To stimulate tourists to take and upload pictures of the city Toronto, the tourism agency of Toronto has come up with a campaign. At 21 strategic chosen touristic locations throughout the city, 2,5 meter high snowmen are placed, each in front of a famous building in Toronto. For each uploaded and liked picture, the campaign will donate to a charity.
We spotted the wild-knitting trend before, but now the Dutch potato/fries company Aviko is letting grannies wild-knitting in bus stops. Grannies were asked to come to the city Arnhem to participate in a wild-knitting event for charity. Wild -knitting is a trend were several objects on the street, from trees to lampposts, are being dressed with knitwear.
Burger King has recently opened a new location in Singapore; the Burger King Garden Grill. This restaurant is decorated with several comfortable sofa’s, soft colours and lot of decorative foliage. The menu is still the same. With this concept Burger King hopes to attract more families. The restaurant chain has no immediate plans to bring this concept to the United States.
The new commercial campaign of the American cooking channel Pillsbury allows Shazam users to scan the commercial. Hereby the viewer receives several recipes and further product information.
Kerstmuts brownieThese brownies with a Santa Claus hat are really easy to make. You take a brownie and put vanilla-butter on top. Top this off with a strawberry, which serves as a hat, decorate this with some whipped cream. Nice to serve this with a cup of coffee during the Christmas period.
Top wine-expert Janne Rijpma developed a climate chamber especially for champagne. This luxurious leather-covered cooler is suitable for 40 bottles, you can control the temperature by degree, and the bottles lay in an optimal position.
Vitadrinks is coming with Funkin Cocktails, you only need to add ice and alcohol. These cocktails are available in tastes like Mojito, Cosmopolitan and Margarita. The Funkin Cocktails are available in a one-portion-package or in a big package for 10 cocktails.
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Heineken is building an 11 meter high Christmas tree in Singapore, it will be there from the 17th until the 26th of December. The Christmas tree consists of 48 LCD-screens, on which people can leave a Christmas message. You can make a interactive Christmas card with text, pictures and add friends. Heineken will show the Christmas cards on the Christmas tree.
McDonald’s is coming with a new marketing campaign, called ‘You want fries with that?’ On the website you can tell what you would like in combination with your fries, and the best idea wins $25.000,=. The idea behind it is that McDonald’s fries actually fit with everything.
The National Restaurant Association (USA) asked almost 1800 professional chefs about their opinion of the trends for 2012. They said about 223 items if it was a hot trend, yesterdays news or a perennial favourite. The results of the survey tell us that healthy food for kids, the use of local products, sustainability and social media are really important in 2012. Check youtube or the whole article for more information.
Coffree is a foldable disposable cup with the soluble coffee allready in it. Tear it open, add hot water and your coffee is ready to drink. The cup itself is bio-degradable.
It’s possible to mix your own drink at Burger King. That’s because the fastfood chain has introduced the Coca-cola Freestyle in its American restaurants. With this machine you can choose from more than 100 different beverages, for example caffeine-free, diet-coke or extra lime.
Do you have to drink champagne at New Years Eve but rather you would have a beer instead? Brewer Bosteels has an alternative “champagne beer” called Deus Brut des Flanders. The brewing process takes place in Belgium and the maturation process in France, the ‘Champenoise method’ is used.
This carafe poors the wine out of eight little holes in the side of it. Surprise customers with the showerhead-like effect. Designed by Matilda Sundén Ringnér, for Skruf Glasbruk
‘Krijg de kleren!’ (litterally ‘get the clothes’ but in figure of speech ‘F*ck off’) is an monthly initiative from Annemijn Boon and Rosan Brunger in a club in Amsterdam. Visitors –mostly women- bring old clothes with these and trade them with others while having a drink. The clothes that don’t have a new owner at the end of the evening will go to the next edition or are donated to Humana. Every edition has a theme, this Sunday it’s ‘Let’s Go Sjiek’.
We couldn’t find an immersive Christmas Light Maze in Europe yet, howevere correct us if we are wrong. But we love the idea, another fun read more
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