In 2013 Spuds Ventures swooped in to take ownership of Spuds.
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" Bud Light, "Ghost Spuds": "Bud Light is bringing back its iconic 1980s mascot, Spuds Mackenzie, sort of.
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Bud Light's "Ghost Spuds" Bud Light's commercial brings iconic '80s dog Spuds MacKenzie back from the dead to help Brian learn to share the beer with friends.
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Stolberg traveled with Spuds for appearances and guided the character's "development," a key part of which was the unstinting idea that Spuds was not actually a dog, but a man.
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Just two months after this, Spuds ran into trouble in Ohio, where a law prohibiting the use of Santa in alcohol marketing (really) mandated the recall of Bud Light packaging featuring Spuds dressed as Mr. Claus.
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Spuds Ventures says it currently owns the rights to the beer-drinking party dog from the late '80s, and Anheuser-Busch completely screwed them by bringing Spuds back for a Super Bowl 51 ad without getting permission.
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Spuds was the creation of Needham, Harper & Steers, a Chicago ad agency.
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The Spuds backlash began less than a year after the animal's debut.
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Around 53m tonnes of spuds are harvested in the EU each year.
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"Spuds was kind to everyone," a neighbor, Priscilla Jasso, told PEOPLE in 1993.
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Inside this softest of spuds was a hidden reservoir of gooey melted cheese.
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But until now, these spiced spuds have left fans out in the cold.
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Anheuser-Busch pivoted, first changing the tone of Spuds' campaign — a 1989 Super Bowl ad featured Spuds playing, bizarrely, slide guitar, with no alcohol in sight; the tagline was "Know when to say when" — then limiting the animal's appearances altogether.
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But what if it was made with tater tots instead of plain ol' spuds?
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This Thanksgiving, Milano, 30, used his spuds to sculpt a perfect, miniature Tesla Cybertruck.
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If the spuds are too warm, the mayo can lose its texture and turn oily.
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SV is suing for damages and any profits Anheuser made off its Spuds reboot commercial.
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That means smaller spuds and pressure on supplies for french fry processors, according to Bloomberg.
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That was 13 billion pounds of spuds, down from about 14 billion pounds last year.
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Burnt spuds, overcooked sprouts and dry turkey are just a few of the standard Christmas dinner complaints.
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They look and taste as good accompanied by buttery rice or a chicory salad as by spuds.
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Filled with rich whipped cream, it's the perfect alt-snack in a place famed for its spuds.
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Spuds MacKenzie's return to the Super Bowl in 2017 was appropriate, and likely not an accident of scheduling.
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By 1988, the Times was reporting that at least one school was banning Spuds t-shirts for students.
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That whole episode, they make a reference to Silence of the Lambs, Midnight Cowboy, they have Spuds MacKenzie.
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Bud Light's Super Bowl commercial will bring back retired canine mascot Spuds Mackenzie, who was last seen in 1989.
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Because of their high potassium content, spuds have recently been included as vegetables in the US government meal programs.
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Spuds, however, was a very real dog with the bizarre name of "Honey Tree Evil Eye," or "Evie" for short.
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This simple cooking hack will make your spuds the star of the Thanksgiving table they were always meant to be.
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Take the creamy, salty delight that is macerated spuds and turn it into a vehicle for jazzing up some fresh vegetables.
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But till now it had relied on frozen French fries from the Netherlands and Poland as Russian spuds weren't quite right.
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The spuds were good but that was more of a sour cream, cheddar, and chives thing than an air fryer thing.
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While you're busy pilfering cards and getting rid of enemy spuds, you're actually learning different functions that are commonly used in programming.
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Her first deviation replaces spuds with celeriac and carrots, grated and bound together with a little flour and fried in chickeny schmaltz.
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So if ever you're in a bind at home, you now know that you can use sports equipment to make your spuds.
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In response, other farmers sent their workers and "a ton of members of the community" showed up to save his hard-earned spuds.
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Eggplant Mail may seem reminiscent of Potato Parcel — the company that sends anonymous messages engraved on spuds — and, well, it's basically the same thing.
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According to the docs ... A-B abandoned its Spuds MacKenzie campaign more than 20 years ago amid controversy the dog made beer kid-friendly.
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Regardless of the type of potato, the real trouble with baked spuds always lies in the standard toppings: cheese, butter, sour cream, and bacon.
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Farmer Brook Bybee told KIFI that his team had been working 16-18 hours a day to get all the spuds out of the ground.
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And even if you aren't a gourmet recipe-making goddess, a bowl of saran-wrapped Idaho Spuds isn't exactly going to do the trick either.
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The original Spuds, a bull terrier whose real name was Honey Tree Evil Eye, died in 1993 and was last seen on TV in 1989.
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It all began on Tuesday, when Gallagher announced that he was "looking for somebody to peel some spuds live onstage" at a show that night.
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Whether you're in the mood for a traditional turkey dinner or something a little more out of the Idaho Spuds box, there's an option to suit.
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Billed as the "original party animal," Spuds was an English bull terrier whose presence in the original ads was marked by beautiful women and constant revelry.
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Once the spuds look golden brown, remove from the oil, season liberally with salt while they&aposre still hot, and enjoy your restaurant-quality french fries.
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Not in real life, of course — I've been playing Spaceplan, a simple but strangely engrossing new sci-fi game that has a curious obsession with spuds.
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But the little chef's secret that Matty let us in on was letting the sliced spuds soak in water and a half cup of white vinegar.
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Spuds Ventures says Anheuser only objected last year to its purchase of the dog's rights ... as the brewery was gearing up for its Super Bowl commercial.
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And staying with liquids, do read Jazmine Hughes in The Times, on her collegiate love of cheap beer and Mr. Spuds MacKenzie, the Ayatollah of Partyollah.
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They just look progressively more like the baseball spuds in the original Nintendo RBI Baseball until the whole enterprise is just too oblong to be feasible.
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The Albert Bartlett potato company has an official deal with Twentieth Century Fox to use Matt Damon's face and their Martian movie to sell Albert Bartlett's spuds.
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Say goodbye to leftover fries that taste and feel like cardboard — reheating them in the Ninja Air Fryer puts crispy life back into your cold, sad spuds.
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The ghost of Spuds Mackenzie, Bud Light's previously retired spokesdog, makes his triumphant return to the screen to convince some guy not to be a wet blanket.
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MysteryPotato offers a variety of tubers—from workaday spuds to sweet potatoes, and even a whole bag of Russets—each personalized with a message written in indelible ink.
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The cooking wasn't fancy; it was made for short orders, the frites dumped out of a bag of pre-cut spuds into a sizzling wok full of grease.
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Few things are more satisfying than a baked potato in the winter—but that doesn't mean you should be serving basic-ass, foil-wrapped spuds at Friendsgiving dinner.
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During the making of Gleaners (2001), while examining the potatoes marked too deformed to sell, the director kept three heart-shaped spuds and watched them age, sprout, and shrivel.
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Not only were those components artfully arranged on the plate, they complemented each other beautifully, especially the smoky-salty fish playing off the sweet spuds and tart, vinegary berries.
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Whenever an expo was finished arranging the potatoes on a tray, he or she would hold up a hand and call for a server to take the spuds away.
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Anyone who thinks potatoes are bland has been doing it wrong; high heat in your oven is the key here, and don't be afraid to season these spuds aggressively.
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Spuds' success was such that the Times cited it as a precedent for the increased presence of animals as pitchmen in commercials, for everything from bank certificates to laundry detergent.
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But if there was a power behind the throne of Spuds, it was likely Bill Stolberg, who worked for Fleishman Hillard, the PR firm Anheuser-Busch retained for the campaign.
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Team Space Poop Unification of Doctors (SPUDs), with its "Air-powered Spacesuit Waste Disposal System," and Hugo Shelley's "SWIMSuit - Zero Gravity Underwear for 6 Day Use" were the runners-up.
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Now, those same spuds have leveled up and have gained the ability to introduce you to the scientifically advanced realm of programming in a brand new party game on Kickstarter.
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Spotted by Rachel Lonergan on Twitter, the concoction of deep fried spuds, topped with a very American combination of ranch and liquid, radioactive-looking cheese left people scratching their heads.
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Anheuser-Busch has no business using the ghost of Spuds MacKenzie to sell Bud Light because that doggy don't bark for the beer giant anymore ... according to a new lawsuit.
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At one point, there were rumors that Spuds died, via hot tub electrocution, surrounded by soaking (human) Spudettes, the babe brigade of actresses and models who never left his side.
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Spuds was retired in 1989, in part because of complaints that he appealed too much to children; he returned briefly, as a ghost dog, in a 2017 Super Bowl ad.
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Players can use the cards that they draw to steal each other's cards, attack one another, and unleash devastating combos to destroy their fleet of spuds and come out on top.
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Named for a New York industrial arts teacher who collected early American craft and industry tools, the trove includes everything from bark spuds and froes to twibills and wool wheel fingers.
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French fries are one of my favorite foods so one of the best tricks in my calorie-slashing arsenal is making baked fries with veggies in place of starchy deep-fried spuds.
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On a conveyor belt, 50 flashing cameras captured and sent images of the spuds to an online program that sorted the Carolina Golds by size and quality and kicked them into boxes.
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Spuds, an anthropomorphized bull terrier, was dreamed up by a 20-something advertising exec in the mid-1980s in an attempt to target beer drinkers between the ages of 21 and 34.
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But to revere those figures is too dicey, an endorsement of something I don't even like; Spuds, on the other hand, inspires guiltless admiration, in part because he transcended the human form.
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Idaho: Ice Cream Potato At Westside Drive-InThis state produces the largest number of potatoes in the country, so it should be of no surprise that spuds have extended into the dessert world.
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It may even trigger a round of "why do we need this?" but rest-assured that salty fried spuds wrapped in a starchy bed of cheese, meat, lettuce, and guac is nothing new.
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CNN Business reported Thursday that the company is seeking nearly $150,000 each from four Indian farmers accused of growing the spuds, which are exclusively used by the company for its Lays potato chips.
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According to the Daily Mail, health officials "were astonished to find a filthy, potato-covered tennis racket in a bowl of boiled spuds" in a "filthy bakery" in the London borough of Enfield.
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It's not hard to imagine a man version of Spuds, with the drinking and the girls and the parties, eventually veering into troubling territory, spawning disappointment, outrage and a sea of web reactions.
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Mashed and sweet potatoes Keeps for: Three to four days You'll likely have made them with cream and butter, so you'll need to put the spuds into the fridge within two hours of preparation.
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The potatoes that did manage to survive the bad weather were significantly smaller, which is problematic for french fries specifically because chefs tend to go with longer spuds to create the popular crispy matchsticks.
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Spuds is an extension of my lifelong fascination — envy, even — with the unalloyed levity and audacity found in a certain type of white, straight masculinity: early Beastie Boys, Ferris Bueller, 2011-2013 Justin Bieber.
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This may seem strange, but stay with us... The cooking time for this will depend on the size of your spuds, but be patient, during this process, not to rush and dry out the potatoes.
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Leclercq, however, claimed the Belgian origin is "not plausible" — explaining that potatoes weren't introduced in the region until 1735, and that even then, it would have been unlikely for the Namurois to fry the spuds.
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One group of BC potato growers marketed their misshapen spuds by calling them "Farmer's Keepers," and suggesting these are the prized bounty that farmers feed their own families, according to a report in Canadian Grocer.
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How often have you found yourself scooping bits of chicken or veggies into a pile of smashed spuds just to provide some relief from the sensation of stuffing your face with liquid cement (albeit tasty liquid cement)?
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Very similar to the one reason restaurant fried chicken tastes better than yours, this two-step process ensures that your spuds will cook all the way through, while also achieving that golden-brown-delicious crust that everyone loves.
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But the gangway became the least of the dock's problems when it was dealt another blow the past winter, this one fatal: Around January, the pilings that anchored it to the bed of the bay, called spuds, bent.
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Fast food prices aren't likely to change If all this has you devising a plan to stockpile fries or take to the streets to demand your right to crispy, golden-brown spuds, you can sit tight for now.
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Print-ad campaigns, which easily translated into dorm posters, showed Spuds being inducted into the "college hall of fame," or in a Hawaiian shirt and apron, pouring a beer out of a tap as the Dean of Partyology.
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According to Harbstreet, many people decidedly swear off potatoes because they believe they're too high in carbs (which, FYI, your body needs in order to function), and thus spuds have been blamed for causing weight gain or health issues.
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It is a good day to complete your shopping, as well: the spuds and immense number of dairy products you'll need for the Sweeney potatoes; the sausage, good bread and alliums you'll use for the chorizo stuffing with leeks.
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Earlier this year, the company sold a "Spuglies" brand of bagged potatoes at about 400 stores in three states after a Texas potato supplier was hit by bad weather and suffered a crop of blemished, misshaped and smaller-than-usual spuds.
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Spuds, much like those Vineyard Vines-wearing boys who competed against me in drinking games, emanated a lightness of being that I neither fully understood nor was able to embody, but at times seemed so close I could feel it.
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But it will take work: Not only would it require drastic changes to the way farmers produce one of the world's most common staple crops, but one of the world's major potato buyers, McDonalds, has twice refused to buy genetically modified spuds.
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Perhaps your spuds turned out golden brown and crisp on the outsides, but were still hard and undercooked on the insides (nobody likes al dente potatoes) — or maybe the insides were tender and perfectly cooked, but the outsides were pale and soggy.
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Even our favorite celebrities can't get enough of those delectable fried spuds – From Biebs to Ri Ri, Jessica Simpson to Mariah – We've spotted just about every A-lister munching away over the years – So don't feel guilty for indulging on this important holiday.
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Less than two years after Discovery acquired Scripps to scale its media operations, the $13 billion media conglomerate could already be considered small potatoes compared to big spuds like AT&T ($262 billion), Disney ($212 billion), Comcast ($189 billion), and Netflix ($164 billion).
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If the beer itself tastes like coming home from my Women in World Politics seminar and contemplating apartheid while I wash my hair, then Spuds MacKenzie feels like later that night, unencumbered and unbothered, at the apex of my semiannual foray into a hallway game of flip cup.
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But I found my favorite item — a fashion staple for the person who drinks beer, but doesn't like it — at a vintage store in Los Angeles, a thin white sweatshirt with the Bud Light mascot, muscular, in sunglasses, and hanging 19873 across the back: Spuds MacKenzie, the original party animal.
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