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Unitasker Wednesday: Spinning cone
Summer is right around the corner, and the warmer temperatures are bringing on cravings for ice cream. Unfortunately, eating ice cream increases the risk of the dreaded ailment “ice cream wrist.” Ice cream wrist can be attributed to constantly turning the cone to lick up the droplets of melting ice cream. What does one do to combat such a problem? Well, buy a Spinning Cone of course!
With the Spinning Cone, ice cream wrist will no longer plague your summer months. With a simple press of the button on this fake plastic cone, you can spin the ice cream that sits atop the cone. No more rotating the cone to keep the ice cream from melting onto your hands. You say you like to eat the cone, too? What is more important, enjoying the taste of a good cake, waffle, or sugar cone or staving off ice cream related wrist injuries? I think we all know the correct answer to that question.
Spinning Cone, where have you been all my life? Here I’ve been rotating my cone all my life like a sucker.
(Thanks to reader dmctexas for sending this our way.)
**Each week, the Unitasker Wednesday column humorously pokes fun at the unnecessary, single-use items that manage to find their way into our homes.
22 comments posted
Posted by Christal - 06/04/2008
Can the cone spinner be set to spin fast enough so that one could shoot the ice cream like a weapon? That would at least give this item a dual purpose… :>)
Posted by Erin Doland - 06/04/2008
@Christal — Now I want one to see if I can hack it into a weapon!!
Posted by Katie - 06/04/2008
I find the existence of this product strangely discouraging.
Posted by theclevermom - 06/04/2008
If we had one of these, I’d lose out on a lot of ice cream. Heck, I recently realised that I usually don’t even need to get myself a cone, as my 5yo will hand it over so often to be given the “lick treatment” that I end up eating more of the ice cream than he does.
Posted by QL Girl - 06/04/2008
Dang, we’re getting lazy if we need an aparatus to spin our cones for us! lol.
Posted by LivSimpl - 06/04/2008
Dang. This is almost as bad as the electric lollipop spinners.
Posted by ShopLittleGifts - 06/04/2008
That is really fun!!
Posted by animalhouze - 06/04/2008
shut.up. this is ridiculous
Posted by Tiffany - 06/04/2008
What? Not only is it a unitasker (and not even a particularly useful task at that), but it also ROBS you of the joy of chomping on your waffle cone. Especially one of those well-designed ones where the hole at the bottom is plugged with chocolate. Mmm, chocolate.
Posted by Andrew - 06/04/2008
I was hoping you’d do something with Ice Cream. Course, I was thinking more along the lines of the Ice Cream Serveware…
http://www.lnt.com/product/ind.....age=search
Saw this and immediately thought of Unitasker Wednesday.
Posted by Springpeeper - 06/04/2008
No wonder obesity is rampant in America…
Posted by Deb - 06/04/2008
Look at it this way…since we’re all getting carpal tunnel, we may need this!
Posted by Amy - 06/04/2008
nice. I hope it glows in the dark!
Posted by K - 06/04/2008
Ew, plastic cone. *sigh* Has the waffle and sugar variety lost it’s appeal?
Posted by Anne - 06/04/2008
visions of icecream splatters all over my minivan!
standing with clevermom! I too am a unitasking mom, who has to spin her children’s cone with a quick lick to keep the child who for some reason doesn’t realize the other side of the cone is melting! Does anyone have the age when that clicks in a kid? Does the oozing melting icecream ever begin to feel on their hand? For that matter, why don’t kids feel the icecream on thier chins or other facial places?
sorry multi-task rant…on wrong day
Posted by Sandy - 06/04/2008
OMG, now I really have to rant, b/c this is so funny (Erin, how did you know I was just listening to “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me?”..oh that’s right b/c we are the SAME PERSON)…
Apparently, so say the NPR WWDTM pundits, recently the President’s Council on Bioethics released a 600-ish page report entitled Human Dignity and Bioethics (Something like that). Leon Kass, founding director of the Council, has trouble with a lot of things, but most of all…with LICKING ICE CREAM IN PUBLIC. Yes, I was just listening to the WWDTM podcast on this and then signed on to your Unitasker — so I went to Google and found the quote… Here it is (after his rant about women who “choose to remain single” and not bear children in their 20s, mind you…)
“…Worst of all from this [dignity's] point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone – a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. … Eating on the street–even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat–displays [a] lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. … Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. … This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.”
This is, of course, the President’s advisor on bioethics – a position from which he convinced the president to outlaw federally-funded research that used new stem-cell lines.
Think he’d go for the ice cream spinner???
Posted by Zenplease - 06/04/2008
Wow, this is …very interested!
I hope you don’t mind checking out a recent post of mine on my blog: http://zenplease.com/10-things.....eones-day/
Posted by Karen - 06/04/2008
OMG! I was given FOUR of these a few years ago. They were huge and spotted likea cow. I had no idea what to tell the person who gave them to me (my MIL) but needless to say they ended up in the donate pile. Ug!
Posted by Sandy - 06/05/2008
@Karen You can’t be serious – FOUR? What? That’s hilarious!!!!! Maybe instead of a “white elephant” sale when we get rid of our Unitaskers we should have a “spotted like a cow” sale? That’s too much!!
Posted by Jesse - 06/05/2008
I figured it out: it’s for people who have (two) prosthetic arms…or LITTLE kids…those are the only two uses I could think of that would be REMOTELY useful for this. Good choice! *grin*
Posted by Sophia - 06/07/2008
i seriously doubt anyone will say *but i have this!!! i love it* for this item
Posted by Caitlan - 06/07/2009
@ livsimpl “This is almost as bad as the electric lollipop spinners.”? Wait, you mean the ones that play a song inside your head? Those are sooo much cooler than this plastic cone.
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