Hop onto a sports related site and leave your ads unblocked.  There’s probably a 20% chance that you happen upon a new viral ad campaign starring the lesser Manning (Eli), Venus Williams, Apollo Anton Ono and Shaquille O’Neal. The performance enhancing foodstuff they are advertising?  Oreos. This is Kraft foods going for an edgier ad [...]

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You are what you eat, as they say.  Did they also say that we would be smashing together fish genes to create really cheap blobs of meat in the shape of fish? Ah science, you giveth and giveth and giveth.  But sometimes you give too much, and today it’s the FDA helping science give us [...]

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The father of one of the great stoner foods of all time, the cheesy doodle, died yesterday at the age of 90. That’s right, friends. Remove your orange fingertips from your bag of cheetohs and stare at them. Morrie Yohai is responsible for those powdery orange fingertips, especially the part that gets stuck under your [...]

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This has been making the rounds on the Nets for a couple days, but it frankly needs to be posted everywhere. Alex Blagg parodies the man filming and narrating his shots of a double rainbow, with…well, you should just watch it. You should watch both of them really. Just incredible.

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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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