In an attempt to improve my domestic value around the house, I have been upping my cooking and baking efforts of late. A spicy, savory soufflé, chocolate cakes from scratch, carrot, parsnip and butternut squash soup and slow-cooked roast beef are just a few of my recent successes.
To aid in my culinary edification, I have been forced to invest in my woefully inadequate cooking pots, pans and utensils. Last weekend, I picked up a pair of matching spatulas. When I got home and prepared to use them to help with the cupcakes I was making (from a mix, I’m afraid; I was under a pressured timetable), I was surprised by the stickers on the plastic wrapping on the new spatulas.
Hmmm … now, where have I seen other similarly silly warning signs?
I can only imagine the comments the spatula manufacturer must have received before the stickers were added to the packing:
(1) “When I was washing the spatulas, some of the cake mix got stuck on, and no matter how hard I scrubbed it, it didn’t come off. It’s almost like there is a layer of plastic wrap around the spatula.”
(2) “I was spatula-ing some melted chocolate and all of a sudden the outer layer of the spatula just melted into the pan! It was gross. What’s up with that?!?”
(3) “Did you know that your spatulas have an invisible layer of plastic around them? Someone oughtta put a label on there or something. Geez! I hardly saw it.”
Ok, so I signed in to your website. As a programmer, my biggest pet peeve is when a low risk application (i.e. a blog forum) requires you to set a password so complicated that not even Kim Peek can remember it. Props for not taking it to that level, much props! The most secure passwords are the easiest to remember. Four random, unrelated words strung together. IT folks are just crule. The end.
About the spatulas, they have that for the same reason they have the “Caution Hot” on McDonald’s coffee cups. Because Americans are law suit happy.
Why is “Plastic Wrap” capitalized?
Maybe it’s a special kind of plastic wrap made by Sir Wrappe of Plastique. Why is Internet always capitalized?
And Javascript?
And node.js isn’t.
Go figure.