It's not even diversity-related this time, just good old fashioned stick-in-the-muddism.
Interestingly, the 2000 edition with new illustrations by Joe Mathieu, while it has some of the expected diversity tampering (changing the chap with the mega-Irish name "Mr. Donald Driscoll Drew" to a Black man and, more bizarrely, portraying a "little girl named Ruthie" as an ancient Egyptian wearing sneakers), it does restore the "Bite someone else" text to its original purity.
Carrot sticks indeed!
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Bowdlerized, it's just not funny anymore. Light comic verse (and prose - eg. PG Wodehouse) is very technical in its perfection - one word different and it doesn't work.
Interesting to see what the modern pearl-clutchers would make of Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27424/27424-h/27424-h.htm
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