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Things You Should Absolutely Never Order From IHOP Scott Olson/Getty Images By Maria Scinto/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:23 pm EST IHOP: The International House of (Just About Anything Else Besides) Pancakes. They do offer pancakes, but they keep trying to dress them up, dye them, disguise them as clowns or cupcakes, or drown them under layer after layer of overly-sweet toppings. Plain old pancakes are apparently valued so low that IHOP frequently runs all-you-can-eat specials and just gives these pancakes away free....

TikTok Is In Awe Over This Cottagecore Japanese Strawberry Shortcake Piece of Cake/Shutterstock By Hannah Beach/April 18, 2022 6:47 pm EST Without a doubt, TikTok has gotten a lot of people into cooking over the last couple years. When the pandemic first hit, many of us were stuck at home with nothing better to do than bake viral three-ingredient cloud bread and learn TikTok dances while our creations were in the oven....

What Fans Need To Know About José Andrés’ New Documentary Bryan Bedder/Getty Images By Cristine Struble/May 6, 2022 7:09 pm EST As chefs stirred the enormous paella pans stationed in front of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the wafting aroma did more than create a hunger for all the guests. With the National Geographic documentary “We Feed People” set to premiere, that gigantic visual stood as a reminder that José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen team choose to make a difference one plate at a time....

What To Know Before Taking Another Sip Of Basil Hayden Facebook By Naveena Vijayan/Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 12:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Basil Hayden was introduced as a premium light bourbon, and it has been that way since 1992. A drink that was birthed in Kentucky’s historic Jim B. Beam Distilling Co., it has stood the test of time, never straying away from its 80 proof trademark....

Why A Texas Restaurant Chain Owed Almost $900,000 To Its Employees fizkes/Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Updated: April 26, 2022 11:35 am EST A Texan restaurant chain called Hard Eight BBQ shelled out an $867,572 settlement after the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found it guilty of wage theft. In a news brief, the division explained that because the barbecue chain used to include managers in its tip pool, its non-manager workers did not receive all the tips to which they were entitled....

Why Reddit Has A Problem With Trader Joe’s Butter Chicken Kravtzov/Shutterstock By Colin McCandless/July 20, 2022 5:18 pm EST Inflation is capturing the headlines these days with elevated fuel and food prices impacting our daily lives and giving us pause about purchasing staple items we used to not think twice about such as bread and milk (per Bloomberg). But inflation isn’t the only issue that is causing people to consider altering their buying habits at grocery stores....

Why You Should Make Portobello Mushrooms In Your Air Fryer AngieYeoh/Shutterstock By Karen Hart/April 30, 2022 12:58 pm EST Air fryers are definitely having their moment. If you want a trendy, small appliance for your kitchen, the air fryer is literally “it.” Oprah Winfrey even added this kitchen gadget to her list of “Favorite Things” a few years back, and when Oprah puts her stamp of approval on a product, it has to be awesome, right?...

You Aren’t Tipping Enough At Cracker Barrel, According To TikTok lunopark/Shutterstock By Molly Clark/June 30, 2022 1:04 pm EST Whether you like leaving tips or think tipping should be abolished, it’s currently an integral part of the service industry. Many professionals, from servers and bartenders to hairdressers and taxi drivers, rely on tips for their income. This is thanks to the fact that in some states, tipped minimum wage remains at $2....

10 Best Substitutes For Vegetable Broth Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Updated: May 6, 2022 11:22 am EST It never ceases to amaze us just how much flavor a simple-looking cup of watery broth can bring to a dish. Though, when you add a splash to a pot of soup or some sauce, it can bring layers of flavor to a seemingly plain meal. Despite vegetable broth’s potential to add tons of depth and flavor, however, there are some downsides to using it....

A New Vegetable Egg Invention Could Be A Game-Changer For Vegans Poring Studio/Shutterstock By Cristine Struble/Updated: April 26, 2022 11:36 am EST Though the classic question may be about what came first, the chicken or the egg, another egg-related quandary has many foodies puzzled: Can plant-based eggs really mimic the real thing? That’s ultimately a matter of opinion, but many companies are trying to accomplish just that. According to Portugal Resident, the country’s Centre for Food Education and Research (CFER) Plantalicious team has created an egg substitute made from soy and other ingredients extracted from plants....

Amanda Freitag Is Psyched For Guy Fieri’s Tournament Of Champions Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images By Justina Huddleston/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 12:26 pm EST Guy Fieri’s “Tournament of Champions” is back for a third season, and fans aren’t the only ones who seem excited about the return of the bracket-style head-to-head cooking competition. The Food Network has been hyping the new season with 32 contestants to lots of fanfare, given that the grand prize is $100,000....

Costco Fans Are Raving Over Its ‘Disappearing’ Snack Mix Elena Veselova/Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Aug. 1, 2022 7:39 am EST With a selection of snacks as vast as the one at Costco, it’s no surprise that supermarkets can’t keep a stock of all their delicious offerings at all times. This means you never know for sure how long that chip flavor you’ve been munching on for weeks will be available. Costco’s peanut butter chocolate snack mix, which happens to have a cult following of its own, has a similar reputation for making an appearance in stores at sporadic intervals....

Duff Goldman’s Pic Of His Daughter Enjoying Starbucks Has Fans Swooning Jason Koerner/Getty Images By Kate Hagan Gallup/March 7, 2022 12:02 pm EST Duff Goldman shared another sweet snap of baby Josephine and fans simply can’t get enough. Recently celebrating her first birthday, the tiny tot was welcomed to the world on February 1st, 2021 when the happy dad shared his joy on Instagram, “Some friends have told me that the love I’ll experience when looking at my daughter will be different than anything I’ve ever experienced and they were totally right....

Every Dots Pretzel Flavor Ranked Worst To Best Dot’s Pretzels/Facebook By Nicole Rivas/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 5:14 pm EST When it comes to salty snacks, Dot’s pretzel twists have become a popular choice, especially if you live in a certain area of the US. Though Dot’s were first created in Arizona, the snack brand really took off in North Dakota and is widely known as a Midwest brand. The pretzel powerhouse was started by Dorothy Henke, who created Dot’s almost by accident after baking some seasoned pretzel twists for some homemade Christmas gifts (via Dot’s Pretzels)....

Homemade Glazed Doughnuts Recipe Stephanie Rapone/Mashed By Stephanie Rapone AND Mashed Staff/July 21, 2022 6:03 pm EST No, you don’t have to go to Krispy Kreme to enjoy a fresh glazed doughnut. And yes, a homemade version will taste just as good — if not better! Recipe developer Stephanie Rapone has the perfect homemade glazed doughnut recipe, and it’s one that she cannot praise highly enough. “These are doughnuts are delicious!...

He used his grandmother’s UberEats account to place the order Ravi_Sharma1030/Shutterstock Imagine you’re a worker at the Starbucks near Green, Ohio. During the daily shift, you start to notice a particularly large amount of mobile orders are coming in. Three tall caramel macchiatos, four venti iced caramel macchiatos, and … EIGHT of those bacon and gruyere egg bites? You also notice that all of these orders are coming from one single user, instead of a different group of people as you’d expect....

How Chefs Are Being Reeled In With Farm-Raised Seafood’s Sustainability sercandulger/Shutterstock By Derek Helling/Updated: July 18, 2022 1:47 pm EST Correction 7/18/22: This article has been updated to clarify the Environmental Defense Fund’s stance on overfishing and aquaculture. Farm-raised fish haven’t always been the catch of the day. As recently as 2017, chefs in Seattle called fish from farms “just gross” and added that they “taste bad,” according to the Seattle Times....

Iconic Street Foods You Can Only Find In Africa Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock By Crysta Coburn/Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 6:25 pm EST Africa is a vast continent positioned near the nexus of all four of Earth’s hemispheres. African cuisine is typically divided into five regions – northern, southern, eastern, western, and central Africa – each characterized by their own distinct ingredients and styles of cooking (via Spices, Inc.). Northern African cuisine, for instance, includes a lot of seafood, olives, and dates, which are indigenous to the region....

Insomnia Cookies’ New Flavor Is Inspired By A Nostalgic Sandwich Yuriy Golub/Shutterstock By Justina Huddleston/Aug. 17, 2022 9:26 am EST There are some flavors that are so nostalgic, it seems impossible to divorce them from our memories of childhood. Rectangle-shaped pizza from the school cafeteria washed down with low-fat chocolate milk; celery sticks filled with peanut butter; s’mores enjoyed by the campfire. Sure, we might have had these foods as adults, but we’ll always associate them with our youth....

McDonald’s Lovers Won’t Want To Miss These March Madness Deals TanyaKim/Shutterstock By Hannah Beach/March 25, 2022 2:48 pm EST It’s that time of year again, when all the fast food chains are competing for the best March Madness deals. Auntie Anne’s, for example, is bringing back its Basketball Buckets of soft pretzel bites. MOD Pizza briefly ran a deal for a free pizza or salad after a purchase of three pizzas or salads....