It's the Great Cabbage Chucky Black!

There are factory tours where you can watch products being made all across the U.S. Often they are a triumph of efficient technology and mass production. But sometimes they are just strange.

In the 1980's Xavier Roberts started what would become a craze with his Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Each one was not bought, but "adopted."  And since they were kids to be adopted, they of course couldn't come from a factory. No, they had to come from a hospital.

There the "kids" are born and ready for adoption. But not just anyone can adopt. You have to follow the rules.

NOT contemplated what it would take to be a Cabbage Patch Duck, but he couldn't get any tips from the new "kids."

Everywhere you turned there were kid motifs.

Incubators

School Busses

Schoolhouses with Teachers

But it seems that it's in the Cabbage Patch where the real work is done.

However, there is something creepy about the different kind of "heads" of cabbage that are being grown here.

And of course, the kids are not made, they are born.  The "mother cabbage" dilates (which is announced to all) and then a "nurse" comes out to help with the birth from the cabbage. 

Soon the new Cabbage Patch Kid pops out from the Cabbage-ina, ready for adoption.

NOT is not quite sure how Cole Slaw fits in with the Birds and the Bees. Talk about messing up the children of today...

But in true southern fashion - You all come back now, you hear?

Photos by J.J. Kwashnak

Last Updated March 2005