How many times do you think anyone would use this - once even. Then you got to clean it and find somehwere to store it - why bother - just toss it in the garbage! - or better yet don't buy it in the first place!

Dude, you don't have kids. I would buy this.

"dad, I don't like the crust"
"it's the best part just eat it"
"i don't like it"
"you even gonna try it?"
"no, i don't like it..."
5 mins later... the second one walks in and wants a sandwich too, no crust.
Pizza cutter is a marvelous thing.

I have three kids - if they don't want to eat the crusts, they are more than capable or simply tearing them off. no extra tools required.

Do enough people have OCD that there's actually a market for this sort of thing?

The real problem here is when Wal-Mart downsizes their loaves of bread to improve packaging, this cutter will be too large to be of any use. :)

-Lego

My 6 year old son has some special needs, including some really serious food aversions. I have one of those plastic crust cutters and I use the everyday. To my son, it makes his sandwiches more special and he is more likely to eat them. His younger brother is a human vacuum cleaner and usually eats the crusts that are left behind. I guess I get kicked out of the treehugger club now, huh?

It sounds like a couple of readers have completely misunderstood me. I'm not dissing crust-cutting---i myself have no big love for the crust. I'm dissing the inability of some people to spend a couple of extra seconds and use a knife, unless they're physically disabled.

BTW, if you want cute shapes, you can always use cookie cutters---there's no need to buy a *dedicated geegaw* for that one purpose alone and jam up your kitchen drawer.

I didn't misunderstand you, I just do not care for your one size fits all approach as to how a product like this is completely useless to everyone. I could use a cookie cutter but with the ones I have I would be cutting out at least half of the sandwich. Then I would have to make two so that my son had enough to eat. Which is more wasteful, making 730 sandwiches a year of making 365 and buying a plastic geegaw cuts only the crusts and slices and sandwich into rectangles and making 365? I use this cutter a hell of a lot more than I use all of the cookie cutters in my house combined.

It's not that the product is "useless"... it's that its limited, single-application usefulness doesn't justify its existence. in terms of resources used to make it.

*Especially* plastic ones.