Durex Announce A Very Strange New Flavour of Condom

Publish date
Tuesday, 6 Sep 2016, 11:13AM

Durex have many flavours available...orange, chocolate, kiwifruit...and then they went and announced a new flavour. 

The global company took to Twitter to reveal that their latest line of rubbers would be eggplant (aubergine) flavoured.

Tweeting an image of the new box they wrote: "#BreakingNews: We're launching an exciting new savoury #Condom range - Eggplant flavour!"

Obviously the idea for the flavour takes inspiration from the eggplant emoji which is used for...you know...

However, the company have since revealed that they have no plans to launch the condoms, and the tweet is part of a campaign to promote safe sex.

Even though they eventually came clean about their intentions, Twitter users were fooled and expressed their opinions on the social network. 

Nishant Kaushik missed no opportunity to excercise a pun adding: "So as to avoid planting an egg".

And Emma joked: 

The stunt was created in response to the fact that the company's appeal for a safe sex emoji was rejected by Unicode.

Ahead of World AIDS Day 2015, Durex launched the #CondomEmoji campaign which fired up passionate support across the internet, with people from over 140 countries voicing their support.

Although Durex will not be launching an aubergine flavoured condom they are hoping the hoax will continue to promote safe sex and continue to rally support for a condom emoji.

 

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