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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
RM Palmer My Little Bunny
I am always drawn to RM Palmer’s package and product design. Their products go downhill after that, but how could I resist this cute little chocolate bunny in a little hutch? It plays on a kid’s desire to nurture without resorting to anthropomorphism.
The My Little Bunny is actually a fun little teaching toy. It’s a bit more realistic that the regular seated bunny or cartoon style one carrying a basket. This one is about the size of a little baby bunny or a dwarf. It comes in a small box shaped and designed like a carrying hutch with simulated chicken wire on the plastic window. I picked the blue wood-grained box version, but there’s a pink one as well. Also, I think the rabbits come in different colors, I only saw tan ones at the store.
The foil design makes the bunny look a little bit stylized with its vague smile, but for the most part it’s very bunny-like in the crouched position on all fours. The box is far larger than the candy, which is a good thing for a pet, though kind of wasteful as far as packaging. (The bunny is 5 inches long and 3 inches high, the box is 6.5 inches long and four inches high.) I liked the little box and thought a clever or motivated child might enjoy making use of it to keep a small stuffed animal or other light toys. Unfortunately it’s poorly designed. The little tab in the top that tucks in comes undone when the little carrying handle is used, even when the box is empty. A little tape will fix that (that’s the way it comes in the store), but a bit more thought would have made this far more useful with probably no extra work or weight in the packaging. There’s a web page just for the My Little Bunny where kids can download an adoption certificate or play games.
The candy itself is subpar. I’ve had the chocolate flavored rabbit before which looked completely fake, like some sort of vinyl dog toy. This one looks like chocolate and is called chocolatey n’ smooth crisp n’ crunchy candy which I figure is a Nestle Crunch simulation. Since there are no easily accessible ears, I just smashed the hollow bunny instead.
It smells like caramel and chocolate cake, not actual chocolate. The ingredients are sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (Palm Kernel and/or Palm Oil), whey, lactose, crisp rice, cocoa, skim milk, soy lecithin and vanillin. My goodness, cocoa is really far down on that list. On top of that look at the second ingredient, palm oil. Nestle has being going through a huge issue recently for not moving to sustainable palm oil - that campaign has targeted the KitKat bar, which uses a little dash of the stuff, for most RM Palmer products it’s a major component. It’s short sighted to encourage kids to “adopt” a chocolate bunny instead of a real one but then not use sustainable ingredients in the product itself. (Save a bunny, trash a rainforest?) The flavor is sweet, the texture is grainy and there aren’t nearly enough crisped rice bits to make each bite crunchy. The cocoa notes are like cardboard and there’s a greasy film on the roof of my mouth by the time I finished three bites. Blech. At least I can wrap what’s left back up in the foil and put it back in the little box and look at it instead. Related Candies
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Palmers is pretty much nothing but mockolate. They often have beautiful items…but nothing I want to put in my mouth.
DD got a Palmer bunny in her basket from Grandma, and gobbled with no complaints. You make me realize that it’s never too soon to start training that palate!
i bet theses r really good i want to save mine for easter mornig hers the date that im publishing (3/31,10)
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I think the bunny will be great tasting…..........IT IS YUMMY.I love it.I mean everybody loves chocolate.almost everybody. I mean 96% Americans love chocolate.
it was yummy
my mom bought if for me i havent eaten it yet except i ate the tail
its cute it realistic is case is cute i love it
im soo hooppy gett itt
hi it was sooooo tastty
this is soooo cool
In the Philadeplhia/Reading, PA area, Palmer does sell some real chocolate products. I have tasted it, and it’s pretty much on the level of Hershey’s.
hi my name is sarah but my polish name is sariaand i love palmers chocolate
i ate half of it and i through up
i lov ths cndy it is so good and i lik tha website but thay shld put mre gmes tham 2 but other wise tha cndy is good i love it so much my aunt an brooght me ths 4 easter an everybody shld try it lol:)
it needs too be more fffffffffffuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnn
its so good im in chocolate heaven
i love
good candy!! i love the bunny.
great candy
i love bunnies!!!!!!!!!!!
I love bunnies but i’m goin’ to eat her!!!!!lol
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don’t eat to much candy u goin to get cavites
I love all the bunny’s in the hole world!!!!!!
they are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute
this hollow double crisp is horrible. i mean it does not taste like chocolate i took a bite and now i have a bad aftertaste and the crisps don’t do good with chocolate unless its an actual crunch bar so I think try better ways or recipes to improve the taste then ill consider on buying another one of you products
I LIKE CHOCOLATE ALOT
I love my bunny.
ILOVE CHOCOLATE ALOT TO MUCH
YUMMY! I luv my little bunny! I am sitting with “Sunshine” (my little bunny) right now!!!
I love my bunny. Taste soooooooo good
My Bunny is a girl and i named here Happiny blackwell . i got here the day before easter 2012
I Love My OREO
i love her
I love him!!!!!
i love my little bunny so much. i named him whiskers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i got him on easter day.
I love my bunny he taste really ummy!!! His name is Frederickson!! I love him he is white slash gray with green eyes!! he is soooo perty!!
I cant wait to play this game
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