Translation of "pipe", into European?
Intrigued!
>> Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued!
> I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water.
In the context of the warning, I think it was talking specifically about a tobacco pipe (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe), not a generic pipe used for liquid transport.
So it seems more of an issue of not wanting to model certain behaviors for young children that are now considered dangerous.
I think the bit started as a spoof of a character that I assume held a pipe. It doesn't seem too bizarre to me, so they were being true to that. Holding a regular pipe would have been a non sequitur. When I grew up, smoking was definitely presented as bad, but I still got licorice tobacco pipes at a candy store on a couple occasions (e.g. https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/). It seems like now they don't want kids to even know what smoking is.