Those of you who are familiar with the comedy and news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are used to his ending each program with a snippet of profound weirdness he calls “Your Moment of Zen”. Well, this upcoming video find definitely reminds me of a weirdly “zen moment”.

I found this because another blog found this. Yes, this has apparently been around well over a year, maybe even two years. But you know the saying, if you haven’t seen it before it’s “new to you”. As the blog I happened across was calling this their silly gadget of the week and they posted it, yes, this week, looks like — like me — they don’t care if it’s two years old either.

So enjoy this real gadget Jamie Oliver has been or was hawking to the UK crowd a while ago. In case you don’t get it right off, the idea seems to be you can either put in your seasonings and such and this ball crushing something or other inside acts a bit like a morter and pestel … and/or you can make sauces by adding olive oil and seasonings in which case the ball inside acts more as an agitator or mixer.

No, I have no idea if this was a success or not or how many people bought them or if they are still being sold. (But then that’s what the comment area is for below, so feel free to let me know). Meanwhile, enjoy this 10-seconds of — and no, this is what it’s called, this isn’t my name, really — Jamie Oliver’s “Flavour Shaka”.

{14 Mar 2008}