Funny, it doesn’t sound delicate
I mean, it’s got those big metal teeth, and the noise makes me think some Japanese Lovecraft fan has finally assembled Mecha-Cthulhu.
Yet somehow it’s fragile:
I laughed when my daughter told me that you couldn’t put a leaf of lettuce down the disposal. But when the plumber came to fix the thing, he showed me how the thing had met its match dealing with a piece of lemon. The plumber told me more stuff you can’t put in the disposal, among them rice.
The plumber told me that the disposal is a delicate, exquisitely calibrated mechanism and gave me a list of things you can’t put in it. Everything I mentioned was forbidden. I was starting to think that the only food congenial to the disposal was homemade chicken soup, maybe. If you strain it.
Sheesh. The thing will swallow a teaspoon if you give it the slightest opportunity, but it chokes on citrus?
(Maybe it’s a function of age. I bought a new one three years ago, mainly because the old one had deteriorated to such an extent that water was weeping through its base.)
Old Grouch »
6 October 2009 · 11:10 pm
It’s probably one of those new Environmentally CorrectTM disposals… It rejects all that stuff because it’s supposed to go on your compost heap.
Old Grouch »
6 October 2009 · 11:11 pm
Oh, and Did You Separate Your Plastic Today?
canadienne »
6 October 2009 · 11:13 pm
Mecha-Cthulhu made me laugh (I have a highly visual imagination.) Please do not tell me there are Chthulu amigurumi. I am afraid to Google that.
unimpressed »
6 October 2009 · 11:17 pm
When I did property maintenance, I’d run ice cubes through the disposal to clean the blades out so that if the place sat empty for a while, the detritus wouldn’t get rancid–made one helluva racket. :)
CGHill »
7 October 2009 · 7:03 am
Some of you may already have seen this.
fillyjonk »
7 October 2009 · 7:23 am
When my parents replaced theirs, they got a model called
“The Bonecrusher*
(*Do not actually put bones down disposal)”
fillyjonk »
7 October 2009 · 7:46 am
canadienne: there also used to be an online comic called Hello Chthulu but I think the artist stopped doing it. Yes, it was as you expect: Chthulu with a little bow on its head a la Hello Kitty.
canadienne »
7 October 2009 · 11:58 pm
I’m still amused by Mech-Chthulhu. You just don’t see Japanese popular culture, Lovecraftian horror, and kitchen appliances combined in a blog title that often.
The crocheted Cthulhu is um, cute – I’m thinking of sending it to the What Not to Crochet site, unless it is already there. I am happy that I don’t know how to crochet and will stick to knitting socks.
Fillyjonk, that site is still up – hasn’t been updated since 2006, but is pretty funny in a very odd kind of way. Thanks for the lead. I love stuff like that.