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So Good Blog/News Round-Up 11/30

by · November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Impulsive Buy reviews Pomegranate 7-Up. Sarah Disgrace is all about the peanut butter and jelly cupcakes. Karen Cheng interviews one of our favorite food bloggers, The Food Pornographer. New reports that salt is bad for you. Ever wished you could dress Rachael Ray however you wanted? Well now you can. Ed Levine wants to [...]

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Tags: News

Quizno’s Sammies: My Review

by · November 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Yesterday, I ventured into the heart of the beast – the Quizno’s down the street from my office. The goal? Sample the new Quizno’s “Sammies” that I wrote about two weeks ago. I’ve read reviews online of these new Sammies that are both glowing and terrible, so it was time to try them for myself. [...]

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Tags: Reviews · Sandwiches

Stuffing 2: The New Batch

by · November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

(To be read in the voice of the movie trailer guy) This November…You’ve had the turkey, you’ve had the gravy, you’ve even had the mashed potatoes and the stuffing. But what you don’t know…….could come back to surprise you! On Thanksgiving Day, everything was not as it seemed. One diabolical chef, driven to the point [...]

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Tags: Cooking

Cherry Chocolate Rain

by · November 29th, 2007 · 6 Comments

If you’ve been using the internets during the year of 2007, you’ve probably been one of the more than 11.5 million people who have viewed the YouTube song “Chocolate Rain” by Tay Zonday. Well now Zonday has intersected with the world of food. Dr. Pepper hired him to make a new original song and internet [...]

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Tags: Marketing · YouTube

Helping the Hungry By Eating All Their Food

by · November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving, competitive eater Tim “Eater X” Janus devoured a ten person Thanksgiving feast in just 15 minutes. The reason Janus did this was….wait for it…wait for it…….to raise awareness of those who go hungry. Hey thanks Tim, we were totally unaware that some people go hungry. However, after hearing [...]

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Tags: Competitive Eating · News

This Guy Loves Coca-Cola…and Pot

by · November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Hat tip to Extreme Mortman, who alerted me to this video. It was posted on the blog of the Green Leaf Party of Israel. It’s an amusing video that should bring a smile to potheads, foodies and soda fans alike. Enjoy.

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Tags: Bizarre

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 11/28

by · November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Two of my biggest passions, food and baseball intersect in this story: free agent Tori Hunter and the Los Angeles Angels finalized his new $90 million contract at a Del Taco. Dave Martin, from Top Chef Season 1, has opened a new restaurant in NYC. It includes gourmet comfort food such as “Dave’s Black Truffle [...]

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Tags: News

Is This Sonic/Arby’s or the Nebraska State Fair?

by · November 27th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Sometimes fast food restaurants come out with new products that are so over-the-top and so ridiculous, that you just KNOW they are going to be so, so, so good. Er, or maybe so, so, so gross. In the case of these next two products, my guess is swinging closer to the gross option. In the [...]

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Tags: Fast Food

David Cross Rocks

by · November 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Check out this parody of a weight loss pill commercial he did for the Sklar Brothers show Cheap Seats, on ESPN Classic.

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Tags: Television · YouTube

The Face of America’s Next Top Eater? Part 2

by · November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

On Thursday, Pat Bertoletti won the 2007 Turkey Bowl. In 8 minutes he put back 6.91 pounds of turkey, besting runner-up (and #1 ranked eater) Joey Chestnut. In October, I suggested that Beroletti was on the verge of becoming America’s #1 ranked eater. Granted I have no idea how the ranking system works, but Bertoletti [...]

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Tags: Competitive Eating