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Eating Styles: Pickles-On-A-Burger Edition!

by · August 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment

It’s Monday again, meaning it’s time for another edition of Eating Styles. This week’s question comes to us from reader Mrs. L: do you like pickles on your burger? Some people love the tangy, cold crunch of pickles on their hamburger. Some prefer it plain. Some like pickles, but only if they are good quality [...]

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Tags: Burgers · Eating Styles

Domino’s Makeover Soon Complete

by · August 16th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Domino’s Pizza is not adverse to change. On Tuesday, a few years after rebooting their pizza-making process, the once-king of pizza delivery announced some dramatic changes to their overall brand. Not only are they changing their iconic logo (above), subtracting the Domino’s name, but more importantly, they are updating their store locations. Instead of the [...]

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Tags: Marketing · News · Pizza

Bits and Bites: This Week In New Food Finds

by · August 16th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Sometimes I’ll go weeks where there’s nary a blip of excitement that registers on my new food product radar. The merciful flip side to this coin is being treated to few days in which someone seemingly stuffs a pinata full of test market runs, junk food spin-offs and general edible WTF’ery and has at it [...]

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Tags: Fast Food · Junk Food · News

Deep Fried Everything Ep. 89

by · August 16th, 2012 · No Comments

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Tags: Deep Fried Everything

Would You Rather? Onions vs. Bell Peppers

by · August 15th, 2012 · 6 Comments

Would You Rather Wednesdays continue! Today’s match-up pits two staples of the salad world against each other. And lets not forget cooked/sauteed/roasted onions or peppers. No matter which choice you make, a sausage at the ballpark will never be the same. Option #1: Never eat onions again Option #2: Never eat bell peppers again. Please share in [...]

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Tags: Would You Rather?

Once You Sushi Pop, You Can’t Sushi Stop

by · August 15th, 2012 · 5 Comments

Heard of Sushi Popper? This “Product of Convenience” has been around for at least 2 years and even if not thriving, seems to still be surviving. So what is a sushi popper? Rather than tell you, why not show you the handy explanatory graphic from the Sushi Popper site: Huh. So that’s um, unexpected. Was [...]

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Tags: Interesting

I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Gefilte Fish

by · August 14th, 2012 · 5 Comments

For a gentile, Gefilte Fish is typically regarded as a punchline or as one of two kosher foods that we know, the other being Matzo. Until today I didn’t even know what it really consisted of. Turns out it is several kinds of fish, matzo meal, eggs and some other ingredients depending on who makes [...]

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Tags: I Try It So You Don't Have To · Interesting · Reviews

Baby’s First Butcher Shop

by · August 14th, 2012 · 2 Comments

They just don’t make toys like they used to. This “grisly 1840 doll-sized butcher shop with miniature animal carcasses and a floor covered in sawdust and blood” was recently highlighted on Collectors Weekly. Nowadays, many of us are happy to be oblivious and ignorant of the source of our food, but in Victorian times, elaborate models [...]

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Tags: Interesting

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 08/14/12

by · August 14th, 2012 · No Comments

Flavorlopes could have saved George Costanza’s fiance. Squidger is British for “Put your Dentist’s kids through College”. It’s peanut butter jelly ice-cream time! No baseball hat. Old ladies get new Werther’s flavor for their purse. Kellogg’s 2012 Team U.S.A. cereal disqualified on taste infraction. Fat Guy Food Blog’s Keebler Cinnamon Roll cookie review with money shot. Denny’s in [...]

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Tags: News

Sadvertising: Arby’s, My Mood, and Hate Eating

by · August 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment

The Characters: Over-earnest every-guy wandering about Arby’s. And a bunch of extras. Premise: Look at me, I’m that guy who sat in the back of the Rocks for Jocks class freshman year drooling on his polo shirt and getting inappropriate boners that he showed off to his friends.  Why don’t I tell you about this [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Fast Food