Here’s where things get weird. I asked my fellow blog authors what part of the chocolate bunny they eat first and why. I wanted to get a sense of the philosophy behind the decision. Here is what we all said:
- Susan – Ears first because they are sticking out there and begging to be eaten!
- Susan S. – Depends on my mood. Not how cruel I am but how much chocolate I want. The feet are wider so one bite of feet satisfies a gluttonous mood. If I am less needy, I nibble at the ears.
- Tori – Definitely ears. Because bunny ears and bunnies are what Easter is all about! Really, I think I’ve only had a chocolate bunny once in my life. Don’t tell the Easter Bunny.
- Carl – Feet first. I don’t want him to be able to hop away before I am done.
Wait. What? Tori has only had one chocolate bunny in her life? Tori is not old like I am (or so Susan leads on that I am) but she is not a kid either. How can you have a whole childhood without multiple chocolate bunny encounters? She is from Richmond, so perhaps some sort of environmental conditions prevent the chocolate bunnies from spawning upstream or whatever they do to reproduce.
According to a survey conducted by NCA a few years ago:
Of 1,000 adults surveyed, 76 percent said they start with the ears when they munch a chocolate bunny. Eating bunnies’ feet first (five percent) and tail first (four percent) were not popular choices.
How do you take the first bite of a chocolate bunny? Do you have a rationale behind your method?
Chocolate Bunny by quasarsglow.
10:04 pm on March 28th, 2009
Duh, ears first of course. Can you imagine holding the large base of the bunny to eat by just the delicate hollow ears? You’d still be left with an ear in your hand and the bunny body on the floor.
3:17 pm on March 31st, 2009
This is terrible, but when I was a kid, chocolate bunnies had candy eyes. I used to pop those off and eat them first. Bwah, ha, ha!!!!!!
4:26 pm on March 31st, 2009
That way they couldn’t even see you coming. How cruel!
2:13 pm on April 2nd, 2009
ears first! That pic reminds me of a contest I ran at my old company, keep in mind we were a fortune 500 company that wore suits every day, we had the employees see who could eat a chocolate easter bunny the fastest and one of the guys broke his tooth, I guess he really wanted to win.
2:35 pm on April 2nd, 2009
Wow – I have never heard of people breaking teeth on chocolate! Sounds like fun, though, and a great way to bring people out of their shells a bit.
10:56 am on March 16th, 2010
[...] year we learned the shocking truth that our good friend and colleague Tori had only had a couple chocolate bunnies in her whole life. Gasp! What kind of childhood did she have? I also learned last year that the ears versus feet [...]