In researching this week’s article about edible gold, I wandered down an inexplicable internet alley of gold slime ASMR videos. ASMR stands for Auto-Sensory Meridian Response; it describes the reaction your body has to watching or hearing a certain type of stimuli. I discovered that gold slime videos are an entire…

Big Mama’s And Papa’s Pizzeria is much like any other regional pizza chain, sporting several locations in southern California. This one stands out, though by one special distinction, only available at its Northridge location: It boasts the world’s largest deliverable pizza.

Ben & Jerry’s has made efforts to adapt to the lower-calorie ice cream trend made popular by brands like Halo Top. To that end, B&J just announced four new flavors in its in the Moo-phoria light ice cream line. Cherry Garcia with a Twist, Chocolate Cookie EnlightenMint, Mocha Fudge Brownie, and P.B. Marshmallow Swirl…

British people use words that we don’t use here in the States: lorry, snogging, chuffed. They also have a brand of anchovy paste called “gentleman’s relish,” which is advertised for use on toast or sandwiches. It seems to be one of those Kleenex- or BandAid-like cases, in which a brand name comes to stand in for the…

There’s a hopefully happy end to this story: 50 turtles discovered in a Burger King parking lot were quickly adopted from Richmond Animal Care And Control. A vendor selling them there was doing so illegally, because they were technically too young to be purchased.

Who among us has not said to themselves, “Wow, I’d like this coffee a lot more if it were also wine,” or perhaps “Wow, I’d like this wine a lot more if it were also coffee?” No? Anybody? Bueller?

Who can even remember what their erstwhile New Year’s resolution was for 2018? Ben Cohn can, because he made good on his. The Harrison, Ohio man pledged on January 1, 2018, that he would consume 400 Skyline coney dogs this year, and as of mid-October, he’s already hit his target.

When news of a woman’s lawsuit against LaCroix over its “all-natural” ingredients came to light earlier this month, I lamented a lack of science and reason in the ensuing debate. But we now have some objective findings to discuss, rather than just marketing claims and deliberately frightening headlines about…

My dad was a large, brawny wrestling coach, known to his students and friends alike as “Big I” (the moniker is even on his gravestone). He started cooking rather late in life (I was already in grade school), but once he started, having people over to marvel at his culinary creations—like deep-dish pizza made in a…

Frozen pizza is the bastion of people who have no other alternatives: Too broke or hungry to cough up the dough or wait the 30 minutes for delivery, lacking the ingredients or wherewithal to make their own. For me, frozen pizza conjures up babysitter nights when I was a kid; since my parents were going out, it was one…

Dear Salty: At dinner recently at a nice restaurant in my town, I asked the waiter if it would be possible to substitute certain seafood in the bouillabaisse. I saw that the restaurant had a scallop dish on the menu, so I asked whether I could get scallops in the stew instead of shrimp. He said sure, and I got my…

As an old person, I am usually not down with the youths of today, so I would have been equally flummoxed by the text message Twitter user Satomaa sent her dad. You probably know this already, but apparently “let’s get this bread” is a phrase akin to “let’s go to work,” “let’s go make some money,” and as I like to…

Because our waking life apparently isn’t nightmarish enough, Burger King is out to even rob us of the sweet relief of sleep with its latest Halloween concoction, the Nightmare King. The new burger, which consists of “a quarter pound of flame-grilled beef, a white meat crispy chicken fillet, melted American cheese,…

Well, here’s a new one (to me, at least): The Guardian reports today on “monophagy,” a condition in which a person eats only one food. Similar to Andrew Hawryluk, who apparently ate the same meal at Chipotle in Los Angeles for 186 consecutive days. Or Mike Roman, from Hackensack, New Jersey, who says he has eaten a…