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Default Banana slicer: essential tool or stupid idea?

Omelet wrote:
> In article . com>,
> wrote:
>
>> 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.

>
> Sounds useless to me...


If it slices them rather than wedging them (original poster says "to be
used like the apple device", but that seems unlikely), it must look
something like an egg slicer on Viagra.


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