'Avatar: Seven Havens' pays tribute to 'The Last Airbender's cabbage merchant, with a twist

The new series 'Avatar: Seven Havens' continues a long-standing franchise tradition by featuring a recurring gag involving a merchant losing his goods. In this iteration, the 'cabbage merchant' homage involves a character losing a vat of pudding during a chaotic scene.
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