In the photo: Top to bottom: Hello Kitty toaster, juicer, popcorn machine and tea set.
Why be normal when you can be so Kitty?
Looking about the new Hello Kitty emporium on 42nd Street in New York reveals a cat box with an inventory diversification on par with Wal-Mart. If you are a small girl child or a Hello Kitty fetishist, you could quite literally outfit yourself, your office and indeed your entire world without ever straying from the Hello Kitty lifestyle.
The store stocks everything from Hello Kitty toothbrushes to Hello Kitty mountain bikes and everything in between – all designed around the pink and white logo of the pert Japanese anime character.
For the budding entrepreneur there are Hello Kitty answering machines, desks, filing cabinets, briefcases, wastebaskets, flip charts, business card holders, stationary, and fax machines
Sporty cats might favour Hello Kitty backpacks, tents, running shoes, tennis racquets, yoga mats and barbells.
But it was the kitchen appliance section that really sent us up a tree. The store stocks everything a homemaking puss could desire -- toasters that imprint slices of bread with the Hello Kitty visage, juicers, popcorn makers, vacuum cleaners, cutlery, dinnerware, pots and pans, toaster ovens, shopping carts, drinking straws and of course, the requisite tea sets.
It would seem that in the Hello Kitty Kitchen, even the assembly of a peanut butter, jelly and tuna fish birthday cake has the potential to be just purr-fect. Just as long as you are never in need of steak knives, martini glasses, or income tax remittance forms, you could live here.
