Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. The word "golliwog" may have given rise to the ethnic slur "wog". Children are often pickaninnies like Little Black Sambo and Golliwog. The golliwog contributed enormously to the spread of blackface iconography in Europe. According to "The Times", Thatcher called Tsonga "half-golliwog" and "the golliwog Frog". Cllr Dawn Barnett was defending a local shop which was selling golliwog drinks mats. Multiple golliwog dolls then burst out of her stomach. A man places a time bomb inside a golliwog. Lagoon replaced the golliwog with a monkey. The show's publicity featured a golliwog on the poster. The Golliwog image was removed from the ice creams packaging in 1992.