As with many things in America, the Black customers, workers, and franchise owners of McDonald’s have a much different experience with the fast food chain than their white counterparts do. This was made apparent last week when two Black franchise owners filed a lawsuit against the fast food chain for racial…

For decades now, a new Starbucks popping up means one thing: Well, there goes the neighborhood. The ubiquitous Seattle-based chain is nearly synonymous with gentrification in urban areas. Now one of the largest capitalist enterprises of all time is trying to undo that reputation with an increased push for “community…

We’ve all been there: waiting for a pot to boil on the stove, wondering why it’s taking forever, only to realize we’ve forgotten to turn the fire on. Isn’t that the worst? Turns out, no. The worst is when you’re an ancient human and your cooking tools, which are rocks, explode.

Hello and good morning. It’s January 17, 2020, and today we’re thinking about MC Hammer again. Yes, the ’90s rapper with the parachute pants. Who will be in a 2020 Cheetos Super Bowl commercial. In it, the Frito-Lay brand imagines the role Cheetos played in hip-hop history: it’s 1989, and MC Hammer sits in front of…

One can get finicky with pan sauces. (I, for one, am guilty of this.) Various thickening agents, aromatics, and even cream all bring certain charms to the pan, but my favorite (and incidentally easiest) pan sauce to make is mostly butter.

Subway Sally is far from the only stray dog in Portales, New Mexico, but she’s definitely the smartest. Every night for the past year she’s dropped by the Subway where, she’s learned, the employees will give her a nice dinner if she looks up at them with big eyes and wags her tail appealingly. They’re the ones who…

If you have yet to try the Popeyes chicken sandwich for fear that it may be sold out or that you might get shot, worry no more: After months of madness, Carrols Restaurant Group—owner of more than 1,000 Popeyes and Burger King locations—says that sales of the chicken sandwich have finally stabilized.

Necco is like a cockroach infestation or the demon from the Paranormal Activity movies: you think it’s gone for good, and then it shows up in your kitchen again.

You know when a recipe instruction is total bullshit? When it says something like, “grab four large potatoes and a medium onion.” What do these measurements even mean?!? I’ve seen potatoes the size of a small cat before—is that the standard for large potatoes? Is it just the biggest potato I can find in the bin, or is…

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There is nothing good about Hot Pockets, and I am saying this as a person who, for some reason, enjoys a Hot Pocket every now and again. Have I ever been under the impression they were good? No. I have always known what I was getting into and have always understood the consequences. Hot Pockets are not so much a food…

It turns out that celebrities continue to exist and live their lives even long after we’ve stopped checking in on what that might entail. For Paris Hilton in 2020, life has involved releasing a context-free one-off cooking show on her YouTube channel simply titled “Cooking with Paris.” And she’s going to show us how…

Connoisseurs of Kit Kat know that there is a sharp division between the Kit Kats of the good old U.S.A., produced by Hershey, and the Kit Kats in the rest of the world, produced by Nestlé. We hear about how you can get wasabi and sake and strawberry Kit Kats in every run-of-the-mill convenience store in Japan (which…

It might surprise you to learn that microwave popcorn hasn’t been around that long. The first bag was patented by General Mills in 1981, and brands have been furiously tinkering with their recipes ever since. Popping popcorn has always been pretty easy (oil, kernels, stir), but moving the process into the microwave…

In the gig economy, getting paid is half the battle. Instacart, an online grocery delivery service, is the latest of the food delivery apps to face backlash from workers, many of whom claim their earnings have dropped by as much as 50% in just the last year alone.