Snopes debunkathon:
This made a small splash when it was first started three months ago or so, but for some reason, it’s just now getting out into the news media. I saw it on my local news today, too.
Cool. I didn’t know if this was really true or not. Thanks for the link. I knew if there was truth to this someone would know.
The deadline in the Snopes article is March 27; the website now reads June 30th. Plus their “this is a joke” disclaimer is gone, and on the news I heard a taped phone interview with one of the guys who runs the website, claiming that it is not a joke at all.
Methinks their last effort didn’t pull in enough cash for their liking.
I just don’t understand the big frickin’ deal being made about it. That rabbit’s ancestors were bred to be eaten for 200 generations. Knock him out and fricassee him already…
I started a thread in GQ trying to get to the bottom of whether it was a hoax or not.
That snopes page does little to convince me that it’s an actual hoax.
what I wrote in GQ
The “big deal about it” is that it is a big deal.
There’s enough people out there who think that if you take a picture of something cuddly and give it a name, all of a sudden it possesses a soul. People have made a buck over less.
Pay me a dollar and I will sell you some carrots to cook with it.
I beg to differ. Karl Rove in a bunny suit still has no soul.
Meh, I couldn’t be mad at the guy, even if I thought it was real and not a stunt. He gave me an excuse, nay, a reason to look at cute bunny pictures. I can’t hate someone for that.
Y’know, I’m disappointed in the Boy Scouts of America…I was all ready to link to the requirements for the rabbit-raising merit badge (especially the parts where you sell them for their meat), and found out the BSA wimped out and discontinued the darn thing…
He should have done it with a lamb. Would have had a better reaction.
Great way to make a buck. The Internet is a wonderful thing.
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Well, I’m not sure if it’s a hoax or not but this site does a better job of debunking than Snopes.
This looks to be a rip-off an earlier, and more clever rabbit-hostage money making scheme. The earlier one featured recipes for, and photos of, Welsh rabbit. I’m not sure what the outcome was, but they seemed to have sizeable donations via paypal. I doubt they ate the hostage, but I’m relatively certain they kept the money. In that respect, it wasn’t really a joke.
Just a nitpick. "Welsh Rabbit" or “Welsh Rarebit” contains no rabbit.
This reminds me of the old National Lanpoon issue, “Buy This Magazine or We’ll Kill This Dog.”
When ever I hear people linking the word welsh, with a word origin that means cheap, I get suspicious, no matter what dictionary supports it, ever sincee-logic defended me for using it. I find it far more likely that the recipe comes from some ancient word no one remembers and that amusing story was a cute, easy explination.
Ok…
Does that mean he kicked off? Is that a local expression?
Ack. Dumb mistake on my part.
It was a different rabbit dish. Here’s the link: http://www.krohm.net/bernd.htm