Tesco's 'penis'-themed buttermilk and other design fails

Whoever designed this package of buttermilk may well have had something else on their mind at the time.

There’s no escaping it: the design on this carton looks a lot like a penis. And it’s a carton of buttermilk. We don’t need to say much more.

The unfortunate design hasn’t gone unnoticed and attracted puns galore when it was posted on Reddit over the weekend. “They really made a cock and balls of this branding,” quipped redditor andyburdens, who said he found the cartons on the shelves of an Irish Tesco branch.

And in case you were wondering: it’s not photoshopped, though the item is only available on Tesco’s Irish website.

It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.

Obviously, there have been jokes aplenty.

This won’t be the last time design fails cause a titter on Twitter – and this is by no means the first time:

London 2012 logo

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Imagine designing a logo for one of the biggest sporting events London has ever hosted... only to be told it looks like Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. It was also called a “broken swastika” and just plain “rubbish” when it was unveiled in 2007.

Tesco’s Welsh lady ass fudge

Sorry to pick on you again, Tesco, but this one’s too good not to bring up again. It’s an image which has circulated since late 2013 – so much so, BuzzFeed reckoned it should have gone into sharing retirement last year.

Air BnB

Apartment rental site Airbnb was subject to endless mocking earlier this year when they unveiled their new logo. Instead of fanfare people reacted like this:

Oh dear.

Here are some more as suggested in the comments:

Office of Government Commerce

Office of Government Commerce was a rather good one. Better was their response to queries - something about getting a firm grip on public project delivery costs.

ofghent27 October 2014 1:40pm

Back story on that logo can be found here.

Euro plus Scandanavia

The Euro penis?
http://cantbeunseen.com/what-has-been-seen/14960-sweden-s-the-penis-finland

hakfrib27 October 2014 1:32pm

All Euro coins have a nob and balls on due to the decision to remove Norway from the map.
Can we do amusingly shaped vegetables next week?

davros27 October 2014 1:34pm

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