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Something's funny about the bunny

Maybe the plaything function, plus the slightly feminine makeup, is what has turned the term "Grandpa Bunny" into a contemporary euphemism for a gigolo. But the tradition is undergoing a revival for the toys - the clay kind, not the boy kind.

Rabbits may be enjoyed in more ways than one. Apart from pets and toys, they find their way onto dinner tables. Rabbit head is a signature delicacy of Sichuan cuisine. It requires 13 ingredients for marinating before it is boiled in spicy broth.

I didn't have the guts to taste it on my trips to the land of myriad spices. In my hometown, rabbit meat does not rank very high on a carnivore's list.

My parents were married in the waning year of the great famine. Their wedding banquet consisted of a single dish, a modicum of rabbit meat, as I was told. They would have opted for pork or beef if they had the luxury.

In my late teens there was a mini-boom of rabbit raising, prompted by a surge in the price of the animal's fur.

Wherever I went, I saw cages with white rabbits inside, nibbling on vegetables provided by the breeders. A year or two later, the bottom fell out of the market just as fast as the boom had arrived. By that time, there were tales of deceit, such as those of retailers hiding an ingot of iron inside a mass of rabbit fur to increase the weight.

Mind you, the rabbits were only sheared for their fur; they were not skinned.

Movie star Gong Li, currently under pressure from PETA for wearing rabbit and other furs, may want to consider grafting rabbit fur onto manmade fabric.