But, like many Kiwis looking to save during the cost-of-living crisis, Cudd made a call to this time purchase flashcards online from Temu.<\/p>\n
When the pack arrived, Cudd and Izayah were working through the pack, learning about body parts.<\/p>\n
Then one peculiar card appeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got ass,\u201d Cudd said.<\/p>\n
The picture card showed a nude baby on its front with an arrow pointing to its posterior and the word ass.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m honest, it was pretty funny,\u201d Cudd said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a bit unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said in another of the flashcard packs she\u2019d bought from the website was an even more bemusing match-up: \u201cX for xylitol gum\u201d.<\/p>\n
Loren Cudd with husband Fred Saleib and children Ramzi, 11, and Izayah, 3, and the crack-up Temu flashcard, inset.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to Google that, I didn\u2019t even know what the hell xylitol gum was.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Temu spokesperson said the company had initiated an internal review and would take \u201cappropriate action\u201d, including removing the product if it was found to violate its policies.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said Temu customers could apply for refunds for \u201citems that are not as described or are defective\u201d via the company\u2019s customer service portal.<\/p>\n
But the cheeky flashcard hadn\u2019t put Cudd off using Temu.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love a bit of Temu,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I enjoyed it. It was good for a laugh. You pay $2 for a pack of cards; you get what you get.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think everybody has a Temu story. You\u2019ve ordered a shirt and it\u2019s come in; instead of being an adult size, it\u2019s a children\u2019s size. So, it\u2019s common.\u201d<\/p>\n
The card now resides on the family\u2019s fridge as a conversation piece, with Ramzi enjoying the family\u2019s new artwork the most.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loves a bit of potty talk, as most young boys do,\u201d Cudd said.<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But, like many Kiwis looking to save during the cost-of-living crisis, Cudd made a call to this time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13790,95,227911,1561,15458,1853,20440,16776,227912,2082,14154,1976,5838,185,227913,6178,2721,111,43,139,69,1642,162538,16708,10707,88,71856,13835,1316],"class_list":["post-447050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-a","tag-and","tag-ass","tag-bay","tag-cards","tag-central","tag-cheeky","tag-flash","tag-flashcards","tag-for","tag-give","tag-hawkes","tag-help","tag-is","tag-linguistic","tag-mother","tag-mum","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-purchasing","tag-skills","tag-sons","tag-surprise","tag-temu","tag-toddler","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}