Condoms used to sell a ‘meat-lovers’ pizza We’ve written about Hell Pizza before. They’re the New Zealand pizza shop that put up the billboard showing President Bush marked by Satan. Now they’re pissing people off by giving out free condoms to sell a meat-lovers pizza called “Lust.” Focus on the Family, a religious group, is disgusted. “Not only does the connection between ’meat-lovers’ pizzas and condoms cheapen women and the act of sex, but putting condoms in letterboxes means that anybody, no matter how old, are being handed condoms and instructed how to use them,” the group writes in a release. Hell Pizza’s Warren Powell is trying to frame the campaign as a public service. “New Zealand has got the third highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the developed world, so we have not got a problem with children getting hold of [condoms],” he says. —Posted by Tim Nudd

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“New Zealand has got the third highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the developed world, so we have not got a problem with children getting hold of [condoms],” he says.

Surely he means the exact opposite? Unless they're getting hold of them and, oh, I don't know, putting them on their heads?

Posted by: Rob | Nov 2, 2006 10:46:33 AM

Woulda’ been a better promo for breadsticks.

Posted by: makethelogobigger | Nov 2, 2006 11:15:58 AM

"“New Zealand has got the third highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the developed world, so we have not got a problem with children getting hold of [condoms],” he says.

Surely he means the exact opposite? Unless they're getting hold of them and, oh, I don't know, putting them on their heads?"

huh? i think the comment in the first paragraph above was correct. if more children get a hold of condoms, then more children won't get pregnant. makes sense to me.

to comment on the ad itself, does anyone else find the visual of a pizza in a condom wrapper kind of disgusting? can't you just smell the latex?

Posted by: t | Nov 2, 2006 12:45:25 PM

Tube Steak topping 50¢ extra.

Posted by: tom lout | Nov 2, 2006 12:45:33 PM

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