Last night, I fell victim to ill-conceived fast-food gimmickry in the form of the Coca-Cola Freestyle® drink machine at a Wendy’s® restaurant near my home. My foray into fast-food gimmickry began a few days earlier while driving by a just-opened Wendy’s® a few miles from my home. It was then that I noticed the message on [...]
Observations of Fast-Food Gimmickry
December 5th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: · Bob McCarty, coca-cola, Fast Food
Coca-Cola Introduces New Cans for BBQ Season
May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Coca-Cola® is introducing a set of new can designs (shown below) just in time for summer barbecue season. It appears, however, that no new Ramadan Coke can design is in the works. Hat tip: Adrants
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Postal Service Changes Raise Cash, Fight Hunger
April 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
The U.S. Postal Service expects to save more than $100 million annually through a series of cost-cutting steps, but a handful of other steps reportedly being taken by the agency during its economic crisis will raise both cash and eyebrows. Eighty district offices will be closed, according to a recent news release. In addition, more [...]
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Atlanta Radio Appearance to Air This Afternoon
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
In a post five days ago, I promised to notify readers when details became available about an airtime for my recent guest appearance on The Jody Hice Show. Here’s the update: The pre-recorded program will air today at 2:30 p.m. Central on WRAF-FM 90.9 FM, a station in the Atlanta area (Coca-Cola’s backyard). During the [...]
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Blog Sets Single-Month Traffic Records
September 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Thanks to all — conservatives and liberals alike — who helped this blog set several new traffic records during the month of August. Those records include unique visitors (43,527), total visits (56,695), page views (170,850) and almost two-million hits (1,974,521). The average visit duration was 2.5 minutes — or 162 seconds to be exact. Much [...]
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Blogger to Appear on Atlanta Radio Show
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Nine days ago, I published what turned out to be a very popular post about the Muslim crescent moon and star symbol appearing on cans of Coca-Cola during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. This afternoon, I will discuss that post with Dr. Jody Hice, host of The Jody Hice Show which airs on WRAF-FM 90.9 [...]
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Listen to ‘Allman and Crane in the Morning’
August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s 12:20 a.m. Central, and I just received an e-mail from Jamie Allman, asking if I would appear as a guest on 97.1 FM Talk’s Allman & Crane in the Morning program at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday morning. Specifically, he wants to discuss the “Ramadan Coke” post I wrote and published Monday afternoon. Thanks to Michelle [...]
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