even one Top Pot doughnut, as they have been scientifically proven to be 8 orders of magnitude better than Krispy Kreme’s little sugar puffs.
Jacob Christensen 03.10.07 at 1:17 am
I must confess that I as a European am totally alien to doughnuts.
A search on Wikipedia (ducks for missiles) suggests that the firm Krusty … sorry: Krispy Kreme has … ahem … been the centre of some controversies.
Could this in fact be a case of undercover sabotage? (Pun intended)
Otherwise, I can only quote the one and only Homer Simpson:
swampcracker 03.10.07 at 1:55 am
Now you know why donuts have holes in the center.
JAD 03.10.07 at 4:37 am
That’s an Augusta TV station actually.
Barry Freed 03.10.07 at 8:37 am
OK, so I’m on a Treo with images turned off but I’m imagining that it’s probably, I mean it’s just got to be goatse.
worse Jim 03.10.07 at 8:49 am
I’ve never essayed the proverbial flying fuck on a rolling doughnut, but my impression is that their holes are incommodiously tight, incongruously sugar-coated, and often uncomfortably sprinkled with little crunchy things.
novakant 03.10.07 at 10:55 am
is it offensive sexual imagery day already?
aaron 03.10.07 at 11:10 am
i like how the image captures the shape of the news anchor’s mouth as if she knew very well how the caption read and is now about to pantomime a demonstration of the activity for us. in case we did not know already. it is the news after all.
John Emerson 03.10.07 at 2:02 pm
Jacob, of course, is Danish, and commendably loyal to his own national pastry.
The Marmot 03.10.07 at 2:22 pm
Funny enough, this happened here in Korea last year with an online newspaper:
http://news.media.daum.net/snews/economic/industry/200601/06/Edaily/v11316834.html
At least the Korean commenter at the bottom caught the problem…
John Emerson 03.10.07 at 2:34 pm
To put it more memorably, he might say “Ich bin ein Danish”.
David 03.10.07 at 3:34 pm
I’ve long wondered if deBeers would find a way to allude to something like “dick will be sucked” in their “give her some diamonds” advertising
John Emerson 03.10.07 at 4:16 pm
I just saw in the paper that African “blood diamonds” are being overtaken by mild-mannered Canadian diamonds with inferiority complexes.
John Emerson 03.10.07 at 4:37 pm
Mild-mannered socialist Canadian diamonds with inferiority complexes. I can see the TV ad now:
Boyfriend: Dear, I got you a little something you might like, but if you don’t you can always exchange it.
Girlfriend: That’s pretty nice, thanks. I’ll probably keep it.
Boyfriend: We can also eat these mooseburgers while we watch the curling match.
Girlfriend: That sounds OK. Do we have enough Screech?
chris y 03.10.07 at 5:01 pm
Jacob, of course, is Danish, and commendably loyal to his own national pastry.
Which is, of course, known as Viennese in Denmark.
Uncle Kvetch 03.10.07 at 5:13 pm
I’ve long wondered if deBeers would find a way to allude to something like “dick will be sucked†in their “give her some diamonds†advertising
David, you’re not the only one.
Jacob Christensen 03.10.07 at 5:17 pm
@8+12: Indeed – Wienerbrød. Danes have even been spotted eating berlinere.
I suspect that neither wienerbrød in general nor berlinere in specific would inspire any sexual imagery in my home country.
luci 03.11.07 at 6:41 pm
I know the image was just one person’s spoof, but I wonder why a similar phrase:
“So good you’ll lick pu**y”
doesn’t seem to have the same resonance. In a hetero context, is it a gender difference – where the men are seen as much, much more willing to give oral sex (perhaps as a “price to entry”), while the womens’ reciprocal “dick sucking” is less enthusiastically undertaken?
M. Townes 03.11.07 at 8:28 pm
Luci – it’s an allusion to KK’s oft-noted “crack”-like attributes. That would be “crack” the drug, not “crack” the anatomical feature. Fellatio is widely considered a quick way for crack addicts to earn money to buy the drug; hence the term, “crack whore”. Cunnilingus doesn’t enjoy the same reputation, so the relevant gender difference is probably that men are (perceived to be) less discriminating in whom they allow near their genitals, and more willing to pay.
jacob 03.11.07 at 10:15 pm
where the men are seen as much, much more willing to give oral sex (perhaps as a “price to entryâ€), while the womens’ reciprocal “dick sucking†is less enthusiastically undertaken
I do not have any actual data on this, but I would be very surprised to learn that men are “more willing to give oral sex” than women. I say this based only on my many years of reading Dan Savage and my more years of discussing such things with peers (I being of the generation that shocked our elders when Monica Lewinsky discussed her sexual practices with her “friend”).
nick s 03.12.07 at 6:37 pm
I know the image was just one person’s spoof
It’s actually based on a (misquoted) Chris Rock piece (NSFW).
aaron 03.12.07 at 8:43 pm
That’s pretty damn funny. Thanks for sharing Scott.
glenn 03.13.07 at 3:23 pm
So, why doesn’t Slick Willie do advertisements for KK? Seems right up his alley…
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