Marie Kondo is getting some grief lately and I just don’t get it. Her new Netflix series, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, has made a splash since it debuted, appropriately enough, on January 1. Some are protesting her minimalist method, claiming they want to hold on to all their books, and categorizing “decluttering” as…
Much like a head cheerleader who nominates herself as homecoming queen, Dr Pepper has launched a Change.org petition urging fans to make it the official soft drink of Texas. Bold, if not exactly tactful.
Georgia-based Perdue Foods issued a recall this week for 68,244 pounds of SimplySmart gluten-free, organic breaded chicken nuggets after three customers reported finding wood in the nuggets. The USDA’s Food Safety And Inspection Service has published the recall notice, which notes that said nuggets “may be…
Taking stock of the back-and-forth battle to offer more beef, more bacon, more meats on fast-food sandwiches, we fully expect to one day see a chain debut a burger that is actually just an entire cow between two buns. (You heard it here first.) The latest in the war for beef-patty supremacy comes from Burger King,…
I am one of those people who should just go ahead and book my Valentine’s Day table for White Castle. Growing up on the south side of Chicago like I did, with several WCs close by, it was a definite staple of my teenage diet. I live on a different side of the city now, but I still know where the closest White Castle…
It’s a function of my job, but I’m fascinated by the logistics of beer: How it’s brewed, how it’s stored, the machinations of America’s clunky three-tier alcohol-distribution system. Often, those logistics are complicated, involving a highly regulated, taxed substance crossing interstate lines. And then some days, a…
There has been much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth among alcohol companies over legal recreational and medical marijuana. A look at Oregon’s beer sales data compiled last year—a few years after the state legalized recreational marijuana—found that the growth of packaged craft beer sales fell the same year…
As anyone who’s sat through painful political dinner-party conversation knows, there seems to be a direct relationship between the volume of a person’s voice and the wrongness of their facts. This appears to be true of not just political views, but opinions on genetically modified foods as well. A new study published…
Welcome to Cheese Week, The Takeout’s weeklong praise of cheeses.
A photographer I follow on Instagram posted today that he’s on day 5 of turning his iPhone display to grayscale. (Here are instructions for how to do it, via Lifehacker.) Apparently, he’s doing it to help him combat phone addiction. I didn’t know a grayscale display was a feature, but it’s apparently filed under your…
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest ever, leading scientists to warn of disastrous potential consequences. Meanwhile, sales of carbonated water are up double-digits and fizzy water is now a $2.2 billion industry. In a perfect world, wouldn’t there some machine exist to turn the CO2 in our…
The effects of the federal government shutdown are tangible and far-reaching, from longer airport-security lines to complications with food-assistance benefits. They’ve even begun affecting what school cafeterias serve.
Last week, the Ballard Center For Economic Self-Reliance at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, decided to promote a Taco Tuesday event via its Instagram account. The post—since deleted, but preserved in screenshots—showed two male students dressed as tacos, wearing sombreros, and holding the flags of Argentina…
You may have an uncle whose beer fridge is stocked only with Schlitz, or a grandpa who will accept no substitutes for his ride-or-die Miller Lite. In the modern era of craft beer, your younger relatives and friends might still have a favorite mass-market lager, but it’s unlikely that it’s the only six-pack in the…
American cheese is an American cheese, but it doesn’t exactly have terroir. (Instead, it has a plastic sleeve.) Three U.S. dairy farmers are now on the hunt to create a new type of cheese that our country can rightfully call its own; they’ve called their project Cornerstone. Seeing it’s Cheese Week around these parts,…
We can only imagine what Salty Waitress would have to say about this: A 19-year-old server in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was shocked Sunday when she received a $1 tip on a $55.50 tab, as well as an extremely rude note alongside it.
Costco memberships start at $60 per year, plus tax. That standard Gold Star level affords the basic privileges, namely the right to shop at Costco for giant vats of mac-and-cheese or cheap beer. But there’s still a way to shop at Costco, even if you don’t want to shell out for the membership: order delivery through …
King Cake Snob is an annual contest tied to Mardi Gras in which people upload photos of their favorite King Cakes for others to vote on. For the uninitiated, king cakes are a New Orleans tradition of festive cakes usually baked with a small plastic figure or baby inside one slice (the baby originally represented baby…
Nobody is flying for the meals, it seems; jokes about the horror of airline food have been around almost as long as Bob Hope’s routines about his nose. But now this everyday horror is being monitored, and evaluated, thanks to what else, an Instagram account called @airlinefoodselfie. Users send in their terrible…
