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Jan 27, 2014 I was shocked to find out how absolutely delicious they were! I bet they would’ve been even better sprinkled with Wisconsin Romano Cheese. I just knew it! Fast-forward several years to the creation of this cheesy and dreamy Romano and Roasted Brussels Sprout Mac and Cheese.
Kraft Foods is resurrecting a childhood game and adding a modern social media element — Twitter — to get people talking about macaroni and cheese.
Under a new program quietly rolled out over the past few weeks, any time two people individually use the phrase 'mac & cheese' in a tweet, they’ll each get a link pointing out the “Mac & Jinx.” The first one to click the link and give Kraft his or her address gets five free boxes of Kraft's mac and cheese and a T-shirt.
The Mac & Jinx promotion is the latest offbeat effort for the brand from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the envelope-pushing ad agency behind Burger King’s advertising over the past decade or so and Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunters” campaign, among others. Crispin’s other work for Kraft includes TV ads showing kids complaining that their parents eat their macaroni and cheese dinners and outdoor ads that reacted to consumers’ facial expressions.
The agency and the brand’s entry into Twitter comes as marketers have been generally slow to realize the platform’s potential, usually tacking on a Twitter component to a Facebook-heavy campaign. One exception is Energizer, whose fall 2010 campaign sought to respond to and alleviate irritated Twitter users on behalf of the brand’s Edge Shave Gel.