Bob McCarty Writes

In a post Dec. 5, 2007, I expressed skepticism about fast-food filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s claim that he had found Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Three months later, I wrote a post about the release of a trailer for Spurlock’s documentary, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Since then however, I’ve heard very few [...]

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Hardee’s® took a lot of heat after it launched its 1,420-calorie “Monster Thickburger” back in November 2004. While some health advocates described it as something “no nutritionist ever imagined,” the burger sold well.  Today, probably as a result of that success, the fast-food chain introduced the Prime Rib Thickburger as the their “most-decadent burger yet.” [...]

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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has released a new trailer for his upcoming documentary, “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?” News of its release comes nearly three months after I published a post expressing my deep skepticism about the claims made by the man behind the 2006 fast-food documentary, Fast-Food Nation. Others, including Debbie Schlussel, [...]

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Three months ago, I published a post, Newest Taste Sensation Headed for Racetracks, about a food item which I dubbed the newest “fast-food” sensation sweeping the racing world: NASCARgo! Today, I learned that some of the little critters had shirked their duties to become palate pleasers and, instead, entered the racing world as competitors in [...]

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I like to think of myself as an idea guy who’s always on the verge of launching the world’s next multi-million-dollar product idea! Today, I’m going to share one of those ideas with you. It came to me one night as I was sitting in a hotel room far from home, flipping through all the [...]

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