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Under the title, “If Birds Pooped Candy”, AdRants reports on a recently aired Coke Zero ad titled “Unbelievable”: Created 15 months ago by Weiden + Kennedy and directed by Buck Production, this “epic rock opera” for Coke Zero features “a singing bear, candy-pooping birds, an elk with sausage antlers, g-string wearing antelopes and honeycomb encrusted [...]

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Nothing says tasty ice cream like Elton John. Ben & Jerry’s has unveiled a new limited edition flavor that features chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cookie dough, butter brickle, and white chocolate chunks.

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Fling is the new chocolate bar from Mars. With its pink wrapper and website that opens with the words “Ladies, life is short” there is no secret that this product is being marketed to women as the target audience.  Each Fling “finger” contains only 85 calories, and it is pitched as “naughty…but not that naughty.” [...]

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Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull Cola, could be banned in Germany. The history of beer cans. The top 25 pizzas in the country. Comedian Judah Friedlander discusses his food choices last week. Starbucks is stepping up their social media efforts… …but anti-Starbucks filmmakers hijack their Twitter campaign. AdAge says Campbell’s, Domino’s have had [...]

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Apparently, the hot dog giveaway by Oscar Mayer this past Wednesday generated some unexpected publicity for the famous purveyor of tubular meat-ish products.  Instead of all the goodwill emanating from a benevolent gesture prior to one of the nation’s biggest cookout weekends, OM may now be facing a lawsuit thanks to the good folks at [...]

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Update #2: Since many people don’t seem to believe that Quiznos didn’t play a role, or at least didn’t have an understanding that the video was being made, I placed a call to Playboy to see if they could shed some light on Quiznos involvement (or lack of involvement) in regards to this video. Here [...]

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A new documentary, entitled “Food Inc.” is scheduled to be released in NYC, L.A. and San Francisco on June 12th, and will hopefully be shown soon around the rest of the country. The film’s website describes the documentary as a film that: Lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly [...]

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Some website called Grassshopper.com, which is for “advanced phone numbers” or whateves, sent me a package of chocolate covered grasshoppers last week.  In my never ending quest to make going to my office more and more like competeting on the TV show Survivor, I held a little tasting in our office kitchen. They were tiny, [...]

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A couple months ago, Dunkin Donuts sent a bunch of “create your own donut” kits to bloggers to promote their new “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest.  Today the 12 finalists were announced: You can vote for your favorite new doughnut on the Dunkin Donuts homepage. The page also provides up-to-the minute results showing you which [...]

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