[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'150196\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 02:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'150171\' date=\'Apr 14 2007, 07:26 AM\']
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gflmByeV2pEMy question is, has anyone here ever owned, or known anyone who owned, a Dazey Seal-A-Meal? I have a great deal of difficulty seeing the practical utility of such a device. With regard to the slogan, it would take much more than a Dazey Seal-A-Meal to simplify my life.
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Never owned one. Mom said they were too much trouble. Seems to me they wouldn't simplify anything; they might
improve one's life (minimizing one's consumption of processed foods; possibly saving money), but not simplify it.
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IIRC, Sears also had a food sealing device on the market around the same time, and there were a few game shows that offered that version as a prize (CBS TJW comes to mind, no??).
For you young'uns out there, there was a time when Sears (along with Kenmore) had their brand name on everything they sold -- but back then most of those items were simply bought in bulk from their respective manufacturers and they plastered their Sears (or Sears-related brand name) over the original manufacturer's name and sold it as their own. The first-generation Atari games come to mind.
I'm not sure if the Sears food sealer device was their own, or if it was made by Dazey and given the relabeling treatment as well.
One thing you have to remember as well: in those days Zip-Loc bags were still a novelty and they pretty much owned the market in that category. The Seal-A-Meals were designed to seal food as good or better than Zip-Locs, but once other plastic bag companies jumped on the zip-to-seal bandwagon, the Seal-a-Meals were quickly becoming garage-sale specials!
And doesn't Jiffy Pop have microwavable products nowadays (swapping the foil for some sort of cellophane material as the "lid"?