Hey, this works pretty good!

Come on Social Network!

Update: Oh well….

From the company’s press release…

Restaurant Growth/New Market Expansion: Chick-fil-A will add 90 new locations to its restaurant portfolio, including 71 stand-alone locations, four mall/in-line restaurants and 15 licensed outlets. Chick-fil-A will also expand into entirely new markets for the chain, with plans to further its expansion into the Chicago metro area this spring, enter the San Francisco Bay area in the fall, and open in Boise, Idaho in the fall.

This is the first press release I’ve received that I read all the way through in months. Fascinating. Had no idea Taco Bell was being sued because someone claimed their “meat” was only 36% meat. Per Taco Bell, it is actaully 88% meat.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Taco Bell® Stands Behind the Quality of its Seasoned Beef and Shares the Truth of its Not-So-Secret Recipe

Company Launches National Ad Campaign to Set the Record Straight

Irvine, Calif., January 28, 2011 –Taco Bell announced today that it is setting the record straight, launching a nationwide advertising campaign to share the truth about its seasoned beef. The company is placing full page ads in national publications including Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today as well as in local market newspapers including Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, San Diego Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle. The company is also executing a campaign to reach its Hispanic customers.

To reach consumers online, the company launched a YouTube video featuring Taco Bell President Greg Creed speaking about the facts of the brands “not-so-secret” recipe. The video will be placed on the company’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/tacobell), Facebook page (www.facebook.com/tacobell), website (www.tacobell.com) and supported with an aggressive online campaign on leading search engines and social media networks.

The Advertising Copy reads:

Thank you for suing us.

Here’s the truth about seasoned beef.

The claims made against Taco Bell and our seasoned beef are absolutely false.

Our beef is 100% USDA inspected, just like the quality beef you buy in a supermarket and prepare in your home. It is then slow-cooked and simmered in our unique recipe of seasonings, spices, water, and other ingredients to provide Taco Bell’s signature taste and texture.

Plain ground beef tastes boring.

The only reason we add anything to our beef is to give the meat flavor and quality. Otherwise we’d end up with nothing more than the bland flavor of ground beef, and that doesn’t make for great-tasting tacos.

So here are the REAL percentages.

88% Beef and 12% Secret Recipe.

In case you’re curious, here’s our not-so-secret recipe.

We start with USDA-inspected quality beef (88%). Then add water to keep it juicy and moist (3%). Mix in Mexican spices and flavors, including salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, sugar, garlic powder, and cocoa powder (4%). Combine a little oats, caramelized sugar, yeast, citric acid, and other ingredients that contribute to the flavor, moisture, consistency, and quality of our seasoned beef (5%).

We stand behind the quality of our seasoned beef 100% and we are proud to serve it in all our restaurants. We take any claims to the contrary very seriously and plan to take legal action against those who have made false claims against our seasoned beef.

Greg Creed

President, Taco Bell

About Taco Bell Corp.

Taco Bell Corp. (“Taco Bell”), a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., (NYSE: YUM), is the nation’s leading Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, signature quesadillas, Grilled Stuft Burritos, nachos, and other specialty items such as Crunchwrap Supreme®, in addition to the Why Pay More!® Value Menu. Taco Bell serves more than 36.8 million consumers each week in nearly 5,600 restaurants in the U.S.

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1. Toy Story 3

2. True Grit

3. Inception

4. The Social Network

5. 127 Hours

6. The American

7. The Square

8. The Kids Are All Right

9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

10. Black Swan

Revised and updated!

The circumcision ceremony sounds particularly appealing!

The Republic of Null Island is one of the smallest and least-visited nations on Earth. Situated where the Prime Meridian crosses the Equator, Null Island sits 1600 kilometres off the western coast of Africa.

There’s just something about homeless guy in a “Carpe Diem” sweatshirt.

Started Christmas shopping for my kids today. Is it just me or are the toys now infinitely cooler than the stuff in the old Sears catalog? Fortunately I get to play with them all again now. Win!

Last night I dreamed I encountered Johnny Depp, and he was doing the Hollywood thing, not giving anyone the time of day. Instead he was reading Norma Khouri’s “Forbidden Love” — in Arabic.

So I said: “You’re reading that, TOO?”

He didn’t even look up.

If this holds up, I’m gonna be owed bank.

A Chinese woman is suing a cinema and a film’s distributors for wasting her time by showing 20 minutes of adverts before it started, according to state media.

Chen Xiaomei claims the Polybona International Cinema in the northern city of Xian and film distributors Huayi Brothers Media Corporation should have told her how long the advertisements for the film Aftershock lasted, Xinhua news agency said.

Ms Chen, who is a lawyer, has accused Polybona and Huayi Brothers of wasting her time and violating her freedom of choice.

For some reason I feel especially young this year…

Spotted in Glen Park right outside my window… can anyone ID what kind of bird this is? A hawk of some kind from the looks of it.

Thought I’d spend a few minutes adding a plug-in to Drinkhacker.

2 1/2 hours later, it’s added… and the whole site is redesigned. Jesus!

Did you know?*

> Wolverine died.

> Cars are faster than bikes.

> If a car hit us: No car.

> I can do a handstand on a chair.

> Justin Bieber is a teenager.

*Facts courtesy of my four-year-old son as related during a single 15-minute car ride.