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Displaying all articles tagged:
Badideas
rants
Apr. 4, 2019
Kranch Arrives in Stores, and America Teeters on the Brink
No, thanks!
By
Chris Crowley
bad ideas
May 1, 2018
Government to E-Cig Companies: Stop Making Vapes That Look Like Junk Food
It’s the end of the line for Candy King Sour Worms and Vape Heads Sour Smurf Sauce.
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
Nov. 22, 2017
People Are Understandably Horrified by This Shop’s Charles Manson Doughnut
“Their creative team needs help.”
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
Nov. 20, 2017
Start-Up Unveils Plan to Eliminate Tipping That Will
Definitely
Work
It involves a Yelp-style rating system tied to a blockchain and cryptocurrency.
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
July 5, 2017
Someone Invented Snortable Chocolate
Coco Loko is basically marketed as Four Loko for your nose.
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
May 1, 2017
Cops Falsely Accuse Restaurant’s Staff of Singing ‘F**k Tha Police’
The owner says everyone involved will be fired.
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
Mar. 27, 2017
New York’s First BrunchCon Was a Drunken Hellscape
Trash everywhere, pregnant women pushed, and others left asking where to actually find brunch.
By
Clint Rainey
bad ideas
Nov. 18, 2016
A Guy Fieri Pub Crawl Will Soon Threaten New York’s Streets
Why?
By
Chris Crowley
bad ideas
Sept. 15, 2016
Trump Campaign Takes Brief, Bold Stance Against Food Safety
What good has it done anyone?
By
Chris Crowley
bad ideas
July 22, 2016
McDonald’s Online Create-a-Burger Contest Got Out of Hand Very Quickly
Give the public a chance to name things, and you know it’s going to get gross fast.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
June 20, 2016
Chain Fires Manager for Giving ‘Best Butt’ Award
The owner tells employees to expect more sexual-harassment training.
By
Clint Rainey
Sex Sells
Jan. 15, 2016
Food Truck Specializing in Popcorn and Sex Toys Forced to Close
The owner said he offered food because “you gotta have something afterwards.”
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Sept. 3, 2015
Geraldo Rivera Offers to Take His ‘Demonized’ Pal Donald Trump Out
People just don’t know the real Trump, apparently.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Aug. 25, 2015
Starbucks’ CEO Asked Baristas to Be ‘Sensitive’ to
Howard Schultz didn’t want people to #FreakOutTogether over Wall Street’s chaos.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Aug. 20, 2015
Florida Man Sees Zero Danger in His Gun-Range Restaurant
Customers drinking onsite is “no different than them leaving here and going to Outback,” he says.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
May 19, 2015
New York’s Most Reckless Locavores Are Apparently Fishing in the East
“I don’t eat farmed fish.”
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
May 8, 2015
Colorado Restaurant Owner Will Hold a ‘White Appreciation Day’
“Because all Americas should be celebrated!!”
By
Clint Rainey
Ill-Advised
Dec. 19, 2014
A Chef Scrapped Plans to Serve ‘Thug Rice’ and Chocolate
Other items included “blood money sausage.”
By
Hugh Merwin
Bad Ideas
Nov. 25, 2014
This Restaurant Wisely Reconsidered Firing a Worker Who Asked Off for Cancer
It’s unclear whether management has apologized, however.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Sept. 17, 2014
A Restaurant Somehow Thought an Adrian Peterson ‘Spank Your Server’
The owner calls it “a bad joke gone awry.”
By
Clint Rainey
Awful Things
Sept. 16, 2014
Group Reconsiders Plans for a Pop-up That Only Serves Death Row Last Meals
It offered all of the culinary perks “without the nasty execution bit.”
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Aug. 18, 2014
Restaurant Owner Isn’t Sure Why Everyone Hated Her Nazi-Themed Spaghetti
“Long Live Nazi Spaghetti” had its share of critics.
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
July 10, 2014
A Guy Got a Gordon Ramsay Butt Tattoo With ‘Ramsay’ Misspelled
Every food writer learns early in their career that it’s not spelled “Ramsey.”
By
Alan Sytsma
Cry Freedom
June 23, 2014
Restaurant ‘Apartheid’ Is the Best Way to Control Noisy Kids,
“Confining these patrons to separate tables is no longer enough.”
By
Clint Rainey
Bad Ideas
Mar. 19, 2014
Person Who Organized Nazi-Themed Dinner Says It’s Not That Big a Deal,
Wearing SS uniforms is just like people who dress up at
Star Trek
conventions, he says.
By
Clint Rainey
Loss Leaders
Dec. 19, 2013
Congressman Says Low-Income Kids Should ‘Sweep Cafeteria Floors’ in
Great, let’s put in an order for a million tiny brooms.
By
Hugh Merwin
Bad Ideas
Sept. 13, 2013
Pharma Company Not Too Excited About Chicago Distillery’s
Drink two and call me in the morning (if you don’t get arrested first).
By
Hugh Merwin
Unsafe at Any Speed
Mar. 25, 2013
Approval of Irish Village’s ‘Tipsy Driving’ Plan Drives Some
Pubs are endangered. So let’s let ‘em bend the rules a little?
By
Hugh Merwin
The Chain Gang
Sept. 17, 2012
Burger Chains Getting a Little Too Arty With Their Buns
They’re painting on logos with edible ink. Ick.
By
Alan Sytsma
Oreos
June 7, 2012
The Chinese Have Rectangular, Gum-Filled Oreos
Stop messing with us, Kraft China.
By
Kara Baskin
Bad Ideas
Sept. 27, 2011
Racially Heated Bake Sale Planned at UC Berkeley Today [Updated]
Discounts for minorities and women!
By
Jenny Miller
Bad Ideas
Aug. 4, 2011
Prune PR Could Use Some Flushing Out
The next new PR frontier: prunes.
By
Kara Baskin
PLCB Shenanigans
July 16, 2010
Pennsyltucky Perplexed by Wine Kiosks
PLCB claims success, but Pennsyltucky residents are unsure.
By
Collin Keefe
PLCB Shenanigans
June 25, 2010
Critics Agree: PLCB Wine Kiosks Are the Worst Idea Ever
The consensus is, the kiosks are likely the stupidest things ever imagined.
By
Collin Keefe