Tuesday
Dec022008
Fetal Bites
December 2, 2008 So what are all the "in-the-know" cookie connoisseurs talking about these days? Why, the newest rage in baby-shower cuisine, that's what: fetus-shaped cookies!
And how do you GET fetus-shaped cookies? With a fetus-shaped cookie cutter, of course! (Duh!)
Here's what they're saying over on Stupid.com, where you can purchase your very own FSCC:
"At last, EVERYBODY can have "one in the oven" with the deliciously disturbing Fetus Cookie Cutter!
Imagine the expression on the teacher's face when your kid hands out oatmeal or chocolate chip fetuses to all the students. We can almost hear the Principal calling now."
Reader Comments (163)
I actually purchased one of these a week ago. I can't wait to try it out.
Gross. Just GROSS. Yucky.
They look more alien-esque than fetal, so it's really just kind of dumb.
Fetus cookies? If you say so. Looks more like alien crash cadaver cookies to me, but what do I know. At any rate, there is a canabalism question to be considered here, and it just ain't pretty.
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com
I was thinking licorice umbilical cords...but that's just me.
I have been following you for a while but this is the first time I have commented...I guess i have never been so disturbed by what I have seen here until now!!
I'm speechless...
Ugh...that's right up there with that cookbook on WWHM.
wvotd flowf "crap like this makes me want to flowf my breakfast"
"hello my baby, hello my mama, hello my ragtime gal....."
oie, it does look just like it!! Creepy!!!!!
So, do fetus cookies, erm, mature to become baby bum cakes?
My stomach is churning. Ugh.
Wow- so disturbing and horrible.
That's a lot of wrong to be confronted with before 10:00am.
i can't wait to see these cookies on billboards!
And I thought that I had some strange ideas for cookie cutters...
Worst. Idea. Ever!
Great site, by the way. Visiting here is one of my morning rituals. It's always good for a laugh.
If these were at my shower, I would leave, running for the door!
I am disturbed in so many levels with this one.
OH. MY.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry (and does anyone else see "Alien" possibilities here too...?)
The ladies on the About.com pregnancy site are talking about these, as well. The site guide made some that turned out a little better than the picture did.
Here's the link: http://pregnancy.about.com/od/babyshowerfood/ss/babyshowercook_8.htm
Still a little disturbing, though.
I'm proud to say I own one of these cookie cutters. It was a surprise gift from a friend who bought it for me after I sent him the link.
When I told my parents about it, my mom said, "I don't think I understand your relationship with Joe."
That is wrong on just so many levels. Euiewww.
Yeah I can definitely see a little fondant top hat and a candy cane on these guys. Maybe they're meant to be Mr. Burns cookie cutters? It's got the same posture...I can almost here it saying "exceeeeellent".
Or this would be a great gift for fans of Silent Hill 3.
I think I'm going to be sick.
Oh. My. God.
Congratulations, by far one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen.
Makes me think of a poem (forgive me, I was way too young for me to accurately remember this) by Shel Silverstein, "Somebody ate the baby."
Ugh!
But hey, while we're at it, why don't we have placenta cookie cutters to go with? Could you imagine - a twizzler/liquorice rope between the two for an umbilical cord, and... no, I just creeped myself out.
oh, no! that's just wrong.
Sick ... sick, sick, sick, Sick, SICK!!! I'm thinking, this is just shy of cannibalism, no?
I think I prefer the cookies to the cakes of the mother's belly. I really think they're gross.
I vote awesome, but then, I've been on my way to hell for a long, long time.
Wow... Just wow....
This reminds me of my sophomore year of college, when pro-life supporters were handing out tiny feti made of plastic. It was some what ironic because people would just throw them in the trash (unless you were like my roomie and me, and named it Fernando and stuck it in your fish tank.) Now they want us to EAT them?!? Woo-hoo, Cannibalism!
The perfect cookie for my 2001 party!
i know a couple women who are pregnant, but i'm not sure they'd find the humour in this product. it's left me rather at a loss for words.
I make babies for a living (IVF)... I need this thing. Also, we always say the plural of fetus is feti, but I think fetuses is correct too.
OMG.....that could be the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. How would you EAT that?!?!?!
I picture them riding a marzipan carrot. With a mohawk.
Okay, that is just WRONG! And what the heck is that huge eye made of?
OMGWTFBBQ?!! That's just... just... disgusting! and wrong! and... well you get the idea. I'm going back to my lovely Christmas ornament cutters I bought this weekend......
UGH. that is just horrible. what's wrong with people??
I guess I'm that special kind of baker, seeing I saw it, thought YES!I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS! and bought one...the lengths I will go to, to make inside jokes into baked goods, and give them away as Christmas presents, because nothing says "Merry Christmas" like sprinkle covered fetus cookies.
I think I've seen it all now.... still sitting here with a grimace on my face over the photo. What woman in her right mind would want THAT on her cake? It's not even cute, it's sick.
OMG, LMAO! I'm with you - makes me think song and dance - like the Family Guy - Prom Night Dumpster Baby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw
My question is:
Are we shooting for crunchy fetus cookies? Or nice soft chewy fetus cookies?
I would eat it. Unless that's a raisin. No place for raisins in cookies; they're just disturbing.
What? I'm just... what? Was someone looking for a new twist on baby shower treats? Purple icing and chocolate chip eyes and you're good to go? I'm all for a little irreverence, but this is just NO.
Um. Yeah. Uh. The cookie's "eye" is big, making it look creepier than it already was. While a real fetus may have an eye that size, it's generally also hidden in a uterus full of amniotic fluid. The general public doesn't see that on a daily basis. I suppose it might not look so off the wall if the adornment was more proportionate or something, but like all confectionery mishaps or triumphs, it's in the execution of the craft.
Ok, you make the cookies. Then you have to make a herd of gingerbread people protestors to line up around the cookie jar.
There are just so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to start.
WHAT.
I can't even put a question mark at the end, because I'm just too confused.
Eww! Just Ewwwww!