Bet you didn’t know that sales of booze and mixed drinks were more than beer did you? I know I didn’t. But in an article titled, “Beer closing in on cocktails as drink of choice” MSNBC reports:
“After years of losing people to mixed drinks, industry experts say the beer industry regained some of its [...]

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Yes, says Never Bashful With Butter, who whips up a batch, and provides a recipe for, Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies with a maple cinnamon glaze.

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Yep, that’s right. Champagne. In a can. Paris Hilton was in Berlin 2 weeks ago to promote the European launch of her new canned champagne, called Rich Prosecco. The product will be officially released in the United States in 2008. Call me crazy, but is this actually not the perfect product for Paris [...]

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If it seems like I write about Burger King’s advertising campaigns a lot, it’s because I do.  They clearly do not shy away from the cutting edge advertising tactics that catch the attention of over-saturated bloggers like myself. I give them credit for cutting through the noise, but you have to wonder how far they [...]

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For their most recent ad, Pizza Hut decided to compile a bunch of clips of the candidates from Presidential debates, including Dennis Kucinich talking about UFO’s and Ron Paul talking about prices coming down. Check it out:

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Endless Simmer has chosen Anthony Bourdain as Eater of the Year.
YumSugar readers pick The Cheesecake Factory as their favorite chain restaurant.
Washingtonian has an extensive survey of their reader’s favorite restaurants of 2007.
Daily Dish reports on an ultra-premium drinking water that is being sold for $38 a bottle.
Wine and Alcohol has the world’s ten most expensive [...]

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As part of an ad campaign to promote the release of the new McDonald’s “Big ‘N’ Juicy” burger in Sweden, the advertising agency DDB produced gigantic napkins and napkin dispensers and placed them around Stockholm, Sweden.

Thanks to I Believe in Advertising and the daily (ad) biz.

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I don’t really get it, and I’m probably not alone since it has only 296 views, but if you are bored and have 2 minutes, check out “The Ketchup Crusade” from Will Drinker, who writes sketches and short videos which he puts online.

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I was reading the blog over at Treehugger, which is an environmental site dedicated to promoting sustainability and green solutions, when I stumbled across a post from one of their bloggers titled “Recipe of the Week.” In this case, Kelly, from Toronto, was sharing her personal Caesar Salad recipe. She noted that she [...]

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Check out the “Bacon Scarf” that Heather, over at Bacon Unwrapped got for the winter season:

Hot. I want one.

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I’ve had a long running interest in the recent Kraft “Happy Sandwich” campaign, particularly their MySpace page and video contest (see the “marketing” section of my archives for all the posts). Well now the Kraft Happy Sandwich campaign video contest has come to an end and Kraft has selected a winner. Chris Gianelloni from [...]

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From Bag of Nothing:

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Make a donation! Food pantry supplies are running low this year.
Pajamas Media wonders if the L.A. City Council thinks poor people are too dumb to make their own food choices.
Torontoist conducts a fast food salad challenge, and Wendy’s is the clear winner.
Crunch Gear reports on the proposals by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome to impose [...]

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Dewey Cox shills for Cox Sausage. Hat tip to AdFreak.

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Hat tip to Catch Up Lady:

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Launch PR, the blog of Schneider Associates, has released their Sixth Annual Most Memorable New Product Launch Survey. The survey is relatively straight-forward, asking consumers what new product launch of 2007 they were most aware of.
Obviously the reason I’m writing about this is because a food product must have made the list, and [...]

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We talk a lot about fast food here at So Good. This is despite the fact that I do not eat fast food on a regular basis. However, it is an extremely competitive industry and I am fascinated by the new food creations these companies come up with, and the strategies they employ when marketing [...]

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That’s the cumulative total of free rice that will have been raised by the end of today, thanks to the website FreeRice. The site launched in October, is run by 49 year-old computer programmer John Breen, and is the sister site of poverty.com. They have a word game on the site, and for each [...]

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Today, one of my Google Alerts lead me to a post on a blog called Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low Carb Blog (note: not a fan of the name). He recently posted about a new documentary entitled FatHead.

The documentary stars stand-up comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton. The premise, as described on [...]

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Our friends over at Bacon Salt have gone out of their way to donate the taste of bacon to our troops overseas.
Hardees has introduced bacon cheddar fries.
Food Network has given Rachel Ray a new 2-year deal for a brand new show, Rachel’s Vacation, which they hope will help their slumping ratings.
Damn. I missed National [...]

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