Surfing the shopping

I rarely watch anything on television that I haven't' purposely recorded to watch when I have time. And sometimes these days I catch up with something I've missed on iView. (Yes, I'm an ABC fan.)
So when we are away for a few days on a break, I like to pick up the TV remote and channel surf. So many channels and so much sport. Flick, flick. And 24 hour news. No thanks. And recently I discovered there's a whole food channel I didn't know about. Nup!
But the one that really gets me is the SellingStuff channel. I know it probably has a name but that's what it's there for. To sell stuff - and go on and on and on about it. Not just a 30 minute commercial but more like half an hour maybe.
On a recent shopping surf I saw a hairdresser waxing eloquent about a very expensive product to rehydrate hair. So if your hair needs hydrating, why not wet it? Ah no, my thirsty hair is crying out for his product and will then look glossy and gorgeous like the model on display.
Another day I saw the session about using primer. No not before painting a surface but before putting on foundation - on your face. First there was powder, then we needed foundation before powder and now primer before the foundation before the powder and...  I think they even admitted it was a bit like filling in the crevices and Spakfilla came to mind.
The one that really got me going was the food processor thingy - a sort of inverted glass blender that would turn 'boring kale'(they said it, not me) into a glorious smoothy. So good for you. (I bought kalette in the shop the other day because I had never seen anything like it...) The presenter suggested you should use one if you don't have knife skills. Really? Did they really mean if you can't cut things up with a knife. If you're going to just hurl stuff into a blender how fancy do the knife skills have to be?
So they decided to make soup (the know all man and the gushy woman) using cooked chicken, sweetcorn and cream. Into the thingummy, blend it up and then whack it in the microwave. Hm!
The final straw was that people were being egged on to do this so they would be the envy of everyone in the lunchroom at work . 'Oh look, she's got mooshed up stuff in a glass, heated up.
They exclaimed over how much time it would save. Must admit I couldn't see why you couldn't take the cooked chook (the woman said she'd roasted it the night before) and slap it between two slices of bread and away you go. You could even add lettuce (or kale) or tomato (providing you had the necessary knife skills).
And don't get me started on the price. I saw the same brand product and other similar things in the shops at a much lower price. So for now I'll just stick to my knife (I'm sure I have knife skills) my stick belnder, microwave or saucepan. Or perhaps I'll just go make a sandwich...