Products That You Do Not Get /understand

[Sycamore3House]

This question is personal to everyone but are there some products that you cannot understand why people buy them when there is an alternative.
I do not get shower gel when you can use soap. Also herbal teas when you can make fruit squashes.
Those are only two examples I sure here are lots.

[FredPuli43]

Nothing new in useless or unhelpful technology. There's an C18 clock in a museum in Colchester which told the owner what the time was in various ports abroad. That could not be of any use to him as he had no means of contacting anyone immediately, but the boasting factor, the showing off,he having commissioned the piece at great expense, must have been great.

[Clanad]

Here in the U.S. one only has to look around their house... kitchen especially, to come away, head scratching, about the unecessary complexity of modern day life and the objects that sales forces have insisted that we can't live without.
Example, you ask? Sure... the thingy sitting on the counter designed to "protect" your bananas! You know... the art nouveau chromeplated stand, curved and about 10 inches tall with a hook at the top... supposed to hold a flock of bananas and thereby 'protect' them... Questions? have you or anyone in your home actually attacked the helpless, feckless banana? Didn't think so... here either.

Besides, what happens when you are down to one banana? How does that banana stay safe? Don't we surmise that lone banana, now laying on the counter, unable to use it's "protector" has nightmares?

(Don't get me started on the power drinks)

[woofgang]

clanad the air circulation around the bunch on the banana is intended to dissipate the ethylene and slow ripening, also stopping the bananas forcibly ripening all the other fruit in the bowl....not sure how well it works

[Clanad]

Woof... is this an attempt at the historically famous British respect for irony? I read the leaflet that came with the useless countertop-space-taker-upper... I just don't get it... and I have years... no, decades of banana eating. The only other problem encountered in my lenghty association with bananas is knowing when to stop when typing it...

[woofgang]

ha ha Clanad, me too

[jomifl]

I just put bananas in the fridge with the vegetables since they don't suffer from ripening.

[jim360]

Homeopathic medicine.

[doctordb]

Microwave ovens.

[Answerprancer]

"Products That You Do Not Get /understand" - Justin Bieber.

[society]

I was never a fan of microwave ovens. But, they really do work. I can cook and bake in it, even roast peanuts!

[doctordb]

I'm sure they do society but my 'real' oven and hob hasn't let me down yet. :)

[society]

I understand Doctorb. :) I find using the microwave to be economical and quick.

[DaisyNonna]

Use bananas to hasten the ripening of avocados. Am I being cruel to my bananas?