Burger King Presents: Seth MacFarlane! Eick September 16, 2008 Comedy, Fast Food, Marketing In June, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane announced he was debuting a new internet "show" called Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. The plan was for the show to make money by featuring an ad attached to each...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 9/16/08 Eick September 16, 2008 News, Recipes 1 Comment Become a fan of So Good on Facebook. A Vegetarian diet may be more likely to cause brain shrinkage. Hippie fast food? A review of evos. Best Bites reviews Pete's Apizza. Jack White is not happy his...
SNL: Michael Phelps 12,000 Calorie Diet Eick September 15, 2008 Comedy, Videos 1 Comment I watched SNL this weekend, and it wasn't great. Yeah, Michael Phelps is a terrible actor, but the issue seems to be that even though the cast right now is pretty great, the writing is pretty bad. Not a great...
Serena & Venus Williams Vs. Eli & Peyton Manning Baraf September 15, 2008 Advertising, Celebrities, Television 2 Comments Remember when you were little and your coaches and parents told you that in order to be a great athlete you had to "practice, practice, practice," take care of your body and eat well? Well apparently, those...
“Obama Waffles” Sold at Conservative Forum Eick September 13, 2008 Politics 5 Comments Boxes of Obama Waffles were being snapped up by conservatives at the Value Voters Summit until the event organizers forced the booth to be shut down. Apparently one of the things these so-called "Value...
Wendy’s Goes Viral With “Crazy Lettuce” Eick September 12, 2008 Fast Food, YouTube 2 Comments Well, kind of viral. The video has about 17,000 views on Youtube, but a more impressive 80,000 on MySpace since the videos were added in late August. This is all part of an effort to promote their new...
Barack Obama: This Dude Looooves Tuna Fish Eick September 12, 2008 Politics, YouTube 2 Comments We already reported on his favorite foods, but according to his daughter, it's the only thing he makes besides chili and cheese toast. In this 60 minutes segment from last March, Barack makes tuna fish...
Blast From the Past: Food Fight Eick September 10, 2008 YouTube 4 Comments This morning, Serious Eats posted about a Gourmet magazine slideshow of food in video games. Even though I never found the time today to look through the slideshow, it reminded me of one of my favorite old...
Dairy Godmother=Goodness JT September 10, 2008 Desserts, Reviews 1 Comment A few lackluster trips to the ice cream shops in my new hometown have made me remember a fantastic shop back in my old hometown of DC. In Alexandria, Virginia, to be precise, in the part of town called Del...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Lunchables Pizza and Treatza Lemmonex September 10, 2008 Bizarre, I Try It So You Don't Have To, Reviews 22 Comments When I was a little girl, I would beg my mother to buy me Lunchables. All the cool kids had them and I wanted to be part of the cool crowd. (I was decidedly not cool.) She always refused, asserting they were...