What's in a shape?
In Japan for over more than 1.500 years people celebrate the Penis and Vagina Festival. In this annual event, called the Kanamara Matsuri, an ancient Shinto festival. the rites are supposed to lead to successful harvests and the birth of many babies.
During the festival, held in the first week of April in Kawasaki, penises in many forms and sizes are carried out through the streets. According to Wikipedia, the festival centers around the legend of a demon, hid inside the vagina of a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights. In retaliation, the young damsel sought the assistance of a blacksmith, who in turn built an iron penis to combat the demon.
Nowadays, the Kanamara Matsuri festival features a plethora of penis-related items. So have a choice to eat penis-shaped candies, and vagina or penis- shaped food, burn penis-shaped candles or eat and drink from penis and vagina shaped plates and cups.
Food that has originally some kind of penis-shape:
Cucumbers, carrots, hot dogs, sausages, eggrolls, bananas, pickles.
In Taiwan they started producing penis-shaped corn dogs.
Know any other penis-, or vagina-shaped food?
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