Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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Delipult
If you catch it then it's yours, free.
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Filling your own pots with gloop at delicatessen counters is boring.

The Delipult is a device that will be installed at selected stores before the end of the year. Use of it is optional for customers.

A blindfolded member of the counterstaff loads a customer's selection from the display into a miniature trebuchet and launches it across the counter. Those customers agile enough to catch their coleslaw/potato salad/whatever in their plastic tub without letting more than a few spots hit the floor, themselves or any other customers get the whole serving free of charge.

For fielding sliced meats, cheese, samosas etc, they get a lacrosse net.

Large crowds gather. Store sales and revenue go up, people take to wearing coleslaw on their heads.


UnaBubba, Jan 23 2003

What is a trebuchet? http://nfo.edu/trebuche.htm
for [squeak] [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Seattle fish market http://www.pikeplac...com/about/about.htm
they throw fish [mrthingy, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

paint everything olive? http://www.halfbake...0Everything_20Green
and lime, and mint, and... [yamahito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]


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       wot are a trebuchet ? duh..

squeak, Jan 23 2003
  

       Croissant for the chaos this would surely cause.   

       A trebuchet is a font, like the one you see at the halfbakery. Alternately, dictionary.com or Google will be of enormous help.

UnaBubba, Jan 23 2003
  

       So a trebuchet font is one used for catapulting babies? Possibly for use by irritable vicars.   

       fishbone I'm afraid [foolserrand]. I can't even catch a ball so I'd have no chance with an olive.

squeak, Jan 23 2003
  

       Can I run the protective poncho concession?

oneoffdave, Jan 23 2003
  

       Would that more of a restaurchet or cafeteripult, then?

st3f, Jan 23 2003
  

       [oneoffdave] You can sell nacho hats to innocent bystanders, how's that?

UnaBubba, Jan 23 2003
  

       Who doesn't know what a trebuchet is?

xnihilo, Jan 23 2003
  

       I can't wait to see the bocconcini cannon!

madradish, Jan 23 2003
  

       <Who doesn't know what a trebuchet is?> <wot are a trebuchet ? duh.. - squeak, Jan 23 2003 (above)>

mrthingy, Jan 23 2003
  

       Next, an olive cannon is on the books.

UnaBubba, Jan 23 2003
  

       Great, I'll start preparing my advertising material now. Will the olive cannon be rapid fire?

oneoffdave, Jan 24 2003
  

       No, it will paint everything in a nice shade of olive though.

UnaBubba, Jan 24 2003
  

       paint everything olive? Haven't we covered that? -see link

yamahito, Jan 24 2003
  

       A trebuchet is a large device which is a cross between a catapault and a huge spoon (used like you do for flinging food in food fights)

serpent671, Jan 10 2004
  


 
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