Snack You Silly

“Some hasty suggestions for the snack powers that be.”

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That’s right. SYS is returning after a pie-ate-us. We’re looking for incredibly hungry writers to review snack foods for us. Sense of humor, hunger, and sharp diction is a must. Email bcbernstein:at:gmail.com.

SYS will be back with regular updates on January 1, 2009. We’re excited to hear from you.

To whom it may concern:

I’ve been asked to let you all know that on August 15, Snack You Silly will be moving to our own, dedicated server. My boss is making me tell you that this won’t change any permalink structure, but will allow for a better layout, content discovery bars, and a few other fun things.

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We are thrilled to welcome Jill Skylab, former Director of Regulatory and Technical Affairs for the Snack Food Association, to the SYS team. Jill is best known for her pioneering work in snack manufacturing techniques. Jill was also the driving force of the twenty dollar-day (TDD) for snackfood workers throughout Indochina.

Here at Snack You Silly, Jill will be primarily managing the Weekly Caption Contest, editing pictures, rating quotes, and moderating comments. We hope you’ll join us in making her feel at home. And one last thing: don’t complain about last year’s SNAXPO to our newest employee… she planned the whole convention!

As just another start-up snack food review blog, the SYS team spends 12-14 hours a day corresponding with snack food companies in hopes of garnering a coveted “whitelist” and chance for unlimited promos. Snack food companies are notorious and insufferable hard asses, but I wanted to point out the complete warmness in my correspondence with one kind soul, the venerable Michael Glokeler of Little Debbie in Collegedale, TN. The conversation is as enriching as it is ongoing, but for now, I’ve bolded fine examples of what we call in the business world “genuine professional courtesy.” Enjoy:

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It is with considerable sadness that I must announce the departure of one our best and most loyal writers, Wes Kaplan, who has worked tirelessly to make snack reviewing his priority in the last few days. A statement from his publicist explained the move.

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