If the old Chiquita girl wasn’t cutting it for your bananas you’re in luck. Designer, DJ Neff, has done a rebranding for the potassium rich fruit. There is a very thorough post on Design Related with the artist (with a lot more pictures). You will see them on the wonderfully yellow (and phalic) delights in your local supermarket soon. The stickers are just part of entire new campaign which includes a new website (with a few flash games, custom stickers, etc.), a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and some new slogans:
Bacon…rockets…Popeye t-shirt…fire…windows…bacon music…smoke detectors…there’s really not much more that needs to be said here. The wonderful boys over atRather Goodhave put together an experiment to see if pigs really can fly.
Let me start by saying that it is not because of any of her more known accomplishments. It’s not that she was Britain’s first woman prime minister and the nation’s longest-serving of the 20th century. It’s not that she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the United States, the Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom, the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, the Patron of the Heritage Foundation of the Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir of the Republic of Croatia or that she was given the Order of Merit by Her Majesty the Queen.
It’s not that she promoted a free-enterprise economy, or that she implemented tight monetary policies to control inflation, lower taxes and reduce government spending, nope. Not even because she introduced legislation to curb the monopoly powers of trade unions and make their leadership more accountable to their members. Or not even because of all her support and work with the Northern Atlantic Alliance.
No, none of these above achievements can trump the one and truly amazing thing she did which has driven me to fall head over heels in love with this woman. Much before all of this, back in the ’40s in fact, she was involved in the creation of soft serve ice cream. You heard me right…SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM!!!
After graduating from Oxford, she worked as a chemist for J. Lyons and Co and was on a team that helped develop a method for whipping air into ice cream which led to the modern day soft serve cone. To me there is nothing finer than a vanilla soft serve spiral in a delicious cake cone, drizzled with hot fudge (not to be confused with chocolate syrup) and sprinkled with a few peanuts pieces. I am one smitten kitten for The Right Honourable the Baroness Thatcher!
Could you imagine a world without Tastee Freez, Dairy Queen or McDonald’s sundaes? Certainly not a world I would want to live in. Thank you Mrs. Thatcher for giving me reason to exist and bringing more delight to this chubby kid than another single person on the face of this planet has…and this is why I love you.
Who doesn’t love bacon, even pigs love bacon and so do vegetarians. There really is nothing to not like about bacon with it’s crispy, salty, fatty deliciousness. It can be added to almost anything to enhance the flavor of an otherwise bland dish.
The popularity of bacon recently seems to have skyrocketed a bit but I’ve discovered more than a few vintage advertisements that prove it’s been holding it’s own for quite some time now. It’s hard to say which one is my favorite…the toaster worthy Reddi-Bacon, the promise from Swift’s Premium Bacon that it’s the “food for the new generation” or the statement by Swift’s that “Authorities recommend bacon for children.”
A Mr. Kurt Gielow managed to down the infamous Ben & Jerry’s Vermonster Sundae in just over 13 minutes to become the victor in an eating contest held in Gainesville, Florida this past Tuesday. A total of fifteen students from the University of Florida took part in the contest with only two other successful completions. One by the pictured Andree Koop, a member of the schools triathlon team. There were more than 300 people in attendance to cheer them on.
The Vermonster Sundae consists of 20 scoops of ice cream, four bananas, four ladles of hot fudge, three cookies, one brownie, 4 scoops of nuts and eight scoops of toppings and finished off with an entire can of whipped cream.
The rules of the challenge were simple, finish the entire sundae by your lonesome and do it the quickest. If you have a “reversal of fortune” you are disqualified…and there were reportedly 5 DQs. A member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Gielow’s frat earned $250 and a trophy for his win. The other two finishers each got $20 giftcards to Ben & Jerry’s for their efforts. The losers…they only get a tummy ache and a belly full of ice cream. I personally wouldn’t be complaining.
