Play-Doh has landed in hot water with parents after releasing a plastic toy that looks suspiciously like a sex toy.
The item in question: an "extruder" tool included in Play-Doh's $20 Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset. Some parents are complaining that the device, intended for squeezing out icing onto a toy cake, resembles a penis
And it's a little hard to argue with that:
I just died. makers of Play-Doh, is super sorry about selling dildos to children: http://t.co/69zsXOG3DQ http://pic.twitter.com/7HyYcF7rnG"
— Jenee Andreacola (@likeidreamof28) December 31, 2014
Play-Doh was scrambling to delete a flood of images of the phallic object posted to its Facebook page by parents, Uproxx reported Tuesday. According to the site, the extruder has been garnering complaints since November — but the outrage gained more traction after Christmas, when many kids unwrapped boxes containing the dildo-shaped object. Read more...
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