Rabbit Food
[singing] "The bunny, the bunny, ohhh I ate the bunny."
Or, uh, whatever these things are.
Now, picture a cartoon mouse flattened by a piano.
Or, just look at this:
You know, I'm starting to think maybe shredded coconut isn't the bunny cake cure-all:
What the...??
Are these on food court trays?
And yeah, they look like alien gophers wearing plastic rabbit ears. There's that, too.
Uh...
I'm sorry; those "ears" have robbed me of the capacity for coherent thought. And the pink yo-yo thingies jammed into the jawline? I can't...I mean, I don't...That is to say, I have never...er. Huh.
[puffing out cheeks]
[scratching head]
[tapping fingers]
Ashley M., Sarah F., Anne B., K&J, Gail R., Laura S., & Brooke I., I don't want to tell you a joke that is funny I just want a plate and a fork and a bunny.
- Related Wreckage: Passover These Wrecks
Update from John: Apparently, what we took to be food court trays are actually meat trays which I think we all can agree, is sooo much better. And it raises a question: is it even cake or is it some lovely ground chuck slathered in mashed potatoes? The world may never know! (Unless, of course, somebody bought one and ate it. Then we'd probably know. Ya know?)
Reader Comments (140)
Dang, I actually want to go find and eat one of those coconut bunny disasters.
Seriously, you need to get "Kill da Wabbit" by Metallica going in the background-that would have been just that extra little touch that this post needed. You know, like cakes on meat trays....and stuff....
I didn't eat my soup or my bread, just the bunny...
Thanks, now I'm going to have that stuck in my head all day!
And now I'll be singing the bunny song all week. Is that good or bad?
WV:lizines: Did they have to work hard to make these wrecks or is it just lizines?
TracyO
I must be the only one who didn't get the VeggieTales reference since my kids never got into them, but I LOVED the reference to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland! :)
"Mara" reminds me of the evil bunny in Donnie Darko. *Shudder*
On another note: This whole post is like a huge mix and match game. I think our part in it is to figure out which ears belong on which animal (why are there antlers and troll ears on these easter treats?)
But Monsieur Bob! We're not supposed to sing the bunny song!
Love the Veggie Tales ref!! Well played...well played...
Love the VeggieTales reference today. :D
Seriously Jen, you might be the most perfect person ever. You're the only other person I've come in contact with (well, you know, contact of some sort) that simultaneously loves VeggieTales, Star Trek, and Doctor Who. I mean, how much cooler could you possibly get? I'm just saying...
Heehee...maybe if we played the drinking game we made up in college to that particular VeggieTales episode (drink every time they said "bunny") they'd actually start to resemble bunnies!
wv: trict - They've tricted us into thinking these have something to do with Easter!
Do people actually PAY for these cakes? I'm no Martha, but good lord, if someone came to my house with one of those I'd break out the roach spray. Absolutely hilarious!
ps - my favorite was the Jack-o-lope rabbit meets Tim Burton on Acid.
Whoa! I've never even considered a jackalope cake before, but those -- uh, "lovely" -- things on the food trays have GOT to be jackalopes. And I had no idea that jackalopes were involved in helping the Easter bunny.
Gosh, you just learn things every day.
OMG That video was just HILARIOUS!
The bunny, The bunny, Whoa! I ate the bunny, I didn't eat my weird cake, just the bunny!
Funny as always, thanx!
I love Veggie Tales!
SteveThePocket-
"Classic VeggieTales. Back when their characters were allowed to threaten murder and sing songs about skipping church to worship a bunny statue. You know, for kids!"
There are many examples of fairy tales/children's stories with shocking negative examples in them. In the original Red Riding Hood, both the girl and her granny got eaten. In the original Cinderella, the evil sisters cut their feet down to size to fit into the slipper.
In the stories that have stood the test of time, the hero/heroine overcomes the negative circumstance, and emerges stronger.
In the original Bible story, obviously there were no chocolate bunnies, but there was a statue, a furnace, and a death threat. Actually attempted murder that was unsuccessful. Veggie Tales toned it down a bit, in fact. :)
Uhhh....well the first one with its STARING EYES scares me as much as the one did yesterday. Ew, they're following me around the room...
Why do none of these--save the plastic flotsam on the haystack cake--look remotely happy? NOTHING says 'Happy Easter' to me.
The Santas we had this year had the same effect. They were all scary instead of merry. I wonder why that is?
Ya know. . . you may be onto something with the mashed potatoes explanation. . .especially if heaped over a pile of hamburger meat. Not that I want to admit it, but I've left mashed potatoes in the back of the fridge long enough to develop multicolored clusters of molds and bacteria! Imagine the possibilities if there was raw meat underneath! Whoa. Wait. I don't have to imagine. I think you pegged it. Kathleen
The next to the last one my 5 year old came in the room and said, "Oh, reindeers!".
The only thing redeeming about today's post is the Veggie Tale's references...
Those food trays, I'm pretty sure, are those styrofoam trays that normally hold *meat.*
Wow where to begin...
the first bunny looks like it is either terrified or perhaps the holographic ears are better conductors than thought and he is being electrocuted.
i agree that these bunnies are super scary the one that is coming out of the yellow coconut coccoon kind of looks like a killer alien bunny. and the jackalopes with boobs are just scary. hopefully y'all realize that the styrofoam trays do not start with meat on them they come as a stack of styrofoam trays that they put meat on although i have seen many other bakeries use them for cookies and such.
the last one looks like it has boxing gloves on
(wv:pelyzess-pleyzess no more scary binnies)
and now I'll be singing Veggietales all day... thanks
VeggieTales!!! Jen, have we ever told you how awesome you are? way more awesome than these freaky bunnies.
"I didn't eat my soup or my bread, just the bunny"
I thought the funny lumps on the alien gophers were boobs!
WTH?!? I don't get it. People actually fork over cash for this crap?!?
Yay! My cake made it on today! I'm telling everyone I know! haha.
I'm afraid cakes on meat trays is really really bad.
no bunny cake for me this year.
You need to watch Henson's "The Tale of the Bunny Picnic".
The eyes look like deer poop!
I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who thought the alien gophers had boobs. Careful, we might end up with an Epcot pic there for all the indecency in that picture! (do they count alien animal nudity as indecent??)
wv: lumpri - These cakes are kinda lumpri and blobbri.
Wait. Was that *really* an old school Peter Davison Dr. Who reference? Really? You just so totally made my day. Wow.
http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/
Real rabbits everywhere disapprove of these cakes!
I'm reading the first line saying "They didn't. No, wait. They DID." Then I clicked on the link and found out that indeed, you DID. :) Veggietales rock. Totally funny reference. I would never eat one of thoes "I-just-got-flattened-by-a-steam-roller-and-STILL-all-the-king's-horses-and-all-the-king's-men-couldn't-put-me-back-togeather-again" sorry excuses for cakes. Blech. That is one way to ruin your Easter morning. "Hey, kids; forget thoes candy eggs: Here's something you *really* want for breakfast!" Aw, yeahhh, mommy. You de bomb.
What's worse: That people are making these works of "art", or that they are actually selling them???
Happiness is reading your blog daily.
The bonus bit of fangirl squeal is when I see your blog reposted by a local bakery facebook page (Missoula, MT) that has the worst fugly decorated cakes ever! That's saying something when your Easter Bunny Rant of fugly bunnies (or were those lambs?) even has fugly decorators squirming!
I've watched enough House to know that that last bunny has Cushing's Syndrome.
Food court trays would have been so much better! Cuz, you know, they double as sleds...
The poor old shredded coconut bunny looks really pissed off!
What is Veggie Tales?
Just after I saw this update on FB, Kinnikinnick posted some quite frightening Gluten Free versions of the ever-feared easter bunny cake. AAH!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3822549&id=89471333508
Animal flashcards for bakers are sounding like a better and better idea.
The set should also include the correct spellings of some common cake inscriptions, like "Happy Birthday," "Congratulations," "It a Gril," and "Happy FalkerSatherhood."
WV: ingesser. The ingesser of these cakes is likley to have a tummyache.
Absolutely hilarious post (as usual). I'm a long-time reader of this site, but honestly I think these are some of the worst cakes I've ever seen. At some point you have to ask: Are these even food anymore?
Regarding that last one -- I believe this is a representation of a male bunny inflating its neck sacs in order to attract a mate. Grouse do this, so why not bunnies?
Have you ever seen Raving Rabbids? Here is a picture of a cake:
http://cakes.r-bdesigns.com/cakes/Custom/ravingrabbis.jpg
Here is a picture of the actual Raving Rabbid (from a video game):
http://forevergeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rabbid.jpg
Some rabbits were made ugly.
why does the 2nd one, the CCC bunny, have a black eye and what appears to be really big moles...ewww
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Is that first shocked bunny having a colonoscopy with that face? And is he suffering from hypothermia? (BLUE? really? is it a boy?) but the chicks are really cute. I love how the one is looking right at me. aww...little green beak.
#2 is deranged. and apparently sick. the eyes I cannot explain.
#3: sheep? mouse? not a bunny with those round ears. and ugly regardless.
nice electrified whiskers on #4. also shocking. or shocked, like he's about to be pounced on by a predator. but a yellow body with white coconut flakes and a white head? what is the logic here?
haybale bunny is pretty pathetic. just slap a flotsam head to the side of a yellow coconut encrusted blob. must have been a trainee.
#6. I had to look twice. I thought those were antlers. then I though Jen accidentally posted reindeer cakes. until I saw the eggs. and are those olive eyes?? what's with the airbrushed spotted bodies? could the decorator not decide whether to make it an animal or an egg? or tried to make bunnies that looked like eggs? with antlers? and danish faced?
the last one defies description.
You guys are so FUNNY!
My little boy said that they look like cats...he thinks? I loved the one with the crazy eye! Hilarious!
So does that mean that Sunday Sweets this week is going to be the New and Improved Bunny Song...er, cake? ;)
Aaaeeeiioouu!
Those are the vowels. Sometimes you gotta break the rules.
Fourpostment/Dr. Demento
this is EXACTLY why i was afraid of the easter bunny until the age of like, 15.
Meat trays? Do you mean to say that there are actual bunnies inside those cakes?