A must-have kitchen tool

November 3, 2017 • 3:30 pm

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.

43 thoughts on “A must-have kitchen tool”

      2. 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!

    2. 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?

  2. 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.

    1. 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.

  3. This would something for Ronco, sold on TV only. Cannot buy it in stores because then you could take it back.

      1. 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…

  8. 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.

  10. 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. 🙂

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

    cr

  14. 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!

  15. The “Customer Questions and Answers” section is even funnier than the reviews!! Warning–there are 678 of them, almost all hilarious.

  18. 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.

  19. 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?

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