Ireland-based European food company Largo Foods has taken an unusual but direct marketing strategy in the Baltic nation of Estonia. Flags advertising Largo's tomato juice, attached to outdoor telephone poles, feature a decidedly phallic image and seem to suggest that drinking tomato juice will bring "potency."
The advertising blogger copyranter writes of the ad campaign, "I did not know tomatoes promoted pecker performance. Add it to the lengthening crop of recent sexxxy ads from Russia and former Soviet states advertising everything from sausage to car insurance."
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