What I wonder now though is if Winnie the Pooh is appropriate for children. Someone above called him a hunny addict and that's accurate. Could the hunny be symbolic for something like hash or heroin? What will the effects be on our children? I don't want a silly bear wearing with a red shirt whose addicted to drugs to be entertaining my children. Is the hunny a substitute for some type of drug or bad behavior? Perhaps we'll see an episode where Winnie the Pooh goes to rehab after her gets Obamacare.
Of course not. Back when A.A. Milne wrote the books, hardly anyone used narcotics, at least publically.
There's been drug addicts since the beginning of time though.
True, but no children's writer with a sense of decency at that time would have incorporated such a theme into their stories. Whoever made that comment was just trying to be funny. Pooh is a bear, and bears like honey, so it only makes sense that Pooh likes honey. And in the original stories, he only wore a red shirt during the winter.
Thus symbolizing that the proletariat will turn to the communist ideal when times are cold and dark yet return to bourgeois aspirations when times are warm and sunny.