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Monday, October 6, 2008

News Debate! Oh Ate!

Posted by Nicki Wood on Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:00 AM

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Here's the culinary sub-set of the swag bag offered to credentialed media attending Debate '08 at Belmont University on Tuesday night. Front and center is a GooGoo. Tucked in above that is a pair of Tennessee T-Cakes. Behind them is a MoonPie.

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The backbone is a packet of M&Ms. Really? Tennessee and M&Ms? It's true that Milky Way Farm, the magnificent thoroughbred farm of Frank Mars, founder of M&M/Mars, lies in the folds of the beautiful rolling landscape around Pulaski. But the Mars family hailed from Chicago and lived here just a couple of years, and the candy was never produced in Tennessee. The Marses aren't even buried here.

Surely there's a better culinary representation of the state. What other smallish food product would have been a good addition to the bags?

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Shot-sized bottles of Jack and George, obviously.

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Posted by Sparrow on 10/06/2008 at 7:36 AM

Since it's the pet food division of Mars that's based in this area, I suppose it would have been more appropriate to put a little packet of that Cesar dog food in there. They do promote its quality...

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Posted by Lesley on 10/06/2008 at 8:35 AM

skoal snuff

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Posted by claudia (cook eat FRET) on 10/06/2008 at 9:13 AM

I was going to say Kelley's Katch paddlefish caviar, but keeping it properly chilled would have been quite a challenge. How about a slab of Benton's bacon?

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Posted by pogo on 10/06/2008 at 9:42 AM

Tiny RC Colas? Samples of local chow chow?

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Posted by Gully on 10/06/2008 at 9:43 AM

Darn you people are smarter and more creativer than the intern assigned to this!

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Posted by fluffernutter on 10/06/2008 at 11:50 AM

you can assign interns? I'm impressed at the power you have. I need more minions.

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Posted by jim voorhies on 10/06/2008 at 1:21 PM

Jim Voorhies in da hizzie.
Actually, I miswrote that poorly. I meant, the PR intern assigned to the food swag bags. As for minions, I've always thought it sounded like a portmanteau word for minced onions. And who doesn't need more of those?

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Posted by fluffernutter on 10/06/2008 at 1:25 PM
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