Holy ravioli Batman! Fred and Friends have come up with yet another way to make mealtime for the little ones a whole lot of fun. The Souper! Spoon is part action figure, with posable arms and legs, and part stainless steel spoon.
The idea came from a true story of a hiker in Washington state who was eating from a can of Beanee Weenees at his camp site when he was tragically struck in the head by a bolt of lightning and fused the spoon he was eating with to his body. Yes, it was a very large spoon.
Initially, he was devastated by the freak accident. His girlfriend left him and was fired from his job as the Zamboni driver at his hometown ice skating rink. He slipped into a deep depression and ended up putting on an enormous amount of weight. But, after a few years of therapy, he opened an ice cream shop and his whole life turned around. He found his true calling and even lost all of that depression weight and started wearing a black and purple spandex jumpsuit at the ice cream shop to show off his new physique.
There was a movie made about the guy, called Beenie Weenie Spoonhead Man, but it went straight to DVD so not to many people saw it. Check it out if you have Netflix.
The Souper! Spoon is available at Amazon.com – $10.
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When I see this orange food tray I think back to my days in lockup at the notorious Sing Sing prison in New York; doing hard time for swiping frozen burritos from 7-11. Frozen burritos, once you try just one, you’re hooked and it only gets worse. Burritos lead to Hot Pockets and the next thing you know—you’re doing time at Sing Sing, eating off orange trays and discussing molecular biology as well as the fine art of making a shank from a toothbrush with a guy named Bubba.
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