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Recession Sex Revisited [Recession Sex]

Posted: October 15th, 2008, 2:32pm CDT by Sheila

Tags: Recession Sex

For reasons nobody's sure of, gay-hookup website Manhunt saw its biggest numbers ever on the day of the Dow crash. Recession sex! [New York Press]
Awful Products Threaten Comeback [Recession Watch]

Posted: August 21st, 2008, 6:00am CDT by Ryan Tate

Tags: Recession Watch

Appeasing aggression simply invites more aggression, corporate people! First you caved in to demands from the Hydrox hippies that you bring back their subversive little devil snack and now look — you've got to consider bringing back Kellog's OKs cereal, Hit Parade cigarettes and the most awful thing ever made, Postum, which is beloved only by some Seventh-Day Adventists and a handful of Mormons and which was mercifully put out of its misery late last year. Some of the more terrifying information on Postum's Wikipedia page reveals:
Postum was a powdered roasted grain beverage sold by the Kraft Foods company as a coffee substitute. The caffeine-free beverage mix was created by company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and produced and marketed by Postum Cereal Co. as a healthy alternative to coffee...Postum was made from wheat bran, wheat, molasses, and maltodextrin from corn...

Postum was sometimes marketed by an invisible cartoon ghost named, "Mister Coffee Nerves" [please do click that link], who would appear in situations wherein normal human characters were shown in uncomfortable life-situations (e.g. irritability, lack of sleep, loss of athletic prowess) due to their use of coffee and its negative effects. These cartoons always ended with the humans switching to Postum and Mister Coffee Nerves running away until the next cartoon.
Companies are under pressure to consider reviving bizarrely beloved products like Postum, the Times reports, as slowing consumer spending discourages investment in new products. Internet obsessives accelerate this process, from their basements.
Maybe we'll get Plymouth cars back, along with Duz detergent and Sunshine Lemon Coolers cookies (they killed those??). Don't forget Mello Yello, which become impossible to find before I was even old enough to buy it. (Memo to self: Start Mello Yello blog. No, wait, Tumblr — it's mello-er.)
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Cheap Food Ad Cheaply Overdubbed [Recession Watch]

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:03pm CDT by Ryan Tate

Tags: Recession Watch

newVideoPlayer("/bostonmarket_dubbedad.flv", 506, 423,""); How does Boston Market offer such cheap meals to its sad customers, aside from through atrociously poor food quality? By skimping on TV commercials! Agency Spy caught the fast food chain overdubbing the advertisement at left, in which one guy's voice says "five new meal-size deals for $4.99" but his lips betray the original boom-time price of $5.99. Because, hey, who wants to pay for another take?? Whatever, just keep the stuff cheap. Subprime mortgage holders, ex Bear Stearns traders and eventually everyone will thank Boston Market for its frugality when the still-unfolding economic depression turns us into hobos.