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August 25th, 2010

Sheffa Wishes You Abundance With New Online Branding

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This week our good friends over at Sheffa Foods launched their new website. Sheffa, an ancient word meaning abundance, is a maker of healthy, delicious snacks and salad sprinkles made from natural, whole food ingredients.

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It’s been a pleasure working with the Founders of Sheffa, Leslie and Amotz (especially since they always bring us a massive supply of product), and we wish them all the best. Keep an eye out for them at your local retailer, on Kosher.com (Squeaky client), and in your next JetBlue flight’s ‘Shape Up’ snack box!

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August 13th, 2010

Black (bean) Friday: Foodfridays #2

What better way to “celebrate” Black Friday (Friday the 13th) than to talk about black beans! But firstly, where does Black Friday come from? Fear of Friday the 13th is associated with bad-luck relating with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities combined to make one super unlucky day. And a person who suffers from Black Friday phobia? A friggatriskaidekaphobia An even more interesting fact is that there are less accidents on Friday the 13th than other Fridays and people are slightly safer on this day too.

A few days ago, we received a visit from a potential client and what better opportunity for Anthony (our CEO) to show off his cooking skills.

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Together with his “sous-chef” Candice and a Puerto Rican theme in mind, they made a tasty lunch consisting of black beans & rice with a side of fried plantains for everyone here in the office. Black beans & rice is typically a Mexican or Cuban cuisine, whereas the fried plantains is Latin-American/Puerto Rican.
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August 12th, 2010

Spam Is Annoying

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Earlier today we were discussing the nature of spam crawling all over the internet. We likened it to teenage girls all over Justin Bieber, it’s inevitable. Our Creative Director, Imelda Suriato, mentioned she had just received some amazing new spam in the comments section of her blog, Red Pepper Flakes. It went something like this, “HELP! I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia xyzrxyz pe*is enlargement xyzrxyz and being forced to post spam comments on blogs and forum! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. xyzrxyz pe*is enlargement xyzrxyz They’re coming back now. xyzrxyz vimax xyzrxyz Please send help! nitip vimax” Although this is hilarious, it’s also pretty annoying.

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