When we started this blog, We’ll admit we thought it would be amusingly cute for our Savvy Shopper persona to refer to ourselves using the royal “we,” known among snooty intellectual types as a nosism. But you know what? I was wrong. See, I said “I,” and will continue to do so in the future when referring to myself as an individual. It’s annoying to write in the second person, and I’m sure it’s more annoying to read unless the writer is more talented than myself.
So that’s it. I feel liberated. We I are am so happy to be done with that pretentious charade. Oops. It will take a little time to get used to this.
Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she “propositioned him for straight sex.” Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly “bit his tongue and would not let go.” Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue.
Not a pretty picture. Is this Vince’s Pee Wee Herman moment? Is his career as super-pitchman now over? Guess she didn’t love his nuts. Any, he didn’t have a boring hooker.
Several thousand meals ago, we bought our spouse a razor-sharp ceramic knife as a birthday gift. This displays the high level of trust that is a hallmark of our often-harmonius pairing (a pairing without paring). That $200 knife is still as sharp and smooth as they day it first carved sushi-grade maguro tuna into paper-thin slices for tuna carpaccio. We’re sold on the sharpness and durability of ceramic knives. So when we saw the new YoshiBlade at a fraction of the price, we were very intrigued. We’ve not tried the YoshiBlade yet, so we’re not making a direct comparison to a $200 knife. But we are very interested to see how it performs. Here’s the commercial:
Addendum: After re-reading this, I thought maybe it sounded a little fakey. There are so many fake blogs out there today, and your Savvy Shopper, while pseudonymous, is oh so real, baby. So after dinner we snapped a photo of the Kyocera Kyotop ceramic knife that has served so faithfully, most recently in the preparation of tonight’s delicious dinner. And yes, it does cost about $200.
“Whatever product I’m selling, it’s like putting on Superman’s cape,” he says. “I become Billy Mays, the ultimate pitchman. And that’s who I am. And I’m proud to be that.”
Billy also claims that the more he yells over the course of a day, the stronger his voice gets. Must come from the years he spent pitching portable washing machines on Boardwalk in Atlantic City.
Here’s some additional behind-the-scenes footage from the story:
If you saw our Slap Chop Unboxing post, you know we previously received our Slap Chop and unpacked it for use. We thought it might be fun to put it to the test by preparing a simple three-course luncheon with the aid of Vince Offer’s magic chopper. Vince promises us the Slap Chop will endow us with an exciting life. So how did it perform?
We’re happy to say that the Slap Chop performs pretty much as advertised. You push down on the plunger and foods get chopped. The blade is sharp. While it’s not by any means a precision instrument, the Slap Chop seems plenty sturdy and its butterfly hinge makes it easy to clean. Our major mistake was not re-watching the commercial before we started. Perhaps with some study we could have replicated Vince’s trick of removing onion and garlic skins in one piece. We do think it’s possible to accomplish this feat outside of the TV studio, so we’ll try again next time we chop. Bet Vince didn’t get it on the first try.
We always aim to prepare tasty and healthy meals. Ours is not the home of the boring tuna. So our lives may not be radically transformed due to this kitchen gadget, but we’re pleased to report that the Slap Chop did its job admirably. And we thoroughly enjoyed the gastronomic results. On today’s menu: Tuna salad sandwiches on focaccia, using quality Italian canned tuna in olive oil, homemade salsa with organic multi-grain chips, and vanilla yogurt topped with nuts, berries and dark chocolate. Yes, it was delicious.
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Why should unboxing be just for computers and gadgets? If you thought that the Slap Chop commercial was just performance art, you need to know that the latest product from Vince Offer (the ShamWow guy) is very, very real. We ordered ours back in December on the first day we saw it advertised. It arrived about a month later. Now it’s well past the ides of March and we’re just now posting the pix here. This is a direct result of personal lameness. We didn’t want to post the photos until we chose and installed a WordPress photo gallery plugin. This meant we really should upgrade WordPress to the latest version, but we have been too busy/lazy to do so. Until today.
We did make a meal recently where every course was prepared with the Slap Chop, and of course we documented the process with photos. Look for that gallery soon.
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Back in the nineties, your Savvy Shopper was a co-owner of a small creative firm that officed in a very old structure in an industrial (now trendy) area just north of downtown in our upper-midwestern municipality. This old and imposing city-block-size edifice was once a John Deere warehouse many, many long years ago. The building had suffered the indignity of many ill-planned modifications, but we so loved the high ceilings, sandblasted brick walls and exposed beams of our renovated second floor offices overlooking busy Presidential Avenue.
The photo on the right (at least the head) is of Ken, the building manager who came on board a few years into our tenancy. Ken is an interesting person with a storied past. We could relate many amusing anecdotes here, but it’s just not our style.
Anyway, imagine our surprise when Ken popped up in this video for the Contour Core Sculpting System, where you strap an electric belt around your bulging midsection, then watch TV and eat bon bons while passively sculpting abs of steel. Turns out he’s part of the team behind this product.
