Parents are outraged as kids’ TV ‘chef’ shows how to use a CONDOM to make a haggis
A boss at the Swedish broadcaster doesn't think the programme was inappropriate
A boss at the Swedish broadcaster doesn't think the programme was inappropriate
THERE are a few things you can expect from a kids' TV show - presenters wearing bright clothes, cheesy music and nothing to risque.
That's the usual anyway, but it's not how one programme which aired in Sweden went down.
Can you spot the issue?
The show's and it's all about a puppet chef.
In the offending episode cook Bon was trying to make a haggis - a traditional Scottish dish which is made from sheep's innards, onion, spices and salt, all stuffed into the stomach of a sheep or something similar then boiled.
The problem was cheery old Bon didn't have a sheep's tummy to hand to stuff his concoction into.
So what did he do? Used a CONDOM instead.
Even worse - he pulled it out of his grandma's handbag.
“Perhaps there’s something we can use. Balloons! That will work just as well," the puppet chef explains.
In shocking scenes, Bon is then seen stuffing sausage into the condom. It doesn't take a genius to work out what's going on there, does it?
Swedish parents were not amused by the scene and they took to TV network to air their complains.
"I’m watching (…) Bon who is today making haggis and is using a CONDOM as a balloon because there wasn’t a sheep’s stomach," one furious person wrote.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!??
"Disgusting, unethical and highly inappropriate."
Another gave an interview to newspaper and made her irritation known in no uncertain terms.
The woman had been watching the show with her six-year-old nephew and couldn't believe her eyes.
"It’s scary that they feel that this is okay," she fumed.
"Children are curious and notice everything.
"They see that it’s not a balloon and ask what it’s for.
"It is very provocative that they think it won’t be noticed.
"Children shouldn’t even be asking those questions, it’s completely wrong. You get really p***** off."
Johanna Gardare is one of the bosses at SVT and she's given a statement about the furore to The Local.
"I understand if you don’t appreciate this kind of humor, but I can’t see that it’s inappropriate by definition to show a picture of a condom in a humorous show aimed at children in middle school,” she said.
“In my experience all content that touches at all on the area of sex gets more reactions than other content, so for that reason I’m not surprised."