Archive for 2013

In tonight’s episode — Edible Ads Are The Toilet Babies Of Food — I get real about Foodiness™ that was never food in the first place; how edible ads for orange-flavored Fanta flavored like Fanta orange-flavoring are even further down the Foodiness™ rabbit hole than vitamin enhanced artificial sweetener and Pepsi with added fiber; how edible ads are the social-media equivalent of Japanese teenagers who spend 24 hours a day playing video games and never leave their bedrooms — there was never a there-there to begin with; how you shouldn’t be eating paper in the first place — unless it’s about one quarter inch in size with an image of Alice on it; how eating ads for Foodiness™ is literally ingesting truthiness; and how the next logical step from edible ads are flavored apps — but keep a look out for the Let’s Get Real acid-flavored app launching this spring.

In tonight’s episode — Trending Now: Bloody Butchers, Severed Pigs Feet, And Microwavable Lasagna Tainted With Meat — I get real about foodiness meat discoveries and real meat circle-jerks; how, if you buy foodiness lasagna you deserve to discover it’s tainted — only at least it’s tainted with food; how the newest real food elite fetish is bloody, Silence of the Lambs-style meat experiences — which would be okay if it weren’t for having to buy it from Hipster butchers covered in tattoos; how we’re as removed from the blood and guts of our meat as Drone pilots are from blood and guts of war — the only thing missing is an Xbox joystick; and how, if you can’t look a horse in the eye right before you eat it you’re never going to survive the apocalypse — and if there is any sign that the end is near it’s discovering meat in Ikea meatballs.

What happens when you add 7-11 to the East Village? Goodbye Capital of Counterculture and hello just-another-counter to self-serve your Slurpee.

Get the 411 on 7-Eleven’s plans to “Pringle-ize” the East Village with truthiness and Foodiness™ when I give the ultimate non-Kool-Aid interview with NO 7-11 NYC’s Bob Holman and Dr. Rob Hollander on 7-Eleven Is To The East Village What Pringles Are To Potatoes, airing Tuesday, February 12 at 6:30pm.

…and while you’re at it, get off the couch at go become a “friend” of NO-711 NYC and follow them on Twitter. You should also follow EV Grieve and Vanishing New York, both of which are doing the real journalistic dirty work on the Pringle-ization of New York City. Actually, you don’t have to get off the couch to do something! That’s the beauty of “social” media – you can be a lazy f**k and still be an activist!

And if you don’t want to eat sh*t, and you don’t want to be Pringle-ized, tune in!