Tom Hanks is in New Mexico filming a sci-fi movie called Bios and tweeting repeatedly about lost gloves. He’s also completely enraptured the locals, who apparently will not even let him eat a steak dinner in peace. Per news station KRQE, while Hanks dined at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse on Saturday, several tables…
God, how I loved stuffed-crust pizza as a kid. We always ordered standard pies from a local Italian place—shout out to Cioffi’s of Union, New Jersey—so the chain pizzerias’ stuffed-crust novelties remained even more exotic in my eyes, the highlight of other kids’ birthday parties. Papa John’s UK has taken the novelty…
Good news if you like your drive-thru lanes clear and your fast-food options plentiful: The Midwest is best when it comes to high numbers of fast-food restaurants per capita. We’re number one! We’re number... [clutches left arm]
The 600-square-foot building at 660 Fort Wayne Avenue in Indianapolis was only the third White Castle ever built, dating to 1927. Vacant for at least a decade, it’s changed hands a few times in the past two years. Indiana Landmarks bought it from the city in 2017 for $1, and then sold it to local resident Jason…
Some people wondered if it wasn’t a marketing stunt, but a loosed cow—my favorite Shakespearean insult—crossing the road to get to Chick-fil-A was just a beautiful, beautiful coincidence. Footage shot in Noblesville, Indiana, on Sunday shows a white cow blocking traffic as it heads toward a shopping mall with a…
Slate produces a fun podcast called Working, in which people explain what it’s like to do their jobs. If you’re into this kind of thing, you’ve read Studs Terkel, right? Anyway, you won’t find Medieval Times in Studs Terkel’s books, but it is the subject of the latest Working podcast, in which the host speaks with…
When I woke up this morning, groggily fumbling the light on and attempting to brew my first cup of coffee, I did not expect to type a headline today that included a scientific study, cheese, and A Tribe Called Quest. This unpredictability, though, is one of the great joys of being a reporter, and so here I am,…
The marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal are the draw, no doubt. And savvy General Mills is capitalizing on America’s fondness for candy in our breakfast cereal by bringing back its Lucky Charms Marshmallow Only Promotion, which will give away 15,000 free boxes of marshmallow-only boxes to customers who redeem a code…
Perhaps Beto O’Rourke just enjoys a good crinkle-cut fry. But that’s no defense in the vigilant eyes of the internet, which has taken presidential hopeful O’Rourke to task for ordering fries rather than cheese curds alongside his Culver’s burger and custard. O’Rourke visited Wisconsin this weekend just days after…
Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beer but were too drunk to ask. Have a question? Shoot it to beer@thetakeout.com.
You had plans to drink a beer this weekend, didn’t you? I’m no Miss Cleo, this was just a hunch. St. Patrick’s Day weekend is one of the biggest drinking holidays in America, and along with Irish coffee and Irish whiskey, Irish beers are the intoxicant of choice. Unfortunately, depending on your social circle, you…
A mimosa-slinging food truck is one of those innovations you didn’t know you were missing until you read about it rolling through another city. Residents of Salem, Oregon are the lucky potential customers for a new food truck called Sosa’s Mimosas, which will begin serving up sparkling wine and fruit-juice cocktails…
Plenty of bars list alcohol content for their beers—if they don’t, they should, please—and sometimes even for their wines. But cocktails have long been more of a mystery when it comes to their booze content. You may know an Old Fashioned will be stronger than an Aperol spritz, but how much stronger? Guests at Sable…
This past weekend, I traveled to Las Vegas to meet up with a group of six friends who live all across the company. It was a girls-only weekend full of unlimited buffets, inadvisably large daiquiris, plus a Céline Dion show. (Don’t judge; Celine is a legend.) Because we are all conscientious people, we didn’t want any…
Fly often enough and airport terminals blend together: the generic bookstores, the soulless wine bars, the weirdly expensive restaurants that always include “Grille” in the name and serve $16 house wine. I flew recently out of Newark Liberty International Airport and heard a man tell his wife, straight-faced, that the…
Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic year, and fasting throughout the month is one of the five pillars of Islam. Thus, many Muslims around the world observe a fast—from not just food but also water, cigarettes, and other indulgences—from sunrise to sunset, breaking their fast with a meal called iftar.
It’s been a long, strange trip to get stronger beer to Utah stores. The Beehive State—yep—has some of the most stringent beer laws in the country, requiring beer sold at grocery and convenience stores to come in below 3.2-percent alcohol by weight, or about 4 percent alcohol by volume. This legislative session saw…
DoorDash faced criticism last month for its policy of allowing the company to apply customer tips toward its drivers base pay. Instacart had a similar policy, but changed it after facing criticism, leaving DoorDash as the only company still using tips in this way. To improve its fraying goodwill with drivers, DoorDash…
Unless you’re the parent of an elementary-school child or you attend a disproportionate number of retirement parties, it may have been a while since you last encountered a frosted, bakery- or grocery-bought sheet cake. Think back to that most recent sheet-cake experience. What did the cake look like? What color was…
