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Citizen complaint of the day: I don't care if it's called Sweet-N-Nasty
By adamg on Sat, 08/29/2015 - 11:32pm
See it larger (if you have smelling salts handy).
A shocked citizen was shocked to see that the window display for Sweet-N-Nasty on Mass. Ave. in the Back Bay, which specializes in X-rated cakes and chocolates, was filled with the sorts of items one might expect to find in the window of a store that specializes in X-rated cakes and chocolates.
"Totally offensive," was all the outraged citizen could muster before hitting submit on his or her 311 app and, no doubt, swooning to the ground.
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And Rubber Chickens Too
Seems I remember a stink about a rubber chicken in a polka-dot bikini in the window of the Pet Cabaret store a few years ago that got a similar complaint.
Oh... The Humanity!
Good memory
Pornographic chicken scandal rocks Roslindale.
I'd love to see TLF weigh in
I'd love to see TLF weigh in on this.
That should be "oh, the mammality".
No nipples on a chicken ...
Chicken Nipples
....great. Now I know what phrase will be bouncing around my head for the rest of the day.
Oh C'mon
This place has been there for thirty years - I had to go pick up a penis-shaped cake there in the mid-1980s for a bachelorette celebration.
I'm wondering if this childish adult prude is younger than the store is and never experienced the Combat Zone in its full glory. Or, maybe they don't have stores like this near Flyover State University where they got their undergraduate degree.
Flyover State U
Is probably right. It's move-in time, it's probably some freshman's mom who decided to go spend some time on the famous Newbury Street and walked past Sweet N Nasty, and was horrified- absolutely horrified- at the sinful Big City they'd sent their baby to.
And they just happened to have
The 311 app handy?
It's not hard
to download an app.
Download, complain, uninstall.
And where do you come from,
may I ask?
I was born and raised here in the northeast and I never heard anyone from here while growing up refer derisively to 'flyover' states. The first time I noticed people laughing at 'flyover' country (midwest, deep south, etc.) was from people who themselves were raised in 'flyover' country or 'redneck' rural areas. It's these people, who mostly came here for school or employment, who give northeasterners a bad rap for being snobs.
"Flyover State"
"Flyover state" is one of those terms that just popped up in relatively recent times and all of a sudden became part of the lexicon as a term everybody uses. Another example is "Black Friday". despite what Wikipedia says about this term being around since the 60s, it was NEVER used to the extent it is now until maybe the late 90s or later. Growing up, we always just called it "the day after Thanksgiving" and it was understood that meant sales and all that went along with it. Even the election time "Red State, Blue State" has only become all pervasive in relatively recent times. The thing is, once these terms enter the lexicon, a George Orwell doublethink situation arises where people believe these terms have simply always existed.
Basic research
Basic research can be done before we actually use the phrase "George Orwell doublethink."
Both terms have significant mentions in the 40's and likely date back to then.
"Fly over state" has been rising since the 80's.
"Black Friday" really peaked in the 90's and has been calming since.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fly+over+state%2Cblack+fri...
I've been using "flyover
I've been using "flyover state" since the 90s and have lived in Mass my whole life. Not everyone says it but it's not exactly uncommon.
Sure ya did Swirly.....
Sure ya did. ;)
Now that
is some tastefully positioned photo glare.
20 years, at least
Am I wrong to think that this place has been there for about 20 years? Talk about a delayed reaction.
Try 39
I found a number of references saying it opened in 1976.
Better
Better than premature ejaculation.
Precious snowflake
I'd be willing to bet this was posted by some precious little politically correct snowflake student of the type now streaming into the city from their sheltered coves.
I doubt
...any of those kids have looked up from their phone screens long enough to notice this store yet
Kids these days
Why back in my day we had to walk uphill in the snow both ways to complain about a scandalous display - and we liked it!
Tasteless
Tasteless absolutely talentless and lack of effort (effortless) window display. Looks like the stuff was just thrown there - maybe that is what the lady was really complaining about. Show some creativity and make a decent window display.
I absolutely agree! Too busy
I could barely make out the "Boobie Beer Glasses" in all the visual clutter.
I'd suggest a subtle nautical theme, maybe a overwashed backdrop of the Hokusai wave, behind a pedestal draped with navy blue shirred silk, with the "Pin the Torpedo On the Sailor" positioned on it.
Why don't you offer your
Why don't you offer your services as a window decorator? I'm sure they would welcome some creative suggestions.
I suppose she'll be complaining about
Hubba Hubba too, when she finds it.
hubba hubba closed a while
hubba hubba closed a while back.
Hubba Hubba moved a while
Hubba Hubba moved a while back.
No, they moved, I believe
To Ellery Street.
New Store
There new place is really nice and I suggest checking it out
Suitable for All Ages
Its suitable for all ages, of course, so why would a reasonable person object, right? Hey, Grammy, Junior and Princess, come see! Boy, you UH commenters are out to lunch on this one. Its one thing to have no problem with this stuff in private, but quite another to tolerate it in a storefront display outside some area such as the old Combat Zone.
Ain't America Grand?!
Ain't America Grand?!
Opening a business right next door
Gonna specialize in pearls, for grasping. And handkerchiefs, for wringing. I'll make a fortune!
Don't forget monocles,
for dropping!
And Gobs for Smacking!
And Gobs for Smacking!
Forever offended
It's not a window display that I'd be thrilled with if it were in my neighborhood, but I'm convinced more than ever that there are people who wake up each morning searching long, hard and everywhere for something - anything to be offended by.
2 outta 3 ain't bad
Sounds like a troll 311
Sounds like a troll 311.
At least 25 years
It's been there for at least 25 years....in college that was where people got their birthday cakes. "Make a Wish and Blow!" And "Breast Wishes." Their use of Rice Krispies treats was impressive.
I used to live around the
I used to live around the corner from this place, and had on of the best days of my life when a very proper-looking British lady walked up to me and asked (with a full-on accent) "Excuse me, can you please tell me how to get to the Sweet and Nasty?"
The store has been there for
The store has been there for much longer than you have, outraged citizen. Move along...
Many bakeries will make adult themed cakes
My brother, sister-in-law and her family own and operate a bakery in the suburbs north of Boston and my sister-in-law, among other things, decorates the cakes. They'll make cakes to order for pretty much anything, but don't specialize in adult themed cakes (I worked there for seven years and in that time, there were maybe five adult themed cakes made). Years ago, several days after a customer ordered a penis cake for a bachelorette party, my (calm, kind and mild mannered) sister-in-law got a call from an irate attendee of the bachelorette party who had called and demanded to speak to the cake decorator, yelling at her for making such a "dirty and disgusting" cake and having a "filthy mind". I think she just laughed at her, advised her to look a little closer to her circle for filthy minds and hung up.
Good comment, we have become
Good comment, we have become so hypersensitive now that people can't do anything without someone complaining about it.
What I find a lot more troublesome than this
What I find a lot more troublesome than this, are people having loud conversations in public who can't keep their language reasonably civil, which is inconsiderate in two ways (at least). I calculate that 98% of the inconsideration is based on loudly subjecting others to your conversation, and 2% is based on your don't-give-a-shit attitude about just what you're subjecting others to. Understand, by "subjecting to" I don't mean that you're speaking in a public place at a private conversational level that no one could overhear from ten feet away; I mean that you're speaking at a volume that demands attention from people much farther away than that. Pipe down, people. It's easy to avert your eyes from a store display; averting your ears from some twit yelling on a cellphone is a lot harder.
Wedding cake
Will they make a "gay-themed" wedding cake? Funny in "flyover states" this is a bigger issue!
'Merica, home of the sexually
'Merica, home of the sexually repressed; but where sexual violence and guns are OK!