The other night, I was at Wegmans and saw… pre-sliced apples for sale. Who in their right mind would pay extra for a sliced apple when you could get a whole apple and slice it yourself? I know the same thing could be said about carrot sticks or something, but with an apple slicer, and a tiny bit of strength, anyone can slice and core their own apple in about three seconds.
Can anyone top this? Has/would anyone buy this?
I’d buy it. Just for the pleasure of shopping at Wegmans.
Were they peeled?
Without a peeler, I can’t peel apples if my life depended on it. So, if they were peeled, I might consider buying them. :smack:
I’d buy it, and I have. If you want to save yourself some time when you’re preparing for a party or what have you, that’s one of the things that would buy you a few precious minutes.
They might also sell a peeled variety, but these were skin on.
Yea, Wegmans sure is great.
But not everyone has an apple slicer. I don’t have room in my apartment to store every kind of specialized kitchen tool, and even if I did, it wouldn’t be cost-effective. And I suspect the pre-sliced apples were sliced thinner than what you get from an apple slicer, right?
Also, I’d guess the pre-sliced apples are sold in convenient plastic tubs, and perhaps treated to prevent it turning brown. It’s convenient if you don’t use a whole apple at once.
However, draw the line at pre-chopped green onions. I just don’t think they stay very fresh, especially since you can’t remove the outer layers, as you can on whole onions of any type.
No. Same size.
No. A little vacuum sealed bag.
I thought much the same thing the first time I saw pre-popped popcorn for sale. “Who the heck would want to buy stale popcorn?” I thought to myself.
Who knew?
I think the bagged cotton candy must be the worst.
The apple I can understand for people who want to run in and grab a healthful snack.
The store I go to sells these exact things, and I buy them often. They are very convenient to throw in my bag to take to work, and they are surprisingly inexpensive. Since it takes me about two days to eat all of one tub, I also like the fact they don’t turn brown - while still edible, a brown apple slice isn’t very appetizing and an apple sliced at home starts to turn brown within minutes.
The pre-chopped potatoes and onions are places I won’t go, though. If I need to cook it, I might as well peel and slice it as well.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pre-made, WITH the edges cut off. Pul-leeese people, can’t the kid just pull the brown crust off theirselves? I mean, whats the world coming too!!!
They actually taste different than regular apples, since it is coated in an anti-oxygenating whatever chemical. Not better, or worse, just different.
Baking potato-wrapped in plastic “microwave ready”
That was mine: http://www.smuckers.com/fg/otg/uncrustables/default.asp
I still shake my head when I see these.
Have you seen the pre-made peanut butter slices, that come packaged like American cheese food slices? Those struck me as weird. Apparently they were invented by someone at Oklahoma State University. So while some scientists are trying to cure cancer, others are coming up with … well, that.
To be fair, I doubt peanut butter slice guy was going to be the one to come up with a cure for cancer anyway.
Yes, unless you can stick that peanut butter slice on a tumor and rip it off, sorta like waxing…
You know what I can’t stand? All these products that used to be for invalids, and are now marketed to “busy people” and finicky kids. “Ensure you get all your nutrition” “Little Susie doesn’t like vegetables?” Put her on the liquid diet!!
I mean for petes sake, why not just get a feeding tube shoved up your nose and drip the stuff in so you won’t have to worry about getting up, making a sandwich (sans crust of course) taking bites off, chewing, chewing, chewing… ah… soooo sooo tedious.
You paid money for an apple slicer? I don’t even know WTF an apple slicer is. I slice my apples with a knife.
A dull knife.
Carved from the femur of my enemy.
Oh you.
Seriously – apple slicer thingies are fabu! One WHUMP and you’ve got an entire apple, sliced in wedges, without the core. Another WHUMP, two apples. It’s great for making kids’ snacks.
Here’s what I can’t believe is for sale. This is not food. On eBay there’s a lively market for well-worn women’s shoes. And stockings. Three guesses as to why.