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American Soda Championship Challenge – Watch The Draw LIVE!

June 28th, 2011 | Tags: ,
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Ladies and gentlemen, the draw for the inaugural American Soda Championship Challenge has taken place live at the company’s headquarters. The draw was conducted by none other than Peter Hughes in front of a (very) well guarded Championship trophy! Check it out:

(You can also view this on our YouTube channel)

The draw in full with challenges:

1. Jordan Pilkington v James Turner - Most marshmallows in mouth without chewing
2. Peter Hughes v Matt Pearson - Most Saltine crackers – no liquid.
3. Stef v Kim Hunter - Verbal tennis, name American Soda products
4. David Hughes v Aydin - Soda Roulette

The challenges will take place on Tuesday 11th July 2011.

The winner of pairing 1 will play the winner of pairing 2 while the winner of pairing 3 will play the winner of pairing 4 in the semi finals, with the winners of those progressing to the final.

1st Semi Final – Most Sour sweets without chewing

2nd Semi Final – Fastest to finish a can through a Red Vine as a straw

Final – Blind American Soda taste test!!

 A big thanks to all of you who made suggestions – over 100 in all! We’re all really looking forward to this!

Cheers
- Dave

Fried Kool Aid? Yep – an-all new dessert option!

June 21st, 2011 | Tags:
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Kool Aid, in all its variety of flavours, has long been a favourite of our Ameircan Soda customers. Now, thanks to San Diego’s “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian, it has a new twist. You can fry it!

Sounds disgusting, but don’t dismiss it yet. Not only has it become an internet hit, trending on Twitter for two days straight, but visitors to “Chicken” Charlie’s food stall at the San Diego County Fair loved it. It’s become such a hit that the video below has seen over 100,000 views on YouTube in a matter of days. Check it out.




Unfortunately for you, while Kool Aid and flour are two of the ingredients used, the rest Mr Boghosian is keeping to himself, at least for now. If he ever reveals his secret recipe, we’ll let you know so you can try it for yourselves!

Retro Twinkies ad featuring Twinkie the Kid! [VIDEO]

June 14th, 2011 | Tags: , ,
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Hostess Twinkies 10 PackIt’s been a while since we posted up a retro TV ad from the States (the others are here, here and here), but this one caught our eye as it’s the first Twinkie ad to feature “Twinkie the Kid”, a cowboy / sheriff type character voiced by Allen Swift, who some Americans might know voiced a couple of characters on the Underdog cartoon series.

We’re not quite sure why Twinkie the Kid is happy to see a couple of kids eating his own kind right in front of him, but as he ‘says’, there’s “big delight in every bite” – and there’s no doubting that. Enjoy!



You can get your hands on 10 delicious Hostess Twinkies for just £9.97 and we promise you, you won’t regret it!

The Royal Wedding – T-Mobile Style [VIDEO]

April 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , ,
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Sorry to keep banging on about Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s Royal Wedding but I stumbled across this on YouTube and HAD to share it with you all. Funny thing is, I was looking for more retro TV commercials for American food and drink products (like this and this) – how this ended up in the listings I don’t know, but I’m glad it did!

As I am going on about the wedding again, please remember to enter our Wills & Kate Cake Competition for a chance to win our Complete Cake Making Kit! Full details in this blog post.

Cheers

- Dave

Cake Making Tips For Mother’s Day from Betty Crocker [VIDEO]

March 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , ,
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As you will see from our homepage, we’re highly recommending Betty Crocker cake mixes as a way to treat all your fantastic mothers on Mother’s Day this year. They really are so simple to make and taste truly delicious.

Not only that, there’s a whole host of different kind of cakes to choose from, including Super Moist Lemon Cake, Super Moist Carrot Cake and, for those with a REAL sweet tooth, Super Moist Devil’s Food Cake!

While we’ve no doubt that any mum would be happy to receive one of these cakes, we know there will be those of you who want to make even more of an effort, create an even more special cake. That’s why we went looking for the best advice out there and found this – BettyCrockerTV! Yes, ‘Betty’ has her own YouTube channel on which she teaches you everything you need to know about cake making and decorating. Check it out!

We also stumbled across this advert for Betty Crocker cake mixes from the 1950s! You know how we love our retro TV ads…


Retro Kool Aid TV Advert [VIDEO]

February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: ,
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In keeping with our recent posts on American retro TV adverts we’ve spotted on YouTube comes this little beauty from the 1950s.

Advertising Kool Aid powdered drinks in glorious black and white, it’s a real throwback to a more innocent time – and a LOT less flavours!

Check it out:

Now try them out. We have Kool Aid in the following flavours:

- Kool Aid Cherry
- Kool Aid Orange
- Kool Aid Lemonade
- Kool Aid Grape
- Kool Aid Tropical Punch
- Kool Aid Manderina Tangerine
- Kool Aid Strawberry

[VIDEO] Lucky Charms First Ever Advert!

February 14th, 2011 | Tags: ,
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Lucky Charms is one of our biggest sellers and without doubt our most popular American breakfast cereals.

It’s a favourite of ours as well. We can’t get enough of the frosted oats and marshmallow hearts, moons and other shapes ‘created’ by Lucky the Leprechaun.

But did you know that the original cereal did not have frosted oats but toasted oats instead? Or that Lucky hasn’t always looked as he does now? Oh yeah, we’re history buffs on our genuine American food! So much so we dug out the first ever Lucky Charms TV commercial for you to enjoy.

Shot in 1964 to accompany the first launch of the cereal, it’s a lot different to today’s technicolour ads! Makes you misty-eyed and nostalgic it does…

Smooooth! Funny Mello Yello Ad For You To Enjoy

February 8th, 2011 | Tags: ,
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Mello Yello is a refreshing citrus drink that has had it’s fair share of qualityadvertising over the years. We were browsing around YouTube in a (rare) quiet moment and came across this one. It’s so good we had to share it with you!

Good, eh! Very smooth…

Please do share it with your mates via Facebook and Twitter!

Better give in and give them Cookies

February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Videos
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More and more products comming every week

January 7th, 2010 | Posted in Videos
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We have many more products comming in each week from now until the end of Febuary, so make sure you keep an eye out on my newsletter and your mouse poised…

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