Are You a Nuggnut? Eick November 20, 2008 Chicken, Fast Food 7 Comments Who doesn't love a good nug?  Nugs, nugs, nugs. But the queston is, what is a nuggnut? Well, to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chicken McNugget, McDonald's has started a new "Nuggnuts"...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 11/20/08 Eick November 20, 2008 News 5 Comments Please register and vote for So Good as Best Food Blog. The gang at Endless Simmer let me join their live blog of Top Chef last night. They also have an exit interview with booted chef Jill Snyder. Five...
Burger King Has Dropped Its Wallet Eick November 19, 2008 Fast Food, Marketing 117 Comments It appears that in the last few days, there are a handful of bloggers who, by finding wallets on the ground, have unwittingly stumbled across the latest under-the-radar Burger King promotion. The fast food...
Papa John’s Fan Base Surging on Facebook Eick November 19, 2008 Marketing, Pizza 2 Comments If you've been reading So Good for a while, you could probably speculate that Papa John's wouldn't be my biggest fan. After all, who knows how much money the company lost after So Good broke the...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Mac’s Salt and Vinegar Pork Skins Lemmonex November 19, 2008 Bizarre, I Try It So You Don't Have To, Reviews 7 Comments It is always a bit of a Sophie's Choice at Subway. There you are, subpar sandwich in hand, and you are trying to make that ever critical chip decision. Should you go with Cheetos? Perhaps Doritos or pretzels?...
I Will Not Rest Until I Can Buy A TV Made of Bacon Eick November 17, 2008 Bacon 11 Comments The "products that look like bacon" insanity continues. First there was the bacon scarf, bacon bra, bacon floss and bacon vodka. Making the rounds today is a post from Gizmodo, about a bacon ipod...
Eaten Last Week: Pocky Dessert Eick November 17, 2008 Candy 4 Comments A gift from our friends in Japan. Pretty...
Obama’s Favorite Pizza to Arrive in DC Eick November 14, 2008 Pizza, Politics In February, when news of Barack Obama's eating habits and favorite foods were scattered, sparse, and damn near impossible to find, So Good scoured the internet in order to put together a post on Barack...
Top Chef NYC Premiere: Padma Lakshmi is Still Hot Eick November 13, 2008 Top Chef 8 Comments I don't have a whole lot of commentary to offer on last nights season premiere of Top Chef other than to note that it might actually be possible that Top Chef host, cooking beauty and lover of pot smoking,...
When Cupcakes Go Bad JT November 13, 2008 Bacon, Desserts 10 Comments Another post about cupcakes, you ask? Why, yes, but not in an “oh, I love them all†kind of way this time. Now I dig a good cupcake as much as the next hipster, despite the protest of one So Good...