Toaster from the Pit

[primsong]

My daughter's roomie has furnished their kitchen with a pink and white Hello Kitty toaster, complete with a large raised image of Kitty herself, pink bow and all. The roomie hates it, she said - it was a gift, and it toasts the image of Hello Kitty onto the toast.

"That sounds like a cute idea," I offered.

"Ah, but it only toasts the image of the Kitty! This means the rest of your bread isn't really toasted except the kitty part, so if you want your toast actually toasted you have to turn it way up, which means the Hello Kitty is burnt into it. At that point it sort of spreads and blackens and you end up with toast that appears to have this creepy black demon kitty emblazoned across it."

"Oh..."

"She calls it the Hell Kitty toaster."

XD

Comments

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

I am laughing all night about this... evil Hell Kitty toast!
A sinister plot indeed!

[estellye.livejournal.com]

If it looks diabolical as toast, I imagine adding jam is truly disturbing. LOL! I bet they'll both remember it fondly, though. At their twentieth reunion they'll be talking about Hell Kitty toast and decide it tasted better than any toast they ever made afterwards in a properly non-creepy toaster. It makes me fondly recall the spaghetti dinner for four made in nothing but a two cup hot pot, the popcorn eaten out of the plastic lampshade with the hole taped over, and the grilled cheese sandwiches made with aluminum foil and a clothes iron. Ahhh, college life.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm totally telling her about the lampshade tip - I bet they use it too, ha!

Oh yeah, I remember cooking with a tiny mug-warming thing, you get really creative when you have to.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of reminded of the point in my student life where we were reduced to making "toast" by burning bread on one of those little one-ring hotplate-type-gadgets. Literally burning it. That was during my second year at university, which was sort of the rock bottom as far as student lifestyle stuff was concerned - sort of like Withnail and I without the clever dialogue, but I have a suspicion that only we males allow ourselves to fall into quite that degree of degradation while in the course of pursuing a higher education... Ah, what I wouldn't give to be back there now... :-D

[librarylover82.livejournal.com]

Oh, this made me laugh out loud! At least you know that your daughter is learning the art of compromise.

What is student life coming to when you can't even make toast successfully??

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

*in stitches* Makes me wonder what sort of crazy stories I'll have when I go to college! :D