Girl Scouts will debut a new cookie for the 2019 sales season
Some Girl Scout cookies are perfection, and should never be messed with: your Trefoils, your Samoas, your Thin Mints.…
Burger King in Sweden tempts world with sandwich made from fried halloumi cheese
Maybe you’ve been to a Greek restaurant lately. Maybe you ordered the flaming saganaki. Or maybe you’ve frequented a…
Buffalo Wild Wings looks to get into sports betting
Buffalo Wild Wings is the country’s third most popular casual restaurant chain, behind Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill &…
New Zealand demand for avocados sparks crime wave
If you live in New Zealand and want to buy an avocado tree, you have a long wait ahead of you. Love for the creamy…
An Instagrammer's cookbook launch couldn't have gone any worse
Meet Johnna Holmgren, a person with more Instagram followers than you and I combined. She goes by the handle …
Man arrested for allegedly offering couple unwanted striptease at steakhouse
Picture it: You finally schedule a date night. Sitter, reservations, everything’s all set up. You and your partner are…
It’s so hot in Japan, one restaurant is serving a -110 degree chilled ramen
Japan is in the grips of an unprecedented heat wave, with temperatures soaring past 100 degrees Fahrenheit in an island…
Man fills water cup with soda and things go unnecessarily haywire from there
Sure, many of us have had that thought: If we just ask for a cup for water at the fast-food place, what happens if we…
Chipotle’s latest food-poisoning outbreak remains an impenetrable mystery
As we track various E. coli and salmonella cases over here at The Takeout, it’s often fascinating how the CDC and other…
British prisoner’s Instagram account shows a gourmet life from inside the clink
I spent a few days reporting from inside an Indiana prison a few years back for a story about what prisoners eat (and…
New virility beer brewed using a superfood and a fertility god
Drinking beer offers us lots of things: namely deliciousness, and relaxation. But a new beer coming out of Cerne Abbas,…
Jeff Sessions dined at a Tex-Mex restaurant and take one guess how the internet reacted
If we’ve learned anything about running a restaurant in 2018, it’s 1) stop serving plastic straws because if you do…
Papa John’s now offering financial help to suffering franchisees
As recently reported, Papa John’s has had a rocky road since it was reported that founder John Schnatter used a racial…
Bill Murray and photographer exchange “Do you know who I am?!”s in reported Martha’s Vineyard scuffle
As a general rule, we’re going to say steer clear of Bill Murray if you happen to spy him out in public. He doesn’t…
The Michelangelo of butter-sculpting makes rare misstep at Illinois State Fair
Do you know the name Sarah Pratt? She is a legend in the world of butter sculpting, holding the title of official…
OpenTable now lets you choose seats in a restaurant
Aisle or window—er, bar seat or patio table? OpenTable today announced the introduction of Seating Options, a built-in…
Chobani hopes new squeeze bottles turn Greek yogurt into a condiment
Why isn’t more sour cream packaged in squeezable containers? It really grinds my first-world gears: I have to open up…
An unfortunate running list of food-industry sexual harassment and assault accusations [UPDATED]
The Time-lauded “Silence Breakers” movement started in September with revelations about sexual harassment and assault…
Dr Pepper may have just come out
A mysterious new print ad has inspired people to start talking about Dr Pepper—which, of course, is the goal of all…
We're calling B.S. on LongHorn Steakhouse's “left-handed steak knives”
Both my boyfriend and my best friend are left-handed, and through the years, I’ve noticed the small ways in which this…
