Two Chinese entrepreneurs came up with a brilliant business idea: they bought regular old no-name condoms from a factory in one province, and bought packaging material with the globally recognized brand name of Durex, as well as Russian name brand Contex and China’s own brand Jissbon. When all of these big brand condoms started hitting the market at cut-rate prices, the authorities noticed, as the authorities tend to do. [More]
Flavor Wizards Behind Bacon Salt And Sriracha Lip Balm Announce Bacon Condoms
By March 28, 2013
The flavor wizards over at J&D’s Foods began their empire with Bacon Salt, a product that is vegetarian and certified kosher, yet tastes exactly like bacon. They expanded their product line to include other flavors (Sriracha hot sauce, malt vinegar) and products that aren’t food (caskets, envelopes, shaving cream.) Now a new product joins Bacon Lube in their series of non-edible Bacon After Dark items: bacon condoms. [More]
Whatever This CVS Has Planned Tonight, Count Us Out
By April 24, 2012
It makes sense for a store to place small impulse-buy items on the shelf next to related merchandise. Say, cereal and bananas. Beer and Ping-Pong balls. Cold medicine and tissues. Tampons and chocolate. Those choices all make sense, but this impulse buy found at a New England CVS left us, and tipster Jena, scratching our heads. [More]
Our New Favorite Drinking Game: Condom Brand Or Android Device?
By March 28, 2012
There once was a time when popular cellphones had names like StarTAC, meant to appeal to early adopters and the tech-savvy. But today’s smartphones are now equal parts communication device and fashion accessory, and the names have gotten sexier to match that change. But have they gotten so sexy you can’t tell whether you’re buying a phone or a condom? [More]
Store Attempts To Dissuade Customers From Trying On Condoms Before Buying
By September 13, 2011
There is already a great deal of information for consumers printed on boxes of condoms, covering everything from proper use to possible allergic reactions to effectiveness in preventing pregnancy and transmission of infectious disease. But one store felt the need to post its own advisory about condoms: That you shouldn’t crack open a box to try one on without paying. [More]
Avoid Walmart Receipt Check By Loudly Declaring That You Bought Condoms
By March 8, 2011
At Walmart, it’s not just electronics that have anti-theft tags: it’s any small, desirable item. Like a box of condoms. Patrick found a way to use this information to his advantage and avoid a receipt check at Walmart. Whether anyone should do this, especially after they’ve tripped the alarm, is a matter for debate. [More]
Looking For Free Condoms? There's An App For That
By February 14, 2011
Nothing says “Happy Valentine’s Day” like free condoms. That must be why the New York City Health Department picked today to unveil its new condom-locator app for iPhones and Android devices. [More]
On A Hot Date But Low On Cash? Don't Steal The Condom Machine
By January 28, 2011
A man in Hungary found himself banned from a bar after he got caught attempting to exit the establishment with an entire condom vending machine under his coat. [More]
Man Settles With Burger King Over Used Condom In Whopper
By October 15, 2010
Old school Consumerist readers may remember the 2007 story of the Vermont man who sued Burger King after claiming he found a used condom in his Whopper. Three years later, a lawyer for the man has announced that the matter has been settled out of court. [More]
Kid Gets Herpes From Condom He Found In Hotel Room
By September 22, 2010
Last month we wrote about the 4-year-old boy in Atlanta who mistook a used condom in a hotel room for a balloon and put it in his mouth. An STD test confirmed the family’s suspicions that the boy contracted herpes from the condom. [More]
That Free Balloon In Your Hotel Room May Be A Used Condom
By August 27, 2010
Kids: don’t try to blow up balloons that you find on the floor. Or anywhere that’s not from a sealed package. A 4-year-old boy awaits sexually transmitted disease tests in Atlanta after he did just that. He mistook a previous guest’s used condom for a balloon, tried to blow it up, and became mysteriously ill shortly afterward, with a fever and mysterious white bumps in his mouth. [More]
This Condom Warning Label Arouses Confusion
By August 23, 2010
A reader bought this box of condoms from her local Safeway, and she says this sticker was underneath the outer packaging. People be freaky, but is there anyone who would want a raw chicken condom that you have to keep frozen until use? (Meh, probably.) [More]
Which Condom Holds The Most Air Before Exploding? (Video)
By November 2, 2009
You might be be surprised how much air a condom can hold, or water (try 25 liters). But which holds the most before bursting to pieces? Our friend Theresa at Consumer Reports donned a lab coat and glasses to find out which brand of condoms came out on top in their durability tests.
Man Claims To Have Found Condom In Soup
By July 23, 2009
A man in Mission Viejo, California, says when he began eating his french onion soup over Easter brunch at the restaurant Claim Jumper, he bit into something rubbery. He “spit out the piece of cheese only to discover he had been chewing on what his wife claimed was a condom.”
By August 22, 2008
“Condom!” is a free ringtone for your phone. It’s being promoted in India as part of a campaign to normalize condom use, but there’s no reason you can’t put it on your own phone to impress and amaze fellow diners, bus riders, church goers, etc. It’s also catchy! [Crave]
Would You Like A Condom Ad In Your Beer?
By June 19, 2008
Maybe the bottom of a beer glass isn’t the best place to advertise a jimmy cap. Do you really want to drain the last of your beer and suddenly be reminded of Stiffler from American Pie? Yeah, we didn’t think so.
Man Finds Used Condom In Southwestern Whopper, Sues Burger King
By December 9, 2007
Van Miguel Hartless is suing the owner of a Rutland Burger King after biting into a Southwestern Whopper that contained a used condom. When Hartless complained to the manager, he “laughed off the incident.”
