Author Andy

Who doesn't love cereal? Whether it be from a bowl late at night,  eaten directly from the box in a fit of munchie fueled foraging, littered with candy marshmallows or possessing enough fiber to ensure you've...

Food brand product placement has been around for a long time. In the early 1900's, during the infancy of cinema, even before "talkies" had been realized, savvy companies have been paying film makers for brief...

Sometimes it only takes one badly executed ad campaign to derail any momentum a business is enjoying. In some cases, they never manage to recover. Case in point: Soulvaki Hut in Australia.  Founded in 2005,...

A long time ago, in a deep fryer far, far away, McDonald's used to plunge their apple & cherry pies into scalding hot vats of fat, delivering a crispy, dough blistering bundle of Jenny Craig defeating...

Earlier this week, Huffington Post ran a story about a Florida woman who discovered a Goldfish cracker dotted with a supposed crown & cross. Immediately, before you could cry "production line error" it was...

Board games have been around forever, so we've seen our fair share of food themed titles gracing the shelves at Toys R Us.  A lucky few have become classics, popping up in rec rooms and onto kitchen tables ...

Some artist's choose  paint as their medium, others prefer clay but for a select few, hot glue and marshmallow critters fit the bill nicely. The popularity of Peep themed dioramas around this time of year...

The common myth goats will consume just about anything (tin cans, garbage)  shouldn't really work in favor of  an Ad Firm deciding to feature a  cranky, four legged garbage disposal in their client's...

Back in 1888, the enterprising folks at the Thomas Adams Gum Company (Black Jack gum anyone?) rolled out their very first vending machines in the U.S.  Installed on the elevated subway platforms in New York...

The Weird Al of product parodies, Wacky Packages made their debut in 1967, as a set of collectible stickers that gleefully lampooned popular household brands. An almost instant hit, they became a full blown...