If there is an album that was the soundtrack for the courtship of my husband and myself, it is Rufus Wainwright’s Poses. In those blissful, carefree, mortgage-free, and kid-free days, we would get together every Sunday to read the Trib while listening to this album on repeat. I was so besotted that I listened to it…
Here’s a good reminder to lock your car doors: If you don’t, a group of bears could break into it and eat all your possessions. Don’t believe me? Watch this video recorded by Asheville, North Carolina 16-year-old Lilly Thurmond, who filmed four bears rummaging through her Toyota Prius, eating the chocolate bars…
Pizza boxes are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, a material that gets the recycling go-ahead in most places. But if you’re just dumping the entire empty box in the recycling bin after you’ve finished your pie, you’re harming more than than you’re helping.
The idea of Happy Meals is to make the food appealing to kids, right? That explains the colorful packaging, the toys inside, and the very name of the meal itself. But a Canadian father has brought a class-action suit against McDonald’s, claiming the chain is illegally marketing Happy Meals to children.
Flipping through all the Thanksgiving cooking specials that clog HGTV, Food Network, and morning shows this week, I noticed a detail I’d previously overlooked: The hosts never wash their hands. This realization hit me like a bolt of lightning as I watched The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond slather her raw turkey with…
Cats may be the collective internet’s favorite pet, but dogs rule on social media. Doggos and puppers—and their snoofers, boops, and heckin’ bamboozlin’—boast their own language, tropes, and memes. The latest, for those not yet in the know, is #dogcheese, in which dog owners toss slices of cheese onto their dogs and…
Maybe you’ve heard whispers of McDonald’s Cheesy Bacon Fries. Like Bigfoot, they’re elusive, with confirmed sightings only in Hawaii and some northern California McD’s locations. The official party line from McDonald’s is that these Cheesy Bacon Fries are just a regional, limited-time offer like the McRib. But one…
I’m not entirely sure what the appropriate jukebox selection is at a Waffle House. A mellow track to help you wind down the night with a short stack? Some laid-back classic rock on a Sunday morning? According to a list of the Top 10 choices last year on the TouchTones jukeboxes inside Waffle Houses, I’m way off—the…
Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company has been brewing Bourbon County Stout since 1995, and I’ve been drinking it since about 2010. Released each year on Black Friday, it’s a cult-status bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout whose nuanced flavors change from year to year. Beer dorks love to debate which vintages are the…
Once Daylight Savings Time ends, it’s hibernation or bust. Blankets, Uggs, spiked cocoa, Netflix marathons, ordering Chick-fil-A delivery—no sense of dignity remains, for we are S.A.D. It’s conventional wisdom that people in colder climates drink more (hi Russia), but researchers say there was no scientific proof of…
Back in February, McDonald’s announced that by 2020, at least half of its Happy Meals offered around the world would come in under 600 calories, with only 10 percent of those calories coming from fat. (That’s already true of all U.S. Happy Meals.) The move led the chain to nix cheeseburgers from its Happy Meals,…
Those of you who have endured the arduous process of lifting the top bun off your roast beef sandwich, placing curly fries on top of the meat, and then returning the bun to its place—you’ll suffer no more. Arby’s has introduced the Arbynator, a limited-time sandwich with curly fries inside, which the chain is billing…
As birth-day winds into birth-night, The Takeout—we turned one today!—is thinking about all the memorable birthday meals we’ve had. That’s the subject of tonight’s Last Call—and we invite you to share your favorite birthday meal memories in the comments below.
My knee-jerk reaction when I read this Fast Company article about Boulder, Colorado’s new “bike-share-but-for-coffee-mugs” program wasn’t nuanced. “This is dumb,” I thought, shaking my head at those GORP-eating Keen-wearers in the Rockies. “Who needs a program to rent travel mugs?” I thought, until my much smarter…
Oh Instant Pot, what can’t you do? You can prepare yogurt; you make pretty decent pho; you produce easily peel-able hard-boiled eggs. And now, you connect to the internet.
Yesterday, my friend Dana sent me a link to this story from The New York Times. She wrote simply: “Boy, does this story deliver.” The headline piqued my interest already—“Australians Declare Existential Crisis Over Onion Placement”—and Dana is correct, the rest of the article does not disappoint. This is a story, you…
File under “shut up and take my money:” Netflix will launch a new docu-series Friday, November 16, called Dogs, and it is about dogs. It features the tales (and tails! ugh, I’m sorry) of six dogs from around the world, including a Siberian husky separated from his owner, a Syrian refugee now living in Germany. Netflix…
As fans of the Netflix baking series Nailed It!, we know cakes don’t always turn out as they look in the cookbook. And generally, that’s okay; it still tastes good, and no one minds that your frosting is a bit lopsided. Unless, of course, it is your job to make cakes that people pay for. In that case, you should…
