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Hotel Swag: Four Points and Their Mysterious Apple Peeler

6/18/2008 at 9:15 AM
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The Four Points by Sheraton chain has been in our good books ever since they appointed a Chief Beer Officer, but they're teetering on heading over to the dark side after we discovered some of the odd (and probably useless) stuff they're trying to sell at their online store.

We get it about the sheets and towels and stuff, and even the fact that they sell a bunch of different pies (we'll take Mississippi Mud, thanks) is something  we can live with.

But in a very limited section of their shop called "Uncomplicated" they are selling a rather odd-looking apple peeler. For a start, we don't believe it's uncomplicated (is this thing slicing and peeling at the same time? What if we just want it peeled? How the heck do we attach the apple?), and second, we don't believe anybody really needs it. And definitely not from a hotel shop.

[Photo: Four Points Store]

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AndrewC
HotelChatter Contributing Editor
Re: Hotel Swag: Four Points and Their Mysterious (none / 0)

Ahh, the old fashioned apple peeler. Its quite simple really, on the end of the rod are four prongs that stick into the apple's core, then as you move the rod it screws the apple into a circular piece of metal that has a hole in it. The core goes into the hole, and as the apple is twisting through the circle, it cuts it, and simultaniously it peels the skin off too.

When you're done you get an apple that looks almost like a curly fry, de-cored & de-skinned.

See.. I knew my summers spent in upstate ny would pay off eventually!

by AndrewC on 6/18/2008 at 9:28 AM


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