So Good Blog/News Round-Up 12/31/08 Eick December 31, 2008 News 1 Comment 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...
Would You Rather? Christmas Foods! Eick December 25, 2008 Would You Rather? 27 Comments 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...
Sun-Sentinel: “Our New Favorite Blog” Eick December 24, 2008 Cool 2 Comments 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...
I Try It So You Don’t Have to: Natural Brew Outrageous Ginger Ale Lemmonex December 24, 2008 I Try It So You Don't Have To, Reviews 4 Comments 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...
Complain All You Want About Inflation… Eick December 23, 2008 Advertising, Fast Food 5 Comments 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)...
Obama Orders Spam Musubi Eick December 22, 2008 Politics 3 Comments 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...
Heinz Ketchup: Still a Slow Pour Eick December 22, 2008 Advertising, Condiments, Videos 3 Comments The Wall Street Journal has a video up of the newest Heinz ketchup commercial, which continues their "slow pour theme."Â The ad is well done, and the kid's line of, "hey you can't shake it Dad!", and his...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 12/22/08 Eick December 22, 2008 News 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...
Food + Tattoo = Bad Idea JT December 18, 2008 Bizarre 18 Comments 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...
Burger King Flame: CNN is on the Story Eick December 18, 2008 Fast Food, Marketing 3 Comments 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...