A huge monument of a sausage and bread roll on a plate has come under attack after locals said it looks like a man’s genitals.
The 12-foot creation at a children’s camp in the town of Hurzuf on the Black Sea in southern Crimea was erected to immortalise the sausage, a favourite food of children during Soviet times, where it is known as kovbasa.
But now locals have ridiculed it after it was highlighted by Galina Dzhykaeva who posted this image on Facebook.
The sausage monument in the town of Hurzuf on the Black Sea, south Crimea was erected to commemorate Ukrainian children’s love of sausages during Soviet times though local people have complained the statue is more reminiscent of a male sex organ
Local Ludmilla Uspenskaya, 28, asked by local media what she thought of the display, said: ‘I see a man’s penis pierced with a fork. I also see that the model who posed for this monument only has one testicle. What a poor man.’
Another woman, Galina Artemonova, 54, said, ‘They shouldn’t have put this giant bun at the bottom of the plate by the sausage.
‘They also shouldn’t have put the sausage in a vertical position – horizontal would have been better.’
And local David Popudrin, 43, said: ‘I don’t know if I could eat sausages after seeing this.’
The camp, called Artek, was considered to be a treat for children from all over the former Soviet Union as well as for children from other Communist countries.
Russia, which annexed Crimea last year, says it plans to invest 21 billion roubles (over £270 million ) in reconstruction and development of the site.
A spokesman for the town said, ‘Soviet children liked sausages and bread rolls.
‘Crimean children do too.
‘This monument recognises the value of the sausage.’
On the question of it looking like a different kind of sausage, the official declined to comment.
Other countries around the world have found that phallic-shaped statues have become a significant tourist draw.
The Fertility Temple at Chucuito, Peru is a garden of about 30 huge phallic statues and supposedly dates from the pre-Inca era – it receives scores of visitors every day.
However in recent years doubt has been cast on just how old the statues are, and it now widely believed that the stones are not ancient fertility symbols but a more modern addition to an ancient archaeological site, put there with the sole purpose of drawing in curious tourists.
The Temple of Fertility in the city of Chucuito near Lake Titicaca, Peru contains 30 huge phallic statues that date from the pre-Inca Era
Meanwhile in Queensland, Australia, an oversized statue of a pineapple has become one of the Australian state’s major tourist draws.
The Big Pineapple tourist attraction on the Sunshine Coast in the southeast of the state uses a huge 52-ft model of a pineapple to lure visitors in to visit rides on its 410-acre site.
People are allowed to climb up the heritage-listed tourist attraction which has been open to the public since 1971.
Children poses in front of the BIg Pineapple in Queensland, Australia: pineapples grow abundantly in the region and the fibre-glass structure has become a famous local landmark
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