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Default Banana slicer: essential tool or stupid idea?

In article <qeSpi.3835$7w.2766@trnddc05>,
"Paul M. Cook" > wrote:

> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > You know those apple coring/slicing tools they have? You know, the
> > kind you push down over the apple, and it cuts the thing into nice,
> > even wedges? I use one when the Prince of Wales is coming over to
> > eat, and I want to impress him with the uniformity of the wedges.
> > Mostly I just use a knife, though.
> >
> > Well, the other day in my grocery store I saw something similar, for
> > bananas: It's got the general outline of a banana, with little blades
> > going across. Clearly meant to be used like the apple device.
> >
> > Seems to me this is a great invention--for the person too damn lazy to
> > take a few seconds to cut some slices for his cereal with a butter
> > knife. (I'm also wondering whether the slices stick together at the
> > bottom, like with the apple tool, and whether the slices turn to mush
> > when you try to pull them apart.)
> >
> > Anyone think this is a great invention?
> >
> > Or... can anyone think of a more useless kitchen tool?

>
>
> Makes me wonder if you can still buy the Roinco "In the Egg Scrambler?"
>
> Paul


<lol> I used to have one of those!
Fun toy and it was cheap.
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