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Friday, October 01, 2004

Looking for parody?

Here’s another site from the so-well-done-it-seems-absolutely-real school of web design. It’s called MeatShake, and it’s best read if you have a great sense of humor and an empty stomach.

The Georgetown University paper, The Hoya (I read ‘em all, folks) has this review of the site in its Weird Wide Web section. The Museum of Hoaxes has this to say. And the granddaddy of them all, Snopes, chimes in with this assessment.

You've got to give some folks credit for trying to be funny. The world needs good satire. This nicely qualifies.

For the record, here's what the Snopes site had to say about MeatShake:
MeatShake is not a real chain of restaurants serving meat-based shake drinks with franchises in Los Angeles and New York. The web site is a promotional gimmick for Taste the Secret, a CD by the Long Beach-based group Ugly Duckling, a concept album about working at a fast food chain called Meatshake and its inter-business war with an all-veggie fast food stand.

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2 comments:

  1. Diane10:52 PM, October 01, 2004

    It's really too bad that it's a parody. With the low-carb / Atkins craze, they'd probably sell like hot cakes.

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  2. Anonymous2:13 AM, October 02, 2004

    Gross, smelly, nasty, liquid hot cakse, but sure. People will buy anything that will do anything for them quickly.

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