Since it’s my turn on the schedule to do Last Call, I’ve decided to to make this the first installment of what I’m calling “Fun Fact Friday,” in which I tell you something awesome that you can bring up in just about any social situation this weekend. Everyone loves the guy at the party dropping all the dope fun facts.

The mainstreaming of Impossible, Beyond, and other meat alternatives has raised new questions: health questions, business questions, and now, religious questions. For people who adhere to religious dietary guidelines, it’s not entirely clear how these non-meat meats should be categorized. Thankfully, The Washington…

Houston, Texas, served as the backdrop of the third Democratic presidential debates held on Thursday night. It’s the perfect place to talk about sea level rise, the United States’ role as the second-largest oil exporter, frontline communities, a just transition for fossil fuel workers, recovery and managed retreat, or…

While you’ve all been obsessed with guacamole and avocado toast, people on the business side of the food industry have been waiting for the inevitable avopocalpse. Between rising demand, trade and border issues, soaring prices, climate change and violent drug cartels, the economics of avocados have become an…

Last week a raccoon attempted to forage for food in a bird feeder in South Carolina during the middle of Hurricane Dorian and you’ll never believe what happened next! Okay, okay, you will believe because it was completely predictable: Somebody took a video of it and it went viral and we saw it on the Weather Channel…

Keeping up with competitors like Amazon and Target, Walmart is at last rolling out a convenient, subscription-based delivery service. For an annual fee of $98, Supermarket News reports, customers can receive unlimited same-day delivery of close to 100,000 items, like fresh produce, motor oil, Dementor hands, wooden…

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, the sequel to Morgan Spurlock’s groundbreaking 2004 documentary, is out today in theaters and on streaming services. As its subtitle implies, Super Size Me 2 explores the fast-food chicken industry by following Spurlock as he develops his own chicken sandwich restaurant concept, also…

Remember all those times in college when you were so hungover that you couldn’t drag your sorry ass out of bed to the dining hall? Someone at Purdue University remembers those times. Well, okay, that is probably not the only reason Purdue now has robots delivering food on its West Lafayette, Indiana, campus, but it’s…

Yelp has its place. When I’m driving through an unfamiliar part of the vast state in which I live and I need to know where I can grab a ginormous sandwich, it’s a handy tool. The other bells and whistles, I could live without. But Yelp’s rolling out even more features, with Nation’s Restaurants News reporting it will…

Who among us has never spilled coffee all over themselves while driving? It’s a highly relatable error, which is why I’m certain that the passengers on a commercial flight were most definitely cool with their pilot frying the plane’s control panel by spilling coffee all over it. Everyone makes mistakes.

At first blush, you could have taken Taco Bell’s new Toasted Cheddar Chalupa for a phone-it-in “innovation.” Start with a beloved menu item, add cheese. Boom—innovation. But, upon biting into its cheesy, shatter-crisp exterior, I can say: Sometimes the most beautiful things in life are the simplest.

Dear Salty, For my partner’s birthday I’m considering a major splurge: booking reservations at a certain internationally famous, A Chef’s Table-profiled, archetypal farm-to-table restaurant. The prepaid seatings are $278 a pop, which already makes me light-headed. But that’s my problem, and solvable: I just need to…

The first season I watched of The Great British Baking Show was Season 5, the one with Nancy and Chetna and Bingate, and my love was cemented during Week 7 when the contestants had to make kouign amann during the technical challenge. This is because kouign amann is the most enchanting pastry ever invented. It combines…

Twitter, our source for all the most important news in the world, provided us with this gem this afternoon: