My view of the world

Remember those disgustingly cute Cabbage Patch dolls? Well some of them weren’t as harmless as they appeared.

Back in 1997 Mattel had to recall approximately 500,000 Snacktime Kids dolls at $40.00 each.

It seems that these cute little critters were supposed to munch on plastic veggies. However, being kids they didn’t want to eat their vegetables. They wanted to eat other things, like hair and fingers.

Yeppers, the little blighters would just munch out on some kid’s hair and refuse to let go.
– Just like a real child who has something in their mouth that they like.

I guess they made them a little too life like.

Here’s the story in the NYT archives.

Mattel got lucky. The engineers I’ve known would have given them teeth.

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