when you have too much money, everything becomes a toy
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what started out as a demonstration of the value and unspoken innovation behind adding small, superfluous features to commercial products to increase their attractiveness and appeal, when interpreted as an allegory for modern consumerism - i.e. eating not out of physical hunger but to appease some phantom craving - becomes somewhat poignant and sobering in how closely and precisely it mirrors the parody of our lives.
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when he mentions the hostess metaphor the muscles of my mouth tighten into a grimace - 'pal you don't know how right you are'
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