State Of The Swag: Hallowe’en Treats Update 2024
Where I live, the ‘kids’, as such, are almost exclusively high school seniors or older. And they’ve left Trick-or-Treating behind them. Meanwhile, multiple factors are putting pres-sure on supplies and prices of treats this Hallowe’en…Read More →
Functional Beverages: Pop Jones ‘Prebiotic Craft Soda’
We just got over the market-disrupting launch of In Tansan therapeutic appetite suppressant soda in Japan. And along comes Pop Jones ‘Prebiotic Craft Soda’, billed as a ‘functional beverage with cleaner ingredients’ and lower sugar…Read More →
The REAL Secret to Moist Meatballs, Meatloaf, Burgers…
For those of us who inherited this culinary ‘open secret’, it’s second nature… But I still run into new cooks who are not in on it. Let’s remedy that oversight right now, by explain-ing how milk anjd breadcrumbs makes ground meat dishes moister…Read More →
Sunday Musings: McD’s Suing Meat Packers For Price Fixing
I was flabbergasted when I read the headline. But subsequent Googling revealed it was a real story. And McD’s is serious. Are the largest meat packers in the US fixing prices? Or are high beef prices the result of a ‘perfect eco-nomic storm’?Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Service Restaurant and Snacks News!
Two themes vie for dominance in your per-ception this week: Hallowe’en and ‘Value’! We have entries in almost every FFW category, plus a follow-up on the Tim Horton’s Orange Sprinkles fundraiser, and a 40th Anniversary Ghostbusters Doughnut collection…Read More →
Cost of Beef Keeping Burger Prices Up – Maybe Forever!
If you thought Fast Food burger prices are still too high, you’re right. But there appear to be valid reasons that don’t involve price fixing. All the major burger slingers are being bashed by a combination of economic factors pushing beef prices higher…Read More →
Chicken & Waffles – Nouveau-Classic Breakfast Pizza?
I’ve never thought of – or given serious con-sideration to – pizza as a breakfast food. The very notion clashes with my concept of what breakfast should be. But the latest ‘innova-tion’ from Cici’s may be the ‘breakfast pizza’ concept that changes my mind…Read More →
‘Tortilla Burger’: Novel Twist On Ground Beef/Burger Patty Taco
This unsuspected twist on the already well-known ‘Burger’ Taco may sound really similar – at first. But the assembly procedure makes it markedly different – and a truly elevated Fast Food experience! Call it ‘El Maco Grande’, if you dare!Read More →