Oh no! All the publog gourmets have gone to the States for some kind of wedding thing! What are the rest of us to do? To the rescue, Cooking With Crisps![…]

Red Kite Farms Ltd have come up with Organic Slumber Bedtime Milk. Described as, ‘whole-milk, ORGANICALLY produced at night on our farm in the Chiltern Hills which may help to promote revitalising sleep.’ Apparently it’s chock-full […]

BRANDWATCH UPDATE: Oh. My. God.
“Bernard Matthews will bring little girl’s dreams to reality with the launch of the first ever ‘girl’ orientated frozen shaped product ‘ Princess Dreams. The innovative fairytale-inspired […]

BRANDWATCH 21/04/04
Every week I get a copy of marketing. Every week I fillet it for news that might be of vague interest to the rest of the world, particularly that segment of it which likes BOOZE and SNACKS.
FOOD AND DRINK
1. Tizer is launching Tiz[…]

Oh My Liver: “ligging in London”, entertaining blog.[…]

QuizzerWatch: beware a fiendish new trick on pub quizzers. Last night a colleague and I put ‘2 into a multi-game machine, got ‘6 return off Top Of The Pops and Hangman 2 – so far so good, time to collect our winnings and head for ho[…]

PUBS WE DREAMTPart #1 in a never-ending series of series which rarely progress beyond Part #1
It was more a bar than a pub, and more a student-type bar than a ahem actual real bar: ie tatty, with unfeasibly low tables and v.cheap metal-frame easy cha[…]

Amory (Mississippi) Railroad Festival, April 15th-18th
1. Barbecue sandwich, Working for my Lord Ministries: well-smoked meat pre-mixed with too much store-bought sauce. Not enough slaw.
2. Chicken fillet plate, First United Methodist: Terrible chic[…]

Mars has also just launched its Mars Delight brand extension, which I tried out this afternoon. Two skimpy finger-biscuits in a long wrapper, it’s clearly a light summery kind of chocolate snack, over in four bites, and just as well since even […]

I am still not sold by the name. Bisc & seems like a range made in marketing hell without any real sense of where it sits in the real world. It is a biscuit, the kind of thing which would be nice with a cup of coffee. AND it is a choclate bar. Y[…]