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What is this stupid knife?

nolabrew
nolabrew Posts: 246
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My wife says it's a bread knife.  I say it's for sacrificing Virginians. Anyone know what actual purpose this thing serves?
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,931
    Bread tomato knife is my guess 
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,169
    That looks like an old school ginsu.  You should be very excited.  They can cut cans in half and then make paper thin slices of tomato.

    My wife ended up with one after college that sat unused in our drawer for years until I figured out the best use for it - cutting sod.  I helped a friend lay a few thousand sq feet of sod and that knife was perfect for trimming and when I was done, tossed it out.
    Love you bro!
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  • nolabrew
    nolabrew Posts: 246
    DMW said:
    nolabrew said:


    My wife says it's a bread knife.  I say it's for sacrificing Virginians. Anyone know what actual purpose this thing serves?
    They are the worst...
    I know what I said. 
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,474
    nolabrew said:


    My wife says it's a bread knife.  I say it's for sacrificing Virginians. Anyone know what actual purpose this thing serves?
    Depends on the curf.  I suspect it is for trimming hedges.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,132
    -Vince (the Slap-Chop/Sham-wow guy) is on the phone to China as we speak. 
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 32,474
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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  • td66snrf
    td66snrf Posts: 1,838
    edited May 2017
    To me it looks similar to this Case knife I bought at an estate sale.  It's for cutting frozen food. 
    XLBGE, LBGE, MBGE, SMALL, MINI, 2 Kubs, Fire Magic Gasser
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  • LDR
    LDR Posts: 414

    Looks like part of a SpiroGraph set. 

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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    td66snrf said:
    To me it looks similar to this Case knife I bought at an estate sale.  It's for cutting frozen food. 
    THE original, Gen 1, Case Sod Buster.
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
    LDR said:

    Looks like part of a SpiroGraph set. 

    Memories...you must also be getting up there.   =)
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  • saluki2007
    saluki2007 Posts: 6,354
    It's a pumpkin carving knife.  (I don't really know, just a guess)
    Large and Small BGE
    Central, IL

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,382
    pretty sure i have that same knife, came with the kitchen when i bought the house  19 years ago=)   i keep it next to the front door next to the sickle and baseball bat
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,171
    While I know this response will not be in good taste.....I would call it an OJ.
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • nolabrew
    nolabrew Posts: 246
    I'm going to try it on frozen food because that may work. I like the suggestion for sod too.  
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,382
    nolabrew said:
    I'm going to try it on frozen food because that may work. I like the suggestion for sod too.  
    only thing i ever remember using it for was cutting a root bound rosemary bush out of a rounded planter, only other way out was to smash the pot
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • tarheelmatt
    tarheelmatt Posts: 9,867
    Found this... Vintage Ginsu it appears possibly. 


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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,382
    mines still sharp just like the infomercial said back 40  years or so ago =)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,931
    The Ginsu guy made a killing selling those knifes. I rode with an elevator mechanic when I first started working and one of his stops was the house the ginsu guy bought for his "Atlanta girlfriend" as I was told. It was five stories on the river and had three commercial elevators and one residential elevator including a hospital size unit. The master closet was bigger than my first house (a two story house nonetheless).  :o
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,049
    Don't knock the Ginsu.  I got one for "free" as it was included with the purchase of a Wok in the early 1980's.  It still works great and has never been sharpened.  Just for fun a couple of years ago I recreated the commercial for my son and cut a beer can followed by a thinly sliced tomato.

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

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  • otter
    otter Posts: 347
    My advise is throw it away. My Mom forgot it was two sided 30 years ago. Big bad cut trying to push it threw frozen food
    Pure Michigan
    Grand Rapids, Michigan  LBGE, SBGE
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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    edited May 2017
    otter said:
    My advise is throw it away. My Mom forgot it was two sided 30 years ago. Big bad cut trying to push it threw frozen food
    Couldn't be any worse than the double sided Leech Lake filet knife.

    What frozen stuff are we all hacking away at today?

    Back in my wilder days, was high with a friend one night, he was splitting two frozen burritos in his hand with a knife.  He got them apart, but it was an instant bloody buzzkill ER visit at 0300, requiring significant intervention.  =)

    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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  • MaskedMarvel
    MaskedMarvel Posts: 3,202
    In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife...
    Large BGE and Medium BGE
    36" Blackstone - Greensboro!


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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,017
    Focker said:
    otter said:
    My advise is throw it away. My Mom forgot it was two sided 30 years ago. Big bad cut trying to push it threw frozen food
    Couldn't be any worse than the double sided Leech Lake filet knife.

    What frozen stuff are we all hacking away at today?

    Back in my wilder days, was high with a friend one night, he was splitting two frozen burritos in his hand with a knife.  He got them apart, but it was an instant bloody buzzkill ER visit at 0300, requiring significant intervention.  =)

    About as stupid as a guy I knew who was holding a small log out between his hands while his drunk buddy tried to cut it with a chainsaw! He lost a thumb!
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  • tarheelmatt
    tarheelmatt Posts: 9,867
    Image result for ginsu meme
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,382
    RRP said:
    Focker said:
    otter said:
    My advise is throw it away. My Mom forgot it was two sided 30 years ago. Big bad cut trying to push it threw frozen food
    Couldn't be any worse than the double sided Leech Lake filet knife.

    What frozen stuff are we all hacking away at today?

    Back in my wilder days, was high with a friend one night, he was splitting two frozen burritos in his hand with a knife.  He got them apart, but it was an instant bloody buzzkill ER visit at 0300, requiring significant intervention.  =)

    About as stupid as a guy I knew who was holding a small log out between his hands while his drunk buddy tried to cut it with a chainsaw! He lost a thumb!
    i think we all know these people, a friend of mine decided it would be funny to kick a log off a splitting block while my brother was swinging the ax =)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • dopey
    dopey Posts: 201
    i think we all know these people, a friend of mine decided it would be funny to kick a log off a splitting block while my brother was swinging the ax =)
    For fvcks sake, I can't be smart all the time.  Nobody let's these things go!
    What I do when I'm black out drunk is none of my business...

    John Central CT
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,382
    home protection




    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,049
    Focker said:
    otter said:
    My advise is throw it away. My Mom forgot it was two sided 30 years ago. Big bad cut trying to push it threw frozen food


    What frozen stuff are we all hacking away at today?




    I use my Ginsu to cut up clumps of lump.

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

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  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
    edited May 2017
    Lookin' good there, Slingblade.

    You got any potted meat?  mmmmm hmmmmm
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