Baseball Popcorn Tins“0 Comments”
steve | 11:27 pm | October 21, 2007 | Gifts for Sons, Popcorn, Gifts for Dads, Gifts for Friends, Gifts for Sports Fans
As I write this, the Boston Red Sox are up 5-2 in the bottom of the 8th in Game 7 of the 2007 ALCS. With all respect to Yogi, I think it’s over. So I will go ahead and write my blog entry now, and write my congratulations to the Red Sox and the Rockies.
It should be an interesting Series. As you’re rooting on your favorite team in the 2007 World Series, why not celebrate with an official licensed Major League Baseball Popcorn Tin from The Popcorn Factory?
Or, if you know someone (oh, say the writer of this blog) who is still in mourning after watching their young pitching phenom attacked by bugs, or if you know someone who watched their team crumble towards the end of the season or someone who watched their team get swept, swept, swept, or swept, why not buy them a popcorn tin of their own fulled with delicious popcorn? They can drown their sorrows in the delicious caramel, butter, and cheddar cheese flavored popcorn, and maybe that can help them get through the long, dark winter until pitchers and catchers in February.
The Popcorn Factory has a deal and a half on one tin in particular. Since The Popcorn Factory is based in Chicago, it appears that they may have produced a wee bit too many Chicago Cubs tins with special blue and red colored popcorn. The popcorn is actually butter flavored (the red and blue is food coloring), and is completely fresh and delicious. These tins would certainly have been part of many Chicago celebrations had the Cubs made it to the NLCS and the World Series. But alas, the celebrations will have to wait another year, and the popcorn can’t. So you can get a huge tin of Chicago Cubs red and blue popcorn, ordinarily $21.99, for only $10.99.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2007: Part Two“0 Comments”
steve | 6:38 pm | October 7, 2007 | Gifts for Mom, Electronics, Gifts for Daughters, Gifts for Nieces, Gift Baskets, Chocolate, Snack Food
Two of Fannie May’s signature products, which have been sensations in the Chicago area for decades, and are now starting to be discovered by the rest of the country, are their Mint Meltaways and their Pixies.
Mint Meltaways are small, bite-size square chocolates that have a rich, chocolate center, surrounded by a minty outer shell. 
Pixies are a mouth-watering blend of milk chocolate, silky caramel, crunchy pecans, covered by an outer chocolate shell.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Fannie May has produced two pink versions of these signature chocolates. 10% of proceeds will go to support Chicagoland cancer organizations, including the Cancer Wellness Center, the Jennifer S. Fallick Cancer Support Center, Wellness House, Wellness Place and Gilda’s Club Chicago. And thanks to the generosity of The Coleman Foundation, your 10% will be matched by another 10%, for a total of 20% that will be donated.
As much of a Chicago treasure that Fannie May Chocolates is, Cheryl&Co Cookies are equally a treasure in the state of Ohio. Their Cookies for a Cure collection contains six incredible assortments of bakery-fresh cookies, brownies and cakes, snacks, and gift baskets. And of course, their famous frosted cut-out cookies.
You can choose an entire sampler of tasty treats, or get a box of their heart-shaped frosted cut-out cookies. They’re all dressed up in pink to support breast cancer research at two distinguished cancer research and treatment organizations in Ohio: the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and the Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University.
Last, but certainly not least, Problem Solvers by Plow & Hearth has this great pink desk lamp. A stylish way to remind yourself or a loved one to support breast cancer research and to get screened for the disease once a year.
10% of proceeds go to the National Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Everyone here at 1-800-Flowers.Com, Inc. is pleased to be part of the nationwide campaign to strike out breast cancer. Even if you don’t send one of the gifts above, we do urge you to please donate generously to the causes listed above, and to remind yourself or the important women in your life, especially those over 40, to get screened for breast cancer early.