The only way popular culture can exist in 2019 is to remake established hits from the 80's and 90's. About this time last year, Weezer released one of their biggest hits in nearly two decades—a cover of Africa’s Toto (for my money, this is the superior cover version). Top Gun is coming back. And... oh god... Cats is…

Under the Golden Arches, the winds of change are a’blowing. As McDonald’s looks to keep pace with the competition and further automate the whole fast food process, it’s also been making numerous changes to its menu options, for reasons both economic and health-conscious. Already McDonald’s has removed cheeseburgers…

Jam is a delicious cocktail ingredient, and even the tiniest bit can color and flavor a boozy beverage for the better—even the sticky, residual bit that clings to the jar in defiance of any knife, refusing to take its place on toast. As our luck would have it, ethanol has a way of dissolving such sugary substances,…

Sometimes, a situation escalates far too quickly, with only the slightest provocation. In these cases, that provocation can be as simple as a dispute over three slices of bologna.

Update, July 19, 2019: A month after Krystal announced its $5.99 unlimited burgers and fries promotion, Restaurant Business reports that it’s gone over well enough to warrant an extension. The bottomless dine-in-only deal will now be available through the end of August.

Eleven years of Catholic school had lasting effects on me, most of which I’m still working through with my therapist. Some of its more benign legacies include my ability to sing the third verse of obscure Christmas songs, my affection for sweater vests, and my recall of random Biblical passages. There’s no passage I…

At certain restaurants, guests go into a meal knowing they’ll take home leftovers. It’s the entire premise of Olive Garden’s “Buy One, Take One” special, in which diners get an entree at the restaurant and one to take home, starting at $12.99. But all those doggie bags add up to a lot of packaging; why can’t customers…

Sometimes, the headlines write themselves!

You may raise an eyebrow at single-subject cookbooks: “Am I really going to make enough cake pops to justify an entire book on the subject?” (I owned the cake pop cookbook. I made them once and donated the book thereafter.)

Basil is one of the easiest herbs to grow at home, thriving even in small containers on apartment fire escapes. If you subsequently find yourself with a bumper crop of your own—or you just went on an herb shopping spree at the farmer’s market—then you’ve made your fair share of pesto pasta and pesto pizza. What else…

Dear Salty, Some friends and I went to a music festival last weekend. The first night, after we’d been drinking and standing all day, we were starving and tried to order some sandwiches from a BBQ vendor at the festival. There was a long line, and when we got to the front, they told us they were out of most of their…

Don’t blink. Seriously. In the time it takes you to draw half a breath or sneeze, you’ll miss the entirety of this machine solving a Rubik’s cube. At just 0.38 seconds from the moment a keypress is registered by a computer to the final turn of the cube, it’s the record for fastest machine solve. (The human record…

In America, most popular does not usually mean the best. Leno did better ratings than Letterman. Spice Girls and Sleater-Kinney both had albums come out in 1997 and Spice sold 70 more times than Dig Me Out. And when it comes to chicken, breast has inexplicably been America’s preferred chicken cut, despite it being the…