This "pop art" toaster (so clever, these marketers) comes with six preset designs, and none of them feature any religious iconography that'll net you 10 grand on eBay. Which begs the question: Why would you want to burn lame, cutesy designs like flowers into your toast? They just make your toast taste burnt. If I wanted burnt toast and cheese, I'd make a grilled cheese, not drop $35 on this toaster.
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Would be cool, if one said "Eat Me" on it. But who wouldn't love to spread some jelly on Jesus's face?
or, better yet, "dont eat me"... appeals to the primal urge for food you have to fight for. not that fighting words on toast is exactly hard...
makes a great package in combination with the turd twister
It tastes like... burning!
I would pay good money for a toaster that prints Jesus or Mary's face on my toast. Even better, Jesus on one side, and Mary on the other.
Big mistake not putting Jesus.... going to hell.
A clever way to get kids to eat toast? I don't get it. Maybe this is the kind of thing one's maiden aunt would like? You know, the one with ten cats and no social life.
This is one of those kitchen appliances you would buy if you had an excessive surplus of money. It's probably on the "What I'll Get If And When I'm Rich" list.
There are actually toasters that toast a picture of the weather forecast for that day, set on a specific toast time. What if they toasted a "puzzle of the day" on it? I could imagine some sleepy guy in the morning carving numbers into the Sudoku puzzle on bread.
hey dont get this and the turd twister mixed up...you could really ruin some toast....
Great.. so now we can PAY $35 to get small doses of cancer each morning with our eggs? Don't most ppl scrape off the burnt part of their toast anyway, or is that just me?
Oh, no wait. Never mind! I just saw the picture of the toast with a happy face smiling at me. I changed my mind - totally justifiable for 35$ + the carcinogens, this is a steal! buybuybuybuy
You dont get cancer from burnt toast. Its burnt MEAT that contains nitroso-ureas, responsible for the C->T shift.
And even if it did, youre not gonna get cancer from a little burnt food; the SUN is the most potent carcinogen animals are regularly exposed to.
"Slycraft's Catalog of Stuff" which I co-authored with my friend Albin Sadar back in 1984 (published by Crown, now out of print), featured a "product" called Toaster Time Theater, which was essentially the same as this thing, plus a proscenium arch.
Those designs do very little to toast the whole slice of bread though.
The designs should be inverted so that everything BUT the design is toasted.
Hey I like toast, okay?
It's intriguing to see a retail giant like Target (no surprise really, sorry WalMart) taking a conceptual trend under its wing so quickly.
If only it burned Mary's face....it would put that $25,000 grilled cheese ebay sandwich to shame.
About a million years ago I tried to convince a large hotel chain to adopt an internet connected toaster so the breakfast buffet would have weather patterns and some minimal stock info on the toast, when presented there was a lot of uncomfortable silence.
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