Entries from November 2007
In August, I alerted So Good readers to a contest by Wendy’s to choose the newest burger for their menu. At the time, the Philly Style Hoagie burger was in a tight race with the Bacon Mushroom Teriyaki Burger and the Teriyaki Blast Burger. The other day comes news that it has been named the [...]
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Tags: Burgers · Fast Food
by Eick · November 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Fast Food Maven is reporting that winners have been announced for the Chipotle, “30-Seconds of fame” advertising contest. Chapman University tied for first place with Northern Illinois University beating out 45 other ads submitted from 18 other schools. Here’s one of the two winning ads, titled “Origami”:
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Tags: Fast Food · Marketing
Serious Eats has a hilarious post outlining various “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” imitators, such as “Butter it’s Not!” and “Could it be Butter?” Slashfood is not a fan of the new Reese’s Whipps. At Yumsugar, a poll asks for readers to vote for their favorite fast food. With more than 900 votes, In [...]
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Tags: News
From Retro Thing comes a blog post highlighting a poster from 1968 touting the idea of drinking Dr. Pepper…hot! Dr. Pepper happens to be hands down my favorite soda, and I’m always up for trying something new so I’m going to have to give this one a whirl. Not that I think it will be [...]
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Tags: Soft Drinks
Best Bites profiles DC restaurants to go out to for Thanksgiving dinner. The Philly Style Hoagie Burger has won the award for Wendy’s newest burger. Splunch has pictures from a toilet themed restaurant in Taipei. My old stomping ground, Saratoga Springs, is hosting their restaurant week November 23 – 29. bookofjoe proclaims the BBQ pork [...]
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Tags: News
Well, at least for an hour or two you can be. In imagination land. Of course by imagination land, I mean that you can be a celebrity chef in the comfort of your own home after defeating between 1 and 5 of your closest friends in “Celebrity Chef! The Game.” You play the game by [...]
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Tags: Bizarre
From Junk Food Blog, I learn that Quizno’s has unveiled a new line of flat-bread sandwiches called “Sammies.” First off let me start of by saying I hate Quizno’s. I hate it, hate it, hate it. It is by far the worst of the national sandwich chains, below Potbelly’s, Subway, Blimpie, and probably any other [...]
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Tags: Sandwiches
If so, um, why exactly would you think you know a lot? Because you eat cereal? Great, so does everyone else. But regardless, of whether you think you know a lot about cereals, or you are just bored and like killing 5 minutes by taking random internet quizzes, then this 20 question quiz called Spoon [...]
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Tags: Uncategorized
There is a whole lot of controversy over the winner of The Next Iron Chef, with two of the judges squaring off (HERE and HERE) over whether John Besh should have been the winner. The man behind Pedro and Vinny’s burrito cart on K St. in Washington, DC will be officially leaving on November 20. [...]
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Tags: News
 I just received this e-mail in my Inbox, which shows that, shockingly, Kraft is correcting their error: “It has come to our attention that there has been some confusion regarding the deadline for final submissions to the Kraft “Have a Happy Sandwich” Myspace promotion. We apologize for any confusion and appreciate the work that you [...]
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Tags: Marketing