Burger King’s new marketing campaign, “The Whopper Freakout” is, simply put, brilliant. In this hidden camera style video, we get to see how people react when they are told the Whopper has been permanently discontinued, as well as how customers react when the bags they are given contain not Whoppers, but Big Mac’s or Wendy’s [...]

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If you live in D.C., please consider making a donation to your local food bank, they are desperately understocked right now. Go visit my buddies at Endless Simmer and vote on their nominees for Eater of the Year. As McDonald’s stock hits an all-time high, a Burger King customer reports finding a condom in his [...]

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…for lack of originality. As you may have read in the many articles about his new business idea, Evander Holyfield has a new product, the Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill. Hmmm, looks a lot like the Foreman grill huh? Or dare I say, exactly like the Foreman grill? How mind-numbingly dumb is it to make [...]

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About a month ago, Urban Spoon had a very interesting post questioning if there are any connections between the way we eat and the way we vote. Urban Spoon thought one way to show this might be to look at the ratio of steak to sushi restaurants in each city, assigning a score to each [...]

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The NY Times had an interesting article last week about the roll of food on the campaign trail. The article notes the importance of candidates being willing to sample local fare while in New Hampshire diners and at Iowa county fairs, while also avoiding embarrassing food etiquette situations like when John Kerry ordered a cheesesteak [...]

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A few weeks ago I stumbled across the intriguing, if slightly off-putting, site Bikini Cooks. The site features women cooking in bikinis. Whether these are all user submitted or models hired by the site is unclear to me. It appears from the schedule on the site that Bikini Cooks have some sort of “road tour” [...]

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Having hosted for Thanksgiving, I was left with TONS of leftovers, turkey especially. When I realized I couldn’t eat it all before it went bad, I thought it was time to get creative. So last week I bought some fresh veggies and put together a colorful turkey pot pie with turkey, carrots, celery, onions, red [...]

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Greetings So Good readers. Even the wittiest food bloggers amongst us need some time off. In a few hours, I’ll be boarding a plane to Miami for a week long cruise through the Carribean. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to a week away from work and a week in the sun and on the [...]

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