There was a time when the man-in-a-barrel was so popular. The man-in-a-barrel is a wood carving of a, well, man covered with a barrel. When you remove the barrel, boing go the hands and the impressively huge putotoy. This masterpiece is available in all sorts of sizes (but the private part always ending up impossibly titanic) and in different shades of brown.
When I was a kid, the only place I saw this in was Baguio. Useless but LOL-inducing, it proved to be a popular pasalubong.
Interestingly, this pasalubong is now widely available in Manila – even in malls.
Another attention-grabbing wooden creation that will stop you on your tracks when you’re at the Filipiniana section of the mall is the penis ashtray. It is available in all sorts of sizes (extra small, small, medium, large, extra large, extra extra large) and shapes (we assume each one is individually carved by hand). One thing we noticed, however: all of them are circumcised.
The important question: do owners allow their guests to use these… masterpieces?
The more important question: why would someone create an ashtray with a circumcised dick attached to it???
