Stupid Food Products
We were shopping at Shanghai's expat food mecca, City Shop, and in the baking aisle found a food product we find so incredibly stupid, we had to share it with you. This item comes from Australia. It's "White Wings Shaker Pancakes ORIGINAL" in a bottle:
Here's the deal. It's sold in a see-thru plastic bottle, and it's only half-full of the dry mix. You are supposed to fill the rest of the bottle yourself with water, give it a good shake, and pour onto the frying pan for your flapjacks. Yes, it's purposefully sold half-full. What a sad sad waste of resources, and what sad way to encourage inexcusable laziness.
Actually, the product has been around for a while, and ran into a bit of trouble back in 1999, being recalled -- "Defect Details: Potential Contamination With Fizzing Agent Causing The Bottle To Rupture."
Yummy!
Who comes up with product ideas like this, and who lets them get away with it? Worse, who buys this stuff? Suckers!
Extra negative bonus points for being 97% fat free -- it's a pancake dammit!
* Trendhunter.com did a great collection of stupid meat products.
Share with us your favorite stupid food product finds, in the comments below...
posted by Michael @ 10:52 PM
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15 Comments:
Gotta be SMASH, mashed potato mix. It used to come with instructions which went something like:
Add water to SMASH mix.
Don't forget to add the SMASH!
I'm not sure quite the level of humour/stupidity/irony they were aiming for.
Perhaps you'd fancy a hot lezzo?
It seems to be fashioned entirely out of sugar and whatever fragrance they used to put in that Green Apple shampoo when I was a kid.
(And I'm in Australia, and there are MANY varieties of similar pancake products available for stupid people.)
We have these in the States (although not with the handle). It's good for camping since you don't need a separate bowl or utensil to mix it but for home use it's a total waste as you say.
Marketing deception at its best:
the Maggi "Moulinée aux neuf légumes" dehydrated soup comes in two versions : normal and diet, the latter being 50% more expensive. Yet there is practically no difference in their composition: it's the same product, but the instructions for the "diet" version require to put less powder and more water!
I know in the US you can bug pancake batter in a can which you squirt directly into the pan, bleugh!
I vaguely remember using something like that for camping when I was little.
wow, this site is becoming popular. I remember it was still unpublicized not long ago and you told me not to tell anyone.. hehe....Congrats!
this isn't a people food product, but yesterday i saw "fortified water for DOGS". wth?
How about a tube of ABBA brand salmon pate and crab pate they sell at Ikea? Picture here: http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/06/red_hook_08_gui.php
But you have never been too lazy to figure out what a sad sad waste of resources it is to eat meat? Or have you?
I'm a bit late here. Only just discovered your blog today. I'm off work with burnt feet (short and stupid story) and have nothing better to do than troll the net. I'm into porn...food porn of all sorts so this is fun and a little dirty.You're American right? Well, pls forgive us Aussies for a couple things stupid like pancake shakers but you Americans have the monopoly on stupid, wasteful products full of additives and numbers and plastic. Cheese in a can, all that pillsbury shit (anyone can make dough etc), all those pre packaged cookies, cereals with candy in them, "puddings" that don't need cooling, freakin mac and cheese, crap! how hard is it to make mac and cheese from scratch? Easy, I make it every week for my kids, cool whip, (ewww)Lunchables??? You guys are king of supermarket crap.Eek....I could go on. We all have our fair share of crap so spread the love. I love your blog even though I don't eat meat (just don't like it) but have no issues with it cos at least it's "real" and not made in a factory.
I rant, I'm sorry but it's been fun.
Cheers.
Ahh! What a beautiful things! I'll definitely check this work and I am sure it will be awesome!
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Truth be known, Americans are the laziest excuse for an overpampered race ever to grace this earth...no wonder the rest of the world thinks you are all wankers!...lol!
Your food is CRAP, seriously, been to the states and you guys eat the worst, overcomercialised shit Ive ever heard of let alone seen!
How about you drag your lazy asses into the kitchen and actually COOK something that wasnt pre prepared, canned, frozen, dried, sugar filled and microwaved!
Try something easy...like cheese on toast...you know real cheese, not that canned of sliced rubbish, something you actually slice from a block that actually smells and tastes like CHEESE...
I find it wholly hypocritical and amusingly ill-conceived that a American would find it acceptable to denigrate a product based on the level of laziness it takes to make it.
You pricks are the laziest race on the face of the earth!
This is evidenced by this very blog!
You decide to find one product you dislike, and then, instead of bothering to continue providing the rest of us with similar profundities to the absolute gem you first illustrated, YOU THEN REQUIRE OTHERS TO DO THE FUCKEN SEARCHING FOR YOU!
As for there being a problem with it being classified as 97% fat free, I can most definitely see why someone from the most obese nation on the face of the earth would have a problem with that. Also, the fact that you're not intelligent enough to be able to discern between fat content and sugar content is proof again that you need to borrow a neuron to have two of them to rub together.
How about you stop shitting on others for the food they produce and eat and start by fixing up your own bunch of fatties!
I just found this blog today - love it! I'm not very adventurous with food (and I'm vege), but am totally fascinated by "unusual" foods from all places, even if I'm not brave enough to try them myself!
And to the commenter above: my goodness, isn't "the laziest excuse for an overpampered race ever to grace this earth" a pretty harsh description? We're not *all* bad...
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