"Disney" news and stories

Heigh "ho" indeed.

An Australian beer advertisement has reportedly ticked off Disney because it features a Snow White lookalike lying in bed blowing smoke rings with seven undressed dwarves. The ad campaign for Jamieson Brewery's Raspberry Ale was created by the Australian advertising agency The Foundry to promote the beer as "anything but sweet" with a maiden they call "Ho White" and seven dwarves.

Disney is not just in the business of theme parks and animation. They are hopping to the beat of current food trends with their Disney eggs. Yes, they are actually selling eggs imprinted with different Disney characters. The best part? Buy the additional egg mold and make the eggs into little mickey mouse Disney icons.

Of the many current food trends, one of them is to buy local and organic. These eggs are neither. As fellow blog Jezebel asks, "Is this some kind of tie-in to a movie, or further proof of the evils of agribusiness and the coming apocalypse?" You can check out the commercial for these eggs at Jezebel. At first, I thought this was an SNL skit.

I can't help thinking that there is something intrinsically wrong with Disney advertising these eggs as extremely healthful with omega-3 and protein. While this may be correct, these eggs are just another form of big business mass producing industrialized foods with little concern for the environment, namely the food chain. Devoid of any sense of environmental responsibility, Disney is marketing these industrialized eggs to children. It's somewhat strange that they're selling eggs in the first place. But, if they're going to do it, can't they at least be organic? What do you think?

I spent yesterday at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Over 25 countries were represented at the festival. You "travel around the world" buying small food samples at each country's booth. I had expected typical theme park food. However, the food and wines were above average by any standards - not just theme park standards.

The festival runs though November 9. I have a few strategic tips for those of you who have the opportunity to go:

1. Start expanding your stomach now to get ready.
   
2. Do not get more than one of anything, no matter how large your group is - share everything.
3. If you must go on rides, do it before you hit the festival. Your stomach will thank you.

My favorite food was at the Cape Town booth. Although, I could make an entire meal out of the maple custard that Canada served.

This is a little too Invasion of the Body Snatchers for my liking, but it's certainly interesting: vegetables shaped like Mickey Mouse.

It's part of what you'll find at the greenhouse exhibit The Land at EPCOT. There are Mickey pumpkins and Mickey cucumbers, all created through special ear-shaped molds that hang throughout the greenhouses. As you know, EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and this is part of the interesting experiments going on there. They're not really doing all of the things promised years ago (a real community, no cars, creating a modern world, etc), but some of the agriculture experiments continue.

[via Boing Boing]

Seriously, what on earth was Disney thinking?

Apparently, Disney's new PartyFizz, a bubbly drink that's aimed at the childrens' party market, looks exactly like Champagne, with everything from a cork strapped in with wire and wrapped with gold foil to the shape of the bottle. Health officials have started campaigning against it saying that it could be a potentially dangerous gateway to underage drinking and alcoholism for children.

Now I am very liberal when it comes to certain topics like, say, oh I don't know, alcohol. However, I am only liberal about it when it comes to people who are of responsible drinking mental capacity. Notice I didn't say "age" because there are plenty of 30-year-olds out there whom I know who are not of responsible drinking capacity. However, when it comes to chidlren, I am extremely conservative, and the idea of "Champagne" for kids, even though it is non-alcoholic, is very very stupid.

We've got enough problems already with fizzy sodas, and I mean whatever happened to good old apple juice?!?!