Let's Hear It for Bunny Ears

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales.

Which part of the chocolate Easter bunny do you eat first?
I like the ears – especially the dark chocolate bunny ears.
Other people prefer starting with the bunny tails, but I like to start at the top.

Now there are treats designed for us bunny ear lovers. Harry & David has Mr. and Mrs. Ears – milk chocolate bunnies that are mostly ears.

Other chocolatiers are producing bunny ears only.

Dove chocolates and the Vermont Country Store both have bunny ears. So does my St. Louis hometown favorite, Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolates. "The best part of the bunny," says Bissinger's catalogue.

Maybe – but disembodied bunny ears?
I'm not sure.
Eating just the ears takes away the thrill of the hunt. There's a ritual to eating chocolate bunnies. As a kid, I'd eat the ears first. By the time I got down to the head, I'd know for sure if it was a solid bunny – the best kind – or hollow chocolate, always a disappointment.
Then it was on to the extra treats – the candy eyes and sugar bow ties. All too soon, the chocolate rabbit had vanished.

Another thrill was swiping my little brother's chocolate bunny.
I'm not admitting that I stooped to actual infant decandification. I'm just saying the bunny was sitting there unattended and hopped into my hands, begging to be eaten.
So which part of the chocolate bunny do you start with, readers – ears or tail?

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Comments

[Karen Maslowski]

That is my favorite joke of all time, Elaine! And my oldest daughter's, too. We were in a poster shop and she bought one that has the same illustration. Lifts her spirits every day.

I think I started with the ears, but I quit eating milk chocolate so long ago that I forget! Now they have dark chocolate bunnies, but I'm more partial to the Dove eggs, to be honest.

[Deb Romano]

I have always started at the top and worked my way down. And dark chocolate is the best!

[Elaine Viets]

You can also get the rabbit joke as a T-shirt, Karen.

[Elaine Viets]

I'm with you, Deb. Dark chocolate all the way, though I don't turn down milk chocolate.

[krisneri]

I work from both ends. Start with the ears, then nibble the feet. But honestly, I'd rather have dark chocolate Dove squares than a bunny.

[Elaine Viets]

Dark chocolate in any shape is good, Kris.