Slice of Life
Early Sunday morning, while flipping through the channels on television, I counted more than twenty infomercials airing simultaneously. Over twenty! There was a time not so long ago when there weren’t any infomercials, and when they did start appearing, they were always relegated to certain channels.
One infomercial of note had a chef standing behind a counter with a variety of food dishes. He was being ‘interviewed’ before a studio audience. At one point the interviewer says to the chef, “It actually makes the food taste better.” The funny thing is, the infomercial was not about a mini-oven or a grill or some newfound spice, but rather about a set of knives. Now I’ll accept that these special knives may very well cut through an aluminum can, but make food taste better?