In researching this week’s article about edible gold, I wandered down an inexplicable internet alley of gold slime ASMR videos. ASMR stands for Auto-Sensory Meridian Response; it describes the reaction your body has to watching or hearing a certain type of stimuli. I discovered that gold slime videos are an entire…

Big Mama’s And Papa’s Pizzeria is much like any other regional pizza chain, sporting several locations in southern California. This one stands out, though by one special distinction, only available at its Northridge location: It boasts the world’s largest deliverable pizza.

Can two people stay together happily forever? The new six-episode Netflix series Wanderlust attempts to answer this age-old question by intimately dissecting the marriage of an English couple, a therapist and an academic. The therapist is played by Toni Collette, who once again proves that she is one of the finest…

Ben & Jerry’s has made efforts to adapt to the lower-calorie ice cream trend made popular by brands like Halo Top. To that end, B&J just announced four new flavors in its in the Moo-phoria light ice cream line. Cherry Garcia with a Twist, Chocolate Cookie EnlightenMint, Mocha Fudge Brownie, and P.B. Marshmallow Swirl…

There’s a hopefully happy end to this story: 50 turtles discovered in a Burger King parking lot were quickly adopted from Richmond Animal Care And Control. A vendor selling them there was doing so illegally, because they were technically too young to be purchased.

My dad was a large, brawny wrestling coach, known to his students and friends alike as “Big I” (the moniker is even on his gravestone). He started cooking rather late in life (I was already in grade school), but once he started, having people over to marvel at his culinary creations—like deep-dish pizza made in a…

Frozen pizza is the bastion of people who have no other alternatives: Too broke or hungry to cough up the dough or wait the 30 minutes for delivery, lacking the ingredients or wherewithal to make their own. For me, frozen pizza conjures up babysitter nights when I was a kid; since my parents were going out, it was one…

As an old person, I am usually not down with the youths of today, so I would have been equally flummoxed by the text message Twitter user Satomaa sent her dad. You probably know this already, but apparently “let’s get this bread” is a phrase akin to “let’s go to work,” “let’s go make some money,” and as I like to…

Because our waking life apparently isn’t nightmarish enough, Burger King is out to even rob us of the sweet relief of sleep with its latest Halloween concoction, the Nightmare King. The new burger, which consists of “a quarter pound of flame-grilled beef, a white meat crispy chicken fillet, melted American cheese,…

Well, here’s a new one (to me, at least): The Guardian reports today on “monophagy,” a condition in which a person eats only one food. Similar to Andrew Hawryluk, who apparently ate the same meal at Chipotle in Los Angeles for 186 consecutive days. Or Mike Roman, from Hackensack, New Jersey, who says he has eaten a…

Romantic comedies were once the realm of homogenous blockbusters: You’d have a stacked deck of Sandra Bullocks, Reese Witherspoons, Julia Robertses, and Jennifer Garners on one side, and some Hugh Grants, Mark Ruffalos, Matthew McConaugheys, and Vince Vaughns on the other. Shuffle and deal. The star…

It’s like the answer to a joke question: What would best the possible thing for a police squad to discover? Yes, a stolen Krispy Kreme truck. From the land of all hilarious news stories, Florida, comes this tale of a lucky band of cops who discovered the abandoned truck filled to the rim with [checks notes] the most…

When you’re just getting started building your bar cart, it’s intimidating to jump straight to a tome like Death & Co.’s cocktail book. If you’re at more of a 101 level, you can’t do much better than PUNCH’s new Mini Bar set, a collection of eight slim, sleekly designed recipe books organized by spirit. Each contains…

Ah, the restaurant high chair. Depending on whether or not you’re a parent, it either looks like a disgusting wooden/plastic sculpture you wouldn’t even touch with rubber gloves on, or a bastion of civilization that makes it possible for you to enter polite society once again. My kids were almost out of their car…

It may have started as a joke, but now it looks like Elon Musk might be on to a new venture again: CNBC reports that this week, Tesla officially filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office for ‘Teslaquila’; the trademark is for “distilled agave liquor” and “distilled blue agave liquor.”

When you’re a crime dog at an airport, probably most days are just like any other. Maybe you sniff some weed, maybe there’s a bomb scare, maybe you get some treats. So small wonder that Hardy, a member of the Beagle Brigade at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, looks undeniably thrilled over his find of a whole…

Lincoln-Douglas. Kennedy-Nixon. Now, Bernot-Ihnat. Our venerable Takeout writers square off to share their impassioned views on one of the greatest culinary issues of our time: Which texture of peanut butter reigns supreme? We promise rhetorical skill, cunning wordplay, and dazzling argumentative maneuvers, all in…

I know a popular online credo is “Don’t read the comments,” but I can’t help it: I always read the comments. Especially Takeout comments, because you guys will frequently throw in something I haven’t thought of, or offer me one of your own options or recipes (for example, I’m looking forward to trying out Allan…