two reasons:

1. food made into the shapes of other things.

2. gruesome, terrifying things are fun.

now to explain:

1. i’m just going to take a quick inventory of odd-shaped things i’ve eaten: shrimp formed into a donut, dragonfruit cut into hearts, sweet-cream buns shaped like rabbits, fish balls shaped like mickey mouses. i think the point is to…i’m not sure there is a point. i guess the thinking is: why would you want your food to look anything like what it actually is?

2. thai people LOVE to be scared and watch horror movies. i’ve been scared of horror movie ads ever since i can remember. i’d walk away from chucky posters. i’d bend to my sister’s every whim when she threatened to call freddy krueger. the mere mention of a ghost made me turn on every light in the house.

but thai people, the love horror anything. kids get FREAKED out by them, but they love the thrill. every place has a ghost story that gets told and re-told and re-re-told. one of the kid’s activities the teenagers planned was like that halloween game where you put your hand in a bowl of spaghetti or a bowl of peeled grapes and have to guess what it is while you’re blindfolded. ours had a bunch of funny-feeling stuff floating in water that was called “what’s in the jar?!?!” the teens made the buildup SO scary that only one kid (who was 14) was brave enough to actually put his hand in the jar. some kids were convinced that we put a ghost in the jar. yeah, that’s the kind of kids’ activities we put on. we keep ghosts in jars and make kids stick their hands in to feel them. hey, we’re just showing the love of jesus.

no, but really, i want to find this bakery. how cool would it be to bring a dismembered head to the next kids’ activity and start chomping on the skull?

muahahahahaha