COVID-19 Shenanigans: We’ve Cracked The Code!
I’ve been trying to figure out what the food marketing types would settle on for their big, industry-wide, post-Holidays promo trend this year. I’ve recently launched a plaintive lament that there’s been nothing new under the thin, mid-winter sun in the past few weeks, knowing something had to be brewing…Read More →
COVID-19 Experience: Taste Buds Work Again! (Sort Of)
How very odd, indeed… I told you back on December 21, 2020, how my taste buds had ceased to function, ‘just in time for the holidays’ and related the experience of my late, beloved step father and his mysterious encounter with the condition known as anosmia. And I promised to update you…Read More →
Dream Job Now Accepting Applications: Candy Taster!
Once in a blue moon, an opportunity like this comes along, and the story behind it is often bigger than the upfront news. So it is with wild and crazy food-realm tales that usually focus on highly-improbable or totally unique situations we’ll never see again. So we jump on them as if its the end of the world…Read More →
COVID-19 Capers: ‘Draw Ketchup’ And Win… Ketchup
Here’s an interesting socio-psychological experiment that might just brighten your COVID-19-blighted day: Draw Ketchup for a chance to get your artwork on a special custom bottle of the red stuff, and help intrepid marketing gurus discover how people visualize the product…Read More →
Sunday Musings: Food Questions To Ask Yourself…
We’re nearing our first year on the COVID-19 Merry-Go-Round and I thought it might be a good time to pose a few questions about our attitudes regarding our food. Have they changed? Permanently or just temporarily? And if so, how so? Have you thought about the future of food and eating?…Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Serve Resto and Snacks News…
Asian Stir Fry Bowls topped the Fast Food news this past week. Then came a flurry of new Flat Bread and Breakfast Sandwich deals. Finally, a sense that the Fast Food Promo gurus have found sensible new directions in which to steer their efforts into the New Year. And that’s agood thing for all of us…Read More →