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Mr. Spriggs BBQ So Smooth It Will Impregnate You
Vintage Saltines Ad Is Krispy on the Outside
It took 25 years to design this card
As this guy will tell you, having a business card that stands out is the most important thing in the world. So, why not try meatcards.com:
We start with 100% beef jerky, and SEAR your contact information into it with a 150 WATT CO2 LASER.
Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS.
(Via Filthy Pill.)
Meat: You’re Right In Liking It
This, and many more fabulous 1940s images from the American Meat Institute here.
This Week in Bacon
Following in Paris Hilton’s footsteps, Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, now stars in her own Carl’s Jr. commercial. The commercial — a 24-second ad — promotes the Western Bacon Cheeseburger. Watch as pieces of mayonnaise and bacon bits strategically fall on random parts of her body, so that she can entice the viewers by subsequently licking them away, or as she puts it, getting rid of the “evidence.” NY Daily News reports that this commercial isn’t the only place Padma promotes the burger:
But the sultry star isn’t just indulging for the camera. In her own cookbook “Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet,” she credits the grab and go burger joint for awakening her from her vegetarian slumber as a teenager.
“The sublimely pleasurable taste of bacon … was further enhanced by its mingling with the barbeque sauce, greedily licked off as it dripped down my teenage fingers,” she wrote.
And I thought Padma and I had nothing in common . . . never underestimate the power of bacon to provide common ground between strangers.
Crisp Up
Apparently, prawn cocktail and Marmite are not enough. Walkers UK is running a new flavour competition and one of the flavours is “Cajun Squirrel.” The grey squirrel is after all not popular in Great Britain, and yet no squirrels have been harmed in the making of this crisp. Remarkable!
Colicchio Does Coke (Diet)
Classic Beefaroni Commercial
Michael Phelps to Promote Sub-Par Sandwiches in New Ad Campaign
At the end of last week, Subway announced that it would be entering into an exclusive fast-food advertising contract with Michael Phelps, swimmer extraordinaire, and winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.
The new campaign will highlight Subway as a destination for indulgent meals, such as a meatball sub, as well as healthy choices, such as grilled chicken on wheat. “Subway restaurants have always given me the options that I am looking for — whether that’s healthy sandwiches before a big meet or the tasty meatball sub that I treat myself with,” Michael Phelps said in the company’s release. “I was ready to take my Subway fandom to the next level — I really think of Subway as a champion food option.”
Well, it definitely will be easy for Michael Phelps to promote these “indulgent meals”, seeing as he eats twelve-thousand calories per day during the season (which is about ten thousand more than most people eat). Great for Michael, and perhaps for Subway as well, but what about Jared? Now that he’s lost all this weight, Subway can’t use him anymore? Jared’s a man of the people, and he makes me want to eat a Subway sandwich (even if the bread does get too soggy sometimes and the toasters there are almost always broken), not Michael Phelps. Michael Phelps makes me want to throw up when I see him eating a Subway sandwich, because all I can think about is what he ate for breakfast a few hours before (probably ten pancakes, six pieces of bacon, four eggs, and four sausages – my dream breakfast, but still pretty sickening). Let’s bring back Jared. Phelps – you’re impressive, but you should stick with Speedo and Visa.
McDonald’s Gets a McMakeover
This week, McDonald’s revealed plans to revamp their product packaging to focus on the freshness and quality of their food.
The new packaging will feature pictures of products and ingredients accompanied by text aimed at “storytelling,” as Oak Brook-based McDonald’s executives put it.
For instance, the new Big Mac box is plastered with a prominent image of the burger, as well as pictures of a head of lettuce, an onion and other ingredients. “There is Only One Big Mac” proclaims a headline of sorts, with a block of text describing “what makes your Big Mac so unique.”
“With our new packaging, we are putting the focus on food,” McDonald’s Chief Marketing Officer Mary Dillon said at a press conference in Chicago. “It’s the essence of who we are.”
This marketing move comes just a few days after McDonald’s announced that they would be taking the double cheeseburger off the dollar menu, replacing it with a new “McDouble” – a double cheeseburger, but with only one slice of cheese. It’ll now cost you nineteen extra cents to get that extra slice on the double cheeseburger.
Tough times call for tough measures. The new packaging doesn’t look so bad – but who looks at the packaging anymore? It’s what’s inside that counts. Let’s just call a spade a spade. McDonald’s is not healthy, nor would I describe it as fresh, or “quality food”. We all know that – snazzy packaging with pictures of tomatoes and onions aren’t going to fool us. Still, it won’t stop me from eating it. Healthy or not, new packaging or old, I’m lovin’ it.
Jason Alexander for the McDLT
80s Era Wendy’s Commercial Uses ‘Choice’ to Bash Commies, Competitors
Snap! (Says the Pickle)
Or, Taco Bell Could Have Lowered Its Prices
Rapper 50 Cent is mad as hell at Taco Bell. Here’s why:
Taco Bell… asked the artist to change his name to either 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent for one day this summer to promote its new “Why Pay More” value menu.
Taco Bell Corp. President Greg Creed made the proposal in a letter to 50 Cent’s agent and requested Fiddy make an appearance at a U.S. Taco Bell location and rap his order in the drive-thru with his new name, according to a company statement. If 50 Cent agreed to the deal, Creed said Taco Bell would make a $10,000 donation to a charity of Fiddy’s choice.
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Fiddy apparently wasn’t in the mood for fast food.
“When my legal team is finished with them, Taco Bell is going to have a new corporate slogan: We messed with the bull and got the horns,” 50 Cent said, according to AllHipHop.com.
More at Pollstar and E! Online. Conveniently, 50’s new album drops next week.
Adventurous Eating Now Something for Your Parents
Cobra hearts. Warthog ass. Anything Andrew Zimmern shoves down his piehole…
If adventurous eating hadn’t already jumped the shark, it did today when a scorpion-eating themed email came to me via American Airlines, complete with an eater-host who doubles as anonymous AA shill.
