The Takeout has precious few sports allegiances. Just two, actually: We shit on Tom Brady, and we love Bedale AFC soccer.

If we’re talking about changing food systems on a national scale, there are forces perhaps even larger than fast food: institutional food-service providers like Aramark and Sodexo. The sheer scale of these companies—which serve school cafeterias, corporate lunchrooms, and stadiums—gives them massive sway when it comes…

When Pabst Blue Ribbon launched a whiskey, people raised their eyebrows. When it launched a 5% ABV hard coffee, people rolled those eyes. But then word began trickling in from the five states—Pennsylvania, Maine, New Jersey, Florida and Georgia—in which the PBR hard coffee was sold. People say it’s kinda good?

The same familiar faces stand atop the podium of America’s largest beer brands: Bud Light, Coors Light, and until recently, Budweiser. In late 2017, Miller Lite supplanted The King Of Beers, making light beers the three best-selling beers in America for the first time. But there’s yet another newcomer shaking up the…

Shaquille O’Neal has been on the Papa John’s board for roughly five months, and he finally has something to show for his time with the beleaguered pizza chain: the Papadia.

It’s been two years since Anheuser-Busch InBev bought its most recent craft brewery, North Carolina’s Wicked Weed, which means the global beer behomoth was due for another scoop-up. Anheuser-Busch InBev was on a tear between 2010 and 2017, acquiring 10 small and independent breweries including Goose Island, Elysian,…

Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.

While you were tweeting about feral hogs last night, I sat transfixed, staring at this video of a three-dimensional arrow that can’t point left. Really:

I only lived in Phoenix for two years, but that was long enough to know I couldn’t stand the heat, and I needed to get out of the kitchen. Oh, it’s a dry heat you say? Forgive me for ignoring the dew point when it’s 110 degrees at 2 in the morning and asphalt parking lots are liquifying into quicksand. Peggy Hill had…

McDonald’s Japan had a sweet idea to promote its new summertime McFizz drinks: Create clear cups with a boy on one side and a girl on the other that, once emptied, show the boy and girl innocently kissing. A little heteronormative, but overall nothing especially offensive. It’s when customers began tilting the cups at…

Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain by a long shot, is in the midst of growing pains. It nixed its iconic $5 footlongs last fall after franchisees complained they were killing profits, and that same year closed more than 1,100 stores across the U.S. Eager to retool its image, the company announced it would…

Ruth Reichl is a hallowed name in food and writing and especially food writing. She was the Los Angeles Times food editor, then The New York Times food critic, and later the editor of the late Gourmet magazine. She’s since written a memoir, Save Me The Plums, and remains one of the most respected names in the…

Hey America, you like ice cream right? How does a pint of hot cinnamon ice cream with butter toffee and chocolate sound? If you want to get your hands on this new Ben & Jerry’s creation, you can’t buy it. You’ll have to go to Bernie Sanders’ campaign website; add your name, email address, and phone number (agreeing to…

Welcome to season one, episode one of The Takeout’s new true-crime podcast, Cereal. We’re diving deep into some of the food world’s unsolved crimes, digging through court records and becoming paranoid about our levels of vocal fry. Join us in this inaugural episode, as we investigate a recent spate of pizza-ordering…

Visiting Seattle last month reminded me how spoiled the Pacific Northwest is for great beer, and not just of the hoppy variety. In Seattle alone, I found tap lists packed with Holy Mountain, Cloudburst, Reuben’s Brews, Chuckanut—I’d be thrilled to see just one of those back in Montana.

In the pantheon of rude phrases, “eat me” would not rank near the top of my list. It feels like a Bart Simpson-level taunt, something I’d say to my friends as a jokey retort when they ask whether my mullet is intentional (it’s hard growing out a short haircut, okay?).

Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is the former governor of Colorado, and before that, mayor of Denver. But prior to both those, he was the cofounder of Denver’s Wynkoop Brewing, the first craft brewery in a city that now boasts nearly 80. He’s written a memoir about his time in beer, and was honored

Burger King workers in Spain have been trying for a while now to get the fast-food company to change its policies on uniforms and personal grooming. Specifically, the more than 1,200 Burger King employees in Barcelona and the surrounding Catalonia region have asked the company to permit men to have beards, and to do…