I wake up pretty early for my job...3am. I have a routine. I plop myself infront of the TV for about 10 minutes reading the scroll at the bottom of the screen on either CNN, FOX, or whoever is running it at 3am. I just want to catch a couple of the headlines before jumping in the shower.
I often have to sit through 5 minutes of commercials before I get my scroll fix. One morning, Billy Mayes (my hero) came on to tell me about the Vidalia Slice Wizard. This thing looked amazing. It could be my unhealthy addiction to the show "Top Chef" that made me want this thing. No not want...need!
So, I jotted down the website in my groggy 3am haze and ordered it later in the day when I was awake.
6-8 weeks later this plastic piece of crap from China came. Pieces of my Vidalia Slice Wizard were rattling around in the box. I was not impressed. So, being a radio dj - I thought I would do a public service and try this bad boy out on the air...with no rehearsal - for the first time!
I put it together, got my Vidalia onion and sliced away. I saw nothing. My safety food holder thingy glided effortlessly over the sharp blade and nothing. Or so I thought. Then I moved the Vidalia Slice Wizard and VIOLA! there before me (oh and Jeff and Meredith) were amazingly thin slices of my onion. Perfect thin slices. Slices so thin and perfect that it could only be produced by either magic or THE VIDALIA SLICE WIZARD!
I'm in love. I have been slicing things I don't even want. Potatoes, green peppers...ANYTHING! I am not one to buy a lot of crap off the TV, in fact, I have never even landed on The Shopping Netword or QVC. But I am digging this damn piece of crap!
Billy Mayes is my hero...I even dig that beard.
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