The Ergonomic Grater

You know how when you walk into a room and you notice a contraption that you've never seen before, you're automatically drawn to it and want to touch it until the owner comes running and screaming at you? That was the feeling I got when I walked into my room the other day and saw an ergonomically designed grater sitting on my desk.



I had seen the above commercial on TV quite a number of times, and each time I cringe because seeing anyone's gross feet is likely to cause that reaction. Yet my fascination with infomercials (which might or might not be the topic of a future post) holds my attention captive every single time that commercial comes on. So imagine my surprise when I find the object of my grotesque fascination sitting on my desk.

Well, of course I had to try it. How can anyone NOT when a personal infomercial product lands on her lap? It was begging to be used. So consider this my official review of the glorified cheese grater.

Because it really is essentially a cheese grater graciously grating off shavings of a foot that, on occasion, does smell like a ripe Limburger. But for someone like me who cannot stand to have a stranger touching my foot, this quick-fix solution is actually very appealing. I still don't think my pride will ever let me go out and purchase another one should this one stop grating, but having one so conveniently placed in my room at least gave me the desire to give the egg a go. And at least I can safely say that I don't have nearly as many shavings as was dumped onto the green towel (why on a towel?) in the video.