McDonald’s has introduced an internal blog for its employees to use to discuss burger related issues.
A new interview with Padma Lakshmi.
The Sixth annual Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest winner: Crunchy Chinese Fortune Cookie Sandwich.
The Seattle Cheese Festival has a contest for the best grilled cheese.

Kentucky Grilled Chicken?
Do food stamps make people fat?
Spinach salad with [...]

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I just discovered a great new site called College Drinker, who writes that Vermont is considering lowering the drinking age to 18.
Adam from Serious Eats, reviews delivery pizza for Yahoo Food.
Burger King is going to start serving Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.
Top Chef Season 3 winner Hung has been named Executive Chef of Solo, a Mediterranean-Asian [...]

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My last post which questioned the uniqueness of the new Kraft Bagel-Fuls (that I originally wrote about last Thursday) was getting filled up with endless updates, so let me summarize in a new post what my research about the history of this concept has discovered:
An eagle eyed reader over at Serious Eats spotted a cream [...]

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A class action suit has been filed against Dannon Yogurt for false advertising.
Best Bites DC reports that the new Cafe Trope features jerk chicken lollipops.
Mike Bober at DC Foodies looks at upcoming DC area cheese tastings.
Candy Addict notes that PEZ is - gasp! Austrian.
Now available: Jalapeno Cheddar Chex Mix.
Apple juice prices are on the rise.
Yesterday [...]

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Although blogging at So Good did not begin until mid-August of 2007, the amount of “food, folks and fun” that we packed into those 4 1/2 months is surely enough to get me arrested in 23 of the lower 48 states.
The Top 6 So Good blog posts of 2007 have been selected based on several [...]

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On December 23rd, I noted that the winning video in the Kraft Happy Sandwich campaign displayed a spam comment for a porn site. On January 2nd, I once again pointed out that the spam comment was STILL there, and had been visible since November 28th:
“wat’s up guys?any one out there who want to watch SEX [...]

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Nine days ago I noted that the winning video for Kraft’s Happy Sandwich campaign featured a sandwich looking at his genitals. The damage on that front is done, as the choice of a video winner has already been named. But in my post, I also noted some negligence in overseeing the MySpace video, which [...]

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I’ve had a long running interest in the recent Kraft “Happy Sandwich” campaign, particularly their MySpace page and video contest (see the “marketing” section of my archives for all the posts). Well now the Kraft Happy Sandwich campaign video contest has come to an end and Kraft has selected a winner. Chris Gianelloni from [...]

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First off, a huge hat tip to So Good reader Ruca Bangs, whose investigative skills made this post possible. His comment on my last post about Kraft Foods having no friends on MySpace is chock full of deliciousness and the basis for this post.
But first, the brief back story. Two weeks ago, I [...]

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So Good wrote 2 weeks ago about a new marketing campaign from Kraft Foods centering on a contest to submit your own “Happy Sandwich Video.” The campaign is supposed to feature a Kraft Food’s MySpace page. At the time, we ridiculed Kraft foods for not having any MySpace friends besides Tom, MySpace’s founder.
Yesterday, someone [...]

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An article in yesterday’s NY Times, entitled The Pursuit of Happiness in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich reports that Kraft Foods is turning to a new agency, Nitro, in order to help boost sales. The NY Times reports:
“Kraft is suffering from lagging growth as consumers switch to cheaper store brands, costlier gourmet-style products or [...]

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