Cats may be the collective internet’s favorite pet, but dogs rule on social media. Doggos and puppers—and their snoofers, boops, and heckin’ bamboozlin’—boast their own language, tropes, and memes. The latest, for those not yet in the know, is #dogcheese, in which dog owners toss slices of cheese onto their dogs and…

On Thursday, the Green Bay Packers lost to the Seattle Seahawks, 27-24, after head coach Mike McCarthy took the ball away from noted handsome guy Aaron Rodgers and punted it instead. As a result, the Packers now sit with a record of four wins, five losses, and one tie. As a Midwesterner, I am made a frequent witness…

There is much, much worse news out there than this bad news, but bad news it remains: A halloumi cheese shortage seems likely, as a global increase in demand coincides with soaring popularity in China. To that, we say, “μαύρη μέρα κι άραχνη.”

Jamie Kiesl is a 35-year-old human resources manager who lives in Mequon, Wisconsin. She is also damn good at naming cheeses.

Ah, Target, glorious purveyor of $3 cat costumes, pumpkin spice cookie bites, and earrings that last just long enough to justify paying $14 for them and not a minute longer—how shall we ever escape its clutches? It just keeps selling cool shit that we totally don’t need but totally want. (Target, you are welcome to…

I probably shouldn’t have been as surprised by this fact as I was: I came across an article that said you have to throw away the entire loaf of bread if you spot a piece of mold on it, since the “tentacles” of mold have likely invaded the entire thing. With alarm, I reported this news to my husband, who said he…

My younger brother has a steady job, a beautiful apartment, a whip-smart girlfriend, and even an adorable rescue dog named Mila. He’s really killing it. But years ago, he was just another hapless, fresh-out-of-college dude who struggled to complete basic tasks like finding dress pants that fit or preparing a meal that…

Velveeta gets a bad rap, and frankly, we think it’s undeserved. (The state of Texas will respectfully disagree.) The golden processed brick has actually been around in some form for a century—it was created in 1918 by Emil Frey of the Monroe Cheese Company, then sold to Kraft in 1927. Yes, the product has been…

We here at The Takeout do our best never to yuck on anyone else’s yum, so this map from Hater—a dating app that pairs people up on the basis of what they dislike, brought to our attention by the fine people of Uproxx—is a bit of a sticky wicket for us. On the one hand, it’s a map, people like maps, we like maps. Maps…

Recently while out for a girls’ night dinner, my friend encouraged me to order the burrata. It sounded intriguing, but I was still surprised by what actually arrived: a puffy little football filled with creamy cheese, which then spilled out into delicious gooeyness. It sent me down a rabbit hole.

It’s been a crazy news week, but let’s not let history-shattering cheese news slip past us amidst all this madness. Scientists now say they’ve discovered evidence human beings have been eating cheese 4,000 years longer than originally believed.

A brief story about love: Ilsa Burke and Brendan Otto are a couple from Northern Iowa. Burke’s family has made visiting the Minnesota State Fair an annual tradition. This year’s visit, according to Minneapolis TV station KARE, proved to be a bit more memorable—Otto, her boyfriend, got down on one knee at The Mouth Trap

The microwave clock reads 1:12 a.m. You’ve been up watching old episodes of Rick And Morty, drinking a few beers, wearing sweatpants, and now you have the munchies something fierce. You’re not going to cook at this wee hour, but you are going to root through the kitchen for a ready-made snack—maybe a jar of peanut…

Recently we published a story on whether or not you can still use ground beef that has turned brown (TL;DR: Probably, but if it smells bad it’s got to go). A commenter then posted another interesting question in the is-it-okay-to-eat category: How can you tell when blue cheese goes bad? After all, it smells pretty…

Maybe you’ve been to a Greek restaurant lately. Maybe you ordered the flaming saganaki. Or maybe you’ve frequented a farmer’s market, and you tasted this squeaky, briny, exceptionally tasty white cheese griddling on a hot pan, crisping on its surface. In either cases, there’s a good chance you’ve tasted halloumi.

Fresh off a resounding victory (and a new record) at this summer’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, competitive eating champ/human black hole Joey Chestnut has his eyes set on a new challenge: cheese curds. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports he’ll arrive Saturday at the Wisconsin State Fair for a 6-minute…

Again, just when I thought I had a great job… Professional chocolate taster Angus Kennedy (editor of Kennedy’s Confection magazine) offers a super-easy way to test the quality of your chocolate. In this Business Insider video, he demonstrates that when he snaps various chocolate bars, the high-quality chocolate makes…

Break down a plate of nachos to its component parts, and you’ve got the makings of a damn culinary wonderland: Tortilla chips, extra crispy and maybe a little singed around the edges. Cheese, preferably of more than one variety, generously distributed and melted ’til it bubbles. Sour cream, cold and tart. Chicken,…

There were signs. We reported earlier this month that “1.36 billion pounds of American-made cheese is languishing—languishing!—in commercial warehouses,” as cheese reserves increased 6 percent following dips in demand. And now, after decades of ruling the country, orange-colored, cheddar-based and cheddar-ish American…

Right now, as you read this, 1.36 billion pounds of American-made cheese is languishing—languishing!—in commercial warehouses. According to The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, that’s the largest amount of stockpiled cheese since the Agriculture Department began keeping track nearly 100 years ago. Cheese reserves have…