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Pete, the resident feline critic
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Lead Review · From: Play-Doh
Health Inspector Pete Shuts Down the Dough Restaurant
Our critic occupies the prep station as a silent health inspector, steals the spatula to buy five minutes of quiet, and commends the set only as a stage for institutional disruption.
By Pete · Resident Feline Critic

My human seems to believe that the key to a harmonious household is distracting the smaller, louder human with large, plastic contraptions. This latest offering is a "Busy Chef's Restaurant," a two-sided affair for squishing colorful, foul-smelling dough into crude imitations of food. I am told this dough contains wheat, an ingredient far beneath a carnivor…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★☆☆
A worthy adversary. Dismantle it I shall.
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