Shonky Awards
Welcome to this special edition of CHOICE, celebrating our 2021 Shonky Awards. Perhaps because they are so high profile, or perhaps because they’re a bit controversial, I get more questions about the Shonkys than anything else we do. Here are some of the most common things I’m asked: Why do you do the Shonkys? We haven’t always done them – while CHOICE has been around since 1960, we’ve only been handing out Shonkys since 2006. I think the original idea came out of a frustration about the number of bad products we were coming across in our testing and investigations and a desire to do more about it. Giving an award to a bad product hopefully has two effects. Firstly, it’s like a big, red ‘Do not buy’ sign on the particular product. We…