Take on the $400 blender

I've hear about this Super blender/juicer for the last few years. It
can basically take any food (pears, prunes, tomatoes, asparagus, kale,
spinach etc) and turn a bland dish into a drinkable juice. I have
heard you can throw cooked chicken breast or steal into it and it too
will get mixed and blended into a delicious meat shake. The
technology this Vitamix machine uses is supposedly revolutionary and
vows to go where no ordinary blender can go....for $400
But it's supposed to be a game changer kind of like Mitt's 47% or
Obama's guns and religion but I have to say that when I brought it
home I was a bit underwhelmed. First of all it's plastic and feels
flimsy, secondly it's kind of tall but most importantly it looks like
a normal blender. When I buy an extraordinarily expensive piece I'd
like to display it a bit but this thing looks like it was bought at a
garage sale. Although I haven't read the bible size instruction
manual I am sure it is made out of organic plastic, packaged in a
fully recycled box, assembled by well paid adults in El Salvador with
proceeds going to a reading program in Cambodia so you can feel good
about your purchase
But taking it all into consideration te proof is in the pudd...egh
juice I guess.

We fire it up and let me tell you, the Vitamix makes a good peanut
butter and banana smoothie... I can't say it's any better than the one
we make in our normal $30 blender but at least I know I could chop up
a lamb chop and make a lamb-tomato-carrot juice if I ever had such a
desire