Doritos Locos Tacos: Inside Taco Bell Eick February 27, 2012 Fast Food, Marketing, Snacks 5 Comments "Do you eat Taco Bell regularly?" my friend asked, as I explained I was headed out to Taco Bell HQ the next day. The answer I gave her was that other than a stoner-tastic 9-month Chaulupa binge at the age of...
Doritos Locos Tacos Debuting 12:01 AM March 8th Eick February 16, 2012 Fast Food 2 Comments I'm at Taco Bell HQ right now (Follow me on Twitter for live-tweeting) and they've just announced that the new Doritos Locos Taco, which has been in test-marketing phase, will be on-sale nationwide starting at...
Super Bowl Commercials: Counting the Calories Eick January 31, 2012 Advertising, Sports 2 Comments I wrote a piece for PBS in which I analyzed all 15 food & beverage Super Bowl commercials from 2011 and all 15 from 2010. My goal? Determine the total calorie count of all the food that appears on screen...
Top So Good Posts of 2011 Eick January 5, 2012 Cool Let's have some fun with Google Analytics and take a quick look back at 2011. What blog posts got the most direct traffic in 2011? It should be noted that the So Good posts that get the most traffic in a given...
Merry Christmas From So Good! Eick December 25, 2011 Holiday 1 Comment May your holiday be filled with family or good friends, merriment, lots of delicious food - and if you drink, copious, copious amounts of booze. (Note to self: copious is an under-used word, start using it...
Serve From American Express: A Card for Foodies? Eick December 24, 2011 Cool 19 Comments A couple weeks ago, the food blogger network I belong to, FoodBuzz, reached out to ask if I'd be interested in writing a post about Serve, a new card from American Express. I was all "meh" but they were all...
Outer Space Has Terrible Taste in Beer Eick November 30, 2011 Beer, Bizarre, Marketing I didn't realize we were still so obsessed with space. What is this, 1971? Sending product X into space is still a thing? Really? Yes. Apparently it is. Today coming across the So Good news desk is a report...
Would You Rather? Saltines vs. Stoned Wheat Thins Eick November 9, 2011 Would You Rather? 9 Comments It's Wednesday, which means it's Would You Rather time. Option #1: You can never eat Saltines again. Option #2: You can never eat Stoned Wheat Thins again. There are many knock-off and imitation...
National Sandwich Day Eick November 3, 2011 Sandwiches 2 Comments Today is National Sandwich Day! If there is one thing people know about me, it's that I LOVE sandwiches. The fine folks at Food Beast put together this nice info graphic, so I thought I'd share it with...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 10/27/11 Eick October 27, 2011 News MacDonalds planning chicken world domination. 7 inappropriate restaurant names. Halloween Candy: Good vs. Evil. Shocking news: No fruit in Fruit Gushers? Pumpkin seeds with kick! All Hail...