DailyDirt: Faster Food, Faster!

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

• Burger King is testing out a home delivery service for its food in the DC area. Best sentence in the coverage: "There are some real food-quality issues here," says Ron Paul, president of research firm Technomic. [url]
• McDonald's tried a social marketing campaign on Twitter, asking for customers to tell some of their #McDStories. Oops. They didn't expect the #McSnideRemarks -- which is par for the course on the internet. [url]
• Yum! Brands restaurants (eg. Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut...) in Kentucky lobbied to accept food stamps -- but some people don't think that's a good idea. Others argue that it's a step up from getting food from a gas station. [url]
• To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]  

Filed Under: #mcdstories, food, marketing
Companies: burger king, kfc, mcdonalds, pizza hut, taco bell, yum brands

DailyDirt: Super Foods... To The Rescue

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

• This is a fascinating video on some of the latest in apple breeding -- "apples of the future" are on the way! There are apples that don't brown after their cut, apples that have as much vitamin C as oranges, apple trees that have no branches without pruning, etc. [url]
• The pork technology behind McDonald's McRib was originally meant to create a faux pork chop. Instead, McDonald's created a "restructured meat" that took the form of a boneless backrib. [url]
• Super broccoli is a variety of this vegetable that could reduce cholesterol -- without any genetic modification. Other super vegetables could have enhanced levels of vitamin D, calcium or omega-3 fatty acids. [url]
• To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]  

Filed Under: apples, broccoli, food, gmo, innovation, pork, traditional breeding, vitamins
Companies: cornell, mcdonalds

DailyDirt: Winners And Record Holders

from the urls-we-dig-up dept

• Don Gorske has claimed the title of having eaten the most Big Macs in a lifetime -- with over 25,000 consumed over 39 years. So as long as you don't supersize your order... [url]
• The 24th Annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest was won by a contraption called "The Time Machine" -- which used 244 steps to re-create the universe from the big bang until the 2012 apocalypse. Surely, though, the record could be broken by daisy-chaining together all the entries... [url]
• The Best Illusion of the Year Contest has named its top ten finalists for 2011. But it's hard to see which one is the best. [url]
• To find some other online challenges and games, check out what StumbleUpon has found to play. [url]  

Filed Under: big macs, contests, illusions, rube goldberg
Companies: guinness, mcdonalds

UK Couple Pressure McDonalds To Remove Their Boat From TV Ad

from the you-sure-showed-them dept

"We didn't see the advert ourselves at first, but lots of people kept saying to us: 'Oh, we saw the Badger on the McDonald's advert.' It was quite irritating, especially as we are not fond of fast food and the Badger has a beautiful galley where we cook everything from scratch. We even make our own bread," said Gloria Parsons, 63, who owns the boat with her husband Alan, 72.

"Then one night we were watching something and the advert was on every break, right across about two hours of the programme. Lots of people were very excited to see the Badger on screen, but we weren't. She is very precious and very special to us, and we felt upset that this large corporation would just ride roughshod over our feelings. It wouldn't be acceptable to go into someone's garden and just take a shot of their house, so why use the Badger?

Filed Under: advertisement, boats, property rights
Companies: mcdonalds

Is It McDonald's Responsibility To Stop Nude Photos From Getting Online?

from the questions,-questions,-questions dept

Filed Under: liability, nude photos, responsibility, steve dallas
Companies: mcdonalds