A mom helping her daughter go through a basket of goodies she got for Easter decided to take a bite of a chocolate bunny—only to realize it was actually soap.
The mom, who did not give her name, explained in a viral post on Reddit‘s r/Wellthatsucks, that her daughter got what appeared to be a chocolate bunny rabbit in an Easter basket.
“I was confused about why she didn’t want it so I took a bite. It’s soap,” she wrote.
She also posted a photograph of the bunny in question, which looks very much as though it is made from chocolate—and has a chunk missing from one of its ears.
The woman told Newsweek that it was “an honest mistake by all,” but said “the makers of brown soap in the exact shape, scent and color of a chocolate Easter bunny for children need to do some rethinking on this type of product.” Soap is classed a “minimally toxic,” according to the Illinois Poison Center.
A spokesperson for Two’s Company, who made the product, told Newsweek: “Our Two’s Company chocolate-scented bunny soap is designed to be whimsical and giftable, and we can see how it could be mistaken for the real thing, especially during Easter. We’re very grateful the child is perfectly fine and that the mom shared her experience with humor and grace.
“We’re always working to make our packaging as clear as possible, and feedback like this helps us do even better. In light of the post, we will reach out to the family to offer a small gift — and maybe something a little more edible this time!”
The woman, who posts to Reddit under the username u/hellogoawaynow, racked up more than 84,000 upvotes on her photo, shared earlier this month, as baffled commenters agreed it looked exactly like an edible treat.
She later shared a comment explaining the soap was chocolate-scented, and while the packaging did say soap in large letters, she didn’t notice while she was unwrapping it—only after she “frantically searched for [the packaging] as I was trying to figure out what in God’s name I had just eaten.”
The mom explained the basket was given to her daughter by her grandmother, who has cataracts and dementia, while with her caregiver, but added she’s sure “there were no ill intentions here.”
“Idk [I don’t know] if grandma and caregiver knew they were giving the toddler soap or if they also thought it was chocolate. I appear to be the only one who for sure thought it was chocolate,” she wrote.
She called it an “honest mistake by all—except the toddler, she knew immediately that it was not chocolate. She smart, I dumb.”
And as for whether she would be using the soap bunny as intended, she told commenters: “It went directly into the trash after I took this picture.”
Reddit users commented on the posts in their thousands, with one writing: “That’s just straight up malicious if it wasn’t labeled as soap.”
“Soap should also never be brown,” another wrote. “I bought AXE Dark Temptation once, and having brown water going down the drain didn’t make me feel very clean. It did smell delicious though.”
Another shared a similar story, recalling: “I was just telling a story earlier about my nan and one year she bought us all chocolate but it wound up being soap. She was mortified.”
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