Happy Fourth of July

One day early, but you know. Hope everyone enjoys a great weekend. I will probably be eating large quantities of charred animals and watching a ton of baseball.

So I was reading the Blueberry Muffin Pop-Tarts review at The Impulsive Buy. It got me thinking about a different kind of frozen food. Specifically the "regular" food that I freeze. Like Pop-Tarts. I don't put Pop-Tarts in the toaster or even in the pantry. Nope, they go straight into the freezer so I can eat them later as a dessert. Other foods I regularly freeze include fruits (watermelon and bananas for smoothies/protein shakes), bread and chocolate. Sometimes I freeze milk into ice trays, also for the shakes. Nothing too crazy right? I'm not stuffing heads into the icebox or anything.

Speaking of brain freezes... as you may have heard KFC recently went through a coupon fiasco over a free Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal promotion. After Oprah gave it a shout out restaurants were overwhelmed by requests and started to run out of chicken. The promotion was nixed early and KFC refused to accept any more coupons. To not lose customers forever compensate for its blunder KFC offered to mail raincheck coupons. Good news: I received my coupons yesterday. Bad news: I can't redeem them until August. I get to wait another month for free chicken. Ugh. Colonel Sanders is rolling over in his grave.

El Pollo Loco (a flame-grilled chicken franchise in Souther California, i.e. KFC's enemy) ran a two-piece meal giveaway a couple months back. Lines were long but things ran smoothly. I got to eat a lot of free food that day. That's how you run a promotion.

And by the way, KGC doesn't taste that good. It's really greasy and kind of dry. I say stick with fried goodness along with eleven secret herbs and spices. The Impulsive Buy reviewed Kentucky Grilled Chicken and gave it high marks. Meanwhile Fast Food Maven prefered El Pollo Loco. But of course, free chicken is better than no chicken.

Those are my non-frozen food thoughts of the day. Consider them a holiday bonus.

And finally, I'll be tinkering with HTML over the weekend. Brace yourself; you might see some wonky stuff. So basically it'll be business as usual at Frozen Food Journal.

-Ken