While McDonald’s tries to re-brand itself as a hip coffee lounge where one can steal free wi-fi, a familiar jester is being pushed to the wayside.  Ronald McDonald is watching his role in advertising diminish as the company tries to kick Starbuck’s in the shins.  Fred Geyer of Prophet Marketing makes an astute point concerning [...]

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Let’s travel back in time to college, or forward in time if you’re not there yet or you’re Benjamin Button.  You are walking around in your underwear, your dorm room full of dirty sheets and clothes.  It is two in the morning and you are jonesing for a quick snack before starting your second paper [...]

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Good news for inactive, slovenly Americans!  Despite our incredible propensity for fast food consumption, failure to manage portion control and allergic reactions to vegetables and fruits, America is no longer the unhealthiest place on the planet. The survey of 6,574 Scots found that two-thirds were overweight, two-thirds were physically inactive and more than half had [...]

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Once upon a day of yore, Keanu Reeves is a lonely manservant toiling away at an empty mansion. So many long tables, so many place settings! How do we make such a daunting task super fun? How about bowl after bowl of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes?! And maybe a bowl for yourself? SURE!  Why not?!

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I know this is an old story, but this needs to stay fresh in our minds, especially over this Memorial Day weekend.  In lovely Santa Clara county of the small, clean and quiet city of San Jose, CA people are having problems.  Concerned parents fear that restaurants like McDonald’s are teaching their kids terrible lessons [...]

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This is incredible.  You may have remembered our little piece on Jones Soda’s Dungeons & Dragons special edition.  Well, the noble warriors at ThinkGeek have already gone to the next level and created energy drinks called Healing Potions. The bottles are key.  If anyone played any classic Final Fantasy/Legend of Zelda role-playing games growing up [...]

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Here’s an interesting bit from Nation’s Restaurant News, namely a new menu item from Burger King in yet another bold price-conscious move: The new bone-in ribs, which have been tested in various markets and use the chain’s new batch broilers that are now in nearly all domestic Burger King units, are priced at $7.99 as [...]

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I’ll begin by saying I woke up this morning wondering about milk.  I did this because we were out of yogurt and I had my heady hippie granola with 2% milk.  It was not satisfying.  This sent me into a nostalgic haze, to a time when I couldn’t leave for school until I consumed a [...]

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Brought to you by the delightful humans at Jones Soda.  Obviously.  Who else would take the time to cater to a small percentile of table top role players and pull it off so gloriously.  To whit: With flavors like “Eldritch Blast” and “Potion of Healing,” I can’t imagine these won’t fly off the nerd shelves.  [...]

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Catching a movie in my pre-teens was an incredible experience.  The smell of horrible two-day-old popcorn at the Sangertown Mall, the crunchy disgusting carpets…and the candy.  Oh the candy. I preferred to forgo the traditional box of candy and went for the wall of sugar.  You remember those gargantuan plexi-glass shelves containing your darkest desires.  [...]

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