Do you recognise this rabbit?
September 4, 2024 6:54 AM Subscribe
I came across these teaspoons in a vintage shop in Central Asia. It took me a moment to realise that the interesting pattern is actually a cartoon rabbit. Do you recognise this rabbit?
Not a big deal either way, just wondering if it is a known rabbit or even a known type of spoon. It looks too blue for Bugs Bunny and too sly for the rabbit from Tiny Toons, but perhaps it's one of those? The spoons are a respectable weight but there is no factory name or maker's mark on the back. Speculation welcome, informed answers even more so.
Not a big deal either way, just wondering if it is a known rabbit or even a known type of spoon. It looks too blue for Bugs Bunny and too sly for the rabbit from Tiny Toons, but perhaps it's one of those? The spoons are a respectable weight but there is no factory name or maker's mark on the back. Speculation welcome, informed answers even more so.
My immediate reaction was that it was a giveaway spoon, the kind you sent in proofs of purchase for. There was a (different) rabbit spoon in my childhood. I'd thought cereal, but hydra77 is right that the rabbit-on-the-end-of-the-spoon is sort of Nestle's thing.
However, I'm not finding images of that particular spoon like... anywhere. Of course, things that were both more obscure and pre-internet can be, I've noticed, surprisingly difficult to find unless someone has gotten them to be a fad. (There are items that I have very clear, exact memories of from childhood and even my teen years in the early 90s, and the internet does not think they exist. It's pretty obnoxious how SO MUCH late genX childhood stuff is neither old enough nor new enough to be net-worthy.)
posted by stormyteal at 7:14 AM on September 4 [1 favorite]
However, I'm not finding images of that particular spoon like... anywhere. Of course, things that were both more obscure and pre-internet can be, I've noticed, surprisingly difficult to find unless someone has gotten them to be a fad. (There are items that I have very clear, exact memories of from childhood and even my teen years in the early 90s, and the internet does not think they exist. It's pretty obnoxious how SO MUCH late genX childhood stuff is neither old enough nor new enough to be net-worthy.)
posted by stormyteal at 7:14 AM on September 4 [1 favorite]
I'd look on Reddit for a group about the country where you found the spoons, and post the photo there. Another option is to search eBay with the name of the country and words like "rabbit spoon".
I agree they look like a product giveaway - maybe for a kids' stirrable snack like chocolate powder, porridge, cereal soup, yogurt, pudding, baby food, etc. So they may have been regional to that area of the world, and if the rabbit if is a brand mascot, anyone from that region might recognize it.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:39 AM on September 4
I agree they look like a product giveaway - maybe for a kids' stirrable snack like chocolate powder, porridge, cereal soup, yogurt, pudding, baby food, etc. So they may have been regional to that area of the world, and if the rabbit if is a brand mascot, anyone from that region might recognize it.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:39 AM on September 4
This silver spoon could be the Nestle rabbit. Same pose, but not blue and a different expression. Could yours be an Asian knockoff?
posted by BlueHorse at 10:37 AM on September 4
posted by BlueHorse at 10:37 AM on September 4
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posted by hydra77 at 7:02 AM on September 4 [1 favorite]