Taste Test

Just last week, Perdue released a limited-time-only item called ThanksNuggets. There were only 100 bags available…

Now that it’s been proven that plant-based meats won’t kill human beings or the fast food business, it seems logical…

McDonald’s new all-day breakfast pastries have finally arrived, just in time to fatten us up for hibernation. The…

We, staff writers Dennis Lee and Lillian Stone, have been on the job for about 4.75 days, which was the perfect…

When I began thinking about the ideal cheese puff, my research took me to an excellent resource: this succinct video,…

Brand collaborations are one of my favorite grocery store curiosities. Whether it’s something ill-advised like candy-…

Like everyone, I have had a lot of strange feelings these past six months—hell, this past week. The human soul…

For years now, McDonald’s has been teasing us with the idea of spicy chicken. Rumors came back from overseas and…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! By which I mean we are entering the part of the year where almost every…

Okay, so we should start out by stating the obvious: this is not a taste test, at least not in the traditional…

Summer is officially over, and you know what that means: time for snack food companies to start marketing…

As I’ve grown older I’ve developed a collection of personal philosophical tenets, which I hope to capitalize on…

Summer 2020 has been a season of acquainting myself with the joys of hard seltzer, since I missed the boat last…

It seems astonishing that Cheetos never got into the mac and cheese game before now. After all, the key ingredient…

The PayDay has always been a dark horse among candy bars. It sits on the lower tiers of the candy rack, down with…

Hershey, Pennsylvania, as we’ve reported before, is kind of a magical place. What’s not to love about an entire town…

When Dairy Queen introduced the Blizzard in 1985, it was a big step forward in ice cream shop innovation. Before,…

There was a span of years when, from Monday to Friday, the only thing I had the time to grab for lunch each day was…

Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, doughnuts are not breakfast—they’re dessert. They’re fried dough…

In my own little world, which does not extend much beyond my back porch, life is good. The sun is out in Chicago,…