Sex message on kid’s Chipotle cup upsets mother

An ornate fountain cup from a popular burrito chain has one mother concerned.

A woman took to Imgur to complain about an illustration found on a disposable cup from fast food joint Chipotle. Amongst the intricate fonts and squiggly shapes of viruses and cells, is an arm with a wristwatch that says “Reproductive Sex.”

“My son’s Chipotle cup says ‘reproductive sex’ on it,” the woman wrote on the online image sharing community.

The comments ranged from sympathetic to confused.

“If your son is old enough to understand it then he’s already heard it, otherwise he’s too young to understand it,” one person wrote.

“My 8-year-old nephew knows what reproductive sex is…It’s not bad for him to know, just why the hell is it on a fast food cup,” asked another.

The cup in question is part of Chipotle’s Cultivating Thought author series, in which writers submit original short stories to be published on the chain’s paper cups, alongside illustrations. Author Anthony Doer submitted the text, which was illustrated by James Gulliver Hancock. Doer explains:

“Tattoo Earth’s 4.5-billion-year timeline onto your arm, shoulder to fingertip, and your upper arm will get nothing but geologic mayhem: meteorites, magma, acid rain. Life won’t begin until your bicep, and from there to your wrist it’s all single-celled, oceangoing stuff. Reproductive sex won’t show up until your wristwatch, and creatures that are finally big enough to see—tubes and fronds and weird Precambrian plant-animals—will crisscross the back of your hand.

Trilobites paddle across your palm; ancient forests grow from your knuckles; dinosaurs wind around the joints at the ends of your fingers. Mammals burrow into your cuticles.

Orangutans, arrowheads, Cleopatra, the names of the stars—they all have to fit on the sliver of fingernail at the end of your longest finger.”