The Unicorn Chronicles: Myth, Fantasy, Fable, and Food Part 1

Not the strictest definition of chronicles as there are no historical events in chronological order, but I suppose we can use the secondary definition of chronicles, which is being a record. The Unicorn Chronicles shall be a record of my unicorn models, musings, and whatnot; essentially everything unicorn. Or we can just use the word chronicles as it flows with the word unicorns. The Unicorn Chronicles. Yes, that will do unless I think of something better. 

The wild popularity of unicorns over the past few years has given unicorn lovers an avalanche of unicorn, well everything. Food especially, as there are cakes, cupcakes, popcorn, muddy buddies, candy bark, ice cream, donuts, you name it. Everything can and has been unicornized. The ubiquitous unicorn cake is available at every grocery store bakery, waiting to be bought for a unicorn fan. 

Some cakes try to outdo the simplistic ones (see above) by adding full eyes and rudimentary limbs:

Actually, I think it looks more like a pig on a plate than a unicorn. Last weekend I went to Starbucks for the first time in about three years. In addition to trying a Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino, I decided to be extravagant and get a cake pop. The drive through speaker was a bit crackly as I was asked what flavor of cake pop I wanted (couldn’t see the edge of the board as the bushes needed to be trimmed). My options were chocolate, birthday cake, and unicorn. Unicorns have a flavor? I was going to ask where they went unicorn hunting to get unicorn for their cake pops, and if they put unicorn meat in their breakfast sandwiches, but decided not to. I went with chocolate as I don’t have any taste for unicorn meat. 

As hobbyists are well aware, Breyer plunged into the unicorn craze. And why not? All they needed to do was adhere a horn onto any mold of theirs and voila, unicorn magic! The recent unicorn craze presented a golden opportunity for Breyer; while unicorn popularity has had its blips in the past, it has never reached the heights of the past few years. Stay tuned for more fun in the Unicorn Chronicles!