Sugar Overload Easter Breakfast
Now this is a breakfast befitting an Easter bunny and all his minions. Hash browns made of pound cake, melted Cadbury’s Easter Creme eggs topping a donut and brownie. Surely it would send one into an instant diabetic coma but what a glorious sendoff it would be.
Despite my proclamations to be prepared for Easter this year, with visions of sending a hand knit bunny to my nephew, lovingly painting delicate eggs a la Martha Stewart, and crafting an Easter bonnet just for fun, I have done nothing. I did drop a few not so subtle hints to loved ones that I am very fond of Cadbury’s Caramilk eggs, but that is the extent of my Easter preparedness. Sadly it is somewhat akin to my crafty Christmas fantasies that also never seem to materialize.
In my defense, my potential crafty time was consumed with other Easter musings. I have spent an inordinate amount of time wondering why the Easter bunny is often depicted wearing a jaunty bow tie or vest but rarely wearing pants. If he is decked out for the holidays in a vest, why stop there? Did he forget about donning pants because his mind is on chocolate? Do the pants slow him down and get in the way of his hopping? Is the Easter bunny some sort of exhibitionist freak?
Of course, when I started looking for images of a pant-less Easter bunny I couldn’t find any. Now I am disturbed, wondering if I have somehow sexualized or sullied the innocent Easter bunny in my own mind and perhaps I won’t receive a single Cadbury’s egg as a result.
April 4th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I know what you mean about the Easter Bunny wearing a vest! He does wear pants though, although I think it’s actually a kind of furry pajama suit with feet – here is a photo of him with his girlfriend (he’s the white one with the polka dot bow tie):
http://www.hauntedventures.com/2007NEWTEMPLATES/EasterCostumes/EasterBunnies/EasterBunnyXLarge.jpg
April 6th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
i think pants are optional on easter. i think? now i am confused, too!
April 6th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
I take it you did not see the ultimate rabbit in front of Lefeuvre’s on Mt. Pleasant. This is the classic chocolate store(since 1927) that has been there for years selling hand made chocolate bunny’s in cars and carrying golf clubs, among other things, at eastertide.
The owner use to be sedate in keeping with the WASPs of the North Toronto hood they inhabited. No one knew the store known as LE FEVER’S with the non-descript 1940ish sign except by the line ups up and down Mt. Pleasant at Easter and Valentine’s. Now , new owners and new time, a pre-Easter pant-less(or does fur count as pants) Rabbit was standing and waving at all the drivers as we went north on Mr. Pleasant. Think the fur does count. May be you can drop in the chocolate store and and ask their view.
April 6th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
The Easter bunny is definitely a clothing optional kind of guy, which is kind of creepy when you really think about it!