I'm a sucker for TV commercials. I even think they should be put on TV DVDs, though I bet some people would hate that idea.
But it got me thinking about all of the great TV commercials we've had for food over the years. After the jump, eight classics. I'm not saying that these eight are the "best" (though some could be), but they're eight that I really enjoy.
Continue reading Slashfood Ate (8): Great classic food commercials
Wow, this quiz over at Mental Floss sure brought back a lot of memories. Freakies Cereal!
The quiz tests your knowledge of breakfast cereals. The questions range from fairly easy (what's on top of the Quisp alien's head?) to outrageously difficult (how many holes appear in a piece of Honeycomb cereal?). But it's a blast from the past for cereal fans or people of a certain age. You'll also find out what happened to Mikey from the Life cereal ad in the 70s and which cereal is 50% sugar.
For the record, I got 12 out of 20 correct.
I was noodling around in my files and food magazines and ran across some info that I thought would make a good food trivia quiz.
We mentioned the growing market for yogurt and how it is
being included in products from toothpaste to cereals. This week, the Wall Street
Journal did a quick taste test of three of the new yogurt-coated breakfast foods: Total Vanilla Yogurt, Life Vanilla Yogurt Crunch, All-Bran Yogurt Bites. They point out that none of the cereals
contained live cultures, instead relying on dried nonfat yogurt and yogurt powder to add color and flavor to the
cereals. Most of the flavor came for the sugar that was added in addition to the yogurt, though, and the WSJ tasters
found the Life and Total cereals to be far too sweet. The All-Bran version was the favorite, as it didn't have the
overly sugary taste of the others, though the tasters commented that they could have used a few more yogurt bites.
I tasted Kellogg's Cran-Vanilla Crunch, which has cranberries and yogurt-oat clusters. It might have been a bit on the sweet side for breakfast, but I still enjoyed it. And it made a great snack or topping for plain, non-cereal yogurt.
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