Calling salad dodgers everywhere

No, I’m not about to repeat my rant about fat people needing a stick to wipe their arse. Thankfully.

Thanks to Wendy for linking me to this… uh, original product, the Magic Salad Plate.

The brainchild (brainplate?) of Four ‘n Twenty, a brilliantly named Australian pie company, the Magic Pie Plate hopes to prevent those disapproving looks you can get at parties if your diet consists entirely of meat pies. Why bother keeping up the appearance of being health conscious by eating salad alongside your trusty pie, when you can just use a plate pre-decked with fake tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and onion?

I can only see one problem with this – I love salad. Also, as Wendy points out… they’re not exactly going to be the easiest things to clean. Or stack.

Already the gimmick value of the plate seems to have worked – apparently 25,000 were sold in the first few days, and Four ‘n Twenty’s pie sales have gone up around 25%.

(Also, no, this wasn’t an excuse simply to mention Australia the day after England managed to scrape a draw in the first Ashes test – having been thoroughly outplayed over the last five days – just to rub it in. Although if the post did have that effect, it is very much an unintentional bonus. Ha.)