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X-E plugged in Business Week…

Bill from Ape Child was nice enough to write in and let me know that we were both plugged in the new issue of Business Week for our respective takes on McDonald's syrupy morning death, the McGriddles. Apparently, sales for the sandwiches have been incredibly phenomenal, so I guess they're here to stay. The coverage on Bill's site does point out a particular perk I overlooked: these things would work great as a hangover cure. Always nice to see people taking notice, so I'd thank Business Week, but really, aside from this, what have they done for me lately? Nothing!

Posted by Matt on 08/08/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 47 comments

I will never ever ever ever ever ever eat anything ever ever ever again from McD’s. They made me awful ill in junior high… think if you bit into your McNuggets and they were cool and pink on the inside… so years later, I haven’t had to endure their crap… their "adult" sandwich line, whatever they were called, their "salad shakers", and now this.

On a side note…. I’M WEARING JAMS!! Jams and an nWo Tshirt.. Why? BECAUSE I CAN!!! To quote Les Claypool… "no one can see me…no one should see me…" (sigh)… it’s a freaking hot day in New Orleans, and I’ll do whatever I can to stay out of that sun. And that includes playing a little Kid Icarus….while wearing JAMS!!!… I needs me some O-R-E-O’s…Nabisco! (ding!)

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 08/10/2003 6:07 PM

No full-size scan of the article for us to read? Or is there a link somewhere …

Chestnuts roasted by Al Boondy @ 08/10/2003 8:21 PM

It’s available as a link on their site, but you need to be a paid member, blahblahblah. Bill from Ape Child wrote in to ask about reprinting the scan, to which they asked 2,000 bucks for 90 days or something like that. Something too high. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/10/2003 8:28 PM

rainbow brite ain’t cheap
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1954059&meta_id=3

dang she’s as big as a giraffe on the box!

Chestnuts roasted by cghvjd @ 08/10/2003 10:26 PM

You know I was about ready to declare the Teddy Long schtick played out ("jumped the shark" as the kids are fond of saying nowadays), but then he dropped that Foreigner line on us.

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 08/10/2003 11:51 PM

Mojo…
Finally, someone else who feels the Scott Baio love! He’s like the poor man’s Treat Williams…Scott Baio is EVERYWHERE!

I’ve been kicking around an idea for a new sitcom, starring Scott Baio and Scott Wolfe…the second coming of "Perfect Strangers", they play unlikely roomates who get up to all kinds of wacky hijinks. The title of this new must-see TV juggernaut? "Scott BaioWolf." Genius! I imagine all sorts of hilarious spots including their neighbor Grendel and his grizzled, curmudgeon-y mother (hopefully portrayed by Estelle Getty of "Golden Girls" fame)…it’ll be huge! All I need now is the start-up capital; anyone want to get in on the ground floor?

Chestnuts roasted by Queen of Ill Repute @ 08/11/2003 9:08 AM

Garbage Pail Kids, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, and 10 games in 1 Atari joystick: http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/30/news/companies/toy_story/index.htm

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 08/11/2003 12:20 PM

My apologies to Gordon Shumaway Jr, who already posted the CNN link in the Bitner thread.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 08/11/2003 12:23 PM

Shumway, I meant Shumway.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 08/11/2003 12:24 PM

For the record, I’m here to defend sausage and syrup. Do not assume that just because the McGriddle is Satan’s Sammich that sausage and maple syrup do not go together. They do. Just not MCDONALD’S sausage and syrup. A real breakfast, consisting of pancakes and sausage (and eggs too, maybe) proves that if you slab a little of the runoff from the pancakes onto the sausage, it’s delicious. It also tastes pretty good dipped in egg yolk if your eggs are over easy.

Chestnuts roasted by Kev @ 08/11/2003 1:11 PM

Speaking of Strawberry Shortcake…would you guys check out my comic (or the whole site if you are feeling generous) and tell me what you think? http://www.geocities.com/kenneftorres
thanks a bunch :)

oh…and the XE Fluff comic is still there if you haven’t seen it. It’s got a cartoon version of Matt…wokka wokka wokka!

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/11/2003 1:20 PM

…Wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka…

(Not an incredibly long Fozzie impersenation, BTW, Pac-Man noises.)

…Wokka wokka wokka wokka wokka…

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 08/11/2003 1:58 PM

It’s all coming full circle.
First, Ecto-Cooler mystery is solved.
Next, Mattel is to release the new Battle Bones and Snake Men toys.
Now, there are at least 3,000 Oreo variants.
This can only point to one thing: THE SECOND COMING OF PHOTOG.

Discuss.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian, Just Ian @ 08/11/2003 4:30 PM

Tried to read Kennef’s Strawberry Shortcake comic but he’s exceeded his allocated data transfer! This is a good thing … supply versus demand and all that. I’ll have to peek at it tomorrow … and hey, I’ll plug my own site here for those of you looking to check interesting stuff out. No Strawberry Shortcake, but I do talk about William Bendix Pirate Records and the horror of "A Christmas Story" action figures!

Chestnuts roasted by POP CULTURE DEBRIS @ 08/11/2003 5:04 PM

I think it’s an OREO conspiracy.

"The truth is not there".

Chestnuts roasted by Posted by! @ 08/11/2003 5:26 PM

You all might be wondering what happened to Theodore Long. Well, you see, he has not finished his chores yet so I will not let him near a computer. He still has shoes to polish, siding to fix, and juice to squeeze. Perhaps if he does a good job, I will give him a blanket for when he goes to sleep in his box by the furnace.

Chestnuts roasted by Rich White Male @ 08/11/2003 5:31 PM

Hey, new blog format. Pretty neat, Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/11/2003 6:28 PM

Daaaaaaaaang you geocities! Dang yoooooooooou! (pan out,end scene,and roll credits).

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 08/11/2003 7:16 PM

Mc. Griddle? Mc. Freakin’ disgusting is what they should call it. It’s like a slug crapped all over the box of buns.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Insatiable @ 08/11/2003 7:16 PM

This is a nifty looking blog. How will we ever resist the urge to start off all comments with "Dear Diary" and end or comments with "Alf is so dreamy, sigh".

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/11/2003 7:24 PM

Matt, congrats on the nod from Businessweek (I think.). I loved the review of the McGriddles, although I have yet to try the things. I’m not ready to punish m digestive system quite that much yet. I did, however, try the bacon/egg biscuit recently, and the term "gutbomb" was never more appropriate. That’s the last time I eat anything from McD’s for awhile.

Chestnuts roasted by megx @ 08/11/2003 8:57 PM

I’m yet another one of those long time reader, first time writer kinda guys. I just had to re-read that thing on the McGriddle. Speaking of which, a day or so after reading the article, I had to try one myself. I must say the the bacon, egg and cheese McGriddle is quite good, though those frighteningly syrupy buns really saves it from just being a pile of crap. Unfortunately, it still looks like shit just because, ya know, it’s McDonald’s food.

Chestnuts roasted by Marc Swift @ 08/24/2003 6:35 PM

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