The Food Kingdom

A periodic blog on new developments in the mass-produced food industry. This includes, but is not limited to the realm of fast food restaurants, snack foods, frozen products and, to a far lesser degree, casual dining establishments. The focus and fascination of this blog is the quest to produce palatable food in a context of automation and standardization. How good can something be when the factor of independent human creative agency is removed at the actual point of physical creation?

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Hershey's Gold: Peanuts and Pretzels From Heaven -- But Don't Call It Chocolate

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Something New in the Chocolate Space You may have noticed when perusing the candy aisles that Hershey's has released its first s...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Mystery Oreos: The Taste of Pure Imagination

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Preposterous Ploy or a Pleasing Puzzlement? A cynic would explain the appearance of Mystery Oreos this way: the flummoxed flavor wizards a...
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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Apple Pie Oreos: In Praise of the Fake

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Our Chemical Romance Mark Twain quipped that "a 'classic' is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read" and so i...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Pumpkin Pie Rice Krispies Treats: The Squash is a Smash

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With the Falling of the Leaves, a Man's Fancy Turns to Spice Once upon a time, you could sense the imminent arrival of autumn from the...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Girl Scouts Thin Mint Breakfast Cereal: A Fresh and Restrained Start to the Day

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Divergence Let's get one thing straight from the beginning: Girl Scouts Thin Mint cereal is not just a bunch of miniature Girl Scout c...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Caramel M&Ms: Not Duds, But they Taste Like Them

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Inevitably Caramel Over the past few years, M&Ms has been releasing new novelty flavors almost as fast as Nabisco has been offering s...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Cookies & Creme Oreos: Not Bad, Just Pointless

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They Are What We Thought They Were When we brought the new Cookies & Creme Oreos into Food Kingdom studios, everybody who saw them had...
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