Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Catalog Fun: Breakfast for Idiots


Do YOU have any trouble with the cereal box? Is it hard to open? Is the cereal-to-bowl process a daunting one? If so, for eighty bucks you can get a "Breakfix" cereal dispenser that will fill your bowl for you.
Yes, it's a complex concept, so the website has a video showing the Breakfix in action, filling bowl after bowl to the amazement of "the whole family".
Check out the teenage oaf who tells us "I really want some cereal but I only have one hand!" Don't look for a very special hook. He means he has books in his other hand and doesn't know how to put them down. Then he does an Archimedes gesture and uses the Breakfix.
I'm confused. Now that he has his cereal, both hands are full. How's he gonna eat it? Someone get this kid a feedbag.
Note- Since this first was posted Consumer Reports featured this sucker (or something similar) in their magazine under the "selling it" section. They pointed out that if portion control is important, one could use a small bowl...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Seeing as how you're not so fond of offerings from this catalog... ;-)

Check out this parody:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312357478/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-8803258-0591363#reader-link

In case that link doesn't work, here's a redirect to the same Amazon page:

http://tinyurl.com/y7kooc

Keeping clicking on "Surprise Me" on the left to see some of the pages in this parody from that detestable catalog.