McDonalds: may contain nuts

Without going into the details of what I was doing there in the first place, I was in McDonalds last week, and I bought my daughter a Happy Meal (probably not the best bit of parenting on my part, I admit).

Anyway, the toy consisted of an ice lolly mould shaped like a squid. As it happens, it was crap at making lollies, but the thing that really interested me was the small sticker book that came with it, which featured three stickers of squids.

As a parent, I was happy with the educational slant taken by this product, but after placing the sticker in the book, I was shocked by what I was left with.

Although I'm hardly the paragon of maturity, I think it's fairly obvious these look like penises, albeit rather worringly bumpy ones. To make matters worse, the book features a character called Captain Cook (played by a TV chef whose name I don't remember; he's the northern one with the tache), and the whole range of toys comes under the banner of 'Planet Cook', as the logo on these stickers shows. If you're as childish as I clearly am, it's easy to read that second 'O' as a 'C'. Shocking!

What's the world coming to when Happy Meals contain pictures of male genitalia? Isn't it bad enough that the food already tastes like bollocks?