Outrage as children’s TV show is seen using a condom to make haggis

A children's TV show in Sweden has caused uproar after one of its characters was shown using a condom to make haggis. Viewers were shocked to see a puppet chef whip out the contraceptive while cooking the delicacy.
The traditional Scots dish is traditionally made from sheep’s innards minced with onion, oatmeal and spices and wrapped inside the animal’s stomach, although these days artificial skin is normally used. But the host - a pretend French chef by the name of Bon - instead decided to stuff the meat and juices in a condom. In the video, which has also been posted on Swedish state broadcaster SVT’s online site, the puppet explains that he does not have an animal stomach at hand. He reaches for a handbag, saying: “Grandma usually has things in her bag perhaps there’s something we can use. Balloons! That will work just as well.”

Except what he attaches to the sausage-style haggis machine is a condom.
Furious parents have hit out at SVT for airing the segment on Tuesday to young viewers. In a post on SVT’s Facebook page, one viewer said: “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.
Tess Vesterlund, who watched the programme together with her six-year-old nephew, said: “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.”
SVT’s head of children’s television, Johanna Grdare, defended the condom haggis and said it was meant to be funny.
She said: “It’s of course unfortunate if our content upsets the viewers, whether it’s the target group or their parents.
“The purpose in this case was to entertain.
"I understand if you don’t appreciate this kind of humour, but I can’t see that it’s inappropriate by definition to show a picture of a condom in a humourous show aimed at children in middle school.
"Our intention is never to upset parents, but to entertain and deliver good content for the children and parents.
“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.”
It is not the first time Sweden’s national public broadcaster has caused a stir in the Nordic nation. Earlier this year viewers flippered out when a dolphin was dissected on live breakfast television. And last year SVT was forced to apologize after it accidentally sent a text message to 60 children aged between 10 and 13 which included a link to a pornographic gay website.