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Tired of Doing Dishes?
Edible bowls from the British company Butt Foods don’t seem to be a joke. Apparently, they’re made in an industrial oven developed to produce a crust on both the inside and outside of the bowl. And according to WayOdd, Butt Foods Managing Director David Williams took a big risk on this crust-a-licious product, saying, “Our banks, our investors all thought we were crackers. But we’ve now proved them wrong.”
I’m not sure I can trust a company that calls itself Butt Foods (is that not funny in the UK?), but according to its website, these bowls are great for breakfast, dinner, or dessert.
The company also makes a product called the Bread Boat, which “[s]hows off all the filling rather than hiding it between two slices of bread.” The accompanying photo features a hot dog with mustard decoratively drizzled across the width of the dog, rather than squirted down the length of it.
Does anyone else think this product might do better in America (at least among frat boys and other jokesters) if—instead of calling it the “Butt Foods Bread Boat”—it was simply marketed as a “Butt Bun”?
Posted by | Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:29am | 2 comments
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"I’m not sure I can trust a company that calls itself Butt Foods (is that not funny in the UK?)"
Probably not as funny as it is in the US. According to information I found on the Butt Foods website, they're called Butt Foods because the company was founded in 1990 by Mr. Mazhar Butt. It would appear that they started out baking naan and branched into other bread items.
That "Bread Boat" idea looks a bit iffy for use with a hot dog. It would seem to make more of a scenario for where the hotdog could roll off the top of the bread, or a person would end up grasping the sandwhich in a way that the mustard gets onto the hand. The "Bread Boat" seems more ideal as a container to hold something that you're not going to handle very much or where a filling is going to hold together more, whereas a hot dog bun encases the contents and ideally keeps the stuff held together long enough to take a bite. It also looks incomplete, like half a bun, or the end heel of a loaf, with a potentially weird baked texture. Of the other two items: "Crusty Bowl" (a somewhat potentially awful name) looks better in the presentation photo while the "Bread Bowl" looks scary with all the dark flecks of whatever baked into itself.