Yesterday I failed.
Twice. Once I tried to get too creative with baked falafel. Then I tried to get creative with blueberry muffins.
My falafel is in the garbage. The muffins are edible, but I would never let anyone else eat them. At least they photographed well decently ok in the right light.
#fail
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I did have a good run – fastest pace ever in a non-race run! It had been a while since I’d run in my Newtons and I definitely giving them credit. As advertised, I could feel them propel me forward. (Previous review here.)
Newton Motion
Stats:
- Distance – 4 miles
- Time – 31:56
- Average Pace – 7:56
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In lieu of a recipe (trust me – you don’t want either of the afore mentioned), I want to write about a consumer win.
Do you ever wonder if companies are listening to consumers? Apparently Chipotle is!
Thanks to the power of social media, Twitter, and one pro-active consumer, Chipotle will be changing their menus to make consumers aware that their pinto beans are prepared with bacon.
Seth Porges, a non-pork eating customer, discovered the beans were made with pork product (bacon) and tweeted his displeasure.
Within 2 hours the CEO of f Chipotle, Steve Ells, called Porges to apologize and rectify the situation.
Source: The Consumerist
To read the full story, click here.
Pretty cool, right?
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I’m constantly impressed with the company responses I receive via Twitter.
Have you ever received a company response via Twitter?
Is anyone unpleasantly surprised about the bacon in those beans?
Oh the trials and tribulations of a foodie. One day we should dedicate a post to all the posts that don’t make it on our sites – I think we could all relate and get a good chuckle. I so understand days like these but the funny thing is, we are so much harder on ourselves than our audience is on us… Congratulations on your pace – have not seen Newtons before (other than the fig form 🙂 but am heading to the States next week… must investigate!! Any good cross-training shoe suggestions?
Shoes are really personal. I strongly recommend going to your local running store and letting them fit you. Mine hasn’t steered me wrong yet! And – if you go toward the end of the season – you can usually get a discount of older models. 🙂
I think it’s great that you blogged not one but two things that didn’t turn out the way you wanted. You can never get “too creative” with food, if you ask me. Definitely not a failure, you just found out what DOESN’T work.
Great run! I’ve been thinking about giving Newtons a shot.
Love the way you put that! It’s just like Edison’s quote, “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that don’t work.” 😀
At least the pictures were ok Laura 🙂 & it’s way awesome that Chipotle responded SO quickly! Very cool indeed
I love that quote!
I have many, many muffin failures.
I’ve received a response from Piedmont Park and Willy’s on Twitter. Just a response to a question though. Oh and Abbaddabba’s told me to go to the gym (when I said, make me go to the gym) and then come into their store and buy shoes. I was pretty tickled by that.
I think falafel is just something you have to get at a restaurant 😉
For fried, I totally agree. But I really love my homemade baked sweet potato falafel!
Well done Chipotle! Perhaps you could now ask them on twitter to start making felafel too? 😉
That is an impressive response! I’m even more glad to hear that disclosing non-vegetarian products on their menu is important to Chipotle. So many companies are clueless about the seriousness of diet choices.
Oh yeah, you need to let customers know that! Glad they reacted quickly. Don’t worry about the muffin fail. We’ve all been there.
Go Seth, that’s awesome! I’m glad someone else has failures in the kitchen once in a while… and I thought you were invincible! 😉
First off – awesome time with that run! Speedy!!
I think it is awesome how quickly Chipotle responded. I reached out to Honda Customer Service on twitter when my old car was being fixed (under warranty) and they wouldn’t give me a loaner. The problem was resolved 🙂 🙂
Very interesting article about Chipotle, thanks for sharing. I am impressed that they responded so quickly and are doing something to rectify the situation. Personally, I have always known there is pork in their pinto beans, because as a vegetarian I asked! (which this guy prob should have done too) But overall it’s good to know some big chains really do care about their customers. 🙂
How many tries does it take before you post a new recipe? I’m always impressed by the creativity, and know you don’t have all day to spend in the kitchen.
Nice run! Seems like everyone who wears Newtons swear they will never go back to regualr running shoes.
And wow, I can’t believe Chipotle overlooked that disclosure. So many people don’t eat pork for religious regions.
Thank you!! For baking, it usually take 3-4 tries. “Cooking” is different since it doesn’t have to be so precise and is more about flavor profiles. I will post those after just a couple (or one the first try if it’s really good!).
Don’t feel bad girl – I had the worst veggie experience last night when cooking dinner for company…everything else was great, amazing – but oh man…didn’t even take a picture…let’s just say dont mix sugar snap peas and corn…YUCK….and then don’t add black beans to make it better…YUCK YUCK.
Super interesting about Chipolte!
I just tweeted about Steaz Tea and I took a picture with me holding my tea and they responded and reposted my photo to their twitter followers! It was SO cool!
P.S. I had a killer run yesterday too – 3 miles in 25 minutes
xoxo from Trinidad
Cool! Gotta love Chipotle 🙂
I think the age of Twitter has allowed companies and consumers to interact my closely and quickly. Where else can you get real time results? E-mail was good, but Twitter is better. What could be the next social media innovation?
Also props to Chipoltle for so quickly making the changes that they felt would affect their consumers.
Wow, awesome run!! That’s a killer pace! And don’t feel bad about the baking fails. I’ve had many, MANY of those!
Sorry to hear about your kitchen fails today! We all have them though!!
And how great of Chipotle to act to fix the bean issue so quickly. They seem like such a good company.
aweee i wish the muffins tasted better that they look- cuz they look pretty lovely!! no worries, i forsee some baking masterpieces in the near future!! <3
Oh no, sorry to hear about your kitchen fails! I have certainly been there so don’t feel bad m’dear 🙂
That’s pretty cool the company fixed the problem like that, I have never been contacted via twitter!
Hi Laura,
I hopped on over from your comment on Holly’s blog 🙂
I’m flying home to the States on Wednesday! When my mom asked what I wanted to dinner on Wed my choice was clear – Mexican! Chipotle is on the menu [fast, easy, good – after 10 hours of flying!] This post makes me love them even more!
As much as I love pizza – I miss Mexican in Europe 🙂
Thanks for stopping by! I’m digging your blog and am green with envy that you get to live abroad. 🙂