Naked + Taco Truck + Jogging = Bad Taste

Great Billboards

Thought they're not all food related billboards, I just had to post these 50 great billboards

Local bakeries warm up to cupcake trend | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

Local bakeries warm up to cupcake trend | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

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Kraft May Make $17.6 Billion Cadbury Hostile Bid, Observer Says

Kraft Foods Inc., which this month proposed to buy Cadbury Plc, is poised to make an 11 billion- pound ($17.6 billion) hostile bid for the chocolate maker, the Observer reported, citing unidentified “City sources.”

Bloomberg

Fried + Bacon = Healthy

Get your defibrillators charged for this one, cause this burger isn't made with beef, but 100% bacon. They grind up the bacon, and form it into a patty.

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Start a Brewery

While beer conglomerates like Anheuser-Busch InBev grow bigger every day, microbreweries are shrinking.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing: Nowadays, many home brewers who turn pro want to keep their beer intimate and personalized. Hence, the nanobrewery: a small-batch operation typically run by one or two people.

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Cadbury Dairy Milk - Zingolo feat. Tinny

Cadbury celebrates fair trade chocolate with giant floating head.

From Starbucks, Coffee From the Future

The myStarbucks application has a slew of features that make it easier to remember your friend’s favorite drinks and to locate nearby Starbucks stores. More interesting is a test of a Starbucks card, which will allow people in select West Coast stores to pay for coffee using a bar code on a phone’s screen.

New York Times

Cadbury Indicated It Wants Higher Kraft Bid, Merrill Lynch Says

“By no means does Cadbury management give the impression they want to remain independent, and they stress they want to maximize value to shareholders,” Merrill analysts and salesmen said in a note sent to clients during the London conference, which took place yesterday and today. “Cadbury indicated that the next step is for Kraft to make a formal offer, at hopefully a more attractive price.”

Bloomberg

The NEW Coke

Forget Max Headroom, check out this newest technological gadget from Coca Cola.




BTW- Willy's is an awesome burrito place and knocks the socks off of Chipotle.

Double BTW (or DBTW as I've now coined it) - Check out the full Fast Company piece on design

Terry

Terry’s Turf Club Up for Sale

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I'm Gonna Need Some Ketchup to Eat this

Just ran across this . . . The Guiness Book of World Records Hamburger

Mallie's Sports Grill in Southgate has done it... Again.

If you know anything about Mallie's Sports Grill, you know that they go BIG or go home. Additionally though we are never content with just being on top so that is why this past weekend we made history once again by re-breaking our very own Guinness World Record for the Biggest Burger on the planet.

In front of a capacity crowd, Mallie's put out on display the all new world's record burger weighing in at an unbelievable weight of 185.6 lbs, beating the old Mallie and Guinness record by over 20 pounds of 164.8 lbs.

Cadbury's Key Ingredient: Gum

"Gum is definitely one of the big factors behind this deal," says Lee Linthicum, the London-based head of global food research at Euromonitor. "It's not just buying a power brand in Cadbury—there's a lot more in Cadbury's portfolio that has real potential for innovation." Indeed, in her takeover proposition to Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr, Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld called the possible acquisition of the British candy company "a logical next step in our transformation as we shape the company into a more global, higher-growth, and higher-margin entity."

BusineesWeek

Canadians Love Vitamin Water

Perhaps We're Taking This a Little Too Far

I grew up watching Cookie Monster devour cookies, so I am saddened to see his diet being expanded to . . . wait for it . . . eggs. Lame.

Here's a snippet on it from (full article here)

HE HAS BEEN GOBBLING UP COOKIES ON SESAME STREET FOR YEARS, BUT THESE DAYS THE COOKIE MONSTER IS TURNING IN CHOCOLATE CHIPS FOR SOMETHING MORE NUTRITIOUS.

HICKMAN says: "eggs are economical, nutritious and good for you".
COOKIE MONSTER says: "what he said".

TEAMING WITH "THE GOOD EGG PROJECT" , THE LONGEST RUNNING CHILDREN'S PROGRAM IS LENDING THEIR SUPPORT IN A NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN, TO HELP TEACH THEIR YOUNG FANS TO EAT HEALTHIER.

HICKMAN says: "We are trying to educate people on where the eggs come from, and also to make sure people are eating good every day. Isn't that right cookie?
COOKIE MONSTER says: "Oh yeah, Good Egg Project very good project, eggs delicious.. numnumnum".

The next thing you know he'll be called the Omelet Monster . . . or perhaps he should actually be called the (Eggs) Benedict Monster as he has now become a traitor against all that is right and just.


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Fast Food, Up Close

The horrors of the fast food world have been a popular motif in popular culture for years now, but photographer Jon Feinstein sheds new light (too much light!) on the subject with his series, simply titled "Fast Food."

His up-close photos of fast-food "delicacies" might make you think twice the next time you're pulling up to the drive-thru.

On the other hand, it's not like it'll make those guilty pleasures any less tasty. Just don't look too close.

See the whole series here.

BuyCincy: Cincinnati | World Food Bar to Open Second Location Downtown

BuyCincy: Cincinnati | World Food Bar to Open Second Location Downtown

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A Foodie Site

Just stumbled across Foodbuzz . It's a nice site w/ reviews, recipes, and foodie profiles.

Kraft: No need to sell assets for Cadbury bid

Buzz around Kraft hopes to purchase Cadbury continue. Recent rumors suggest they may need to sell some of the brands currently in the portfolio to raise cash. Kraft is disputing these rumors for now ...

Kraft Foods Inc does not need to sell operations like Oscar Mayer hot dogs, Maxwell House coffee or any of its other brands to afford its $16 billion bid for British confectioner Cadbury, Kraft said on Tuesday.

Reuters

All Ink'd Up

You a fan of Top Chef? You've probably noticed all the Tattoos on the show from a far . . . now you can check them out from up close.

Donuts To Die For

You sick of the cupcake faze? Tired of Macaroons? Well, it's time for the old heart-stopping Donut.

Some of the best from around the country

Stan's Donuts- Supposedly the World's Best. They're in LA, where everyone loves donuts and fattening food. Best of all FedEx will deliver them overnight. I just want to try the pretzel donuts (pictured above).


Sweetwater Donut Mill - 55 Funtastic Flavors. Great Parking opportunities. Right above Ohio in Kalamazoo.


Holey Donuts - It appears these are some sort of healthy donut as they're not fried but cooked and qualify as low fat.


Rock Round Donuts- Freakin' huge donuts in Austin b/c everything is bigger in Texas.

Kraft + Cadbury = $2.7 Billion

"Should Kraft Foods' takeover play for Cadbury eventually succeed, it would create a $51 billion package-food and confectionary company and a $2.7 billion global advertiser. Advertising Age estimates that the two companies would spend about $1.5 billion in the U.S. alone, including both measured and unmeasured channels."

From AdAge

Hudephol relaunches Hudy 14-K beer | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

Hudephol relaunches Hudy 14-K beer | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

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Kraft hints at hostile move for Cadbury

Ms Rosenfeld insisted that Kraft’s £10.2bn ($16.9bn) potential offer represented “compelling value to Cadbury’s shareholders”. The terms, she said, represented “a significant premium for Cadbury’s shareholders, and well above what they themselves are expected to deliver”. They would also have “the opportunity to participate in the future upside of the combined company” because of the stock element in the cash-and-shares proposal.

“The time is right to pursue this powerful combination in snacks, confection and quick meals,” she said, describing the proposed combination as a “formidable global powerhouse” that created a “tremendous innovation opportunity”.

Ms Rosenfeld said: “We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive ad both in confectionary and in the food industry at large.”

Financial Times

Campbell Revamps Chunky Soup Line

To highlight the changes, a new label design calls out Chunky’s nutritional benefits and features color-coding to help guide customers to similar soup varieties. Additionally, a new television campaign, “This Is Why,” takes a more gut-level approach than earlier TV ads, showing real fathers working hard before returning home to their children and eating a bowl of Chunky soup to demonstrate how the brand fits into their lifestyle. The improved product will also star in print and radio ads.

BrandWeek

Pray with your food

Grow a pear to look like Buddha - via Boing Boing

Got a chip on your shoulder?

These people do...




ShoulderCookie.com is a collection of those who like a cookie on their shoulder. I don't understand it, but it makes for a good laugh.

My family has taken it a bit further....here is my brother trying Shoulder pudding...



And the other brother trying shoulder croissant...

Arteries Commence Clogging - Fried Butter

Volker - nice find

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Those Little Pink Packages

Cumberland Packaging, the parent company of Sweet 'N Low is started an agency review for its $6million account.

Cumberland is battling for second place in the sweetener market against Merisant, maker of Equal. Both trail industry leader and Splenda manufacturer McNeil Nutritionals, which garners the majority of the category's dollar share at retail (nearly 70%).

The RFI indicates that Cumberland may be looking to reposition its brands and take on some larger competitors with new product offerings or line extensions. The document asks for competing agencies to provide case studies illustrating their ability to "reposition an established brand to revitalize brand interest and increase sales and/or level of usage" and "successfully introduce a new product or line extension." It also asks for examples where the agency was able to "increase market share in an environment where a product is a challenger brand and is significantly outspent by its competitors."

Full article @ AdAge

Also, if you love family stories and the history of the sweetener check out Sweet and Low: A Family Story - I'd give it a "Cover is better than the story" rating.

That's not chicken . . .

What happens when your iconic store begins selling drugs . . . legally? I don't think this is the kind of addiction the Colonel was thinking of.

"This former Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Palms community of West Los Angeles is now Kind For Cures, a medical marijuana dispensary."

via Boing Boing

L Cafe

"Located in Shibuya, LCAFE is well-placed to attract trendsetting shoppers. To take part, women register by mobile phone, supplying basic details about themselves such as their age, marital status and where they live. With every order of food or drinks, they receive an L Coin, which can be redeemed for free samples at the cafe's sample bar. In a true Tokyo touch, a bar-code on members' mobile phones allows Sample Lab to track who got which sample. After the visit, members are asked to share their views via an electronic survey, in exchange for more tokens."

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The Cookie Battle

It seems that Wal Mart is competing with the Girl Scouts . . .

"It was three o’clock in the afternoon when Celia V. Harquail, who was having a sugar low, spotted a pile of chocolate cookies on a plastic silver catering tray. She was at a women’s blogging conference in Chicago, which happened a few weeks ago, and was partly sponsored by Wal-Mart. The tempting treats were new, private-label biscuits that the retailer was testing. Harquail grabbed one and bit into it. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this tastes like a Thin Mint,’ ” she says, referring to the most popular Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (GSUSA) cookie. On another tray, a stack of confections resembled Tagalongs, the GSUSA peanut butter patties, Harquail’s favourite. One chomp in, she was struck by the similarities—the melty chocolate, the sticky peanut butter, the appearance. Until now, every imitation Harquail had tried had been terrible. But these ones, she says from New Jersey where she lives, were “good, tasty, well-done cookies.”"

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