One-toe-bears - Teddy bears by Marie-Christine Twardy

"Phish food"
18th December 2009, 235 g, 22 cm (8.66 "), 8 joints

You probably know my "Ben & Jerry´s" ice-cream bears - "Phish food" is my third. But this time I even equipped his tub. There is a music box hidden inside. The chocolate ice cream seat allows "Phish food" to sit comfortably when he spins slowly around, trying to catch the chocolate fudge fish jumping in a big arch out of the tub. With his paws and his open mouth he is prepared quite well for his favourite hobby, called chocolate phishing. While sitting there, catching fudge fish, he loves to listen to the melody playing. It is the popular song "Come here, come here, little phish" (in some countries, it is also known as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star").

The lyrics:
Come here, come here, little phish,
´Cause you are my favourite dish.
Chocolate, car´mel, marshmallow,
there is nothing I love so!

You can tell by his big belly (filled with steel pellets for additional weight and sheep´s wool) that he has a sweet tooth. Though, he is very agile with his 8 joints (wrists, legs, arms, double neck joint). His chocolate brown short pile mohair is a great contrast to the marshmallow and caramel swirl that is made of off white mohair and caramel Suedine. The caramel Suedine also constitutes his nose, palms and toes. His inner ears are made of marshmallow. Claws and nose are stitched and made of marshmallow, too. As a typical "Ben & Jerry´s" ice-cream bear he prefers to chill in his tub - he does not like standing and is not very good at it.

"Phish food" hates to hurry, he loves cosy places and likes to sit by the fire place, eating chocolate fish. Of course, he enjoys most when you wind his music box and place him in his seat so that he can go chocolate phishing. His favourite drink is hot chocolate with marshmallows on top and a little bit of caramal syrup for decoration. If he could choose, he would eat chocolate ice-cream every day, no matter if summer or winter. But "Phish food" does not only need you to provide him with sweets, he needs to be hugged and loves to communicate. He always wants to know what you had for lunch when you come home.

After a long journey, "Phish food" finally arrived at Nicole´s in Grünbach, Austria. He is already comfortable in his new loving home and his new beary friends love to use his music box as a merry-go-round. "Phish food" now moved to the Netherlands, where he lives happily with Ricky and some brothers and sisters.