A large chicken fast food chain in the US has a burger with no roll, which they call the Double Down Burger. It has two chicken fillets (either fried or grilled) bacon, cheese and a specially developed sauce. It  is not available in Australia.

It was released in April and sales were around 10 million units in it’s first month. It has comparatively high fat and salt contents. Some love it  for the flavour and unique concept, whilst others are totally against it due to the nutritional issues.

They are now going to pay $US500 to selected university students to be human billboards, for wearing sweatpants advertising the burger. Considering the nutritional issues, it seems to some as a unsusual combination for advertising.

It just makes you ask how far advertisers and people will go to advertise and market products.

A report from Packaged Foods, a research group in the US, shows that chocolate products are set to exceed US$19billion within four years.

There is a saying that “Chocolate is the sixth food group”, and it seems that these figures from the US show that many must believe this. Chocolate is considered to be both a comfort and indulgence food, and the market in that country is reflecting this.

It is the premium part of the market that is showing the most growth, with manufacturers starting to add new, exotic and indulgent flavours to their ranges.

Chilli has long been added to some chocolate, and now other savoury flavours are also starting to appear, including curry, bacon and cheese 

People seem more willing to try new flavours with chocolate than with most other foods. In fact, in Australia, a large chocolate manufacturer has just released a new range of unusual flavours in their milk chocolate.

Little would those who originally brought choclate to the rest of the world have realised what an important food it was to become.

A large pizza chain in Australia is about to launch a limited time only, really meaty pizza called “The Butcher’s Block”.

It is only going to be available during September – which is known as Footy Month, as it is the finals season for two of the major football codes – NRL and AFL. Leading up to the Grand Finals for both codes at the end of the month.

It has been created after much research on Australian tastes. It will contain; ham, bacon, steak, pepperoni and chirozo and holandaise sauce, with a parsley garnish.

For meat lovers it will be an absolute  dream, but the question that could be asked is,  in a society that is now recognised as having an increasing obesity issue, do we really need this sort of product?