Synthetic grass flip flops

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Kusa makes flip flops with a footbed of faux grass. They seem like an imaginary product in the background at an invention fair on The Simpsons. KUSA Grass Flip Flops

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Better than a footbed of foie gras.
- retepslluerb
  
  Only when you have no tastebuds in your sole.
Jake0748

Don’t let the grass grow under your feet… Or something like that that my grandma used to say.
noah django

I actually bought a pair of cheap flip-flops yesterday. I would have preferred these, though. vid related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Misleading headline. I expected a story about the failure of a synthetic grass flip. You can imagine my disappointment.
- Jake0748
  
  I salute you sir. After thinking about your comment for about 6 seconds, I actually LOL’d.
- ImmutableMichael
  
  My synthetic grass flips seem to be pretty cool. Not candy but still sweet.
Gekko_Gecko

Oh, and here I was hoping to see a photo of a J-K flip-flop made of fake grass…instead it was a fake grass pair of jandals.

Dumb.
Ipo

Aren’t those the prescribed work footwear for paid commenters?
http://twitter.com/slowtiger slowtiger

Well, my father used to replace the inner soles of his sneakers with bits of cheap plastic balkony lawn decades ago.
- renke
  
  but this is HiQ(tm) Superweed(c) faux grass – so, no prior art…
- hymenopterid
  
  He was a man ahead of his time.
awjt

When I wear these, I always walk in a slightly leftward curve