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This Pizza Shop Put a Sex Doll in Its Window and People Were Pissed

The greasy crossover between sex and pizza reached even weirder heights this week, thanks to a branch of Domino’s Pizza in Shoreham in West Sussex.
Phoebe Hurst
London, GB
Photo via Flickr user (vincent desjardins)

We've all heard that old saying, probably from the lips of some overly optimistic bro intent on sharing more than just a slice of deep pan: there's no such thing as bad sex or bad pizza.

Suggestive overtones aside, it's a statement that's hard to deny. Human beings love fornicating and they also love cheese-laden dough. Just look at how many of us have attempted to combine the two: the delivery guy getting lucky with a stack of double pepperonis on his scooter, 'za-loving feeders—and who could forget about the pizza condom? (Please help me to forget about the pizza condom).

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The greasy crossover between sex and pizza reached even weirder heights this week, thanks to a branch of Domino's Pizza in Shoreham, West Sussex.

It all started on Tuesday, when local bus driver Carl Smith noticed something strange in the pizza shop's window.

Speaking to ITV News, he explained: "I pulled up in my bus this morning around 9 AM and saw a boy looking in the window with his phone taking a picture, so I thought, 'What is he doing?'"

Intrigued, Smith went to "check it out" and came face to face with a blow-up sex doll, slumped in the window with a Domino's menu propped in her lap.

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Photo courtesy SWNS.

It seems the pizza chain's Shoreham outlet had abandoned its standard Two For Tuesday offers and brightly coloured flyers in favour of a more honest marketing approach. What better encapsulates the very particular sense of self-disgust that comes from horizontally inhaling 12 slices of Meat Feast than a slightly deflated sex doll; eyes vacant and mouth hopefully agape?

Saatchi & Saatchi better watch out.

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But the shop's risqué advertising effort didn't go down well with Domino's HQ. The restaurant chain issued an official apology, describing the incident as "misguided marketing" by a member of staff.

A spokesperson for Domino's Pizza Group said: "We apologise to Shoreham residents for any offence caused by the misguided marketing humour of our store team member. The doll has been retired with immediate effect and our team member has been reprimanded."

Let's hope she had a good pension plan in place.