Cruciferous Vegetables: Underrated and Overhated?
I’m really getting tired of defending the lowly, lonesome family of Cruciferous veggies. Can we not agree, at least, that they’re good for us and move forward from there? A fair number of people complain about their flavour. But they are superfoods, based on their nutrition content…Read More →
Sunday Musings: Is Less The Response To Excess?
Here’s one for you… Could it be true, as has occurred to me, that the Fast Food pendulum hit one apex of its swing this past year, and is now is gliding back toward the other extreme in a flood of equally nutty ‘inspirations’ that would otherwise never occur to marketing and test kitchen types?Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Service Resto And Snacks News…
Back to the grind… And I don’t mean Coffee deals! The Fast Food news is filled with specials on Sandwiches that are returning for a limited time – or coming permanently – to menus across the U.S. The star by far is, collectively, competitors to the Chick-Fil-A and Popeye’s neo-faves launched last year…Read More →
COVID-19 Experience: ‘Have A Drink’ Campaign Slammed
Didn’t I, just yesterday, question the sanity of marketing gurus of a major Fast Food chain for their latest brilliant idea to generate buzz about their brand and elevate COVID-19 lock down life a little from its current place in ‘the pits’? Now, I find that one group of ad guys went totally overboard…Read More →
Crust Without Pizza Latest Brainwave Of Promo Gurus
The guys who invented the Stuffed Crust Pizza (well, their precursors did) have come up with a new way to glorify the Pizza and keep their brand image above the crowd, just when you thought they had run out of clever, new marketing ideas. But it still shows their desperation…Read More →
COVID-19 Humour: Gag Outrages Twitterites
I have no proof that it was just a gag, but a well-known online humourist earlier this week posted a serious of Tweets about how his 9-year-old asked him to open a can of beans for her, and he decided to make it a lock down, home-schooling, ‘teachable moment’. Wow, did he get flamed!Read More →