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| Thread ID: 126398 | 2012-08-24 23:25:00 | Playdough use offends Maori ... | SP8's (9836) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1296693 | 2012-08-24 23:25:00 | I know it food and shouldn't be played with ... but it's not KFC !!! It's no bloody wonder people are leaving this country by the planeload ... things are just getting beyond ridiculous. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1296694 | 2012-08-25 02:43:00 | What who to the where now? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1296695 | 2012-08-25 03:11:00 | I wonder why it has taken them so long to be offended - playdough has been in use for many years. Rather strange how playdough has been okay for all that time, but all of a sudden it's not PC. Why the change? Is it that the people who are (apparently) offended are a bit slow? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1296696 | 2012-08-25 03:44:00 | It's @#$% crazy. Kids of the age that use playdough are notorious for swallowing whatever they can get their hands on, from dirt and sand to toys and boogers. To make the stuff safe for consumption is very good sense. There's no reason to encourage them to eat it, but at least you needn't fear them swallowing it. I certainly wouldn't want to call the stuff a foodstuff, but the alternative of having kids swallow sticks and stones and bottlecaps is a whole lot worse. Until reading the article I had no idea the coloured bile was actually considered edible! Who would actually chose to eat that stuff other than a stupid juvenile? Play D'oh more like! And I'm willing to bet pre Euro Maori would have been perfectly happy to treat a rounded (ball shaped) fruit or vegetable as a plaything whenever food was abundant. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1296697 | 2012-08-25 07:01:00 | Heres the link to the article tvnz.co.nz |
QW. (15883) | ||
| 1296698 | 2012-08-25 07:10:00 | Play dough is fine. Just tell the kids not to eat it. I suppose they can't control them anyway. I ha loads of fun with play dough before I went to school. I never ate it. The Maori's in Parliament are a little wako... | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1296699 | 2012-08-25 08:53:00 | And there is also this: www.stuff.co.nz | icow (15313) | ||
| 1296700 | 2012-08-25 09:09:00 | When I was a kid we used to play with plasticine which is a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools). Playdough may in fact be a substitute for plasticine. Plasticine would be much more expensive than playdough. I do not think that this is not solely a maori thing. Both maori and pakeha children are taught not to play with their food at the dinner table. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1296701 | 2012-08-25 10:10:00 | And there is also this: www.stuff.co.nz dear, what next. No wonder it is easier to have trees, bridges, birds etc on banknotes, they arent offending anyone. How stupid its all becoming. On the real topic. I can remember taking potatoes to school to cut up and make carve the cut surface. Then painting the surface and stamping it onto paper and making all sorts of shapes. If was fun and creative. I dont see how it was offensive, I dont think we were hungry enough afterwards to eat the spud :) |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1296702 | 2012-08-25 11:25:00 | I guess this bizarre custom of not playing with their food stems from the days when maori war parties took prisoners... | johcar (6283) | ||
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