Sad Sweets

"Edible arrangements" is a company that cuts fruit out in the shape of flowers, jabs it on a stick, and makes items like this:

There's something infantilizing about this, as if fruit is too daunting on its own and needs to be presented in a more comforting and whimsical form. Just the way mom stamped your Fluff n' 'Nutter sandwiches into hearts and stars!

Now they've gone too far. Apparently, this is now available:

and this!:

Maybe I'm wrong, but it's hard for me to picture the average Harley-rider or Nascar enthusiast noshing on ridge-cut melon and dainty orange slices.

Here's another commercial treat:

These pasty beauties are "SNUTS," sugar-coated nuts, of course. They're fun!

This feels like a real crisis in imagination. I suppose that one could do wonderful things with sugar and nuts, but in this case, it seems like both items have been left in a more-or-less elemental state. Whoever came up with the name realized this and just gave up. It never got farther than "SNUTS."

On a sweeter note, here's an adorable chaser:

I love the way the bunny is sexed up ever-so-slightly, and still retains her goofy bow!