In an effort to further promote its new
McCafé coffee bars, fast-food chain
McDonald's has released a
new set of clips that make fun of the coffeehouse scene popularized by
Starbucks, billing it as a stuffy store overrun with brooding intellectuals.
This isn't the first of the campaign against Starbucks: Earlier this year,
we took notice of the new McDonald's site Unsnobbycoffee.com, which touts McDonald's coffee as simple, easy, and unpretentious when compared to Starbucks. The new commercials take this concept one step further.
Yesterday,
Burger King announced that all of its restaurants in the US and Canada have made the switch to
cooking with trans fat free oils. The second most popular fast food chain also announced that all of its menu items, including baked goods, will contain zero grams of trans fat by Nov. 1 — earlier than the company anticipated.
Animal-rights organization
PETA is known for its head-turning campaigns, and its latest one is no different. PETA Asia Pacific's
newest ads feature model-actress Alicia Mayer in a lingerie set holding a suggestive banana, provoking, "Eating meat got you down? Get it up!
When I need culinary inspiration, I turn to one of many
cookbooks. But unless I'm feeling extraordinarily creative, I'm not sure I'll be turning to the
latest cookbook to hit the circuit.
The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls was just published by Ljubomir Erovic.
