Filthy Food Company - Sexy Chocolate Confections

One of the newest chocolatiers to enter the market is Filthy Food Company, a UK-based confectioner, that's playing up the sexiness of eating in sin.

The company has crafted some saucy little chocolate dessert bites to tempt and tease your palate in a new kind of way.

Filthy's new chocolate desserts takes burlesque glamour run amok, and packs it into a bite-sized piece of sweet decadence, intended to heighten your pleasure and senses. It's belgian chocolate encasements feature a melting sensation said to burst its payload into your mouth, oozing and dribbling down your throat.

Pictured here are the "Kinky Creme Brulee Bites", which combine "creamy" Madagascan vanilla with "sensuous" smooth brulee, inside a "hard" belgian chocolate shell.

Other varieties include their "Cheeky Chocolate Bites", "Seductive Strawberry Creme Bites", and "Captivating Caramel Bites".

However, Filth Food's sexually appealing chocolates are only available in the UK at this time, and only at Sainsbury's. Perhaps they'll offer online ordering soon.

Visit Filthy Food Company online at...
http://www.filthyfoodcompany.co.uk

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Eat'n Park - Black Angus Superburger

Eat'n Park Restaurants today announced their newest burger, the Black Angus Superburger. The burger actually appeared on menus earlier this month.

It's comparable to their basic Cheeseburger, except this one has two 6oz black angus patties, instead of one.

It's also listed at 800 calories, which is "good", as most burgers of this size, with cheese, range between 800-1200 calories.

Eat'n Park is a family-style restaurant, with 77 locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.

Visit Eat'n Park online at...
http://www.eatnpark.com.

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Tay Zonday - Cherry Chocolate Rain

The folks behind the new Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper, stepped forward and released a new video on You Tube featuring pop music star, Tay Zonday, dubbed, "Cherry Chocolate Rain".

The music video is a satire on Zonday's hit song, "Chocolate Rain".

(I'm so out of touch on the pop music scene, sorry! That's what happens when you download too many MP3s.)

Anyways, without further adieu, Tay Zonday and "Cherry Chocolate Rain"...



Thanks Jon Eick (So Good Blog)

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Krispy Kreme Snowman Doughnuts Are Back!

Krispy Kreme announced today that its famous Snowman Doughnuts are back, available now until December 31.

Snowman doughnuts can be filled with any one of Krispy Kreme's signature fillings for an additional $1.00 per dozen. Orders for doughnuts with fillings must be placed in advance.

For orders of three dozen or more, customers need to call their local Krispy Kreme store 48-hours in advance.

Visit Krispy Kreme online...
http://www.krispykreme.com/

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McDonald's McSkillet Burrito - Now Nationwide

McDonald's today formally announced the nationwide launch of its new breakfast burrito, the McSkillet Burrito.


While it's been selling in various markets across the country for the past year-and-a-half, it's never been "rolled" out nationwide.

McDonald's describes it as follows...

The McSkillet Burrito combines scrambled eggs, sausage and skillet potatoes with savory flavors and ingredients including a medley of cheeses, red and green bell peppers, onions and salsa roja. Available today for $2.49 each.

The world's largest fast-food burger chain says it's been seeing a 42% increase in breakfast sales since 2002, a statistic that seems to be driving new breakfast concoctions across all fast-food chains.

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Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator - Energy Drink

The fictional, but humorous energy drink, "Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator", made famous by the 2006 cult movie, "Idiocracy", is no longer fictional.

The new energy drink, which made the top-10 list of "Movie Products We Wish We Had" by Maxim magazine, will be hitting stores shelves on December 15, 2007.

It's even going to have the same catchphrase from the movie, "It's got what plants crave".

Brawndo is described as a "lemon-lime endurance supplement beverage", in a bright green color reminiscent of anti-freeze. Marketing literature says it has a smooth tangy flavor, and energizes you with 200mg of caffeine, electrolytes, inositol and guarana.

The new beverage will be produced by Redux Beverages, the same company that brought us Cocaine Energy Drink.

Visit Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator online at...
http://www.brawndo.com/

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Kellogg's Pop Tarts Gingerbread

Kellogg's has a new "limited edition" variety of Pop Tarts called, Pop Tarts Soft & Chewy Gingerbread.

The gingerbread edition is supposed to be pitched as a Christmas variety. Reviews posted on some other blogs says that the gingerbread is pretty bad.

Link...
http://www2.kelloggs.com/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?product=9811

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Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper Soda

Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages made the official announcement of their new Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper soda today, claiming it to be only the third flavor variety in the brand's history.

The new "limited edition" flavor is supposed to combine the taste of Dr. Pepper with sweet cherries dipped in chocolate. Makes you wonder if someone dropped a chocolated-dipped cherry in his cup of Dr. Pepper, and decided there needed to be a new soda flavor.

"Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper is the perfect indulgence for the holidays ... zero calories, zero carbs, zero guilt, and all the flavor of Dr Pepper," said Andrew Springate, vice president of marketing for CSAB. "Based on consumer response, we expect Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper will have a strong and devoted following."

The consumer response that Springate was talking about was the fact that Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper has been shipping out to stores the past month.

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Pizza Hut - Double Deep Pizza

Pizza Hut announced today a new limited edition pizza, "Double Deep Pizza".

Described as "the most incredibly topped pizza in America", it's basic premise is having double the toppings and 50% more cheese.


The world's largest pizza chain actually said that this new pizza has so many toppings, they had to utilize the "folded crust" design to help corral them all in.

"As we head into the holiday season, we know families will be busy entertaining, so our pizza chefs have cooked up a new delicious, flavorful pizza that's sure to please a crowd," said Brian Niccol, Pizza Hut CMO.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And if you thought it couldn't get any better, they're bringing in the Bee Gees to sing their hit song, "How Deep is Your Love" on the company's television commercials.

The new Double Deep Pizza will be available for a limited time beginning November 18 at a price of $12.99 with three recipes: Supreme, Meaty and Veggie.

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Autism-Friendly Snack Foods

It looks like the allergen-friendly snack food market is eyeing a new marketing strategy: autism-friendly foods.

There is a belief growing among austistic people and parents of autistic children, that eating a gluten-free, and casein-free diet actually improves the management of symptoms. The belief stems from someone named Dr. FC Dohan, who in the 1960's hypothesized that gluten and dairy foods might worsen the behaviors of people stricken with schizophrenia and behavioral disorders.

With the age of the Internet, more people are learning about this, and hence the movement is growing.

Enjoy Life Natural Brands, LLC, the company behind the Enjoy Life brand of allergen-free foods, jumped on this new marketing strategy. Today the company issued a press release touting its products, such as the Soft Baked Snickerdoodle Cookies, actually help austistic children get through their daily lives.

It's just what the Autism Network for Dietary Intervention (ANDI) needed. They need food makers like Enjoy Life to issue such announcements in hopes of altering public perception.

In fact, ANDI actually sells its own line of "autism-friendly" candy bars, the "ANDI Bar".

What they need to do now is come up with an official stamp identifying an item as autism-friendly.

And the autism industry is a market that appears to be gaining in numbers, with 1.5 million Americans currently affected with some form, and growing by 10-17 percent each year, according to the Autism Society of America. It's a market that allergen-free food makers can exploit.

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Funky Chunky Candy Cane Popcorn

Funky Chunky, a brand of popcorn confectionery based out of Edina, MN, announced a new limited edition variety for the Christmas season, "Candy Cane Popcorn".

It's described as rich, buttery caramel popcorn with glazed macadamia nuts, smothered in smooth white peppermint drizzle and sprinkled with crushed candy cane.

All Funky Chunky products can be purchased for snacking enjoyment, or the company will gift them for others.

Visit Funky Chunky online...
http://www.funkychunkyinc.com

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Fast Food for Thought

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes decided to take on the Fast Food industry by going back and forth between two bitter rivals: New York's health commissioner, Thomas Frieden, and Wendy's spokesperson Denny Lynch.

You can watch the full 12 minute video report here...
http://www.cbsnews.com/..../60minutes/main3513549_page2.shtml

In between the arguments, reporter Leslie Stahl takes Subway to task, by showing all of America just how fattening their sub-sandwiches truly are.

What was not mentioned in this report, is that Americans have a choice: don't eat fast food.

Instead, Leslie Stahl made it appear as if Americans don't have a choice. Instead of saying that Americans can buy fresh food from the grocery store, she made it appear that we're forced to buy meals from fast-food.

And in fact, that's the basis of Thomas Frieden's crusade, the health commissioner from New York. He's pushing for a law that requires fast-food restaurants to show the caloric content of every possible food combination and customization that you might conceive of, and post it in the restaurant, on the actual Menu.

He's only requiring this of fast-food restaurants.

You can still order that full-rack of baby-back ribs, with a loaded baked potato, and cheese-bread, and not have to know how many years you've trimmed from your life span.

I guess it's ok if the rich die young.

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Kellogg's Crunchmania

Kellogg's has a product out called "Crunchmania" that's been selling at school vending machines and snackbars the past several months, and more recently selling in stores.

They're bite-sized graham crackers meant to mimic popular breakfast foods. Varieties include...

• Blueberry Muffin (bite-size blueberry muffin-flavored graham breakfast snacks)


• Strawberry Waffle (waffle-flavored)


• Cinnamon Bun (made with whole-grain wheat)


• French Toast (made with whole-grain wheat)


• Vanilla Mini Grahams (naturally and artificially flavored)

While the company is emphasizing its Crunchmania as breakfast snacks, it obviously comes with a snackability factor making it great for television chow, party snacks, or blogging fuel.

And then there's the name itself, "Crunchmania". Doesn't it sound as if you should expect to see a professional wrestler pitching this product?

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On the Border - Cantina Thins

Dallas, TX-based Truco Enterprises, Inc., which makes the retail line of On The Border branded foods, has come out with a new variety of tortilla chip called, "Cantina Thins".

According to the company, the Cantina Thins involves a process of choosing select, whole-kernel white corn, and then cooking it in large kettles until tender. The softened corn is then stone ground into a fine proprietary blended masa, which is pressed into ultra-thin white corn tortillas. It's then lightly baked, and hand-cut into irregular triangles.

The whole concept of having "ultra thin" tortilla chips wasn't exactly explained to me. I tend to think that it's way to reduce fat and carbs while still maintaining the same shape and size of a standard chip.

I don't think it lends itself well to scooping out salsa and dip, however.

Visit Truco Enterprises Online at...
http://trucoenterprises.com

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Pistachios May Lower Blood Pressure

The Western Pistachio Association released the results of a study (that it paid for), showing that eating pistachio nuts may help lower blood pressure, and increase the body's ability to react to stress...

According to groundbreaking results of a study conducted by nutrition researchers at Penn State University and released earlier this year, eating pistachios may reduce your body's response to the stresses of everyday life.

Pistachios, when eaten in both 3 ounce and 1.5 ounce servings, resulted in study participants experiencing a significant reduction of the biological effects of acute stress. During the diets supplemented with pistachios, subjects had lower blood pressure during stress.

Read the full announcement here...
http://sev.prnewswire.com/food-beverages/20071119/AQM06819112007-1.html

Of course, eating pistachios can also increase your stress and blood pressure when trying to crack open a nut that doesn't want to open up.

That's one reason why I like sunflower seeds.

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