The Wild Azalea Trail is the longest trail in Louisiana.  Its 26.2 miles snake between Valentine Lake and the Woodworth Town Hall… and three of us Great Harvest employees hiked all of it in 1½ days last weekend.  My legs finally stopped being sore on Thursday but my collar bones are still bruised from where my pack’s shoulder straps sat.

As I planned the trip (using Pack & Paddle’s maps and expert advice), I realized that we needed light, energy-dense foods to take with us on the trip.  Add-boiling-water-and-mix meals were an easy solution for Breakfast and Supper but the question I was left with was what to do for lunch.  We weren’t going to stop and unpack our gear so we needed something portable that required no prep work.

While I’ve rolled out and baked Go Bars for years now and I frequently taste them for quality, I’ve never really eaten one before.  Our customers love them and rave about them so much that I put my faith in their testimonials and decided that we would bring them along for our lunches.  They’re loaded with everything that you need for a quick and easy meal or a snack that’ll sustain you for an afternoon on the road/trail/water.

They worked wonderfully.  I had Chris Meaux (our Jake Gyllenhaal lookalike) and Ryan Grob (“the guy that used to have long hair” as most of you know him) bring the Go Bars… nine bars per day for 6 people.  Believe it or not, this was more than enough.  We were burning tons of calories but the Go Bars really performed well and gave us sustained energy to climb hills and maneuver through bogs.

Go Bars… trail tested, trail approved!

Every year we make a ton of Honey Bunnies around Easter.  We know that you love ‘em and we’re glad to make them for you.  Really, we are.  However, making them is a very tedious process.  We can kick out 50 loaves on Honey Whole Wheat in about 15 minutes.  It takes an hour to make 50 Honey Bunnies so you can imagine how happy we are the first week after Easter.

Two years ago one of our employees, Terry Fuselier, happened to have his baseball bat in his truck.  He looked at me and said, “We should bash those extra bunnies we have.”  We did.  And the Annual Destruction of the Leftover Bunnies was created.

The poor little fellas didn’t know what hit ‘em.

This year the event was expanded.  We included a couple of more people, documented the event, and had weapons to pick from this time.

Our Weapons of Mass Destruction

While I was trying to decide between the tire iron and the hammer, Beau Lemoine walked up with his golf club and really got the party started.

It took years on the course to perfect that swing.

While Beau’s swing was elegant and sent the bunnies straight and true, it lacked the punch needed to lift them up over the roof.  That’s when Terry fused his baseball technique with Beau’s golf club for a truly stunning shot.

Yes, that is a bunny head flying over the building.

Since I’m left handed I couldn’t go with the golf club so I decided it was Hammer Time.

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

For those of you that worry about waste (we do, too) the remnants of the bunnies went home with Sandy Henley to feed her son’s chickens. 

And now you know what will happen next year to that bunny you don’t buy!  Yes, that is a threat!

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Anonymous commented on 09-Apr-2010 08:33 PM

Love this. Too funny!