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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: chris319 on April 14, 2007, 07:26:25 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE\")
My question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? I have a great deal of difficulty seeing the practical utility of such a device. With regard to the slogan, it would take much more than a Dazey Seal-A-Meal to simplify my life.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150171\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:26 AM\']My question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? [/quote]
You can have one right now if you want. A quick check shows there are more than two dozen available for sale on Ebay. Somebody was buying them originally!
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eBay Search Link.... (http://\"http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/SaleSearch?sofocus=bs&satitle=Dazey+Seal-A-Meal&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC5&sofindtype=0&from=R7&nojspr=y&pfid=0&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&fcl=3&frpp=50\")
And it seems like those are the '60s version of the current FoodSaver system.
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You can have one right now if you want. A quick check shows there are more than two dozen available for sale on Ebay. Somebody was buying them originally!
Ah, but were any of them won as consolation prizes on Match Game?
Some cursory Google research reveals that the Dazey company is no longer in business, and that there was a patent associated with the sealing mechanism. There is now a food sealing machine made by Rival (I assume Rival acquired Dazey's patent). My intuition tells me these things have utility not only for sealing leftovers but also for sealing various, um, herbs.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'150176\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:23 AM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150171\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:26 AM\']My question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? [/quote]
You can have one right now if you want. A quick check shows there are more than two dozen available for sale on Ebay. Somebody was buying them originally!
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I'll point out that at one time our family owned a Hot Dogger (http://\"http://cgi.ebay.com/PRESTO-Hot-Dogger-in-original-box-Excellent-condition_W0QQitemZ290104604610QQihZ019QQcategoryZ20685QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\"), too. (Yes, kids, this is what we did before microwaves.)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'150190\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 09:58 AM\']
I'll point out that at one time our family owned a Hot Dogger (http://\"http://cgi.ebay.com/PRESTO-Hot-Dogger-in-original-box-Excellent-condition_W0QQitemZ290104604610QQihZ019QQcategoryZ20685QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\"), too. (Yes, kids, this is what we did before microwaves.)
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And Jiffy Pop was truly prehistoric: foil-wrapped popcorn with a heat-transferring handle that you shook over an open flame!
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150171\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:26 AM\']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE\")
My question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? I have a great deal of difficulty seeing the practical utility of such a device. With regard to the slogan, it would take much more than a Dazey Seal-A-Meal to simplify my life.
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Never owned one. Mom said they were too much trouble. Seems to me they wouldn't simplify anything; they might improve one's life (minimizing one's consumption of processed foods; possibly saving money), but not simplify it.
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And Jiffy Pop was truly prehistoric: foil-wrapped popcorn with a heat-transferring handle that you shook over an open flame!
Like food sealing appliances, Jiffy Pop survives to this day but under different ownership (the Jiffy Pop brand is now owned by ConAgra). I made some Jiffy Pop just a few weeks ago. ConAgra says they changed the recipe of the butter flavor in 2002. Other than that, the only discernable difference is that in order to absorb heat more efficiently the pan is now black instead of silver. The trick to making Jiffy Pop on a gas stove is to make sure the blue flame just touches the bottom of the pan. Flavor-wise, Jiffy Pop is no better or worse than any microwave popcorn. To get with the times they should really use oil which does not contain trans-fats.
For real popcorn I prefer my Anchor Hocking plastic microwave popping vessel. The corn comes out totally dry. You then drizzle it with extra-light olive oil and salt and you have the best popcorn ever made, and healthy too! I use Jiffy Pop, finding that Redenbacher's does not justify the higher price.
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Never owned one, although having a Watta Pizzeria saved me from starvation in college.
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I remember Avery Schrieber advertising Watta Pizzeria, in addition to Doritos, which he did for years ,long before Jay Leno did ads for the snacks.
We too had a Watta Pizzeria, and it was so cool!. We would make pizzas on it often on weekends!.
And how about the Zenith Wedge Stereo?. Although we did not have one, my aunt did, and it was awesome!. All those groovy disco records sounded real good on it. And I had a friend in school whose dad ran a Zenith dealer in Battle Creek and he told me about those wedge stereos that were also consolation prizes on Match Game.
Today, Zenith is owned by LG electronics of South Korea.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'150201\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 03:41 PM\']
Never owned one, although having a Watta Pizzeria saved me from starvation in college.
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So, was this Watta Pizzeria the Presto Pizzaz of today, or was it something completely different?
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'150207\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 04:02 PM\']
So, was this Watta Pizzeria the Presto Pizzaz of today, or was it something completely different?
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From the looks of it (http://\"http://cgi.ebay.com/Mirro-Watta-Pizzaria-Electric-Pizza-Baker-in-Box-Inst_W0QQitemZ130100622971QQcategoryZ116013QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWINQ3aPOST0Q3aRECOQ3aBIDQQcmdZViewItem\"), yeah, 'cept it looks like all of the heating elements are in the bottom, whereas that Presto thing has one in the top, too. And, of course, no turntable.
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Basically, it looked like an oversized wok, with a heating element in the bottom. You put the pizza on the tray, put the lid over it, and waited about 20-25 minutes. It never melted the cheese on frozen pizza that thoroughly, but it did the job.
Tried to find a picture of it, but failed.
EDIT: Curse you, Fred Smythe - I tried looking on eBay and couldn't find anything. Then again, I never go there otherwise.
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That Presto item looks interesting. You could make the bottom less "done" than the top, meaning there might be hope yet for cardboard-crust frozen pizzas.
Speaking of Presto, my dad gave me a Presto hot-air popcorn popper for my 26th birthday waaaaay back in 1981. It was a nice gesture, but this was possibly the worst appliance ever created. It had this plastic chute that the popcorn was supposed to come out of. In my experience with it, after a few minutes of operation this thing would spew unpopped kernels out of the chute which would ricochet all over the kitchen and onto the floor. Might as well take a handful of raw kernels from the bag and scatter them all over the room like so much rice at a wedding. To anyone who received a Presto hot-air popcorn popper as a prize on any Goodson-Todman show ever, I offer my sincere and humble apologies on behalf of Goodson-Todman and the network that carried the show.
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We had a seal-a-meal when I was growing up.
My family grew a very large garden every year, and at the end of the summer my mother would spend days canning peppers, making her own tomato sauce, etc.
We used the seal-a-meal (I think it may have been some knockoff brand, though) to store things like green beans, cut bell peppers, ears of corn, etc. for freezing.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150212\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 05:53 PM\']
That Presto item looks interesting. You could make the bottom less "done" than the top, meaning there might be hope yet for cardboard-crust frozen pizzas.
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Sadly, I think they're still gonna taste like cardboard no matter how perfectly prepared they are.
(that said, sometimes you're in the mood for a cardboard pizza. :))
Speaking of Presto, my dad gave me a Presto hot-air popcorn popper for my 26th birthday waaaaay back in 1981. It was a nice gesture, but this was possibly the worst appliance ever created.
Ah yes. I think we had another brand with a deeper chute, so the kernels didn't fly out, but the hot-air trend was the beginning of the end for popcorn. Neither that nor any microwave brand holds a candle to a decent batch of oil-popped corn. :)
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Seal A Meal (have two of them in my basement someplace- stored near my well used homegames.) The 70s were full of gadgets: The aforementoned hot dogger, that one burger machine , then the two burger machine, Slo-cookers, Hot Air Poppers,yogurt makers, Coney Island hot dog steamers (70s version steamed 1 dog and recommended beer instead of water), Fry Daddy (do they still make those?) and others. Here in New York, Alexander's Department Store was the place to get these gadgets (many first seen by me as game show parting gifts).
But today the Seal A Meal has been replaced by those vacuum sealers and the burger makers by the Forman Grills. They also have a new version of the Coney Island Hot Dog Steamer -but it steams many hot dogs!
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[quote name=\'TheGameShowGuy\' post=\'150219\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 10:45 PM\']
Fry Daddy (do they still make those?)[/quote]
Yep. They do. (http://\"http://cgi.ebay.com/PRESTO-Fry-Daddy_W0QQitemZ130100042339QQihZ003QQcategoryZ20674QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\")
Charles Atkins
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'150196\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 02:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150171\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:26 AM\']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pE\")
My question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? I have a great deal of difficulty seeing the practical utility of such a device. With regard to the slogan, it would take much more than a Dazey Seal-A-Meal to simplify my life.
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Never owned one. Mom said they were too much trouble. Seems to me they wouldn't simplify anything; they might improve one's life (minimizing one's consumption of processed foods; possibly saving money), but not simplify it.
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IIRC, Sears also had a food sealing device on the market around the same time, and there were a few game shows that offered that version as a prize (CBS TJW comes to mind, no??).
For you young'uns out there, there was a time when Sears (along with Kenmore) had their brand name on everything they sold -- but back then most of those items were simply bought in bulk from their respective manufacturers and they plastered their Sears (or Sears-related brand name) over the original manufacturer's name and sold it as their own. The first-generation Atari games come to mind.
I'm not sure if the Sears food sealer device was their own, or if it was made by Dazey and given the relabeling treatment as well.
One thing you have to remember as well: in those days Zip-Loc bags were still a novelty and they pretty much owned the market in that category. The Seal-A-Meals were designed to seal food as good or better than Zip-Locs, but once other plastic bag companies jumped on the zip-to-seal bandwagon, the Seal-a-Meals were quickly becoming garage-sale specials!
And doesn't Jiffy Pop have microwavable products nowadays (swapping the foil for some sort of cellophane material as the "lid"?
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[quote name=\'TheGameShowGuy\' post=\'150219\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 09:45 PM\']
Fry Daddy (do they still make those?)
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Besides the link Charles gave, you can find it in almost any Wal-Mart store.
I also remember a larger model called the "Gran Pappy", that I haven't seen in awhile...there's also a Fry Daddy Jr., if memory serves.
Also, here's a link (http://\"http://www.conagrafoods.com/brands/jiffy_pop/index.jsp\") for Jiffy Pop (featuring that kettle drum thing), and one for a hot dog cooker (http://\"http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5715284\").
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Below is a link to the Presto web page. Yes, Presto still makes an array of deep fryers:
Presto Deep Fryers (http://\"http://www.gopresto.com/products/products_search.php?PHPSESSID=6d4888&search_value=4&operation=Search&search_type=category\")
The Seal-A-Meal mechanism was patented, so in all likelihood Dazey manufactured the Sears units (in the United States, imagine that). The patent specifies that the user be able to take his frozen portion of pork chops, peas and mashed potatoes out of the freezer and reheat it in boiling water. I don't think you can do that with a Zip-Loc bag. Of course this is all pre-microwave oven technology.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'150224\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 12:22 AM\']
For you young'uns out there, there was a time when Sears (along with Kenmore) had their brand name on everything they sold -- but back then most of those items were simply bought in bulk from their respective manufacturers and they plastered their Sears (or Sears-related brand name) over the original manufacturer's name and sold it as their own. The first-generation Atari games come to mind.
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Yup.....The Atari VCS (later 2600) was called the "Sears Video Arcade"....They also had an Intellivision as the "Sears Super Video Arcade"...They even went so far as to slap different names on some of the games, although no examples come to mind at the current moment..
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'150232\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 09:27 AM\']
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'150224\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 12:22 AM\']
For you young'uns out there, there was a time when Sears (along with Kenmore) had their brand name on everything they sold -- but back then most of those items were simply bought in bulk from their respective manufacturers and they plastered their Sears (or Sears-related brand name) over the original manufacturer's name and sold it as their own. The first-generation Atari games come to mind.
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Yup.....The Atari VCS (later 2600) was called the "Sears Video Arcade"....They also had an Intellivision as the "Sears Super Video Arcade"...They even went so far as to slap different names on some of the games, although no examples come to mind at the current moment..
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I can think of two examples offhand from the 2600 line: Atari's Air-Sea Battle was released by Sears as Target Fun, and Star Ship was relabeled Outer Space. The former also was bundled by Sears in place of Combat (which shipped with Atari's units) and Sears continued to make and sell the latter even after Atari had stopped doing so.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'150232\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 09:27 AM\']
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'150224\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 12:22 AM\']
For you young'uns out there, there was a time when Sears (along with Kenmore) had their brand name on everything they sold -- but back then most of those items were simply bought in bulk from their respective manufacturers and they plastered their Sears (or Sears-related brand name) over the original manufacturer's name and sold it as their own. The first-generation Atari games come to mind.
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Yup.....The Atari VCS (later 2600) was called the "Sears Video Arcade"....They also had an Intellivision as the "Sears Super Video Arcade"...They even went so far as to slap different names on some of the games, although no examples come to mind at the current moment..
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Didn't Sears sell a Pong machine before this? We had one of those -- the speakers were located in the unit itself instead of using the TV speaker, so you couldn't control the volume on the %$#@%!@$# thing if you wanted to play early in the morning before your parents woke up.
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'150240\' date=\'Apr 15 2007, 12:39 PM\']
Didn't Sears sell a Pong machine before this?
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Several different ones, yeah.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'150217\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 09:12 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150212\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 05:53 PM\']
Speaking of Presto, my dad gave me a Presto hot-air popcorn popper for my 26th birthday waaaaay back in 1981. It was a nice gesture, but this was possibly the worst appliance ever created.
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Ah yes. I think we had another brand with a deeper chute, so the kernels didn't fly out, but the hot-air trend was the beginning of the end for popcorn. Neither that nor any microwave brand holds a candle to a decent batch of oil-popped corn. :)
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I had a hot-air popcorn popper in college myself around that time (in the dorms you weren't allowed a hot plate, and microwaves were neither commonplace nor would the circuit breakers have handled them). No problems with popping it, but a) without putting butter on it (there was a little cup where the butter melted while the popcorn heated up) the salt you'd normally put on the popcorn wouldn't stick, making the stuff taste like styrofoam, and b) with butter on it there were few health benefits. After a few months, it was off to the fraternity and popping corn in oil on the stove.
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Am I the only person in the world who prefers it air popped?
--Mike, who took down a floor of a dorm once with two air poppers on the same outlet
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[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'150277\' date=\'Apr 16 2007, 11:31 AM\']
Am I the only person in the world who prefers it air popped?
--Mike, who took down a floor of a dorm once with two air poppers on the same outlet
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No, I used to eat air-popped popcorn quite a bit as well. I've got an unopened popper somewhere at the old house, and I still prefer it over the regular microwave popcorn (however, the cheesecorn and carmelcorn microwave flavors rock!)
And way to go on blowing out the juice in the dorm! I look at those types of college accomplishments as badges of honor!
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'150303\' date=\'Apr 16 2007, 04:44 PM\']
And way to go on blowing out the juice in the dorm! I look at those types of college accomplishments as badges of honor!
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Not with the hot air popper. Circa 1981, however, it was easier to do with a small refrigerator and a Radio Shack Trash-80 computer.
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[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'150277\' date=\'Apr 16 2007, 10:31 AM\']
--Mike, who took down a floor of a dorm once with two air poppers on the same outlet
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I once took down a floor of a dorm with a large bowl of vodka and Tang. Boy, those were the days.
Alongside the hot dog roller on Walmart.com there was a chocolate fountain, which could have been a consolation prize on Match Game '06 if that existed. Has anyone ever seen one work? Do they?
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'150362\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 09:29 AM\']
Alongside the hot dog roller on Walmart.com there was a chocolate fountain, which could have been a consolation prize on Match Game '06 if that existed. Has anyone ever seen one work? Do they?
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Yeah, they've come up on Food Network a couple times. I dunno how well the cheap ones work (though, it's a heating element and an auger; really it's a pretty simple system), but I know the professional-grade ones work, and they're actually really cool. :)
(I don't know if I'd pour just any chocolate into one, though...they make special melting chocolate for those things, I'm thinking it would be wisest to stay with those.)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'150370\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 12:05 PM\']
Yeah, they've come up on Food Network a couple times. I dunno how well the cheap ones work (though, it's a heating element and an auger; really it's a pretty simple system), but I know the professional-grade ones work, and they're actually really cool. :)
(I don't know if I'd pour just any chocolate into one, though...they make special melting chocolate for those things, I'm thinking it would be wisest to stay with those.)
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I'd hate to spend the big bucks on the good one, though, since they seem even less practical than keeping a fondue set around. But it's cool to hear they work. I wonder if you could fill it with gravy for Thanksgiving (presuming your gravy is lump-free).
And in case this is veering away from game shows, it just dawned on me that this is the kind of thing that could be the home shopping element on the new "Temptation."
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'150386\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 12:52 PM\']
I'd hate to spend the big bucks on the good one, though, since they seem even less practical than keeping a fondue set around. But it's cool to hear they work.
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Oh, they totally are. You'd never buy one yourself unless you entertained a WHOLE lot, and even then there are catering places that will rent one to you and sell you appropriate chocolate. (You can even get them here at Microsoft through Catering for meetings and such. How come those are never at MY meetings?)
I wonder if you could fill it with gravy for Thanksgiving (presuming your gravy is lump-free).
You could, I'm sure, but I don't think the effect would be quite the same. But the idea of someone sticking a turkey drumstick under a Fountain 'O' Gravy amuses me in a Peter Griffin / Homer Simpson way. :)
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Weird offshoot here, but earlier this season they actually had a chocolate fountain up for grabs in Any Number, and whoever set it up got one tier to work right, but the other two were plopping down rather than flowing...like a kid turning over a Handi Snacks pudding cup. For how often I'd use it, I'd just rent one and have somebody who knows their stuff work it.
-Jason
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'150399\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 06:35 PM\']
Weird offshoot here, but earlier this season they actually had a chocolate fountain up for grabs in Any Number, and whoever set it up got one tier to work right, but the other two were plopping down rather than flowing...like a kid turning over a Handi Snacks pudding cup. For how often I'd use it, I'd just rent one and have somebody who knows their stuff work it.
-Jason
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Correct. (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1628&forum=6&post_id=28849#forumpost28849\")
Surprisingly...I remember that. The link explains why it wasn't flowing that well...and understandably so. And yes...I would attempt to put gravy in it and stick a drumstick under it.
/don't look like Homer Simpson
//closer to Peter Griffin...but skinnier.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'150392\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 04:37 PM\']
[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'150386\' date=\'Apr 17 2007, 12:52 PM\']
I wonder if you could fill it with gravy for Thanksgiving (presuming your gravy is lump-free).
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You could, I'm sure, but I don't think the effect would be quite the same. But the idea of someone sticking a turkey drumstick under a Fountain 'O' Gravy amuses me in a Peter Griffin / Homer Simpson way. :)
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For some reason I found myself thinking of Crystal Gravy (http://\"http://snltranscripts.jt.org/93/93bcrystalgravy.phtml\"). :-)
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The next time you find yourself in possession of a chocolate fountain, grab a bag of pretzels for a taste treat you'll never forget -- chocolate-dipped pretzels.