It’s a drizzly day and you’re hanging out the cemetery, reading Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find and minding your own business. Out of the corner of your eye you see a group of people cooking out like it’s a public holiday. Is this normal, cemetery-appropriate behavior?
Our Place Restaurant in Mansfield, Texas, recently posted a surveillance video that showed a young customer taking a five-dollar bill left on the table by a previous customer and hiding it under her children’s menu. As Fox4 in North Texas reports, the video “generated a lot of response, and the tip money was even…
Earlier this year, we wrote about two Aldi spirits—Highland Black Scotch Whisky and Glen Marnoch Islay Single Malt—that swiped awards at an international spirits competition. In that piece, we also bemoaned the fact that we, humble U.S.-based writers that we are, cannot enjoy said spirits, because Aldi doesn’t sell…
I love beverage packaging innovations, because I am a huge dork. You already knew this. But here’s what you may not have known: Ball Corporation has introduced a gizmo called the Strawster, an aluminum can that releases a three-folded-inside plastic straw when its tab is popped. Neat-o!
It is 10:34 a.m., Central Standard Time. I have just ordered a McDonald’s breakfast sandwich and fries, to be delivered to my home, for journalism.
Spending your money on ripe sour cherries is a serious commitment. For me, the promise of cherry pie doesn’t outweigh the pressure to pit and/or freeze several pounds of very expensive fruit before it turns to soup, which happens seemingly overnight—but apparently, the promise of a marinated beet salad sure does.
Thanks to Food And Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb, I am now haunted by the image of an almond with tiny, tiny udders. Thanks for nothing, dude.
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Bad news, bacon fans: Some disturbing news this morning from a study at Johns Hopkins regarding a tie between people who experience manic episodes and the consumption of processed meat products—such as lunchmeat, bacon, and jerky. The study states: “An analysis of more than 1,000 people with and without psychiatric…
A lot of us have hobbies, but Ashrita Furman’s is a bit more interesting than most. The 56-year-old health-food store manager from Queens, billed as “Mr. Versatility” on his website, he has set hundreds of world records, and more than 100 stand to this day. Granted, some of these feats are of his own design. Like his…
D-R-A-M-A! The craaazy Papa John’s story gets even juicier today, as sources say Wendy’s and Papa John’s were talking about merging—FOR REAL!—before disgraced founder John Schnatter said all that racist shit. HERE ARE THE DEETS:
The year 2008 was when I first noticed chefs performing chef-y things to a burger. It seemed like forever ago, but it was only 10 years back—a blip in our celestial existence—when the idea that a hamburger could be high art was still a novelty. Outside a handful of steakhouses that could repurpose trimmings and scraps…
Traditional scrapple is polarizing. People who love it, really love it. And people who don’t, well, dry heave at the mere mention of it. The classic version, credited to the Pennsylvania Dutch, is made with off-cuts, trimmings, and offal of a pig—boiled, then chopped. Cornmeal and seasonings are stirred into the…
I think it was when Martha Stewart reached her pre-prison heyday that I started purchasing unsalted butter exclusively. I remember her saying on her TV show, which I watched every Sunday morning like domestic church, something about how it was her secret to everything. Since most of Martha’s recipes featured butter…
It’s usually around this time of year that summer is halfway through and I realize I haven’t checked out near enough bands yet. So then I usually go on a but of a tear. Last night, I was lucky enough to catch Panic! At The Disco at the United Center and was frankly blown away. Brendon Urie puts on a hell of a show,…
The whole reason Papa “John” Schnatter found himself in this PR catastrophe, one that has left him disowned and evicted from the Papa John’s headquarters, as well as practically scrubbed from the University of Louisville’s campus, is because he allegedly said “Colonel Sanders called blacks niggers” on a conference…
Anova dominates the sales charts, but in many ways (raw heating power, looks, size, software quality), the Joule sous-vide circulator is actually the superior product, and it’s cheaper than ever for Prime Day.
Hey, you guys remember malls? Those places with the Spencer Gifts and Fashion Bugs and K-B Toys? Remember how we used to fart around there for a few hours while dad melted into the massage chairs at The Sharper Image?
We human beings sure love our dopey dessert trends, don’t we? As it happens, one of the latest, frozen cereal treat Dragon’s Breath—also called Dragon Breath, Heaven Breath, nitro puffs, snow balls, and other such things—is, um, kind of dangerous. That’s the official word from the Missouri Poison Center, which this…
