Please register and vote for So Good as Best Food Blog. Slice reports their Top 8 posts of 2008. My pepperoni pizza rant makes the list. Endless Simmer has the Best Food Moments of 2008. Leftover Queen has her best posts of 2008. YumSugar says bacon was this years trendiest ingredient. Bon Appetit says “anything [...]

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Merry Christmas to all my So Good readers! I hope everyone is having a terrific holiday. It’s been a couple months since we did a Would You Rather? so I figured I’d bust one out for Christmas.  This is not your usual “you can never eat X or Y again” question. Oh no. We jumbo sized [...]

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The internet does not sleep for the holidays, and neither, apparently, do web-surfing reporters.  This morning I woke up to discover a nice mention of So Good in the Sun-Sentinel, a Florida newspaper that covers Broward, Palm Beach, Miami and Dade County. So what did the Sun-Sentinel have to say? The blog, by humorist Jon Eick, [...]

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When I was a kid, we used to drive to Florida to visit my grandma…from Rhode Island. These trips were torturous. The only thing to do to pass the time was reading, which got old at about hour 17, and to mercilessly slap my brother in the back seat. The one beacon of hope on [...]

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But as the commercial below shows, in 1987 they were offering a McDonald’s double cheeseburger for $.99 for “a limited time.” 21 years later, you can still get a double cheeseburger (or at least a McDouble) off the dollar menu.  Despite rising prices on just about everything, you can still eat damn cheap at fast [...]

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An article at The Huffington Post notes that a New York Times reporter observed on Sunday that while on a golf outing in Hawaii, President-elect Obama ordered spam musubi. Wikipedia describes spam musubi as: a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has a video up of the newest Heinz ketchup commercial, which continues their “slow pour theme.”  The ad is well done, and the kid’s line of, “hey you can’t shake it Dad!”, and his defensive “I wasn’t!” is probably one of the cuter interactions I’ve recently seen in an ad of [...]

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Burger King served a  “cease and desist” notice via Twitter… Surin Farmers Support is not happy about the Whopper Virgins ads…. Neither is Chris Abraham, writing at Adage. The campaign also seems to have dropped the ball on SEO. Endless Simmer has the top 10 stocking stuffers for foodies. Sparks will soon be caffeine free. [...]

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I consider myself a food evangelist for many products. Items such as Sweet Leaf Tea, Tiff’s Treats, Gatorade, Clif Bars, El Milagro chips, Spicy V8, and many others are often praised and consumed by yours truly. However, I am not such a devotee to said products that under ANY circumstances would I brand them on [...]

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A couple days ago we reported on “Flame” a new body spray being sold by Burger King at Fire Meets Desire.  Well, looks like in addition to So Good, CNN is also on the story, and got a hold of a couple bottles of the body spray. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Hotair [...]

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