Amazon sells a banana-shaped banana slicer called the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. For some reason that's better left undiscovered, the user-contributed reviews for the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer on ...

At least that’s what the people on Amazon have to say about the ribbed yellow device, which slices whole bananas into little saucers and discs that you can then put into your cereal or fruit salad.

With 635 five-star reviews on its Amazon product page (out of more than 1,200 reviews ... and growing), it seems obvious that the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer is the one gift you can buy yourself that ...

You know how sometimes a product comes along and little cartoon hearts begin to float around your head as you wonder: "Where has this miracle been all my life?" That was the case with me and the ...

The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer, which does exactly what it says it does and little else, is widely regarded as one of the most useless kitchen instruments ever invented. So why then has it been ...

It's 2016 and the old-fashioned method of slicing a banana just doesn't cut it anymore. Since 2011, Amazon reviewers have been leaving hilarious and sarcastic comments on this unnecessary Hutzler 571 ...

To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Banana Slicer. No. I’m not kidding. It’s ...

In October, Amazon surprised Hutzler Manufacturing by calling with a succulent bit of news: The tiny Canaan (Conn.) company’s yellow plastic banana slicer had become a top seller in the online retail ...