This extraneous kitchen drawer filler is a Victorio Kitchen Products 571B Banana Slicer. It's available on Amazon and is endorsed in this customer review: "For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. 'Use a knife!' they say. Well ... my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives. 'Shoot it with a gun.' Background check ... HELLO! I had to resort to carefully attempt to slice those bananas with my bare hands - 99.9 per cent of the time I would get so frustrated that I just ended up squishing the fruit in my hands and throwing it against the wall in anger. Then, after a fit of banana-induced rage, my parole officer introduced me to this kitchen marvel and my life was changed. No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit. Banana slicer ... thanks to you, I see greatness on the horizon."
Reminder of how to be nice
A reader writes: "I found a note alongside a birthday card and a Westfield gift voucher at my grandma's house, she left it there for my grandfather to write in for his sister's birthday. The note said: 'Write something nice, how you appreciate having a sister. Happy family memories."
Delights of foot x-ray
"A childhood friend maintains, that 60 years ago, a trip to Queen St was incomplete, without going into Hannah's Shoe Store to use the foot x-ray," writes Kath Faughey of Mt Albert. "She says when you slipped your foot into the special box it showed a skeleton foot. Does anybody else remember this gimmick?"
