Kansas City Food Blog

​It's nice to see that mankind has begun using technology for critical purposes, like finally improving on the marshmallow gun. For too long we've been stuck with the homemade version, hastily constructed from PVC tubing and sold at craft fairs. 

Neiman Marcus is currently selling the Executive Elite Marshmallow Blaster ($55, plus shipping). It's a jet-black, single-pump action, pneumatic marshmallow launcher that claims to be able to shoot a marshmallow 40 feet.

This is the natural evolution of The Marshmallow Shooter -- a red and white plastic marshmallow gun capable of launching mini-marshmallows 30 feet. The Marshmallow Fun Company also offers a marshmallow bow and mallow as well as a mazooka.
As to why the marshmallow wars began, some blame the Blue Man Group for putting PVC tubes and throwing marshmallows on stage in the same act. But nobody truly knows why humans feel compelled to launch or attempt to catch marshmallows into their mouths.

If you want to know what's next in the marshmallow arms race, it's likely to be something that can handle Super Gigante marshmallows -- the overstuffed vanilla and strawberry marshmallows the size of small lemons. For now, combatants are forced to bite the tops off and then lob them at each other.

Only time will tell if the Executive Elite Marshmallow Blaster can do for marshmallow guns what the Super Soaker did for water guns. Either way, I'm getting ready for the coming attacks and stockpiling instant cocoa.

[Image via Flickr: somegeekintn]