Today’s WTF moment: A woman is being fined $500 for carrying her in-flight snack from Delta—an apple—with her off of her flight. BBC News and other outlets are reporting this morning that Crystal Tadlock, flying from Paris to New York, wanted to save the in-flight snack for her connecting flight to Denver. She even…

For fun food demonstrations, maybe stay away from flaming things. Like cherries jubilee, baked Alaska, and that Greek standard, the “opa!”-inspiring saganaki. It was a lesson learned the hard way by the waitstaff at Baltimore restaurant Cava Mezze last night.

Many here in the uncouth States now throw baby “gender reveal” parties to announce whether their upcoming offspring will be a boy or a girl, because they refuse to wait the whole nine months. Naturally, England’s royal family would never stoop so low, which means that the whole country, if not the world, was up in…

Westworld (HBO, 9 p.m.): Westworld season one ended in pretty spectacular fashion, with a robot revolution resulting in the death of their own creator. Now the shattered landscape of Westworld returns for its sophomore season, which Alex McLevy is pretty positive about, giving it a B+. He says that even though …

“I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia,” season seven, episode 13, originally aired 2/6/2007 

On the eve of the second anniversary of his death, we’re devoting tonight’s Last Call to Prince. We invite you to share your memories in the comments section.

Imagine the joy of finally sitting down to enjoy a well-deserved snack: your favorite, a Reese’s peanut-butter cup. You take a bite… but something seems off. What could it be? You look at your candy and realize, with horror, that it’s all chocolate, no peanut butter. Your peanut-butter cup is just a cup.

We reported earlier this week on various food safety issues, including an E. coli outbreak tied to chopped romaine lettuce sold in prepackaged salad mixes. Since then, the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention has reported that the outbreak has spread to 16 states and has affected 53 people. So now, the CDC is…

Definitely in the “don’t try this at home” category: Adventurer Brad Byers has a video out in which he basically uses his body as a cutting board. In a video published on the Caters Clips YouTube channel yesterday, wielding a giant saber and a row of cucumbers, Byers uses his forearm, crotch, even the back of his…

We were getting a little worried, as here we are on Friday without a viable candidate for our “Asshole Of The Week” title. Then YouTuber ReSet (né Kanghua Ren) pulled a prank so shitty and mean, he might go to jail for it, and our search was over.

Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.

As our planet collapses around us, many are trying hard to do what they can to minimize their carbon footprints like the fascinating lady in this Time video who produces “zero waste.” Most of us, sadly, are far from that. In fact. CBS News and other outlets report today that a new study finds most of us produce an…

Last week, Gizmodo and other outlets reported on the case of a man who ate a ghost pepper at a chili-eating contest—and wound up in the ER with “thunderclap headaches,” involving “incredibly painful bursts of head pain.” Over a week later, the man appears to be completely healed.

Last week, we noted that Heinz had not only introduced a new mayonnaise, but also a mayo/ketchup combo halfheartedly portmanteau’d into Mayochup. Clunky name be damned, Heinz tweeted the announcement of Mayochup, which was being released in the Middle East. The Chicago- and Pittsburgh-based company said that if…

The Chicago Tribune asked a question that caught my eye yesterday: “‘Binge drinking has become completely normalized’: Has boozy mom culture gone too far?” Writer (and twins mom) Kate Thayer delves into the current trend of moms plus wine, glamorized in recent movies like Bad Moms and Fun Night Out, which both reflect…

Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.

It’s not often that you get to totally immerse yourself in your favorite movie through a restaurant. But for some lucky fans, the Brothers Murray have set up a veritable shrine to one of Bill and Brian Doyle’s most famous films: the wacky 1980 comedy Caddyshack. As the website states, “Murray Bros. Caddyshack captures…

I haven’t had a can of Coke in several years; I believed that my body might go into shock from all that sugar. So before I became LaCroix junkie, I was a straight-up Diet Cokehead, virtuously chugging can after can, believing that I was helping my body by avoiding the sugar-filled stuff. But what this new Popular…

As it seems like ever other story we write talks about how our syrup or hummus or god forbid, even our tequila is in danger due to our increasingly faulty environment, we were pleased to see some unusually positive news in The New York Post today related to that last item. According to the U.S. Fish And Wildlife…