There may be no better way to gauge con-sumer temperament than to hold a contest. Let them tell you what they want, rather than taking the risk of guessing. Which is exactly what Lay’s did in its recent Do Us A Flavour showdown…Read More →
We’ve been doing breakfast all wrong for gen-erations. There is no doubt in my mind. And I’m thinking mass breakfast hysteria may be at the root of our current socio-cultural mad-ness. Give me a few minutes to state my case…Read More →
Another week stuffed with ‘Mains’ specials and deals. Summer promos are in full swing. Crispy Chi-cken is the ‘focus ingredient’ of the week. S’Mores McFlurry breaks new ground as fan fav. And the stunning newstalgia craze blows up every Fast Food Week category!Read More →
I’ve finally found the cornbread ‘update’ I’ve been seeking for decades. At least since I discovered I’m just not cut out to be a classic ‘southern mama’. It’s another outburst of brilliant updating-with-a-twist, kick-started by the newstalgia trend…Read More →
This all-in-one Main requires no exotic ingre-dients or tools to make, and gives you a go-to mild Asian sauce that can adapt itself to many different ‘focus’ foods creating a whole cook book full of simple, every-day suppers… Also a gateway to more veggie-forward cooking?Read More →
We looked briefly at the current upheaval in the Snacks Space earlier this week. Now, it appears this summer will see an all-out pro-mo war between eternal rivals Coke and Pepsi… In the hard-pressed, dramatically upheaved fizzy beverage space…Read More →
It sounds like the third installment of a Leslie Nielsen or Jackie Chan movie franchise. But it actually happened: Frustrated that his OREO dessert was unavailable, a plucky McFlurry fan recently jumped the counter and fixed the ‘broken’ machine himself!Read More →
I’ve read the story behind this post several times… And I still can’t figure out why it’s so compelling. Folks have been eating ketchup on their eggs for generations. Why talk about the newstalgization of Ketchup with such ‘shock and awe’?Read More →