The Cult of the Snuggie

Posted by Chris Benjamin in Strange on Feb 17th, 2009 | 0 comments

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You’ve probably seen it: that weird family of four that look like monks all happily cooking marshmallows over a backyard fire. Or that lady curled up on a couch dressed in her sleek burgundy robe talking on a cordless phone.

It’s the Snuggie. Yes, now you too can live in the warmth and solitude of a nuclear fallout survivor. But don’t laugh too hard – over 4 million of these things have been sold already. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a fairly significant portion of your countryman have lost their jobs and face an uncertain financial future, but have yet determined that a Snuggie is a sound and fashionable purchase.

So how much of a cult status has the Snuggie achieved? In March, hundreds of Chicago residents will be participating in the first ever Snuggie Pub Crawl (see the story at the Chicago Tribune). Wow, I don’t know, but if I was going to cherish a Snuggie purchase I don’t know if I’d want it smelling like beer and puke — but that’s just me.

Yup, the Snuggie phenomonon has caught on. It makes me wonder why spray-on hair never did — that was a product we could stand behind! Hair in a can!

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