Who the hell buys this crap!?!
It was Black Friday. I was being a responsible American citizen and dutifully in the midst of my annual holiday shopping spree. Then, while battling my way through hoards of eager shoppers in a local department store, I stumbled upon this nonsense…
Are there people who can actually justify the need to have a dedicated meat-ball-maker in their homes? Who needs a pretzel-press?!? And I am pretty sure that you don’t have to have a specialized smores machine to make smores; campers have been making them for years without even electricity!
Now there are PLENTY of stupid kitchen ‘gadgets’ that are designed to make life easier…I am guilty of having purchased more than my fair share of junk. I used to have several drawers dedicated to items like ‘tomato slicers,’ ‘garlic-presses,’ and those terrible infomercial items like the ‘Slap-Chop‘ (YES, I did buy a ‘Slap-Chop’…those damn infomercials are so freaking convincing). Only when I made the move into my new home did I finally put all that junk in the trash can. I made a solemn promise that I would never burden the Fed Up HQ with this nonsense again.
So yes, I have seen, purchased, and used many of the most popular kitchen junk. I consider myself quite familiar with the wide range of complete crap that is sold in discount kitchen outlet stores, ‘Sky Mall,’ and places where this sort of stuff is pushed. But during the holiday frenzy, kitchen crap becomes prevalent in main-stream stores. People are really caught up in the energy and excitement; everyone’s rational intelligent decision-making is suddenly over-powered by impulsive actions…and the big retailers know this. They take advantage of the American consumer in their weakened state and sell us junk that we would otherwise never consider. So the really dumb products get prime ‘end-cap’ locations and are put high on pedestals for us to eagerly idolize and quickly purchase.
The ‘quesadilla maker’…just like a Gorge Foreman Grill, but with none of the versatility or potential.
Do you really make smores that frequently that you need a dedicated ‘smores maker’? A gadget whose single purpose is to make smores is not likely going to replace your toaster oven or your blender when having to make room for it in your kitchen. And who doesn’t love a good quesadilla? But I have successfully been making them for years without the need of a specialized quesadilla grill…Seriously. These items are stupid.
So I say avoid this junk and spend your money on something a little more useful…that is unless you really are a smores addict or own a quesadilla restaurant or something.
