When I saw the infomercial for THE MAGIC BULLET about a month ago, I knew I had to have it. The perfect food processor/blender/margarita maker in a cute handy-dandy little size.
So my sweet mom sent me a box full of cooking goodies for Mother's Day, including MY VERY OWN MAGIC BULLET! It was like Christmas getting into all that stuff. A vegetable washer. An egg slicer. But the headliner of the gift was of course MY VERY OWN MAGIC BULLET! Couldn't wait to break it in. Why bother reading the instructions when I sat through 30 minutes of the Info-Host and Info-Hostess showing me all the tricks this superhero of kitchen appliances was capable of. And all in 10 seconds or less!!
On tonight's menu--Greek--so I thought my very own Magic Bullet would be perfect for chopping up cucumber for the tzatziki sauce. Popped in a relatively small amount--certainly no more than they used on the informercial--and put the little cup on the little base, plugged it in, and looked all over for the "on" switch. Apparently, there is no "on" switch. I must not have been paying that close of attention after all. So the little sticker on my very own Magic Bullet says all I have to do is push down and turn left for on, right for off. I'm pushing down, and it locked in, but nothing. And now I can't get the cup thingie off. Finally, after scaring the crap outta myself when I used a fork to pry the cup off the base and the thing powered on as I stood there connected to the electricity by a metal object, I got the cup thingie off. Switched my cucumber bits to the bigger cup thingie and tried again. EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED. This time, I unplugged the base before jabbed the fork down into it to release the cup thingie.
WHY DOESN'T IT WORK LIKE IT SHOWED ON THE BLASTED INFOMERCIAL???? I don't know why I seem to need a tutorial to operate my very own Magic Bullet. It's been way more than 10 seconds and I still have no chopped up cucumber for my tzatziki.
Uncool Magic Bullet people. Very uncool.
Until next time, may your food be real and may you never get suckered into buying stupid dumb stuff off of stupid dumb infomercials.
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