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[Momo]

What do you nominate for the dumbest, laziest, stupidist products invented? There are so many to choose from.

I'll start off with the frozen peanut butter sandwiches at the grocery store. I don't understand what is so hard about making a pb&j sandwich. It takes a few seconds and requires no special handling. I have to admit I've never tasted one from the store, but I can't see how it could taste better than one I can slap together. I think the small box I saw was over 3$. WOW.

[nmchick]

Oh Momo. I couldn't believe anyone would buy these, especially after I read the ingredients (scary) and saw the price, but at least one person does. A friend of mine told me this story about her little granddaughter. She was babysitting the granddaughter one days and when the little girl got hungry, grandma asked if she liked peanut butter. The little girl said yes and grandma got out the peanut butter and started spreading it on crackers. The little girl said "Grandma, why are you putting mud on the crackers?" Turns out the only peanut butter the little girl had ever seen was in those prepackaged peanut butter sandwiches.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this one.

[lunamother]

the first one that comes to mind is those shrink-wrapped potatoes in the produce section "Ready to bake"- you poke holes in the saran wrap with a fork and nuke 'em.

you know, like you would withOUT the stupid plastic with a regular potato....

I'm sure I'll think of more....(this is fun)

[grannyto2]

Those crockpot ready meals in the freezer section how hard is it to toss meat and veggies in the crockpot?

Those peanut and jelly sandwiches my sister buys those for her gd which she is raising. My gs get the real thing when he is here.

[lunamother]

pre-shredded cheese.

[TractorDiva]

Originally Posted By: lunamother

pre-shredded cheese.

Throw pre-sliced cheese in that lot, too! How hard is it to cut cheese? (no pun intended!)

And Lunchables...hello? it's crackers and cheese, not rocket science...

[Dee]

Frozen pancakes. I can't imagine paying all that extra when you can so easily make and freeze them yourself.

I feel the same about waffles, although if you don't have a waffle iron it's a little hard to make them BUT for what you pay extra in the convenience of buying them frozen you could pay for a waffle iron before too long.

[Abigail]

Pre-boiled eggs.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing...how hard is it to boil water???

[Aint2nuts]

Originally Posted By: Abigail

Pre-boiled eggs.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing...how hard is it to boil water???

I have bought them occasionally. Especially when I want to make deviled eggs. They are already peels -- a dozen of them, and cost me only a dollar more. My time is worth a dollar for someone else to peel the eggs and make them perfectly. LOL

We don't buy them now that the kids love egg salad and make boiled eggs all the time themselves.

[Momo]

The grocery store I go to most often has boiled eggs in the deli. They want 69 cents for 1 egg!! Or $1.69 for 3 eggs! That's pretty steep.

I noticed those frozen crock pot meals. They were pretty expensive. I think microwave meals would be cheaper and faster. I couldn't figure it out..crock cooking is so easy.

I can understand some convenience items for special situations..but some of these things are really out there.

Another new item is a wipe for every purpose. Furniture polish wipes, car cleaning wipes, baby wipes, glass wipes etc. Someone must be making alot of money coming up with all these wipes or they wouldn't do it. Not to say they are all silly but I think it's been overdone.

[DenimDaze]

the automated shower sprayer/cleaner.

I have always done a quick bleach spray of the shower floor every 2 days, and a water spray of the walls after each shower with the hand held piece. This keeps it just fine. Why would anyone buy a battery powered shower sprayer? And the refills aren't cheap!

frozen mac & cheese. Who can't cook mac & cheese??

[lunamother]

Originally Posted By: NYDebbie

Who can't cook mac & cheese??

the same people who can't make PB&J sandwiches?

instructions on a can of soup.
"open can. empty into pan. heat through. serve."

*really?*

[HSmom]

Flushable toilet bowl scrubbers.

Baby food (not including formula).

Many, many, many cleaning products.

[cookiejar]

Individually sealed plastic wrapped pickles.I'm not making that up. I watched a guy buy one and almost said,"Sweetie, for the price of that single serving dill pickle, you could have wrapped yourself half a jar's worth."

It was in a convenience store next to the boiled eggs in little individual plastic *holders*.

[Violet]

Those "eggstractor " things. I am not sure I have the right spelling, but one of those machines where you have to put a boiled egg on there, just right, then smack it down hard to get the peel off. What a waste of storage for peeling eggs. You have to hit the egg hard to get it to work, too.
I see a lot of them at the thrift stores.

[Cowgirl]

"Baby carrots" in the produce section. Those are just regular carrots that have been machined down in size, producing lots of carrot slivers to put in ready to eat salad mixes. Although you can grow small carrots, that is NOT what the bags of "baby carrots" are. They don't taste any different from regular carrots, because they aren't any different. They just cost a LOT more per pound.

[lunamother]

Originally Posted By: Cowgirl
"Baby carrots" in the produce section. Those are just regular carrots that have been machined down in size, producing lots of carrot slivers to put in ready to eat salad mixes. Although you can grow small carrots, that is NOT what the bags of "baby carrots" are. They don't taste any different from regular carrots, because they aren't any different. They just cost a LOT more per pound.

yanno, I've always wondered about those...thanks for blowing the top off of the Carrot Conspiracy.

[mommato3boys]

Originally Posted By: Momo

What do you nominate for the dumbest, laziest, stupidist products invented? There are so many to choose from.

I'll start off with the frozen peanut butter sandwiches at the grocery store. I don't understand what is so hard about making a pb&j sandwich. It takes a few seconds and requires no special handling. I have to admit I've never tasted one from the store, but I can't see how it could taste better than one I can slap together. I think the small box I saw was over 3$. WOW.

This one gets my vote. They look nasty. First of all frozen bread. then frozen peanut butter. I am pretty sure when they are thawed they get mushy... BARF!!!

And Momo you right about the price. For $3 you can buy a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter and get 3 times as many sandwiches and they are fresh, not frozen.

[JCK88]

Those paper mops. I like the old-fashioned kind of mop - the kind you swab decks with. If it gets icky, you sanitize it with bleach. I have a mop bucket with a wringer for it. I also like the old sponge mops, too.

[Aint2nuts]

Originally Posted By: JCK88
Those paper mops. I like the old-fashioned kind of mop--the kind you swab decks with..if it gets icky, you sanitize it with bleach. I have a mop bucket with a wringer for it. I also like the old sponge mops, too.

Oh yes, I think those are a waste. I have the good old yellow bucket with the wringer on it, and a string mop with two replacement mop heads for when it gets really dirty and I need to wash them.