It was not a very merry Christmas for parents who purchased the Play-Doh Cake Mountain set for their kids.
That's because the set comes with an icing applicator that looks, undeniably, like a penis.
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It started getting a lot of attention when this tweet made its way around Twitter.
I salute the designers who somehow managed to get this Play-Doh icing maker past their bosses. http://t.co/cRCnsEMmmo pic.twitter.com/0aQMtJS9Wi
- Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 30, 2014
After inspecting the toy (many of which were purchased for kids for Christmas), parents flooded the Facebook page for Play-Doh, commenting with photos of the phallic toy they had purchased.
Play doh is deleting photos of its Cake Mountain topper. Snort. pic.twitter.com/Ske8JjU9eu
- DearAuthor (@dearauthor) December 30, 2014
In response, Play-Doh deleted posts, which BuzzFeed pointed out was not the smartest idea.
I dunno if anyone else follows Play-Doh on Facebook but you should cause they're doing some serious damage control pic.twitter.com/TooleS5PgE
- El Clarko (@Fatgoldfish4) December 29, 2014
"We have heard some consumer feedback about the extruder tool in the Play-Doh Cake Mountain play set and are in the process of updating all future Play-Doh products with a different tool," a Hasbro spokesperson told KTUL reporters.