Guess what!
You no longer have to tell your kids not to eat the Play-doh because now there's Yummy Dough!
Yes, Yummy Dough.
First you play with it, then you bake it, then you eat it!
Sure sounds "yummy". Grab "dough" with multiple grimy unwashed hands. Rub it and mold it into shapes on unwashed tables and floors (stray hairs equal free protein). Then eat!
[Of course homemade Play-doh has always been edible. Water, flour, cream of tartar, salt and food colouring. Guess if I had just been smart enough to add sugar, I'd be rich.]
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Ugh! I saw this 'toy' this morning at a boutique toy store in Calgary.
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That's just evil... plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, it was common for us to "help" our foremothers when they baked. They'd give us a pinch of the dough they'd made from scratch and we'd play with it like clay. Usually they'd discard it as dirty by the time we were ready to put everything in the oven, but as we grew older and learned how to handle it, we made miniature versions of what they made, and thereby learned to bake.
ReplyDeleteIn nursery school, we were marched in to wash hands, given pre-made dough, instructed how to shape that dough, and then the dough became cookies, or mini challah breads, or whatever the lesson was.
The issue today is that the media have made parents afraid of baking from scratch (those eggs could have poisons in it, better have our artificial eggs instead!), or they don't have time to bake from scratch, and this sort of thing fits in that niche between Play-Doh and those extruded tubes of cookie dough some folk buy in the supermarket.
Interestingly enough, the UK version of the product is a bit better than the North American one. Instead of artificial colours, they use natural plant extracts for the colours. I'm guessing it has to do with stricter regulations in the EU, but knowing the *could* make it better here but don't is annoying.
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