Cheezy and Bacon Hair Products - Einstein Bros Bagels

Menu Madness: Cheese And Bacon Shampoo?

Okay. They’re not really menu items, but they cater to the kind of crazy person that Hot Pepper eating challenges, and Heart Attack burgers, and so on do. And I guess it was just a matter of time before somebody created and marketed these wacky products. But I want to know who’s buying them…

Cheesy and Bacon Hair Products - © Einstein Bros BagelsThey might be great products, if you could eat them…

We’ve reported, here, in the past, about food-related stuff like Pizza Hut’s Pizza Cologne. KFC launched a limited edition KFC scent, too, I believe. No! It was edible nail polish that tasted like KFC!

Those products weren’t meant to be eaten, but they made the ‘Madness’ roll call, just the same.

Now, it’s something similar, from Einstein Bros., a Bagel bakery that has widened its horizons to embrace some healthy and some nutty products. The latest thing from their brain trust is a complementary set of shampoo and conditioner.

‘Look Incredible, Smell Edible!’

That’s their slogan for new Cheesy Shampoo and Wakin’ Bacon Conditioner, available from their Web store as soon as they’re back in stock. They sold out the first production run in less than a day, apparently.

I’m not sure their hair products would get along with my hair. It’s taken me a long time to find the right products for my thick, wavy, mind-of-its-own mop. I’m not going to risk disaster, changing conditioners in mid-stream.

I also question the reasoning and rationale behind a Bacon Conditioner. Who wants to get mobbed by all the dogs in the neighbourhood as soon as they walk out the front door? And I can see me, if I was a school student or office worker, being sent home to wash the fragrance out, because the boss thought it was distracting – a cause for complaint commonly written into corporate dress codes.

What’s the reason behind it? The rationale?

So… Why would anybody spend (US)$9.00 plus shipping for this hair-care duo? There’s a novelty factor, yes. And you might actually use it once or twice when you’re getting ready to go out to just the right sort of party. But other than that, what’s the sense? It’s clearly a product that was created ‘because they could do it’, not because it was useful in any way, or – when you come right down to it – desirable at all. (See earlier comment about dogs.)

The whole Cheese and Bacon hair products thing just reinforces my long-standing contention that some folks have too much time on their hands and more money than they know what to do with. The only thing they’re good for is generating some fleeting promo noise for their maker.

So… I want to know exactly who the gullible, money-strewing people are, that are buying this stuff. And what useless product can I come up with to sell them?

~ Maggie J.