It’s National Fried Chicken Day, so let’s figure out whose chicken is best
Today is National Fried Chicken Day, and we’re trying to figure which mass market battered, breaded, deep-fried poultry…
Taste Test
We try Spicy Skittles, foaming-mouth candy, and more from the Sweets & Snacks Expo
The A.V. Club attended this year’s Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago, where we previewed new snacks and candies from…
We bit the heads off some chocolate-covered insects
The A.V. Club attended this year’s Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago, an enormous meeting of the most popular names in…
Soft drinks from hard times: The A.V. Club samples Soviet sodas
In 1946, while overseeing his company’s operations in a slowly rebuilding Europe, Coca-Cola executive James Farley…
Gothic romance smells like old ladies, The A.V. Club confirms
Guillermo Del Toro’s new “don’t call it a horror movie” Crimson Peak is a visual treat, but will it appeal to our other…
The A.V. Club celebrates football by drinking gross Gatorade cocktails
When the NFL offered to send us free “fashion” apparel in exchange for some exposure, we instantly thought, “What’s the…
The A.V. Club chokes down ranch, buffalo-wing sodas
Ranch and buffalo-wing sodas have been around for a while now, and yet, no one at The A.V. Club had ever managed to get…
The A.V. Club drinks the new Toadies beer, stumbles all over Possum Kingdom
When the Toadies’ best and most successful record, Rubberneck, came out in 1994, it probably seemed impossible that one…
The A.V. Club ends Pets Week by making a French Bulldog listen to Taylor Swift
Considering it’s Pets Week here at The A.V. Club, we’d be remiss if we didn’t post something featuring one of our…
The A.V. Club ate Doritos ice cream
When we read about Coolhaus’ more random flavors, including “Netflix”—a flavor that boasts “a white cheddar…
Oreos get skinny (but not diet)
Nabisco has been crackers lately, with all these new Oreo flavors. (Wackity schmackity doo.) I can’t even remember them…
The A.V. Club tried Pizza Hut’s newest abomination, the Hot Dog Bites pizza
Generally speaking, ordering a pizza is a fairly easy task. But when The A.V. Club attempted to order Pizza Hut’s new…
We ate gross SpaghettiOs with the cast and co-creator of Welcome To Night Vale
Wildly popular podcast Welcome To Night Vale centers on life in Night Vale, a fictional town where life is both weird…
We ate terrible potato chips and awful Oreos with the wonderful Dave Hill
Welcome back to Taste Test, the feature where we eat things and then talk about why we hate the things we just ate. For…
We drank 35-million year old whale beer with The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow
When we—The Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid-savvy members of The A.V. Club staff—heard David Yow was coming into the office,…
We try five new Ben & Jerry’s flavors with comedian Hari Kondabolu
Okay, it’s not technically five new flavors: Karamel Sutra previously existed as a delicious pint with a column of…
We taste zombie beer (with brains in it) and the latest Game Of Thrones brew
We first tasted Brewery Ommegang’s line of Game Of Thrones beers last year—specifically, the Iron Throne Blonde Ale—and…
On Tap beer additive
Earlier this summer, I started reading about On Tap Liquid Beer Enhancer on booze nerd sites like Beer Advocate, at…
We eat Watermelon and Rainbow Shure, Bert! Oreos so you don't have to
Every time we think we're done with new Oreo flavors, they pull us back in. We've Taste-Tested Strawberry Milkshake…
Komforte Chockolates’ Savory Ramen and Tortilla Lime chocolate bars
The A.V. Club taste-tested Komforte Chockolates’ Ramen Noodle bar a few years ago. So when we heard that the company…
