Because brushing your teeth is just too hard.

[lemon_says]

I hate those commercials where they use ineptitude as justification for the existence of their product. Like when they try to sell the pasta pot with the holes in the lid, they show all these people dumping their spaghetti into the sink, or on the floor, or anywhere but into the colander.

It's not that hard to drain spaghetti.

There's one where the person is trying to cut a straight line to separate some photos, and the scissors veer off across one photo to show how she needs the straight-line-chopper. The can tops all drop into cans, contaminating tuna or splashing soup, because these people didn't have the magnetized can opener. People chopping vegetables cut their fingers and fling zucchini hither and yon. Eggs are burned, pancakes folded. I just now saw a commercial for a spinning toothbrush because brushing your teeth manually is "a lot of work." I don't personally consider brushing my teeth to be particularly taxing, but maybe it's just me.

The banana slicer is, I'm sure, one of the most necessary inventions known to man.

What is the least-necessary gadget that you own?

Comments

[pipistrella.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think. I like gadgets, but my taste doesn't generally run to kitchen gadgets unless you count my tea infuser and maybe those little silicon egg-poaching cups. I also have this Japanese tomato knife that could slice a hair lengthwise. I love that knife.

The banana slicer is stupid. I'd like, however, to officially exclude bagel slicers from this list because slicing a bagel really can be a pain.

Unnecessary, yet cool? I have a wireless speaker with a built-in woofer in an 800 sq. foot apartment. I could blow out the walls with this thing. I realize that's a different theme - I can't think of anything I own to keep me from screwing something up like the people in the commercials.

I am so getting you an Octodog for Christmas.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

If you get me an Octodog, I'll serve you one next time you're here.

Bagel slicers prevent emergency room visits. That excludes it from the useless category.

There is a whole "As Seen On TV" store. I figure we ought to keep Daddy out of there.

[baeyear.livejournal.com]

http://www.octodog.net/

I had to look that up... that scares me. I mean, is it so hard to get kids to eat a hotdog that you have to make it look like a squid? Is a squid a more appealing food for kids?

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, it was actually invented because of the fear of kids choking on hot dogs that hadn't been sliced lengthwise.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

We not only ate them unsliced, we sometimes ate them raw, right out of the fridge. It's amazing none of us died of listeria.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

I can't remember where it is--Mall of Georgia, maybe, or Discover Mills? I'll see if I can remember.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

eshayden says it is at Discover Mills.

[raving-liberal.livejournal.com]

I swear by bagel slicers.