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  • Bra Camera Catches Strangers Eyeing Woman’s Cleavage

    Bra cameras would be an interesting accessory for any woman to have, and, as one woman documented, they offer a fascinating look at just how many people–of both sexes–peek and judge when a woman is showing off some cleavage.

    The camera was used for a Nestle campaign in the name of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and involved a woman wearing it under a hoodie to catch unwitting strangers in the act of checking her out. In fact, that plays into the slogan for the campaign, which pops up at the end of the video.

    “Your breasts are checked out every day. So, when was the last time you checked your own? #CheckYourSelfie.”

    The video has racked up close to 2 million views on YouTube after it went viral; Eloise Oliver, the woman wearing the bra, says it was an odd experiment at first, but she quickly got used to the attention.

    “It took me a little while to get used to it, but after a while I think I mastered angling slightly my boobs towards people,” she said.

    The bra has an on/off switch and captured one day in Oliver’s life as she walked around in public and rode the subway; about 30 people were busted “checking her out”. More importantly, it’s raising awareness for a good cause, and the video will get people talking about self-checks.

    “It’s so important for everyone whether you be male or female to make sure that your breasts are checked,” Oliver said.

  • Hot Pockets Recall: Nestlé USA Recalls Philly Steak and Cheese Hot Pockets

    The recent Hot Pockets recall has prompted the removal of various flavors of the product as part of a massive meat recall.

    On Feb. 18, Nestlé USA issued a press release with details about the voluntary product recall. The multinational food and beverage company stated that the recall was issued for an unspecified number of “Philly Steak” and its “Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese” Hot Pockets in various sizes.

    “Our teams at Nestlé have reviewed our vendor records and have determined that one Nestlé brand has been impacted by the Rancho meat recall.”

    The executive order comes after a massive meat recall was announced by Rancho Feeding Corp., which may have affected the frozen Hot Pocket sandwich products. The Petaluma, CA-based food distribution company has recalled more than an estimated 8.7 million pounds of beef after regulators discovered that diseased and unhealthy animals were used to process the meat used to make the Hot Pockets.

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    “While Nestlé did not purchase meat directly from Rancho, our procurement teams worked with our supply chain to understand whether any company in this chain may have purchased meat from Rancho Feeding at any time during 2013, the period of time covered by the Rancho Feeding recall,” the press release stated.

    “From this review, we have confirmed that a small quantity of meat from Rancho was used at Nestlé’s Chatsworth, California production operation, a facility devoted entirely to HOT POCKETS® brand sandwiches.  The affected batches of the two varieties in our range of HOT POCKETS® brand sandwiches are being removed from the marketplace.”

    It has also been stated that the animals in question were not thoroughly inspected prior to processing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reportedly shut down all operations at the processing plant after it was determined that the meat products were unsuitable for human consumption.

    Although no illnesses have been reported, the USDA recommends that consumers return the recalled products to the retailer where they were purchased. Consumers can also contact Nestlé Customer Service at (800) 392-4057.

    Image via Hot Pockets, Facebook
    Image via Hot Pockets, Facebook

  • Hot Pockets Included In Massive Meat Recall

    If you thought you were safe eating these highly processed foods, namely Nestle’s Hot Pockets, think again.

    A massive meat recall of nearly 9 million pounds of beef from Rancho Feeding Corporation, has included in the recall, the Hot Pocket frozen meals that include an unspecified number of “Philly Steak” and its “Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese” sandwiches.

    The USDA classified the recall as a Class 1, which is defined as “a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”

    According to news officials, Mad Cow disease could be in the beef that has been recalled.

    Varied brands of frozen hamburger patties were also included in that recall, with meat that came from Rancho Feeding Corp., and were distributed to Wal-Mart stores in 16 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said that the huge recall at Rancho Feeding Corp. of Petaluma, Calif., occurred because the beef was processed from “diseased and unsound animals” and was “unfit for human consumption.”

    “The products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed from commerce,” FSIS said in a news release.

    More than 1,000 companies in seven states are now recalling meat processed at Rancho’s plant: California, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.

    The makers of Hot Pockets brand sandwiches, Nestle Corporation, said it reviewed its supply chain after the recall was announced and found that a small amount of meat from Rancho was used in Hot Pockets Philly Steak and Cheese in three different pack sizes and Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese in the two pack box.

    The company said no other batches, sizes, multi-packs, or varieties of Hot Pockets were affected. The list of recalled brands can be found at The Press Democrat.

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a press release that gives detailed information for consumers.

    However if you have purchased any of these products, return it to the place of purchase for a full refund or contact Nestle Consumer Services at (800) 392-4057.

    As of today, no illnesses have been reported.

    Image via Nestle Corporation

  • Butterfinger Cups To Be Among Super Bowl Ads

    For the first time in five years, Nestle, the company that produces the popular Butterfinger candy bar, is releasing a new product, a Butterfinger Cup, and will be marketing that product during this year’s Super Bowl.

    The Super Bowl, which will air on Fox on Feb. 2, accounts for nearly 100 million viewers each year, and Nestle feels that by advertising their newest delight, during the game, it will allow them to get a step up on Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which is currently the leader in the market.

    “You need to open up as much awareness (for a new product) and what better way to do that than with a Super Bowl ad,” said Jeremy Vandervoet, the brand manager of Butterfinger. The Butterfinger Cup has been in the works for over two years and it will be the first of Nestlé’s products to be featured during the Super Bowl.

    Butterfinger’s official website describes what Butterfinger fans are in store for.

    The classic peanut butter cup was missing something…until now. The combination of creamy milk chocolate, smooth peanut butter and the perfect dose of BUTTERFINGER took the cup to a whole ‘nother level.

    While most Super Bowl ads are kept secret until the day of, more companies are choosing to show their ads before hand, or release a “teaser” ad, which gives the audience a preview of what is to come.

    In the Butterfinger Cup teaser, you a couple waiting in the lobby of a “food therapy” office, along with other food pairs including cheese and crackers, fish and chips, and oatmeal and raisins. The couple is wearing tee shirts that read chocolate and peanut butter, and the woman asks her husband, “Don’t you think it would be nice to try something new and crunchy?” Then at the end of the commercial it reads: “The cup is about the get crunchy.”

    Are you excited for the new Butterfinger Cup? Leave your comments below.

    Image via Butterfinger.com

  • Butterfinger PB Cups To Be Among Super Bowl Commercials

    Nestle, the company that makes Butterfinger candy bars, is releasing a brand new candy product. Butterfinger PB Cups will start hitting stores this year. This is the first time in five years that Nestle has released a new product. The company has chosen a smart way to advertise their new product and announced that a Butterfinger PB Cups ad will be among this year’s Super Bowl commercials.

    Super Bowl commercials are often funny and sometimes even dirty and Nestle was careful to make sure that their commercial fit the high standards of Super Bowl commercial fans. Butterfinger has released a teaser commercial online, but they are planning to save the full version for the Super Bowl.

    Super Bowl ads can get over 100 million viewers each year and companies pay millions to get their commercials aired during the Super Bowl. The Butterfinger Cups teaser hints that the commercial may be a little raunchy and will definitely bring some laughs to the game, which according to experts, is exactly what a good Super Bowl commercial should do.

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    “You need to open up as much awareness (for a new product) and what better way to do that than with a Super Bowl ad,” said Jeremy Vandervoet, brand manager of Butterfinger.

    The company has been working on the new Butterfinger Cups for over two years and Nestle is hoping that the new cups will compete with Reese Peanut Butter Cups.

    The new commercial teaser shows a couple waiting in the lobby of a “food therapist’s” office. Other snack pairs are waiting as well, including an elderly fish and chips. The commercials tells viewers, “The relationship between chocolate and peanut butter is about the change.”

    At the end of the teaser the ad reads, ‘The cup is about the get crunchy.”

    What do you think of the new candy’s commercial and how do you think it will rank with other Super Bowl commercials this year?

    Image via YouTube and YouTube.

  • Nestle May Be Using A Michael Jackson Reference To Tease Android 4.4’s Release Date

    Last month, Nestle told some fans on its German Facebook page that Android 4.4, or KitKat, would be available at some point in October. At the time, it said that Google only knew the date, but a number of teases out of the candy maker seems to suggest that it knows more than it was letting on.

    On October 15, the official KitKat Twitter page sent out an innocuous Tweet featuring a KitKat Bugdroid busting a move:

    Many took it as just a nice bit of social media relations, but the conspiracy theorists that lurk on the Internet went much deeper. They theorized that the tweet was a thinly veiled announcement of Android 4.4’s release date using two facts. The song, “Gonna Make You Sweat,” which the tweet references was released by C+C Music Factory on October 18. The group was also formerly known as The 28th Street Crew. Put two and two together and you get a release date of October 28.

    Now, that might seem a little silly, but it’s apparent that these Internet sleuths were onto something. Just five hours ago, the KitKat Twitter account tweeted this out:

    Not only is the tweet encouraging people to look for “the signs,” but the image is a reference to the Michael Jackson album and documentary of the same name. When was This Is It released? October 28.

    With both of these teases, Android fans are now confident that Google is going to release Android 4.4 on October 28. We’re also likely to see the Nexus 5 and Nexus 10 on the same date.

    It’s worth reminding fans to keep their expectations in check. This could be nothing more than social media chatter from a brand that’s having way too much with its new association with Google’s mobile OS. That being said, it seems almost too deliberate at this point so we’ll just have to wait and see.

    [h/t: Droid-Life]
    [Image: KitKat/Twitter]

  • Nestle Says Android 4.4 Will Be Out In October

    Earlier this month, Google announced that the next version of Android would be called KitKat. Beyond the name and the announcement of a partnership with Nestle, Google didn’t say much else about it. Most importantly, we weren’t given a release date. Google isn’t saying anything, but Nestle is.

    Earlier this week, the KitKat Facebook fan page for Germany shared the following update:

    Post by Kit Kat.

    If you can’t read German, that’s fine. The post isn’t what’s important. The important bits lie in the comments. After one fan asked when Android 4.4 would be available, Nestle’s German Facebook team said that it would be available in October. It reconfirmed the October launch month multiple times throughout the comments as more people asked for confirmation.

    Later in the comments, one person asked if Nestle knew when Android 4.4 would launch in October. Nestle’s social media team responded in English with, “Maybe you should ask Google directly. They know the answer.”

    In other words, we now know that Android 4.4 will be launching in October, but we don’t know the day. Of course, the launch date makes sense as Android 4.2 and the Nexus 4 both launched in October of last year. That hopefully means that Google will launch the Nexus 5 alongside Android 4.4 next month.

    We may now know the launch month of Android 4.4, but its new features remain shrouded in mystery. I took a stab at what Google may be planning with its latest version of Android, but we won’t know for sure until Google decides to lift the veil.

    [Image: Kit Kat/Facebook]
    [h/t: Droidlife]

  • Lean Cuisine Recall: Glass Found In Ravioli

    If you’re a fan of Lean Cuisine meals, pay attention: there’s been a recall on the brand’s mushroom ravioli due to customer reports of glass in the food. No injuries have been reported.

    The Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli meal has been subjected to an immediate recall by Lean Cuisine makers Nestle and affects over 500,000 packages. Lean Cuisine asks customers who have already bought the food to contact customer service at (866) 586-9424 or leancuisine@casupport.com to receive a replacement coupon.

    “This is an unusual complaint for us because we don’t have glass in our factories. We have a no-glass policy,” Nestle spokesperson Roz O’Hearn said. “We are very committed to food safety.”

    The meals have production codes of 2311587812 and 2312587812. These codes can be found on the gray “proof of purchase” panel on the side of the box.

    The company made a statement in the recall, saying, Nestle is dedicated to food quality, and the health and safety of its consumers. For these reasons, the company initiated this recall. We apologize to our retail customers and consumers and sincerely regret any inconvenience created by this voluntary product recall.

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  • Nestle Forgets That Every Dude in a Bear Suit Kind of Looks Like Pedobear

    Although Nestle claims that they had no idea one of their recent Facebook uploads resembled an internet icon of pedophilia, it’s incredibly difficult to believe that nobody on the social media team had an “Oh sh*t” moment before posting.

    Nestle Australia & New Zealand, in an effort to promote their Kit Kat candy bar online, dressed a guy up in a bear suit, gave him two Kit Kat “drumsticks,” and sat him in front of a drum set. They snapped a photo of the bear and uploaded it to Instagram, and finally shared the photo to their nearly 180,000 Facebook fans.

    The only problem with the photo was that the drumming bear looks pretty dead on Pedobear, which most of you probably know is the mascot for lewd and lascivious behaviors towards minors.

    “Drum roll please – Kit Kat is on Instagram,” said the caption of the photo:

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    “We produced this photo – of a real guy in a bear suit – to launch Instagram through our Facebook community,” said Nestle. “The picture is not Pedobear. We had never heard of Pedobear. But when the possibility of its similarity to the so-called ‘Pedobear’ was raised with us, we immediately removed it.”

    Maybe I just spend too much time on the internet…but really?

    Sometimes, I guess, it helps to hire someone who would know these kinds of things. Which I’m assuming is most people under the age of thirty, and 85% of people who own a computer. C’mon, Nestle – get your sh*t together.

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    [via TheAge]