MetaFilter posts tagged with food and advertising

Consider the Source

Miko — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:49:25 -0800

"It's a different way of thinking about 'local' that's not quite as literal," says a consumer research consultant in an article running this week in alternative newspapers nationwide. The piece (by Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance) describes the response of global and national companies to the reality that consumers are moving more of their dollars into purchasing at locally owned businesses, representing both a threat, and an opportunity for companies that can successfully rebrand themselves as 'local'. As with greenwashing before it, 'localwashing' seeks to lure customers based on perception of values alone, resulting in such phenomena as Frito-Lay highlighting farmers from 27 states as the "local" growers for its potato chips and Hellman's Mayonnaise piloting a campaign in Canada to present its product as 'local' because most of the ingredients are from North America.

what part of the cow do you use in the burgers cos i heard it was the teeth.

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:31:54 -0800

McDonald's UK goes Web 2.0 with a site answering user's questions. Apparently, all of them.

Happy Bright

edgeways — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:29:59 -0800

Plan59's Demoinc Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cusine: Plan59 has a bunch of overdone goodness (in a white bread sort of way) but this is the best. Link to their main page

Annoyed by the oven mitt

tb0n3 — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:41:39 -0800

Everybody loves to hate the Arby's oven mitt. A slightly crazed version of mitt-hate. An editorial on how the commercials could have been amusing, but instead fell flat. Finally, scary stuff you can buy from Arby's (link on the left nav, can't link directly).

Doritos, that counts as a cheese, right?

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:46:01 -0800

The food pyramid has been updated again, apparently. According to Frito-Lay, your major food groups now consist of fruits, vegetables, protein, dairy, and Doritos. (via Calpundit)

Funky Fries Fail Fantastically

Down10 — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:48:04 -0800

Chocolate, Blue 'Funky Fries' pulled from shelves The notorious ~~freedom~~ french fries with the flavors of chocolate, cinnamon and blue-colored variety have been pulled by Heinz due to poor sales and overall revulsion by consumers around the nation (especially here at MeFi). Can you think of other such horrific failed foods that were disgusting from the start?

Ice-T to promote Ice-C

Lusy P Hur — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:57:00 -0800

Ice-T to promote ice cream I wonder if they'll have an Ice Tea flavor.

Culture jamming The Sims

bwerdmuller — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:15:24 -0800

Culture jamming The Sims. As discussed here a couple of months ago, the much loved McDonald's Corporation has a major deal with Electronic Arts. But with hundreds of virtual burger restaurants in Simsville - what's to stop gamers turning into virtual anti-globalisation vigilantes?

binkin — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:46:58 -0800

I'm not sure I want my ketchup "funky". Heinz announces "funky purple" ketchup, because their green ketchup was so successful.