New Condom Wins In Taste Tests

[matcom]

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NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- An Indian firm has launched a paan-flavored condom designed to evoke the pungent taste of the betel nut and tobacco concoction chewed and then spat out by millions of South Asians, newspapers have reported.

Millions of South Asians chew and then spit out paan, a pungent betel nut and tobacco concoction.

Hindustan Latex is targeting the new condom range at prostitutes, who are among the most vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, the Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.

The company ran taste tests with sex workers, including prototypes with chocolate, banana and strawberry flavors, but the paan flavor came out tops.

"The community loved it as most of the sex workers chew paan," Sanjeev Gaikwad was quoted as saying at the launch in Mumbai. Gaikwad is a director at Family Health International, a public health organisations that helped develop the condom.

Paan is a mildly intoxicating preparation wrapped in a leaf, usually containing tobacco, betel nut and flavorings, and is hugely popular across South Asia. It is chewed to a mouth-staining red pulp before being spat out.

The condoms will at first be made available only to prostitutes, but will we launched to the general public in a few months, the newspaper said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/india.condom.ap/index.html

[matcom]

1. that was a TASTE TEST!

:P

[Deja Q]

4. What, they actually eat the condoms?

That'll be a fun journey...

[Fenris]

2. 4 out of 5 hookers agree! HINDUSTAN LATEX brand paan-flavoured condoms are for them!

[Deja Q]

3. Tastes like nuts, eh?

:hide:

[TK421]

5. Matcom...where the FUCK do you find this shit?

Paan? gotta get me some Paan and take meself a trip to south Asia :D

[some guy]

6. wow

hope some hooker doesn't have a mental lapse during work, and start chewing, based on the flavor on the tongue. :scared:

[Mrs.Matcom]

7. Can I get a Blueberry flavored one?? n/t

[matcom]

8. tell you what. we'll skip the middle-man

i'll go out to the blueberry bush and stick my pecker between the bird netting. i'll come in the front door and you just be waiting for me baby!

:P

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

9. !!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Deja Q]

11. Three flavors are better than two!

:9

[DS1]

12. at least she'd be guaranteed to get one firm prick that night

:P

[Initech]

10. This is a taste test I don't think I want to be a part of...

:puke:

[Arugula Latte]

13. I think it's funny the phrase "spit out" is used in this article

:D

[matcom]

14. morning kick

:rofl:

[NuttyFluffers]

15. when my friend introduced me to paan we'd used to chew and suck and chew and suck

it was great! that first time we were scarfing piece after piece while watching some 4 hour bollywood movie at the local indian theater. it was a wonderful thing to idle with, just gnawing down the wad, sucking dry the treacly syrup, rolling the heavy mass around and around to angle it just right for the next bite...

i don't know, this might be a hazardous flavor to offer now that i think about it. :shrug:

[meegbear]

16. Suck? Chew? Spit out?

Sounds like a fun evening. :evilgrin:

[The2ndWheel]

17. "condom designed to evoke the pungent taste of the betel nut "

I never thought I'd read that. I've thought about it, just never thought I'd see it in print.

[underpants]

18. Sounds like quite the task

[DS1]

19. It's just switching the taste of one nut for another nut

:shrug: