Following up on their successful $5.00 footlong campaign, Subway is looking to ad to the cheap eats menu. The latest addition to the menu, that includes the delectable Spicy Italian and Meatball Marinara, is the knife sandwich. Yes that is right, for just $5.00 you can get a sandwich that comes complete with a large serrated knife, baked right into the bread!
For some reason one customer who ordered this tasty lunch has hired a lawyer and is looking to sue Subway for $1 million dollars. I don’t get that at all, but this is what the mans lawyer had to say: “It is outrageous that someone would have to worry about swallowing a metal knife and it is unthinkable that Subway, which makes fortunes off its campaign of ‘Eat fresh,’ would allow something like this to happen.”
One of two things is happening here, either the ad agency behind True North nuts is so blind to reality that they had no idea what the slogan they came up with would sound like on TV, or they are so damn smart that they did this intentionally to get guys like me blogging away about their “what did they just say commercial”. Give it a listen and decide for yourself.
For years the Kool Aid guy has been bashing his way through walls and into our homes. Well NO MORE!! This has gone far enough! Thanks to the quick thinking of Scott Van Des Plas and Joe Van Wetering this culprit of chaos will hopefully soon be apprehended. Thanks guys!
Oh and just in case you weren’t already convinced about this menace to society, check out this video via Liquid Generation.
It is a sad day in NYC when you can ask random people going down the street what Manhattan Special is and hear every answer except the coffee soda that puts all energy drinks and lattes to shame! If you are ready to move on from the bush league of mid-afternoon fixes demand that your local bodega starts carrying Manhattan Specials for you!
For a great article on the pick me upper, read what Michael Wilson of the NY Times had to say;
For the New Yorker of a certain age, the first sip was a rite after nursing: from mother’s milk to Manhattan Special. Those little glass bottles may as well have come with nipples.
And brother, what a sip. In today’s world of energy drinks and juices and endless vitamin boosters and ginger and ginseng, there is still nothing that resembles a cold Manhattan Special, a thick and fizzy, jet-black blend of espresso and seltzer topped off with a bracing wallop of pure cane sugar. It muscles its way around the mouth, making itself at home, before bounding down the throat like a big, goofy kid going to play in the basement.
The first sip was often the start of a lifetime of little glass bottles, for Manhattan Special, a hand grenade of caffeine and sugar, is nothing if not addictive. Generations of New Yorkers, especially Italians, grew up jittery as junkies on the stuff outside its big plant in Williamsburg, on the street that gave it its name, Manhattan Avenue.
Perhaps I am just a negative person, or maybe I am just to smart for my own damn good! I prefer to think it is the later of the two, and that is why I can see that these Tide ads that are marketed in China apparently want people to poison themselves with Tide. I will skip the obvious jokes of how toxic food is from China, and that it would probably be safer to drink Tide than eat fish from the land of lead. Sure, they meant the ads to be a clever way of showing Tide can wipe out the stains caused by soda, ketchup and oil, but on the flip side the ads look like they are telling you to use Tide instead of those products. Mmm, nothing like quenching your thirst with a nice cool bottle of Tide. Want some Tide on your burger? Go ahead and think I am crazy, but you watch, there will be lawsuits for these ads after some fool deep fries his egg roll in a pot of Tide!
I’m sorry Tide, but you know I speak the truth. I still love you and Tide To Go is the greatest thing ever!
Have you ever wondered if you could make a smoothie out of your iPhone or Wii controller? Allow your host, Tom Dickinson and Blendtec to answer all of your questions (and save you the cost of those fancy gadgets). This is a great series of videos, reminiscent of something Bill Nye would have done, that use YouTube to advertise their quality blenders.
