October 15th, 2007 Enter the 920 Calorie Breakfast Burrito :: Hardee’s

You know, I usually skip a big breakfast (mainly because I am in no mood to cook right when I wake up), but I might reconsider as Hardee’s has just unveiled this monster.

I do mean monster; this thing has two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, and hash browns. Finally, the attentive waitstaff gingerly dribble some homemade sausage country gravy on top*. The director of marketing for the chain says that the burrito “makes this big country breakfast portable,”.

I love how marketing directors are designing food now. A food marketers dream: “The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocate for nutrition and health, has called the Hardee’s line of Thickburgers “food porn.” Take a seat ‘chefs’, cause ‘good’ doesn’t sell well enough!!!

The Country Breakfast Burrito is generally available for $2.69 by itself or $4.09 for a combo that includes hash rounds (in addition to the ones already IN the burrito) and coffee.

*I made that up.

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October 15th, 2007 Woot.com

Some of you may have heard of the site before, but you owe yourself a trip to WOOT.COM. Who knows how the platform arose (actually you can read the bio/FAQ/history and find out), but what a cool concept. Basically, they have created an internet community by, each day, selling a limited amount of a different product at closeout prices. It’s anything from electronics to tools to toys (back electronics) to…you get the point. The product descriptions are worth the trip alone, but if that’s not enough, they also have a ‘woot’ that sells wine and user submitted tee shirts.

Here is just a taste of their cunning handle of the English language:

“Way back in the Dark Ages of the late 1900’s, certain grumpy old stick-in-the-mud parents tried to limit the time their children spent watching TV. These fascist fuddy-duddies forced their kids to engage in archaic, possibly European practices like “reading books” and “playing outside” instead of letting the kids watch some red-blooded, all-American TV any time they felt like it.

Good thing we know better now! Today’s parent can choose the Hannspree 9.6” LCD TV (or TVs) of their child’s preference with a clear conscience. How could they be bad for kids when they’re so durned cute?….”

See more here.

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