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MA-based Brigham’s Ice Cream Drops Term ‘Jimmies’ As Possibly Racially Insensitive, Now Using ‘Sprinkles’

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 13, 2021 19 Comments

Cancel culture has come for a New England favorite. Brigham's brand ice cream is dropping the word "jimmies" and substituting "sprinkles" because someone, somewhere has claimed that jimmies has its roots in racism. "Jimmies" is what sprinkles are commonly called in New England, particularly Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Nothing is safe anymore.

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Cracker Barrel Apologizes After Patron Snaps Photo of “Noose” Hanging From Ceiling

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 17, 2020 79 Comments

Can we just enjoy sweet tea and corn bread in peace without people looking for racism hidden in the bread basket, or is that too much to ask? Cracker Barrel recently apologized after a patron posted a photo of what appeared to be a noose-like knot hanging from the ceiling of a Connecticut location.

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KFC Drops “Finger Lickin’ Good” Slogan Because of Coronavirus

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on August 25, 2020 19 Comments

Is 2020 an adjective yet? Because this is so 2020. Fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken will drop their signature "finger lickin' good" slogan saying the “slogan doesn’t feel quite right" during a pandemic. Instead, they'll just go with "it's good!" which is just lame. But they didn't ask me.

King Harv’s Imperial Coffees does it again

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2020 27 Comments

You may recall that in June 2018 I wrote about a shipment of coffee I received from reader David, who run's King Harv's Imperial Coffees, a family business. King Harv's specializes in exotic and rare coffees, not the sort of bean you can get even from most specialty roasters.

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Burger King Claims to Reduce Cow Farts in Bizarre New Video

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 14, 2020 32 Comments

There is nothing new under the sun, except for maybe this weird hyper-environmentalist song about reducing cow farts, purposely created and filmed as part of a sustainability ad campaign for Burger King.

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A world bacon shortage? ‘Pig Ebola’ slams Asian Big Pork industry, leading to inflation fears

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 26, 2019 25 Comments

The world is looking at a potential shortage of bacon and other pork products as African Swine Fever, nicknamed 'Pig Ebola', has spread through Asia.

Justice: Police Believe They’ve Identified Viral Blue Bell Licker, Say Charges Will Be Filed

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 04, 2019 137 Comments

In what can only be described as an act of a terror a woman opened up a half gallon of Blue Bell ice cream (the best ice cream in the country), licked it, and returned it to the freezer of a WalMart in Lufkin, Texas.

Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Permits, Fines for Kiddos’ Lemonade Stands

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 24, 2019 31 Comments

Cities and local municipal governments are typically the worst offenders in the realm of individual liberty. They make everything from hair braiding to giving meals to the homeless to a pop-up lemonade stand illegal but for proper permit. Country Time Lemonade has their own legal aide program that promises to help out kiddos who find themselves on the wrong side of the law for their lemonade purveying endeavors (up to $300.00). Currently, non-permitted lemonade stands are only legal in 14 states. "Pathetic" doesn't quite cover it.

Starbucks’ new bathroom policy not working out as hoped

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 14, 2018 37 Comments

It has been 7 months since the famous purveyor of caffeinated confection, Starbucks, declared their bathrooms "open to the public" without the need to purchase their products. Data suggests that the virtue signaling isn't working out as well as hoped by the corporate leaders. A New York Post team investigated several Manhattan bathrooms and found that there wasn't an open stall.

CDC Alert: Avoid All Romaine Lettuce

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 20, 2018 23 Comments

"Do not eat any romaine lettuce, including whole heads and hearts, chopped, organic and salad mixes with romaine until we learn more."...

Populism is Dangerous: Taco Bell Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in the Country

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on September 12, 2018 50 Comments

After Trump was elected, there was an entire movement to abolish the Electoral College for no other reason than Trump won and Hillary did not, popular vote, yada yada yada. Thank the good Lord we are not a pure democracy. The Electoral College was designed to protect the country from populist uprisings and democratic mob rule. Simply because historically, democracies tend to disintegrate into chaos before destroying themselves.

Sad Little Protest Held Outside of Houston Restaurant Where Jeff Sessions Ate Last Week

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on August 13, 2018 21 Comments

GAWD. To use millennial speak -- I seriously can't even with this.

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Domino’s Pizza has a new offering — filling potholes

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 12, 2018 20 Comments

Fast food chain Domino's Pizza is doing the job most local government's serially neglect -- filling in potholes. Under a new initiative, Paving for Pizza, Domino's is soliciting nominations for towns in desperate need of deliverance from rough roads, for the pizza's sake, naturally.