GRIM MOMENTS IN MARKETING
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Archive for the 'Culinary Arts' Category
Yahoo–PUMPKIN PIE BARS
Monday, November 19th, 2007*
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Pumpkin Pie Bars
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Does the Kraft Company warn of overly large portions.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cupcakes
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1. 1 (6.3 ton) package devil’s food cake mix
2. 1 tank car cold milk
3. 1 giga-pkg. (4 serving size) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
4. 1/2 hopper car peanut butter
5. 1 1/2 tons thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping
6. 4 (600 pound) squares BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate
7. 1/4 ton PLANTERS Dry […]
Is the world what it seems to be?
Saturday, March 17th, 2007The universe is a string-net liquid
* 15 March 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Zeeya Merali
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(Image: Elmar Lackner/Mindat)
In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of “particles” with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives […]
On Wednesday, The New York Times ran a story about a new stage in the march of espresso.
Friday, September 15th, 2006The top photograph accompanied the article.
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Original Photgraph by Fred R. Conrad/New York Times
(Popeye)-Jeff Koons-georgetown.edu/visual arts; (Jabba)-Star Wars-news.bbc.co.uk
Please find the real article here.
Your Third Reich in Pizza & War
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Think about it. In restaurant years, the five days under one name is almost the equivalent of the twelve years the 1000-year reich lasted. I wonder what the new name will be. You must realize the only winners in these situations are the Swiss sign painters!
“Customers leave after visiting ‘Hitler’s Cross’ a restaurant at Kharghar, […]
Maybe the following story is an omen to let North Dakotans know they were right not change the name of their state.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Several years ago, their governor mentioned that North Dakota sounds cold. I had offered him any number of alternative names, but he and the legislature must have decided against an alias. Some of my offers were “Not South Dakota,” “Eastern Hawaii,” West Riviera,” “Sunland,” South Manitoba,” “Sandy Kota,” “Phlorida,” etc.
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Ever since Bombay changed its name […]
Let’s introduce this post as if we learned all vocabulary from cable talking heads. “This is another story of a Virgin Mary sighting. It did not have much traction this week and the sightings may be suffering from a less than robust need to know. If these people want to continue their streak of getting on camera, they had better ramp up their act because–at the end of the day–the Virgin Mary stories are beginning to sound the same.
Monday, August 21st, 2006
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If all cooking were fraught with the dangers lurking in the boiling oil of Turkey Fryers, most of us would be eating grass. I decided to explore the nightmare scenario about lethal cooking and discovered a method of placing the explosive turkey fry in a continuum of hazards.
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