If not a cherry...

Posted at 5:43 PM on February 23, 2009 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Arts, Surveys and trivia

The removal of the cherry from the spoon at the Walker's sculpture garden is the most covered story involving a fruit in the history of Minnesota, it would appear.

This picture is from MPR senior producer Jim Bickal. Though the spoon looks lost, it got me to thinking in my patented there-are-no-problems-only-opportunities way.

What might be a fitting food to put there instead? Cheerios to honor our unofficial state oat cereal? Porridge to accurately portray the budget situation?

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Comments (3)

Cod liver oil to prepare us for the next dozen or more years of payback for our recent profligate ways...

Posted by fasolamatt | February 23, 2009 8:18 PM

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Perhaps we could look at this a do-over for our sadly predictable state quarter.

Instead of the ubiquitous loon and canoe, we could try out different things on the spoon, such as:

Jesse Ventura's head (sized to reflect the ego)
Millstone
Hockey Puck
Pacemaker
Northwest Airlines Logo (which would slowly fade away to reveal Delta)
Honeycrisp Apple
the Mystery Science Theater Logo Moon.
Bowling Ball
Coen Brother (to be alternated)
Mosquito
Stocking Cap
Mitten
Hamm's

I am sure that some of the more adept PhotoShoppers out there may have something even better in the works...

Posted by Kevin | February 23, 2009 9:24 PM

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Your picture looks like they replace the cherry with an M&M or a raisin.

Posted by Alison | February 23, 2009 10:03 PM

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