The aftermath of the protests this weekend against police brutality and the death murder of George Floyd has been horrible to watch. Let me be clear: not the protests. The violent aftermath, which in many cases was not initiated by the protesters.

It’s really easy to lose track of time these days, so you may be forgiven for forgetting that this Thursday, June 4, is National Cheese Day. But the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin have not forgotten, and they’re throwing a party to celebrate.

We at The Takeout field PR emails for new fast food items and grocery products all the livelong day, but not every debut is worth informing the public about with all due haste. Today, however, we received one that feels important, one that promises a solution to an age-old problem that both I and others have tried to…

Update, June 1, 2020: It brought us no joy to report last month that grocery prices were spiking due to COVID-induced disruptions in the supply chain. And now, according to the Associated Press, some of those higher food prices could be here to stay.

Luckin Coffee was founded in 2017 with the goal of surpassing Starbucks in China by the end of 2019. In December, it had apparently succeeded: it had 4,910 locations in China to Starbucks’ 4,300. But in April, Luckin revealed that its fabulous success had been a fake. In 2019 its executives had fabricated the…

Even if you’ve never eaten at a Subway, you are inevitably aware of its signature sandwich deal: the $5 footlong. A catchy years-long commercial jingle coupled with a simple finger-splayed dance all but guaranteed we’d be singing about this lunch special for decades to come, and even though the $5 has been retired for…

Salad for breakfast seems like a paradoxical concept whose design exists solely to annoy you. Salad is, after all, decidedly not a breakfast item. None of us have fond memories of finishing our morning salad in a hurry, then running out the front door to catch the school bus. None of us can recall a leisurely…

Beyond all the obvious ways that the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on our lives, there are a million small changes to daily life that have cropped up almost without our realizing it. When is the last time that a friendly wholesale warehouse associate offered you some bite-sized corn dog nibblers or a tiny,…

It used to be there was nothing I loved more than an impromptu afternoon grocery shop. But in the age of COVID-19, grocery shopping no longer feels like a fun distraction. So I’ve changed my mindset. I now think of my grocery runs like a football play: something I carefully plan but then adjust in the moment.…

We weren’t born yesterday. We know that these maps listing the most popular X type of food by state, released every so often by various consumer research firms, are usually baffling and suspicious for any number of reasons. Typically, we question their methodology: Does Wyoming, for example, really purchase more chocol…

For someone with a sweet tooth who demands instant gratification and gets bored with extended baking projects, there is no better spending-a-day-inside-at-home activity than baking cookies. Most cookies require less than an hour of measuring, mixing, and scooping. The process is simple enough that kids can join in,…

All week long, but today especially, it’s been hard to look away from the news from Minneapolis. Since The Takeout is a food site, we view the world through the prism of food. And so we’ll leave you with this Facebook post from Hafsa Islam, whose father Ruhel’s restaurant, Gandhi Mahal on 27th Avenue South in…

While the U.S. is slowly starting to think about what it will mean to reopen businesses, major questions persist about the safety and feasibility of hosting large events. This seems to be particularly true of festivals centered around food, beer, and wine, where close contact between attendees is unavoidable and…

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