Join My Bunny Cult
Many consider "Rack, Shack and Benny" to be the first great VeggieTales episode. The one where the show really hit it’s stride. And they’re right to say so. It’s a great retelling of the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, which I assume is a classic, very well known story, the music is fantastic, it features the first instance of the iconic characters Uncle Nezzer and Mr. Lunt, and it ends with the heroes being thrown into a furnace. What’s not to love?
I specifically want to talk about The Bunny Song. As iconic as this whole episode is, I think I only ever actually saw it once in my youth, and yet I forgot that I apparently knew the entirety of the song. I’m not… entirely sure how that’s possible, but who am I to question the human brain?
It’s a good song. I don’t know what else you want me to say, I don’t know anything about music theory, all I can do is say whether or not a song is good. Also it’s late. I had a busy week and wasn’t able to start writing this post until late on Sunday, which is why this post is going to end up being so short. You can listen to the song for yourself and see it for yourself.
But a strange thing happened after I watched this episode.
I had a dream later that night in which I was wandering through an old abandoned city. Not one that I recognized. After some time I saw a tiny gray rabbit at the opening of an alleyway. It was the first living thing I had seen in my time there.
I didn’t want to follow it. Something about it seemed… threatening. Worrisome. But something deep inside me told me that I needed to. So I did.
I walked into the alley began to follow the rabbit. As I continued to walk forward, the space began to grow smaller, and the rabbit became faster. At a certain point I realized I was making no forward progress. The alleyway was nearly about to crush me and I was no closer to reaching the rabbit.
I had to get out before it was too late. I turned around and left the alley, leaving the rabbit behind. When I turned back I was met with a dead end, with a series of strange words that I could not understand.
I woke up soon after and decided not to worry about it.
For the food this week, I did something strange: I used no vegetables. Clearly the chocolate bunny was the star of this week, so I had to incorporate chocolate somehow. I would be lying if I said I didn’t consider using any of our characters (cucumber, tomato, asparagus) and dipping them in a chocolate fondue, but… that would not be “good,” per se.
No, it had to be the bunny and the bunny alone.
But I don’t know how to make chocolate. I’m tempted to say no one knows how to, but it’s coming from somewhere, so apparently someone does. But I can make fudge.
I’d never made fudge before (a recurring pattern in this series, I’m sure you’ve noticed) so I looked it up and it is… possibly one of the easiest things to make. Why isn’t everyone doing this all the time? It’s three ingredients: chocolate, condensed milk, and butter. You can add more stuff to make it fancier, but that’s the bare bones of it. You melt ‘em together, pour it into a pan, and put it in the fridge.
For the bunny aspect, I went to great lengths to find a bunny shaped cookie cutter. I’d say that this was the hardest part of this week’s experiment, but I ended up finding one. Not as big as I’d like, but it worked well enough.
After my fudge was set, I took it out of the pan and plopped my newly acquired bunny cutter into it, leaving me with a perfectly shaped fudge bunny.
The fudge was fantastic, and I had plenty leftover. The only downside is that I’m now cursed with the knowledge of how to make fudge and will likely make far too much of it in the future. At least there are worse problems to be had than this.