Sunday, June 21, 2015

Oliver, your elephant friend

Happy Father's Day! If you are a father, have a great day. If you have a father, wish them that.

Today's weird thing is centered around olives, as I mentioned in the last post. If you were bothered to look around for olive-centric things on the Fred and Friends website, then you probably deduced that today's thing is Oliver.

As you can see, Olivers are not solid like normal elephants. Instead, they have a large crater in their head. This holds things such as olives, cherries, and pistachios. But Olivers are useful for more than just holding those things. Olivers have trunks, made to slip in pistachio shells or olive and cherry pits.

Where do the pits and shells go? Through the trunk, and into a shelter right below the food part. How do you clean out this shelter? I wondered that, too, but apparently there is a little rubber plug on the bottom that opens to let out pits and shells.

Oliver is everything – cute and tasty while functioning and useful. When empty, Oliver weighs one pound (about half a kilogram). Its dimensions are 2.74" x 7" x 4.15". It's made of ceramic and designed by Robin Levein.

Fred and Friends sells it for $21 here. As far as I can tell, Amazon doesn't stock this one. Get it and make your new best buddy.



Thanks for reading! See you tomorrow, thingologists!

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