2009 CHOICE Shonky Awards - lemony winners announced

CHOICE is a not-for-profit consumer protection organisation which started life as a magazine and has been operating in Australia for the last fifty years. The group states it currently has 200,000 members. Every year it now announces annual awards for the worst products on the domestic market. These awards are called Shonkys.

The 2009 CHOICE Shonky for:

• Plugging Stuff and Nonsense goes to Reegen Micro-Plug
  
• Cheese-Fearing Surrender Monkey goes to Tiffany FP807 Food processor
  
• Water at What Price? goes to Chef's Cupboard and Massel liquid stocks
  
• Honey (Oat crisp), I shrunk the groceries goes to Uncle Toby Oat Crisp Honey cereal
  
• Blinding us with dodgy science goes to L'Oréal Elvive
  
• Profit Protection Insurance goes to the Credit protection insurance industry
  
• Sky high surcharges goes to Qantas and Tiger Airways
  
• Teleconfusication goes to Tel.pacific phone cards