To some, the beloved Holiday tradition of taking time each day to open one window on a shoddily crafted cardboard house, only to be rewarded with a paltry subpar piece of waxy chocolate that would enrage even the most lax Willy Wonka quality control Oompa foreman could seem a tad odd. Advent Calendars may seem [...]
Tags: Bizarre · Comedy · Holiday
I didn’t realize we were still so obsessed with space. What is this, 1971? Sending product X into space is still a thing? Really? Yes. Apparently it is. Today coming across the So Good news desk is a report that Natural Light is the first beer in space. Now first off, count me as a [...]
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Cheese stands alone as most stolen food on Earth. McDonald’s Sweet Autumn Shake gets taste test. Foodie-palooza coming to the Simpsons. Avoid these “Killer” foods. Will the nasty Breadfruit be our salvation? Middle class, not lower, devour more Fast Food. Best Chocolate chip cookie named by Consumer Reports. Debate Danger -Food stamps for Fast Food? [...]
The food competition for the Texas State Fair awarded a prize for the “most creative” food. This year’s winner? Fried bubble gum. Photo via: Fort Worth Star Telegram The creation, made by Justin Martinez, is actually marshmallow infused with pink bubble gum extract, which is battered, then fried.
Tags: Bizarre · Interesting
In these dog days of summer, I will do anything to beat the heat. Well, almost anything. That important caveat is a direct result of a trip I took last weekend. Driving back to town from a nearby swimming hole, with the sun scorching everything in its path, I pulled over at a convenience store [...]
Karl and Carol Hoepfner visited a Whataburger for the first time in 1963. They were hooked. The couple, 75 and 73, estimate that each week there are only three meals they DON’T eat at Whataburger: “We eat every breakfast there and almost every lunch, although sometimes we go somewhere else for dinner.” Wow. Karl estimates [...]
Several years after the introduction of BK Shots in the U.S., Burger King Japan is unveiling a similar product named BK Bites that will launch on June 20th. The BK Bites are being sold in conjoined pairs. There’s a “Beef & Chicken with Lemon and Basil Salt Sauce†and, perhaps more interestingly, a mini BLT [...]
These days it seems that everyone is running a marathon. Certainly there are many training tactics rookies and veterans use to make it through the 26.2 grueling miles.  Yet, yesterday, I read about a method that is neither advisable nor reasonable to anyone with an IQ over 4.  Joe D’Amico, from a suburb of Chicago, [...]
The other night, friend of the blog Mark sent So Good a picture he snapped in Wal-Mart of a just-hit-the-shelves product from DiGiorno. Pizza & Cookies, in the same box: Let me ask the first, obvious question: why? Is there some pent-up demand out there for the inclusion of a roll of cookie dough inside [...]
Not in the U.S., but in the U.K. I fell in love with brussel sprouts a little over a year ago after always just assuming I hated them because of the bad rap they get. However, one thing that is good about brussel sprouts is their texture. This is an odd way to serve them. [...]
