Google is Trying to Control the World, One Order of Tandoori Chicken and Garlic Naan at a Time Eick February 29, 2008 Fast Food, Interesting, Restaurants There are reports that Google has invested in a chain of Indian food restaurants. More specifically, a venture capital fund backed by Google called the Erasmic Venture Fund has decided to invest in a...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 2/29/08 Eick February 29, 2008 Advertising, Breakfast, Burgers, Candy, Cooking, Fast Food, Marketing, News, Restaurants, Salad, Steak, Top Chef Tabloid Baby follows up on So Good's coverage of who actually invented the cream cheese filled bagel. Eater reports on the AV Club taste test of the Cheeseburger in a can. Washington Post looks at...
Live Comedy From the Mind Behind So Good Eick February 29, 2008 Comedy 4 Comments Greetings readers. As some of you may know, in addition to being a food lover and writer, I am also a humorist with experience in sketch and improv comedy. For the last 3 years I've worked part-time as a...
The History of War, Starring….Food? Eick February 28, 2008 Cool, Videos 4 Comments This is incredibly unusual but very cool. One of those things that just must be watched to be believed. The short film is originally made by a man named Stefan Nadelman (although this version has been slightly...
So Good Hits Radio, TV & Goes International Eick February 28, 2008 Cool, Fast Food 3 Comments A very cool development my fellow So Good readers. As you may know, two days ago I broke the story about Ryan Giesel, a student who started a Facebook group titled "If 100,000 people join, I'll eat every...
Patton Oswalt Talks KFC Famous Bowls Eick February 27, 2008 Chicken, Comedy, Fast Food, YouTube 1 Comment More food related hilarity from one of my favorite stand-up...
If 100,000 People Join My Facebook Group, I’ll Eat Every McDonalds Value Meal, #1 – #12 Eick February 26, 2008 Bizarre, Burgers, Chicken, Competitive Eating, Fast Food, Health 35 Comments No not me. God no, I would never do that. But one young man (duh, I mean would a woman be stupid enough to do this?) has created a Facebook group (now up to more than 16,000 members) that makes this very...
A Brief History of the Cream Cheese Filled Bagel Eick February 26, 2008 Breakfast, Cheese, Interesting 10 Comments My last post which questioned the uniqueness of the new Kraft Bagel-Fuls (that I originally wrote about last Thursday) was getting filled up with endless updates, so let me summarize in a new post what my...
Kraft Bagel-Ful Not So Unique? Eick February 25, 2008 Breakfast, Interesting, Marketing 16 Comments On Thursday, I wrote about a new Kraft product called the Bagel-Ful. It's one of those "products of convenience" that no one realizes they need until someone starts advertising it to them. However, the...
Ben’s Chili Bowl Leads Lineup at Nationals Park Eick February 25, 2008 Burgers, Fast Food, Sports 8 Comments Breaking news just coming in over the "wire", and of course by "wire", I mean DCist and Raw Fisher. What's the breaking news? My beloved Washington Nationals have announced the local food vendors who will have...