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...detailed economic analysis is not sufficient for you (sophists), then take the fact that I just really don’t like cereal. Soggy, generic, multicolored grain rings will never appeal to me. And while I don’t mind some wheat toast and a hardboiled egg, I’m not sure that will sustain my palate five days a week for an entire semester. What can I say—I’m from Maine, home to lumberjacks and lobstermen who know and promote the value of a big, heaping, hot breakfast to start...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: The Breakfast Deficit | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...words with a staccato-like butchering of the language. One online video shows him talking to himself while practicing from a phrasebook, proclaiming "horenso" (spinach) with a gesture. Mr. James has appeared in two commercials since the campaign began, in which he also mistakes words, for instance, yelling "tamago" (egg) in Japanese instead of the similar-sounding word tamaya, which is shouted during fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Everyone Is Lovin' Japan's New McDonald's Mascot | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...cute and unthreatening" American who eagerly returns to Japan with his daughter and is driven by a hunger to eat the same burger he ate in his youth - basically a double Big Mac with an egg on it - is as much an affirmation of Japanese food by McDonald's Japan as it is unbelievable and unrealistic as a narrative. That's why it's a commercial campaign. To protest Mr. James as a stereotype of a minority population in Japan because the Ohio native fails to speak or write Japanese fluently, dresses like a nerd and blogs about burgers only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Everyone Is Lovin' Japan's New McDonald's Mascot | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...hard to gross out a generation that grew up with the Internet. But Food2.com a website for millennials that launched in May and already has a million unique visitors each month, does a pretty good job. To tout a contest for the best food photography, it showcased a fried-egg-and-bacon burger on a bun made of two doughnuts (above). A recurring segment called "WTFood??!" featured a British supermarket that was selling a Wimbledon special--sausage, strawberries, crème fraîche and mint--that sounded bad even for British food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangely Appetizing | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Walk of Shame: 1. The infamous return to your dorm after a passionate night in some guy’s Mather single, stomach heavy with drink and regret, and, if you’re unlucky, a newly fertilized egg. 2. Particularly hilarious for seniors leaving the Yard in the wee hours of Sunday morning...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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