There’s currently a beer commercial known as “the bra ad.” It shows a woman dressed in office clothes returning to her apartment, kicking off her heels, opening her fridge, and cracking open a Coors Light before unhooking her bra and throwing it onto her couch. The on-screen text proclaims Coors Light “the official…
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…
Pete Buttigieg is a singular presidential candidate in one important sense: He is the only to candidate to have answered the question of whether a hot dog is a sandwich in advance of his interview with The Takeout. We applaud his forethought in tackling this question from the get-go. His answer: No.
I can admit when I’m wrong. During The Takeout’s recent fantasy food draft focused on supermarket (i.e. easily accessible nationwide) beers, my colleague Dominic Suzanne-Mayer scooped up Shiner Bock for his team before I could. “If I could find Shiner near me,” I said, “I’d drink it more often.” Well aren’t I turning…
In my former job as editor at a craft beer magazine, I worked in an office full of beer bottles and cans. Stacked on shelves, refrigerated, cellared—they were everywhere. One evening, I was working alone in the office when a sound like a grenade going off jolted me out of my seat. After my heart started beating again,…
WW, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers, introduced a new app Tuesday aimed at children as young as 8 years old. The app, Kurbo, is billed as a “scientifically-proven behavior change program designed to help kids and teens ages 8-17 reach a healthier weight, derived from Stanford University’s Pediatric…
Our garden grows kale and chard like weeds. When the weather gets cooler, those are a key component to a modern classic: kale and white bean soup. I love the flavors in that rich soup—earthy and virtuous kale, smooth and creamy white beans, slightly spicy sausage. But it doesn’t feel very appropriate coming off the…
We know low- and no-alcohol drinks have been gaining traction for a while now. The phenomenon has even introduced a new vocabulary—mocktails, Dryuary, sober curious—to our bar lexicon. Now file a new entry in that teetotaling dictionary: “Non-alcoholic spirits.”
It’s one of the most tired clichés out there: Brewers are white, bearded dudes with potbellies who wear flannel and turn their noses up at your “regular beer.” (That latter point is definitely untrue.) But the rest of the cartoon—the dude, the beard, the unbearable whiteness of being—like most clichés, there’s more…
This is not an article to scold you for not deep-cleaning your coffee maker. The headline does not chide you with a “you’ve been doing it wrong” construction. Hardly any of us are cleaning our drip coffee makers as thoroughly as we should be, and that can shorten the life of our machines and even cause rancid flavors…
Update, August 14, 2019: Guns N’ Roses has agreed settled its lawsuit with Oskar Blues over the latter’s Guns ‘N’ Rosé beer, Reuters reports. Terms have not yet been reached, but both sides have agreed in principle to settle and dismiss the lawsuit.
It’s the best summer ever to be a hard seltzer drinker. White Claw and its ilk are seemingly everywhere, with the number of hard seltzer brands swelling by the day. This week alone, we heard news of Natural Light and Pabst Blue Ribbon’s new lines of seltzers. But there is one ring to rule them all, and it comes from…
Taco Tuesday is so ubiquitous, you’d assume it’s like a smiley face—part of our collective imagination, creditable to no one, a symbol in the public domain. But actually, both the yellow smiley face and Taco Tuesday are trademarked, the former by a French guy and the latter by Cheyenne, Wyoming-based purveyor of…
Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.
Do you have a curiosity about other people’s work desks? Maybe it’s because I’ve worked from home for the past three years, but I am strangely intrigued by what other people keep on their work surfaces. Mine currently contains a cup of pens (actually an old tiki mug), a lamp, a legal pad where I keep my notes and…
What’s worse than disappointing a customer with bad service? Insulting that customer’s hometown in your apology email.
With the resigned air of a weary Miss Hoover instructing Ralph Wiggum again not to eat paste, the U.S. Food And Drug Administration has issued a warning reminding Americans to lay off the bleach. In an announcement posted yesterday, the agency repeats its guidance that Americans not purchase or consume purportedly…
This past weekend, friends and I attended the Western Montana Fair, where we observed rabbit agility contests and feasted on multiple courses of fried-dough delicacies. But a trip to the funnel-cake counter began a hot-as-the-fryer debate amongst my friends: What’s the difference between a funnel cake and an elephant…
