Friday, March 9, 2018

Hidden Valley Is Giving Away a $35,000 Bottle of Ranch

Just in case the ranch keg wasn’t fancy enough for your tastes, Hidden Valley just made a $35,000, jewel-encrusted bottle of America’s most beloved salad dressing. This majestic bottle is decked out with 75 carats worth of diamonds and sapphires, as well as 18-karat white gold. (Hence the steep price tag.) It’s all topped off  withan adorable mini-crown for a cap.

If the only way to fill the empty void in your life is with a condiment that’s worth five figures, there’s good news—the bottle could be yours. Hidden Valley is running a contest in which one lucky person will win the most glittery bottle of ranch of all time. All you have to do is follow and retweet the tweet below to enter. The winner will be chosen on May 19.

The bottle was created in honor of the upcoming royal wedding. While it won’t be sent to the royal family, Hidden Valley assures us that the bottle will be “sent on a journey overseas.” I’m sure Prince Harry and Megan Markle will cherish the fact that a bejeweled condiment bottle got to travel to Europe in their honor. What better way for America to send its regards than with a gemstone-laden bottle of its finest export?

Tomorrow, March 10, is also National Ranch Day, yet another reason this sparkly bottle was created. The unofficial food holiday celebrates the best-selling salad dressing in the country. According to a national survey, over 140 million citizens consumed the dressing in the last year alone! Be sure to celebrate the day by pouring it on everything. Oh wait, that’s every day.



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This Device May Make ‘Avocado Hand’ a Thing of the Past

Will  “avocado hand” be a thing of the past? That’s what these students are hoping. A group of six teenagers created a gadget that can help slice and de-stone the fruit with a way lower risk of injury than your standard knife. It’s called the Avogo and it already won first place at the Design Ventura challenge at the London Design Museum.

The innovative invention works by piercing a hook into the avocado’s thick skin, which allows the user to pull the blade around its circumference. It can also be used to de-stone the fruit as well.

Following their major victory at the competition, the teens are now in the process of setting up a Kickstarter campaign.  They hope to manufacture up to 250 of their ingenuous inventions, with the goal of selling them for 10 pounds each. They intend to donate the rest of their earnings to charity. Aww, what sweet kids!

The students came up with the idea after one of them, Shiven Patel, hurt himself while cutting an avocado. But he’s far from the only one. In fact, given the growing popularity of avocados, there’s been an uptick in injuries caused by people attempting to stab and slice their way through the fruit’s thick outer coating, only to encounter the larger center stone. This happens so frequently that the term “avocado hand” has been coined in order to describe these injuries. And no one is immune, not even Meryl Streep! If it can happen to a three-time Oscar winner, it can happen to you.

Since it may take some time before you can possess your very own Avogo, you’ll have to use a regular old knife for slicing purposes. Check out our video below to learn the best techniques, so you enjoy your avocado toast in peace without a trip to the emergency room.



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