On my post about the proper eating of Weetabix, reader Vaal brought to our attention a remarkable product, only $5.33 on Amazon! (Click on screenshot to go to the product.)
Actually, it doesn’t work that well, and you can imagine why. Here’s a fake video about the product, but the guy has also made a fake informercial about it:
What I like about this is that it is one of those Amazon products where the reviewers go full-on funny in their reviews.
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Did Ray Comfort invent this?
Ha! You beat me to it…
I was going to post, “What would Ray Comfort say?”
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You can still post that.
I think I just did!
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Comfort foods: fits your moods, fits* your hand and fits your slicer.
They are a miracle!
*Originally came out onto the edit box as “fist”. Oy!
You didn’t hear? Ray Comfort merged with Ron Popeil; this is the product of their combined efforts.
If the Almighty really had designed bananas, wouldn’t they already come in bite-sized portions, like grapes?
Or plums … ?
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[checks for Ray C. joke ]
[success]
According to this:
I’m Ray Comfort, and I approve this message! 🙂
If you’re ever feeling down, search Amazon for the “BIC Pen for Her” and read through the reviews. Your day will brighten and your faith in humanity will be restored.
Those were so good. When I saw the pen in a store afterwards, I had to have some. Turns out, they were pretty nice pens. The kiddo called them our ‘lady-pens’, and we all fought over them.
This would something for Ronco, sold on TV only. Cannot buy it in stores because then you could take it back.
hey now, I still have a working Veg-o-matic!
It slices and dices. I like the spray on rubber to stop leaks in the roof.
It’s not uncommon in kitchen shops in the UK.
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LOL. Thanks for ending my week on a good belly laugh!
It is not long enough to slice a bananana.
Trump bananas.
But did it lead to the split-up of the Brit pop group Bananarama?
Oddly enough, it led to the split-up of Wham!.
Technically, one could say that a “banana” led to George Michaels’ troubles in Beverly Hills…
You gotta have faith …
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BA-NA-NAAA!
/Kevin
And then you’ve got to wash, and scrub, and dry it. A knife you lick.
You speak with forked tongue!
All of the reviews are funny, but the second one by Mrs. Toledo is just hilarious. I laughed multiple times.
The sad thing is, I’ll bet people are buying this, just like all the other silly things on infomercials.
Troll someone – give ’em an unpeeled banana that turns out to be sliced inside – requires a needle [or needle & thread for a neat result]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prU96UpekA8
LOL.
When I was little, I used to break a banana in half and then split each half into three distinct sections. With hands. It often took me longer than expected to finish a banana. 6 pieces of banana. Just the way I liked it. It drove my older brother bananas.
Banana slicer. How lazy can we get. 🙂
With your bare hands? Your Kung Fu is mighty!
Williams Sonoma is my go-to Ridiculous Kitchen Implement amusement source in general. They have more expensive, specialty, one use only items than you could imagine.
You can tell he’s British because he uses ‘bloody’ and ‘hell’ and ‘f*cking’ 😉
(aside from the accent, that is)
But his spoof infomercial is bloody hilarious. PCC already linked it but I’ll link it again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMZZYYJEuPY
‘cos I often miss links when PCC puts them in the text.
All infomercials should be mercilessly pilloried to death, in my jaundiced view.
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Did anybody else looking at the page also check out the “People who viewed this also viewed” section?
I did and I saw this. Unfortunately, I can’t unsee it now.
The link is safe for work btw.
And on that page, among the “customers who viewed this item also viewed” is this: https://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Cat-Hair-Cute-Handicrafts/dp/1594745250/ref=pd_sbs_199_9?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=451K8JR7GPF1Y8212TNA
Who knew you could creepily stalk your own cat?!?
The same section also suggests a 60 lb wheel of provolone for a little over $1,000.
Only creepy if you feel the need to shave Kitteh to get more material…
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If anyone has suggestions of any other Amazon products that are known for their funny reviews, be they books, movies, trinkets, or anything else, please post them!
Veet for Men on Amazon.uk
Reviews and Questions.
The reviews of this $7600 tome on Silicon 29 NMR spectroscopy are most entertaining.
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Coupling-Constants-Silicon-29-Landolt-B%C3%B6rnstein/dp/354045277X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1509836273&sr=8-2&keywords=silicon+29+nmr&dpID=41uaShaTf%252BL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
The “Customer Questions and Answers” section is even funnier than the reviews!! Warning–there are 678 of them, almost all hilarious.
I think I may order one of those banana slicers for a gag gift to give a friend.
Amazon has a large selection. Why not get your friend the one that comes with a free banana case?
I have a friend who confused the phrase “banana slicer’ with “banana hammock”. Now he can’t have children.
I have a vague recollection of posting a review there years ago which noted that the product does not work in the Southern Hemisphere where bananas bend the other way.
My ouma (‘granny’ in American) had an egg slicer, metal with a moving frame with thin parallel metal wires. She used to add sliced egg to most of her salads. The egg slicer has disappeared.
Since bananas are so easy to slice, I somehow think this implement will be not be long-lived either.
On second thoughts, maybe that disappearance of the egg slicer was due to the ‘war on cholesterol’, where eggs were unjustly maligned. Unjustly because the cholesterol levels in blood (weather ‘heavy’ or ‘light’) have little to do with your cholesterol intake. Maybe we’ll see a come-back of the egg slicer?
This is my favorite. https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Dairy-Whole-Vitamin-Gallon/dp/B00032G1S0/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1510189212&sr=8-3&keywords=tuscan+milk&dpID=41wKKumJtUL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch Check out the review by Edgar.