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Smash and gnaw
Apr. 12th, 2009 02:33 pmHappy Easter, f-listers who celebrate it. I have a serious Easter question for you: if you have a hollow chocolate egg, how do you get that first piece? Do you smash the egg, or do you gnaw humorously at the top of it until you make a crack? I prefer the first way, myself, but I enjoy watching the second.
Are Easter egg wrappers getting more boring? They used to be wild in design, or perhaps that's just my memory of them. I looked for pretty eggs this year but the almost all the ones I saw were in boxes or covered in either one colour foil or a chocolate comapny's logo. There was one in a tiny High School Musical t-shirt with Zac Efron's face on the front, which I suppose was decorative in its own, tween-pleasing way. Fewer chocolate eggs and more chocolate rabbits, that's what was in the shops this year. I didn't see one chocolate bilby, but then, I wasn't really looking.
Rabbits are an introduced species here in Australia and wild ones are officially designated pests (pet bunnies are okay). A few years ago some bright spark had the idea of replacing the introduced and pestilential Easter Bunny with the native and endangered Easter Bilby. Not because bilbies have anything to do with Easter, but because, being small and cute and furry and having big ears, they're the native animal that most closely approximates a rabbit (if a bandicoot can approximate a rabbit in any way). The whole bunny/bilby issue is something of a quandary for me because on the one hand, I like things that adapt northern hemisphere traditions to our southern situation. Also, the bilby is an endangered species, so the publicity is good for it. On the other hand, the change has to be organic; you can't just swap one animal and all the tradition behind it for another with no history and hope it will all work out. As I said, I didn't particularly notice any chocolate bilbies this year, so perhaps it's an idea that's run its course.
Are Easter egg wrappers getting more boring? They used to be wild in design, or perhaps that's just my memory of them. I looked for pretty eggs this year but the almost all the ones I saw were in boxes or covered in either one colour foil or a chocolate comapny's logo. There was one in a tiny High School Musical t-shirt with Zac Efron's face on the front, which I suppose was decorative in its own, tween-pleasing way. Fewer chocolate eggs and more chocolate rabbits, that's what was in the shops this year. I didn't see one chocolate bilby, but then, I wasn't really looking.
Rabbits are an introduced species here in Australia and wild ones are officially designated pests (pet bunnies are okay). A few years ago some bright spark had the idea of replacing the introduced and pestilential Easter Bunny with the native and endangered Easter Bilby. Not because bilbies have anything to do with Easter, but because, being small and cute and furry and having big ears, they're the native animal that most closely approximates a rabbit (if a bandicoot can approximate a rabbit in any way). The whole bunny/bilby issue is something of a quandary for me because on the one hand, I like things that adapt northern hemisphere traditions to our southern situation. Also, the bilby is an endangered species, so the publicity is good for it. On the other hand, the change has to be organic; you can't just swap one animal and all the tradition behind it for another with no history and hope it will all work out. As I said, I didn't particularly notice any chocolate bilbies this year, so perhaps it's an idea that's run its course.