December 08, 2005

It's The Holiday Season, With The Whoop-De-Do

As we rocket toward the time of gift giving, or, more importantly, last-minute gift buying, the stores put more and more displays of "special" gifts that you can grab without any though whatsoever for the person you forgot. Tonight we were at the grocery store and as we entered the produce section, I saw a selection of gift baskets that the store was offering. The baskets typically contained a mix of edible items and inedible items like CDs and DVDs packaged together for one low price. One in particular caught my eye. I wasn't able to read the official name of the gift pack, but I think it pretty much speaks for itself.

The basket contained a special collectible Nascar/Coca-Cola tin filled with popcorn or some other sort of snack. Collectible tins like this are common during the holidays, and come with just about anything imaginable on and in them, so that wasn't too surprising. Alongside the tin was the "Unrated" DVD of The Dukes of Hazzard. I'm not really sure that there was much of a demand for this special edition DVD, but then again I'm not sure there was a demand for the movie in the first place. To top it all off...literally, it was on top like the star on a tree...was a six pack of Bud Light. I don't know; maybe it was supposed to make the movie tolerable.

There's no better way to show your favorite redneck you love him than a gift basket designed around his individual interests.

Until later...

2 comments:

Becki said...

The six pack is to try and erase the image of Jessica Simpson trying desperately to eat something while stomping around in those sad sad boots.

Matt said...

Oh, the redneck dream would be truly fulfilled if that special collectible Nascar/Coca-Cola tin was filled with a popular brand of "chew."