Friday, June 30, 2006

Impulse Buys

Subtle is just not the way to go here in Beijing. There is no hiding of boxes off in some hard-to-find pharmacy counter here. Nope, this picture was taken in the check out aisle at the grocery store. Who needs candy?

Beyond the name of some of these companies (Jissbon cracks Cara up every time she reads it) are all the various options which are not normally seen in North America. For instance, what does "plain coral" mean? And what might "dotted intimate" refer to? And if the woman who is participating in the act that requires a condom, does not resemble the woman on the box, does that mean that the condom will be a poor fit?

As we try to complete this particular entry, our conversation went into areas that are even less suitable for public commentary than the photo of this blog. Posted by Picasa

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