It's cupcake Santa with a really twisty hat and piñata-covering-style beard! And if you're wondering what makes Santa's face so merry and bright, it's clove eyes with a cherry nose and mouth stuck on a banana!
The clothes are just colored paper, not edible, unless you're one of those kids who would eat paper if somebody offered you a quarter to do it.
Depending on the color-fastness of the paper and the moisture level of the banana, you might be lucky enough to ingest some of that sweet red dye, though!
The most surprising part of this little craft project (Well, besides imagining that kids might be interested in eating a heavily-toothpicked banana when there's a nice chocolate cupcake underneath!) is that it's actually an ad for a product you'd never guess. Nope, it's not Chiquita bananas or Betty Crocker cake mixes. It's a product that doesn't even show up in the edible Santa.
Cupcake Santa is part of an ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum, and also a reminder that back in the '50s it didn't sound odd to give the children gay packages for Christmas.
Here's hoping your day is full of surprises, red dye, and maybe yummy things on toothpicks! Just be sure that you're only eating the edible portions!
That's really shiny red paper. At first I thought it looked like a fruit roll-up, but I don't think that those were around then. Incidentally, I hear that fruit roll-ups smell terrible when they are being made, so eating paper may be the healthier option.
ReplyDeleteNo Fruit Roll-Ups until 1983! They're younger than we are. (I preferred the short-lived Pudding Roll-Ups.)
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