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NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 11:49 PM Dec 2014

Well, we got the Williams Sonoma catalog in the mail today. Then I found this blog!

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-2014-haters-guide-to-the-williams-sonoma-catalog-1667452305

The 2014 Hater's Guide to Williams Sonoma

It's really cynical and pretty funny.

Such as

Item #66-5832014 – Hot Chocolate Pot ($60)

The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

Copy: "New & exclusive! Award-winning mid-century design from the Dansk Kobenstyle collection. Engineered for uniform heating in heavy-gauge steel with a stay-cool teak handle."

Drew Says: Yes, a hot chocolate pot. Because a fondue pot wasn't quite useless enough. Hey, you know what other kind of pot is good for making hot chocolate? A POT. Like, any regular pot that you already have. I know sometimes it dribbles down the side when you pour the chocolate out, making you want to kill God. But if you use a ladle, you'll be fine. The Williams-Sonoma catalog will not rest until you need a separate pot for every single goddamn thing you make. QUICK! SOMEONE FETCH ME THE GOAT CHEESE FRITATTA SKILLET! No, not the Western Frittata skillet, you MORON! It's $60. For a hot chocolate pot. Goddamn.

Are you ready for the cronuts? Because you know they got some fucking cronuts this year …

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good for a laugh. Oh yes - we noted that the infamous peppermint bark is 30.00 per tin - for a ONE POUND tin!

I am making my wife some myself - and it isn't going to cost 30. per pound!

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Well, we got the Williams Sonoma catalog in the mail today. Then I found this blog! (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 OP
I just made a pot roast Turbineguy Dec 2014 #1
I liked the "rustic faux evergreen" NJCher Dec 2014 #2
Same here---pine cones from the tree near the driveway! WinkyDink Dec 2014 #4
I admit to having had a Le Creuset fetish! (Have 22 pieces, but I'm done buying them.) WinkyDink Dec 2014 #3
I got a few for Christmas a few years ago and use them constantly! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #5
I bought my first pieces at a S. C. outlet---they had a discontinued pink-mauve that matched my WinkyDink Dec 2014 #7
That's hilarious! Beaverhausen Dec 2014 #6

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)
1. I just made a pot roast
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 01:07 AM
Dec 2014

using some of their fucking white truffle infused oil.

It was delicious. No really.

NJCher

(35,687 posts)
2. I liked the "rustic faux evergreen"
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 01:17 AM
Dec 2014

For $89.95!

I have evergreens all over my house--for free. I just stopped by my local garden center where they were trimming up the Christmas trees and asked for the clippings to be put in my station wagon. $00.00!!


Cher

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
7. I bought my first pieces at a S. C. outlet---they had a discontinued pink-mauve that matched my
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 02:41 PM
Dec 2014

kitchen floor tiles. Now I also have Caribbean Blue, Dijon, Cassis, Kiwi, Cobalt, Onyx, and one Dune.
http://www.lecreuset.com/content/colors

LOVE! But every time I use a piece (like the other day for cous-cous stew) I wonder how many more years I'll be able to lift them! Haha!

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