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?

Thursday, May 2, 2019

McDonald's Chicken Biscuit: Yes, It's Bigger, But Is It Better?

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Back in the Biscuit Game It's easy to understand why McDonald's would want a chicken biscuit offering at breakfast time and beyond...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

The Secret Identity of McDonald's Donut Sticks

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Off to a Bad Start Your first experience with McDonald's Donut Sticks will be a feeling of getting cheated.  To be precise, you'll...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Maltesers Are Not Whoppers: A Tale of a Non-Redundant Candy

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The Mystery Candy Once Exclusive to Movie Theaters Beginning in January of 2017, you may have seen an unfamiliar yet recognizably typical ...
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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...
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