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Entries from January 2008

Just Got This in the Mail

by · January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Kettle Chips Fire & Spice pack.  I’ve only tried the Orange Ginger Wasabi so far, but they are delicious.

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Tags: Snacks

Still Life Photos – Made of Food

by · January 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

From BBC News, check out this series of photos by Photographer Carl Warner. Everything you see in the pictures is constructed out of food. Below are two examples, click HERE to see all eight pictures in the series. Warner says that one of his inspirations was to try and make eating vegetables seem more fun [...]

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Tags: Bizarre · Health · Salad

Rachael Ray’s Divided Coffee Loyalties?

by · January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

There was a Rachael Ray “scandal” last week and I missed it. According to Grub Street, someone who was on the set for her latest Dunkin’ Donuts commercial reports that she had a sip of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, yelled “what is this shit!” and insisted someone bring her a cup of her preferred Starbuck’s coffee. [...]

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Tags: Celebrities

Power-Up & Warp to a Land of Deliciousness

by · January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is very cool. A Flickr user named Hello Naomi designs cupcakes that portray screens, scenes or characters from retro video games. Check out the one she did showing a scene from Super Mario Brothers: Via Boing-Boing and Serious Eats.

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Tags: Cool · Desserts

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 1/22/08

by · January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

DC Food Blog has a new “mega search” tool which will search 21 different DC food blogs for you at once. No idea if So Good is included. Candyblog reviews Snickers Nut ‘n Butter Crunch. Hooter’s has an energy drink. DC Foodies looks at the coming end of Dr. Dremo’s Taphouse. Time Out picks their [...]

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Tags: Beer · Booze · Burgers · Candy · Salad · Steak

Pizza Hut Goes Mobile

by · January 18th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Pizza Hut has announced nationwide mobile ordering. You can now order food through their web-site, a text message or on a web-enabled phone. Yes that’s right, Pizza Hut has gone all high tech. Yeah 2008! Pizza Hut is a little behind their competitors on this one though. Domino’s and Papa John’s both let their customers [...]

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Tags: News · Pizza

Is There Anything Mike Huckabee Won’t Eat?

by · January 18th, 2008 · 13 Comments

We’ve previously written about Mike Huckabee’s love of horse meat. On Wednesday, Mike Huckabee proved that eating horse is not his only odd meat preference. On the MSNBC show Morning Joe, Huckabee, talking about why he can relate to the people of South Carolina, told a story about how in college they would cook fried [...]

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Tags: Bizarre · Politics · Television · YouTube

So Good Blog/News Round-up 1/17/08

by · January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Buyer Behaviour speculates on what Indian fast food can learn from McDonald’s. Both Sphinn and Adweek offer praise for the Whopper Freakout campaign. Albion Cooks offers up a salad with edamame, snap peas, olives, macademia nuts & feta. Chick-fil-A will be testing a new spicy chicken sandwich. Politico gives some thoughts on DC restaurant week. [...]

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Tags: Fast Food · News · Salad · Sandwiches

Ronald McDonald’s Daughter?

by · January 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

No probably not, but this ad for McDonald’s answers the question we’ve all had at one point or another, “what would an attractive woman in a Ronald McDonald get-up look like?” The ad was aired in 2004 in Japan, and is for the Tomato McGrand …guess it didn’t catch on enough in Japan to bring [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Bizarre · Burgers · Fast Food · YouTube

So Good’s Top 6 Posts of 2007

by · January 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Although blogging at So Good did not begin until mid-August of 2007, the amount of “food, folks and fun” that we packed into those 4 1/2 months is surely enough to get me arrested in 23 of the lower 48 states. The Top 6 So Good blog posts of 2007 have been selected based on [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Bizarre · Burgers · Cheese · Comedy · Condiments · Fast Food · Marketing · Pizza · Sandwiches · Steak