Here’s a nice snack option from Trader Joe‘s. Candy-coated chocolate-covered sunflower seeds. I like to think of it as an extraordinarily sophisticated version of Peanut M&M’s. There’s a farmer’s market near me that sells chocolate-covered sunflower seeds. Those are a little less sweet, but the beauty of the candy shell is that it keeps the [...]
Bee in the bonnet
If you’ve been to a Starbucks in recent years, you’ve noticed that they’re becoming a media company. I picked up these insulating cup wrappers from a Starbucks, promoting the new movie Akeelah and the Bee . Starbucks appears to be promoting the movie in a real selfless fashion. Then I hop over to Jim Romenesko’s [...]
Holiday Food, Part Two
You want to see a five-dollar artichoke? I read online that there are 140 varieties, but less than 40 are grown commercially. I have no idea what kind this big one is, but it’s six inches across at its widest point. These were prepared in a traditional Italian style, stuffed with bread crumbs, Parmesan, salt, [...]
Holiday Food, Part One
We’re passing through Passover. In fact, last Wednesday I was invited to a Seder. I ended up talking to the most interesting person at the table (to me), the one teenager. I can report that high school appears to be the same living hell it always was. As I’ve said before, our society doesn’t seem [...]
Willie Wonka died for your sins.
Last year brought the incredible story that Russell Stover introduced the chocolate crucifix and got bitchslapped by the Roman Catholic diocese in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The cross was marketed under the Pangburn brand which Stover bought in 1999. The product seemed aimed at Hispanics, a market which Pangburn already had a hold in. The cross was [...]
Just dessert
I hope that — on the whole — I am able to maintain a generally objective tone here at The Pop View. I have my attitude, as any good blog should, but I should also be able to keep things in perspective. But this truly shocked me Saturday morning: Basic cooking terms that have been [...]
Pass the ketchup, please.
It’s really sad, the cultural divides that separate us… On the occasion of the State of the Union address, the Washington Post today profiled Randolph, Utah, where Bush received 95.6 percent of the vote in 2004: “Patty melts! No one makes patty melts anymore,” [the customer] is saying to the counterman, Ryan Louderman, who knew [...]
Yo, Lil’ Debbie! Step off, bitch!
Rap Snacks: The Official Snack of Hip-Hop! Check out more flavors on the website. Lil’ Romeo, I guess I can see. But would you really eat a snack named after the late, great Dirt McGirt?
“It’s the little differences.”
Photo from our correspondent in Amsterdam. JULESWhat do they call a Whopper? VINCENTI dunno, I didn’t go into a Burger King. But you know what they put on french fries in Holland instead of ketchup? JULESWhat? VINCENTMayonnaise. JULESGoddamn! VINCENTI seen ‘em do it. And I don’t mean a little bit on the side of the [...]