Lop-eared bunny peeler – Awww!
Nablopomo – Anything you’d like
Anything I’d like? Uh, yeah, how about an adorable vegetable peeler that when posed correctly, looks like the sweetest little lop-eared bunny? Yes please!
When I went to BlogHer this year, I also had the opportunity to meet up with some friends that weren’t connected to the conference. In fact, ones that didn’t even know I had any websites, much less silly food-related ones. You see, I’m their guild and raid leader in that lovely game World of Warcraft so they know me as the slightly harder core chick who is yelling at them to get out of stuff on the ground and to kill harder.
As you can imagine, it made for some interesting stories right off the bat about why I was in San Diego and why I was, uh, wearing bunny ears. There went my street cred. :P
Anyway, so this guy had some tricks of his own up his sleeve. Given he had no idea my fun food obsessions, it was awesome that he had pre-picked the quirky Urban Mo’s Bar and Grill for the brunch buffet. (Click the link for cool video and description, but it’s not completely PG in alcoholic and GLBT references, so beware.)
Afterwards, we headed to a nearby novelty shop that carried a ton of those weird products I sometimes post about. It was like Quirky Cookery in store-form. And again, he had no idea in advance that I was over-the-top into this sort of stuff, lol.
When we ran across this bunny peeler, I started to take a picture because I thought it was perfect for the whole bunny theme thing I had going on that weekend, but he insisted on buying it instead. With all the craziness of the rest of the weekend, though, I didn’t think about it again until I got home and wanted to take pictures of it.
Then? Oh my god! I hadn’t really looked at it closely, but twisting the tail is what causes the bunny ears to move so you can use either the peeler or the knife separately, and then twist them back inside to cover the blades safely.
Adorable! Even the packaging was adorable. Who knew the plastic covering would be cute even? Ha.
Two peas in a pod walk into a kitchen
Nablopomo – A couple – (Like two peas in a pod, no?)
These salt and pepper shakers are just the cutest little couple for a quirky kitchen.
Unfortunately, while I was looking for other cute pea pod products, I found several listed in a Serious Eats article about Toy Story 3 plushies and some are definitely more disturbing than adorable. Like this dog costume:
Really? Had I not said that’s supposed to be “two peas in a pod,” would you have been able to guess it as such? Yikes.
Here, have a couple better ones to make up for it. I found some other great ideas like candles and cupcakes that used the old saying, too, so if you know any couples or best friends that are like two peas in a pod, take the saying and run with it!
How do you use your ketchup packets? – Dip or squeeze?
Nablopomo – Something new
I saw the mockup for these ketchup packages a couple years ago and figured they’d never actually be released, just like so many other product improvements aren’t because of the cost to redesign.
But look, it’s happening! If you haven’t seen them yourself yet, check out Chick-fil-A, Smashburger, and Dairy Queen, all of which have already switched. Wendy’s will be switching out later this year, and McDonald’s and Burger King are both still testing and deciding.
I happen to love the new packages. I can conveniently dip -or- squeeze it out, and they each contain 3 times as much as the old annoying packages. It’ll take a while to get used to not needing as many packets, but I probably won’t waste as much either, so I’m game.
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