‘Il Ventinove’, the first ‘food porn’ place in Aversa

A sweet food porn arrives in Aversa. This is ‘Il Ventinove‘, the place that will open on Saturday 22 January in via Seggio 52. It is not a place like the others. Not only can you enjoy fluffy pancakes, but it’s the place where sex is turned into food, with sweets in the shape of a vagina and penis.

The hashtag #foodporn will now have a new meaning. A much more literal one, so to speak. ‘Il Ventinove‘ serves pancakes in the shape of a penis and vagina. The waffle is cooked in molds with a decidedly unmistakable shape and garnished with different chocolate and fruit-based sauces so that, with the two-tone finish, the representation of the male organ, and also the female one, is decidedly suggestive. Are you ready to enjoy delicious pancakes that are soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside with a phallic or vaginal shape?

These very special sweets, covered with dark chocolate, white chocolate, caramel, pistachio or raspberries, are able to delight the palate of the sweet tooth. Food has always been closely connected to sex; in fact, both with food and with sex, one can enjoy or remain extremely disappointed, depending on what one is faced with.

«Il Ventinove (The Twenty-nine) – tells us Ida Iorio, CEO of the company – in the Neapolitan Smorfia (s a book that details the old Neapolitan tradition in which dreams are analysed and converted into numbers to play on the Lotto) indicates the father of children, or rather the male genital organ that therefore allows children to be born. Hence the name of the place, ‘Il Ventinove’. In the logo there is a winged penis, a symbol already used in ancient Rome. These figures were called fascinum or divine penises, used to ward off the evil eye, among other things. Various historians explain the symbolic and magical power of phallic amulets by claiming that they had to do with fertility».

And then there is a very specific choice. «In our restaurant, ‘Il Ventinove’, – explains Ida Iorio – no alcohol will be served. We want to bring the taste of healthy fun back to via Seggio too. Il Ventinove is a format already appreciated in Spain and France, and is the first place in Italy of its kind, therefore, starting from Saturday 22 January in Aversa to witness the transformation of sex into food, with sweets at shape of vagina and penis».