I was listening to NPR a couple nights ago on the drive home, and the topic was the changing shape of certain jars of consumer food products.  For example, the once-flat bottom of a jar of Skippy peanut butter is now concave, so that it dimples inward.  This change does one main thing – reduces [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has a video up of the newest Heinz ketchup commercial, which continues their “slow pour theme.”  The ad is well done, and the kid’s line of, “hey you can’t shake it Dad!”, and his defensive “I wasn’t!” is probably one of the cuter interactions I’ve recently seen in an ad of [...]

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I mean, doesn’t everyone? Don’t you get tired of seeing condiments dribble out of a plastic bottle all the time? BORING. Well in the same spirit as the Condiment Gun, comes a new product that can make this wish a reality: Spread Heads! Specifically, Ketchup Charlie and Mustard Marvin! So what the heck are Spread [...]

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The Condiment Gun.  For when you want your food lathered up with condiments, but want to feel like a badass doing it. Perhaps most shocking of all is the product page now says “Back in 2009″ and features this note: After phenomenal demand we have now unfortunately sold out of this product until after Christmas. [...]

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From the makers of Bacon Salt, comes the next development in bacon flavored condiments: Baconnaise. Some of my most loyal readers may remember that the third post I ever wrote after launching So Good discussed the absurdity of Bacon Salt, which, at the time, I called “simultaneously both the greatest, and the worst, condiment idea [...]

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I’ve written several times in the past about so called “products of convenience” that really aren’t convenient or where it is questionable that anyone is asking for them. But P.B. Slices a.k.a. “The Funner Peanut Butter” may take the cake as the most utterly ridiculous product I have seen yet. My pal Brendan, over at [...]

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(Editors note: please welcome JT to the So Good mix, as he debuts with his first post). This just in from Jacksonville, Florida… “The sauce for a spicy Italian sandwich was apparently a must have for one Florida man. The man, Reginald Peterson, called 911 twice after a sandwich shop left off the sauce. Peterson [...]

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About 2 weeks ago, a company by the name of Country Bob’s offered to send me a couple bottles of their “All Purpose Sauce.” Given that A) I love food, B) I love condiments more, and C) I love free stuff, I gladly accepted. A quick check of their website shows they offer not just [...]

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Pizza.com has been sold for $2.6 million. The Wall Street Journal interviews Burger King’s CEO. Kim Kardashian is having trouble giving up junk food. Scheiss Weekly’s ketchup usage is troubling; reminding me of my post, Ketchup Lovers are Ruining Ketchup. AdAge looks at the plummeting sales and poor marketing strategy of Miller Genuine Draft. Holy [...]

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The 10 geekiest cocktails ever. Good Magazine looks at America’s tastiest streets. Endless Simmer notes tonight’s premiere of Top Chef Season 4, and points us to a Washington Post chat with Gail Simmons and Hung. SlashFood reports on a frozen pizza taste test. The Delicious Life opines on McDonald’s hash browns. Chez Pim praises the [...]

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