MAJOR retailer Primark has stopped selling a t-shirt bearing a quote from a nursery rhyme after one customer complained it was "fantastically offensive".
The T-shirt in question is licensed merchandise from The Walking Dead.
It features the rhyme "eeny meeny miny moe", which has a racist origin.
The tune has typically been used by children as a counting rhyme and some early versions of it included references to offensive terms for black people.
Along with the words, the T-shirt also features an image of a baseball bat and barbed wire.
The rhyme features in a scene in The Walking Dead when one character is deciding which person in a group they are going to kill.
"The T-shirt in question is licensed merchandise for the US television series, The Walking Dead, and the quote and image are taken directly from the show," Primark said in a statement.
"Any offence caused by its design was wholly unintentional and Primark sincerely apologises for this.
"Primark has removed the product from sale."
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