Sadvertising: Arby’s, My Mood, and Hate Eating Cary August 13, 2012 Advertising, Fast Food 1 Comment http://youtu.be/NAw4d-qKE40 The Characters: Over-earnest every-guy wandering about Arby's. And a bunch of extras. Premise: Look at me, I'm that guy who sat in the back of the Rocks for Jocks class...
Sadvertising: International Delight Iced Coffee Fail [Fail] Cary July 2, 2012 Advertising 2 Comments Every once in a while, a commercial comes along that takes Logic and slaps it across the face. It then takes Logic out back and hits in the head with a shovel. It takes all afternoon, but the commercial...
Sadvertising: Truvia and the Art of Song Selection Cary June 18, 2012 Advertising 3 Comments Have you ever heard a song that made you want to chop off your own head in a chainsaw accident? Truvia answers that question in spades: http://youtu.be/6uuPdxHuk2c The Characters: Two handsome...
Totino’s Pizza Rolls: Fun with Narrative Cary June 11, 2012 Advertising, Pizza 6 Comments I've seen this commercial pop up, and it's effective in the wrongest way a commercial could wrong. It makes not a lick of sense. To whit: http://youtu.be/41Vx8AlLQOQ The Characters: Bieber Haircut...
Wheat Thins Stix: The Enemy of Spellcheck Cary June 8, 2011 Snacks 1 Comment Hmmm...about a year ago Eick sent me some food in the mail, and I made a promise I could not keep....at the time. I could give everyone a long-drawn-out excuse for my writing truancy...but... THE STIX...
Taco Bell Spurning My Love Cary March 23, 2011 Advertising, Fast Food 3 Comments After defending Taco Bell time and time again, they have stabbed me in the back. If there are two things that should never be combined it's seafood with fast food, and Taco Bell has done just that with the...
The Ballad of the 88 Cent Crunch Wrap Cary March 4, 2011 Fast Food 3 Comments This is more of a paean to retain my sanity than a proper food post. As I perused the site yesterday I realized that Eick had posted a small blurb about 88 cent crunchwraps. My neck snapped with a...
McDonald’s Angus Chipotle BBQ Bacon and Cheese Burger: A Lesson in Excess Cary February 22, 2011 Fast Food 3 Comments The extended title that drops down two lines is a metaphor for true excess of this burger. This has been covered elsewhere, but Eick sent me some coupons for free burgers and I figured my colon could take...
McDonald’s Has Free Smells Too Cary February 11, 2011 Burgers, Fast Food 6 Comments The other day whilst trudging through a wind-whipped four-degree day in Chicago, I wander past McDonald's on my way to the grocery store. Even in the vacuum of a negative degree wind chill, the stark...
Maple Bacon Coffee: Or is it? Cary December 4, 2010 Bacon, Reviews 1 Comment A couple weeks (or months) ago Eick sent me an email asking me if I enjoyed coffee. As a grad student still working a regular job, I simply chewed on the coffee grounds I store in my cheek and answered, "Yes...