It’ll be interesting to see if, in the coming months, Burrito Pop becomes a household name. The fledgling product hit Kickstarter back in September and has long since blown past its initial fundraising goal of $10,000, with 472 backers so far pledging $28,095—and if you’re looking to gain a piece of the action,…

Did you know that speed-folding pizza boxes was a sport? Neither did I, until today. But then I learned about Randy DeGregorio, a delivery driver for Mezza Luna Pizza in Manalapan, New Jersey, who recently set the new world record by folding 18 pizza boxes in one minute, besting the old record of 14, set a little more…

Pret A Manger exists for just one reason: to feed office workers. It takes literally a minute or even less to walk in, grab a prepackaged sandwich and a bag of chips, run your card through the reader, and walk back out again. There’s no waiting in line to place your order, no repeating your order to an employee who…

If you’re getting tired of your neighborhood getting battered by hurricanes, swarmed by locusts, or spontaneously bursting into flames, you may want to start giving a hoot about climate change. Food production is responsible for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, and since the whole “getting humans to quit…

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, The Takeout is celebrating the nation’s culinary contributions all week long. We hope you enjoy Canada Week.

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, The Takeout is celebrating the nation’s culinary contributions all week long. We hope you enjoy Canada Week.

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, The Takeout is celebrating the nation’s culinary contributions all week long. We hope you enjoy Canada Week.

You can get the classic video game Doom to run on a lot of things: pianos, printers, old Nokia phones, and even electronic pregnancy tests. But one YouTuber decided to flip the script on the ole, “Does it run Doom?” test to ask the heroic question: How many potatoes do you need to generate enough electricity for a…

October has been pleasantly mild (at least in the North), and without the autumnal chill in the air, it somehow doesn’t feel as perfect watching a horror movie in anticipation of Halloween. Am I the only one who feels this way? When it’s warm outside, I don’t want to hunker down on the couch with a blanket ready to…

When celebrated chef Floyd Cardoz died this past March as a result of COVID-19, the outpouring of grief reflected the impact he had made on so many people. While many are familiar with Cardoz because of his TV appearances—he competed on Top Chef and won Top Chef Masters—he was an absolute legend in New York and…

I don’t usually like to spoil the ending of these videos, but it’s the journey—not the destination—that makes this particular taste test so “fun” (for you, not me). It’s been a while since I taste-tested, but back in the day I was known as the “nation’s leading Oreo journalist.” (At least least that’s how I thought of…

Back in my day, Catholic kids were forced to live under the wrathful eye of God who judged everything we did, just waiting for us to screw up so he could brutally punish us “for funzies.” (Gen. 51:1) Nowadays, kids have this cutesy “Elf on a Shelf” malarkey that promises them presents and good feelings, and this is…

Hormel, of meat and chili fame, definitely knows how to surprise us. Last year, it released Pumpkin Spice Spam, and the response to this genius seasonal release was overwhelmingly positive (it sold out very quickly). This year, Hormel is going in a sartorial direction with Breathable Bacon, a face mask that is not…

The world is full of lettuce—kale, romaine, Little Gem, Boston, Bibb, radicchio, arugula, mesclun—and yet for years, Americans have stubbornly clung to the most flavorless of them all: iceberg, which John Waters once called “the polyester of greens.”

Last week, Kraft became too sexy for this earth, too sexy for this earth, so sexy it hurt. The company launched a “Send Noods” ad campaign in which it jokingly encouraged people to send their loved ones “noods,” aka a box of macaroni and cheese. Apparently this was simply too sexy for the internet to handle, because…

Potatoes were one of the first victims of the Taco Bell Great Menu Streamlining of 2020. Many fans mourned. Cooks showed us how to make our own at home. But only one man had the foresight to cryogenically preserve the beloved Potato Soft Taco and save it for later. That man is Bryant Hoban of O’Fallon, Missouri, a…