As we told you this morning, Four Peaks Brewing Co. in Tempe, Arizona, has decided to release its Pumpkin Porter a little bit early this year because, as head brewer Andy Ingram said in a statement, “By any measure, summer 2020 has sucked. At this point, everyone’s over 2020. We just want the year to end. We may still…

I’m not vegetarian, but my Taco Bell order is. I always get a quesarito (no beef, add beans, add potatoes), a spicy potato soft taco, and a cheesy potato burrito (no beef, add beans). Other items come and go, but these three are forever—well, until August 13, when every single one will be discontinued.

For the past few months, I’ve been having a hell of a time getting anything done. How can I be productive if I have this one little thing in my brain that I cannot get out? And that one little thing... is a soft pretzel. I’m sure many of you can relate to this, which is why I’m happy to report that pretzel purveyor…

Here at The Takeout, we know more than a thing or two about the intersection of dog and human food. Whether you wish to serve your pet a gourmet meat-and-vegetable medley or a colorful frozen dessert—or just stick to kibble—the point is that we want what’s best for our companions. Potbelly Sandwich Shop understands…

Remember Michelle from North Carolina? She was the TikTok user who set off an international incident by demonstrating how to make “British hot tea” that involved heating up water in the microwave and then dunking the tea bag. Eventually the British ambassador to Washington, D.C., was forced to weigh in and recruit…

One of the great challenges of the pandemic has been how to gauge safety in the absence of guidance and enforcement from people in positions of authority. A good portion of us seem to be doing the best we can with balancing a life stuck at home against the risks of going out to eat, shop, and exercise. But then…

Well, you did know it was coming, right? If you’re going to be eating out in the pandemic, you probably want to be as isolated from other people as possible. Restaurants around the world have been trying various methods: mini greenhouses and bell jars, handing over food on long boards, mannequins and ghosts at empty…

Starbucks has already teased the August return of its Pumpkin Spice Latte, ever a harbinger of the oversaturation of autumnal marketing to come. (Remember when Starbucks used to wait until September to push it on us? The simpler days of 2017!) But while there’s still a few more weeks until the official #PSL rollout,…

The mere words Moosewood Cookbook feel like a time portal back to the ’70s, the age of long-haired hippies in overalls and bell-bottoms and clogs who cooked up large pots of vegetable curries and brown rice to feed everybody in the co-op. Dinner would be followed by a leisurely passing of the joint and then cleanup by…

It was the dawn of the 21st century and I was starring in a community theater production of Over The Tavern, a Catholic family comedy/drama written by Tom Dudzick set in 1950s Buffalo. It’s a family dysfunction tale, any community theater’s bread and butter: two sparring parents and four children, each with their own…

Just a few days ago we wrote about how Taco Bell announced that changes in people’s work schedules and commutes had led to a decrease in breakfast and late night customers, both of which had previously been lucrative demographics for the franchise. As it turns out, those pandemic-related commuting disruptions are…

When we think about the death of someone who prepares our food, it’s likely to be on a personal level. We wonder whether their store or restaurant might close, what will happen to their family and employees, and how things might carry on in their absence. What we likely don’t ask ourselves, though, is this: What…

There are tea countries and there are coffee countries. Japan is most emphatically a tea country. In the 1970s, Nestle marched in with coffee, determined to change the collective Japanese mind. Nestle was armed to the teeth with test marketing studies that showed how good the coffee was and how much people liked it,…