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Entries from February 2008

Busted! Your Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog is Illegal

by · February 11th, 2008 · 27 Comments

The bacon wrapped hot dog is a staple of Los Angeles street food and everyone from daytime shoppers to late-night revelers seems to enjoy these so-called “heart attack dogs.” The traditional way of serving these dogs in L.A. is to top them with onions, mayo, mustard, onions, green peppers, ketchup and a grilled green poblano [...]

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Tags: Bacon · Cooking · Interesting · News

KFC: Buy More, Get a Worse Deal

by · February 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Thanks to Consumerist.

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Tags: Fast Food · Interesting

Major League Eating: The Game

by · February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Video game maker Mastiff has purchased the gaming rights to make Major League Eating: The Game. The game will feature all your favorite competitive eating stars, such as Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti. (Note: Not the real game box. Thanks to Soupy Trumpet for the photoshop job) Regular readers of So Good know that [...]

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Tags: Bizarre · Competitive Eating

Would You Rather? Cookies vs. Crackers

by · February 9th, 2008 · 14 Comments

Don’t get over analytical with this one, (i.e. what is defined as a cookie or a cracker?) Just answer the question people! Feel free to share in the comments why you chose what you did. Would You Rather? Option #1: You can never eat cookies again. Option #2: You can never eat crackers again.

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Tags: Desserts · Snacks · Would You Rather?

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 2/9/08

by · February 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Trouble With Toast is organizing a DC food blogger pot-luck. Heat, Eat, Review posts a video review of Kids Cuisine Deep Sea Adventure Fish Sticks. Manny & Olga’s will offer heart shaped pizza’s on Valentine’s Day. An episode of Dinner Impossible was filmed at the DC Improv on Thursday. Kotaku reviews 13 different energy drinks. [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Cooking · Fast Food · Marketing · Movies · News · Pizza · Reviews · Salad · Soft Drinks · Television · Web Sites

You Know, The Miller High Life Dude?

by · February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The “delivery driver” from the Miller High Life ads rants about the commercials during this year’s Super Bowl.

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Tags: Advertising · Beer

The Wine Rack “Booze Bra” = Fun

by · February 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Yep, this is real. The Wine Rack is a sports-style bra, which features a boob-enhancing polyurethane bladder. You can fill it with a beverage of your choice, which you can then drink through a plastic tube. The product is already sold out over at Firebox.com. This product has the dual benefit of making your breasts [...]

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Tags: Bizarre · Booze · Cool

The Results Are In: Whopper Freakout Worked

by · February 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Regular readers of So Good know that I was one of the first bloggers to post about the Whopper Freakout campaign, praising it as “genius.” In early January, I conducted an analysis of the Whopper Freakout campaign at its one-month mark, looking at the traffic the site had generated, the number of times the video [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Burgers · Fast Food · Interesting · Marketing · News

Once You Pickle Pop, You Can’t Pickle Stop

by · February 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Pickle Sickle, Pickle Pop, Pickle in a tube. Whatever you want to call it, this is no doubt an interesting product that the folks at Bob’s Pickle Pops are selling. So what is a pickle sickle? Dill pickles are pressed to extract as much of their juice as possible, then that juice is put in [...]

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Tags: Health · Interesting · Web Sites

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 2/7/08

by · February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Can I interest you in a ten-pound chocolate bar? Heinz wants Angelina Jolie to be the new face of their Heinz Salad Cream. The NY Times has a new food blog called Bitten, which will “use food as a window into the world.” Joey Chestnut won the Philadelphia wing bowl with 241 wings. Diet soda [...]

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Tags: Candy · Celebrities · Competitive Eating · Condiments · Cooking · Health · News