Month: June 2007

Jeno’s Pizza Roll Ranger

General Mills is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets such brands as Betty Crocker, Progresso, Yoplait, Old El Paso, and Pillsbury, as well as numerous well-known breakfast cereals.

Totino’s and Jeno’s are brands of frozen pizza owned by General Mills, which collectively are reportedly the best selling economy frozen pizza brands in the United States.

[Stan Freberg‘s Jeno’s Pizza Rolls commercial is a] parody of a contemporary commercial for Lark cigarettes that used the William Tell Overture, here ending with a confrontation between a cigarette smoker (supposedly representing the Lark commercial’s announcer) and Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger over the use of the music.

Frank’s Red Hot and saucy silk panties

[Frank’s Red Hot] is known as the secret ingredient in the first buffalo wing sauce, concocted in 1964 by Teressa Bellissimo at the Anchor Bar and Grill in Buffalo, New York. As the story goes, Teressa and her husband Frank were about to close up for the evening when a group of their son Dominic’s friends came in for a late night snack. To oblige them, Teressa prepared some chicken wings, splashed on a special sauce with Frank’s RedHot Sauce and added celery and blue cheese dressing.

A wide variety of types of panties exist. High-cut, or control top, are cut higher on the hip to slightly pull in and shape the stomach. Bikini cut are cut traditionally, only the hip grips are small, like on those of beachwear. String Bikini are the most popular type of panties worn in the USA, and they are similar to bikini cut panties, but instead of a thin hip grip, they have a small string, which sometimes ties around the waist rather than being pulled up over them. Boyshorts describe a type of panty that has a lower, thicker cut of material around the hips, making them appear as shorts. And the thong, a type of panty designed to hide panty-lines.

Traditionally [buttock cleavage, AKA] the “coin slot” (or “builder’s bum” or “plumber’s crack”) has been associated with overweight plumbers (due to their frequent working position exposing the area). It is sometimes associated with unattractive overweight men in general.

GEICO offends at the airport

The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, as of 2006, provided coverage for more than 10 million motor cars, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by more than 7 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in the District of Columbia and in all U.S. states except Massachusetts.

A caveman is a popular stylized characterization of how early humans or hominids may have looked and behaved. The term is sometimes used colloquially to refer to Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, or Homo sapiens of the Paleolithic era.

Röyksopp are a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. Røyksopp is the Norwegian word for the class of mushrooms known as puffballs, but the band’s name substitutes ö for the second letter (in place of ø).

Cleaning up McDonald’s

In response to the backlash against McDonald’s, the firm has sought to include some healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: “Not bad for a McJob”. (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security). McDonald’s disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members.