Eater did the thing again, poking fun at gratuitous potential holiday spends while discreetly providing affiliate links.
Clever, yes. Mildly to moderately underhanded? Also yes.
But I had to look, just to see for myself what they were talking about. Their tagline was:
"The Fanciest Food, Kitchen, and Cookware Gifts Imaginable
Is it even a kitchen without a $200 pepper grinder and a $400 pineapple? (I’ll sip from my $1,200 bedazzled travel mug while you answer.)"
As soon as I read that I went AHA, because there's only one $200 pepper grinder on the market that I know about and I already own it!
They took what's essentially a legacy item on par with your grandmother's Kitchenaid (the one from the era of machined internal parts rather than plastic ones) and used that to frame the notion of other things on their list being halfway reasonable.
Utter rubbish.
A 400 dollar pineapple.
A 230 dollar, fifty gram chocolate bar.
A 140 dollar 'Gucci' pannetone?!
And that's just some of the edible stuff.
There's a candle that smells of cucumber for ~250. Why? You can probably get that at Yankee Candle for a tenth of that.
Or the thousand dollar ice press, for when you absolutely have to have those perfect 2" spheres of crystal clear ice for your drink.
Who on earth is reading this and thinking "Huh. I could use one of those!"?
Eater's audience is not the people who buy stuff like this. Never was, never will be. I honestly don't know why they bothered beyond curiosity clicks. It's a SkyMall Christmas list. A pile of gratuitously expensive mostly-junk masquerading as haute couture journalism.
Bah, humbug.
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