Paper; writing on plastic is too difficult. Being hit 100 times with a tiny hammer, or once with a really big hammer?
Well, Scarecrows aren't full of sweets, but they are sometimes magic, so I think they're probably more useful. A gun rack or a severed head?
a gun rack depending if I can pick what kind of head or not. ice cream headache or pins and needles in both hands
Ice cream headache, 'cause I least I got to have ice cream first. An itch you can't scratch, or an inconveniently positioned paper-cut?
Butter; can't have buttercream icing without butter. Living without internet, or being perpetually followed by a cockney orphan who steals your stuff?
Regular mermaid, the reverse one would have to stay under water all the time, on account of the gills. And she'd be slower. Badger or raccoon?
Soft nose; only dogs should have cold noses. Crushed to death by freshly baked bread, or drowned in chocolate milk?