Some of the most disturbing crimes are those for which we can find no motive. They strain the limits of our comprehension, and that uncertainty—but, why?—makes us all the more uneasy. Such is the case with this story from California news station Fox 40 about a Oakdale, California father who was arrested for allegedly…
Continuing our up-to-the-minute coverage of all things Fieri this week, we bring you news today that he has a celebrity BFF, and it’s nude bongo savant Matthew McConaughey.
I had my first taste of a Creamsicle beer—OVB “orange cream pop IPA” from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey’s Bolero Snort Brewing—in 2016. There was no denying the poolside-summer memories that combination of vanilla and sweet orange conjured. I didn’t yet foresee that Creamsicle-inspired beers would become a full-on trend…
It is no longer cool enough to make a hoppy beer inspired by video games, breweries now feel they should create actual video games for their IPAs. For all my beer-dork friends out there, it gives new meaning to button SMASHing. Thanks folks, I’m here all week, try the veal.
Update, May 24, 2019: In a huge victory for the Texas Craft Brewers Guild, the Texas Senate yesterday passed an update to the state’s alcohol laws which would allow manufacturing breweries to sell beer to go, up to the equivalent of one case per customer per day. The Texas House is expected to concur and the governor…
Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema already gives readers details about a restaurant’s noise level, hours, prices, and of course, what’s on the menu. Now he’ll also add accessibility information to that list as well. In a post yesterday, Sietsema explained that readers with disabilities often contact him to ask…
When you open a bag of frozen sausage, you don’t expect that sausage to have an emotion, a personality. You expect it to be sausage, an edible and decidedly inanimate product. But a 28-year-old mother from the English town of Swindon had a different experience.
The Indy 500 is like the Kentucky Derby in that it’s a marquee race often watched by people who rarely watch racing, shrouded in tradition and ritual and functioning, for those folks, as a drinking holiday. Because few of us follow horse racing or car racing with great regularity, its mores are inscrutable and…
The Time-lauded “Silence Breakers” movement started in September 2016 with revelations about sexual harassment and assault accusations against Hollywood uber-producer Harvey Weinstein. Although the original New York Times article containing those revelations led to a virtual avalanche of stories about other alleged…
This Month In Overturned Trucks is The Takeout’s monthly roundup of overturned trucks spilling shit over public roadways.
If you find standard bar entertainment—watching TV, engaging in polite conversation, perusing the jukebox—too docile, allow us to alert you to the existence of Throw Nation, a bar for angry people. (We assume you are already aware of rage yoga.)
If you haven’t yet received the latest issue of the journal Physical Review Fluids, spoiler alert, it’s a doozy. In this edition of America’s favorite fluid dynamics publication, Stanford scientists published the results of an experiment they conducted using X-ray free-electron laser pulses in 14 to 30 μm diameter…
There’s no mistaking buildings that used to be Pizza Huts, but are former Taco Bells recognizably former Taco Bells? Either way, some hungry customers will be in for a surprise when they roll up to the drive-thru at a former Taco Bell on State Road 434 in Lakewood, Florida, which is set to open as a medical marijuana…
Welcome, dear readers, and welcome back to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.
His book is called This Ain’t The Beer That You’re Used To, but Dom “Doochie” Cook is also not the beer writer that you’re used to. I’ve read a lot of beer books, and I’ve never seen proper beer and food pairing described as “like Jadakiss and Styles P going back and forth on a Swizz track in the early 2000s.” Cook…
Some of us claim to be all for new materials that will save the oceans, reduce plastic waste, and so on. But change our straws or our beloved coffee lids and we’re less enthusiastic. Food packaging matters, not just in terms of its functionality but in terms of how it makes us feel about a product. Take Canadian…
The news that British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant group has fallen into insolvency is a big deal, especially across the Atlantic, where it’s reportedly knocked Brexit out of the top news spot. The BBC’s reporting uses the word “collapse” to describe the restaurant company’s decline into insolvency, which…
If The Takeout has any ironclad convictions, they are these: Don’t yuck someone else’s yum, and don’t hate on Guy Fieri. Our unabashed appreciation for the Mayor of Flavortown runs deep and true, like a surging river of Donkey Sauce. So even though Fieri’s hair is the butt of the joke in this…
