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What Stephen Colbert Had To Say About Taco Bell’s Giant Cheez-It Bruce Glikas/Getty By Elaina Friedman/July 1, 2022 8:56 am EST A string of U.S. Supreme Court decisions has made this a particularly heavy news month. There was last week’s Roe v. Wade ruling that reversed the constitutional right to abortion (per The New York Times), which was announced just days after the reversal of a New York State gun law that purportedly limited the right to carry firearms in public....

What You Might Not Have Known About The Texas Roadhouse Staff Ken Wolter/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/June 7, 2022 2:15 pm EST Toby Keith blares over the bleating chorus of the evening dinner rush. The smell of fresh sirloin and barbeque sauce hangs thick in the air, practically dripping from the wood-paneled walls and comfy leather booths. Neon signs advertising different types of beer illuminate richly painted murals of the American heartland above your head....

Whole Foods Holiday Products That Should Be In Your Kitchen Right Now Noam Galai/Getty Images By Felix Behr/Updated: April 10, 2022 8:26 am EST Lucky for us, Whole Foods enjoys celebrating different holidays throughout the year and now the winter holidays have officially reached the grocery store. The Toronto Star reported that Whole Foods had transformed its food bar into a toy store. The Austin American-Statesman also wrote about how Whole Foods, Capital Metro and the Central Texas Food Bank are collaborating again to host its annual Stuff the Bus event....

Why Don’t Experts Use The Food Pyramid Anymore? New Africa/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/May 21, 2022 2:17 pm EST Your teachers in grade school probably told you all about it when you learned about nutrition. It was hung in the examination rooms of doctors’ offices and was touted as the model of a well-balanced diet. Yet nowadays you don’t hear about it much. The food pyramid was invented in 1992 by the USDA, per HealthyBeat....

Why Kinder Chocolate Has Been Linked To Salmonella Cases Facebook By Erich Barganier/April 28, 2022 5:55 pm EST You might never expect it, but chocolate has a history of carrying salmonella. According to a study published in the Journal of Food Protection, salmonella’s ability to withstand heat, combined with the makeup of chocolate, allows the bacteria to infect the sweet treat, despite attempted food safety measures. This issue has become all the more prominent ever since Europe recently experienced a widespread salmonella outbreak traced back to chocolate....

Why Some Restaurants Feel Uneasy About Using Martin’s Bread Noam Galai/Getty Images By Hannah Beach/June 6, 2022 1:51 pm EST When it comes to bread, many people look no further than Martin’s. According to a news release distributed by PR Newswire, Martin’s potato products consistently rank as New York City’s favorite bread products. Martin’s bread is even used at countless restaurants across the U.S., including Shake Shack, per Eater. One chef further described the rolls as “magic” and made use of the rolls in his Texas restaurant after discovering Martin’s on a trip to New York....

Yes, A Bar That Rotates While You Drink Really Exists NTRdesign/Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/March 31, 2022 10:04 am EST Revolving bars and eateries across the world have managed to attain popularity over the years for being unique and offering a special dining experience to customers as they sip on a drink or dig into a delicious meal while enjoying the panoramic views. According to The Guardian, one of the earliest revolving eateries made its debut back in 1962 at the Seattle World’s Fair inside the Space Needle....

A Massive Highway Food Spill Has People Rubbernecking Online beton studio/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/June 2, 2022 12:04 pm EST Imagine you’re driving down Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania. You’re just southeast outside of Pittsburgh when, in an unfortunate twist of luck, you notice that traffic has come to a standstill. Past the horizon of cars and semi-trucks, you can see the flashing lights of a police car, several emergency vehicles, and a tow truck surrounding an impromptu barricade....

Sergei Elagin/Shutterstock By Julia Mullaney/Updated: July 13, 2022 11:26 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For 2022, the event is being held in a whopping 20 countries, and it’s become so big that other stores are offering similar deals in order to compete with the online retail giant. Target and Walmart are hosting sales, too, and clothing stores are also offering discounts, such as Francesca’s nearly 50% off sale....

Are Food Shortages Causing Another Health Crisis? The Toldi/Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/June 25, 2022 2:55 pm EST Food insecurity isn’t a new problem, but following five years of stability, it became increasingly pervasive in 2020, according to ReliefWeb. In an August 2020 letter to the editor of the Journal, Trends in Food Science & Technology, Professor David de Paulo Farias, a faculty member in the Departments of Food Science and Food Engineering at Brazil’s University of Campinas, pointed out what many of us now understand as a truism – which is that the pandemic and its related lockdowns wreaked “serious economic damage and threatened the availability of food in the world....

Clever Ingredients That Will Elevate Your Baking Game Svetlana Monyakova/Shutterstock By Mikaela Bloom/Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 11:28 pm EST Baking is a craft that always seems to fill voids that we didn’t even know existed: Hello, cronuts, and edible cookie dough. There’s always a need for baked goods. It’s impossible to tire of pastry, crusty bread, or gooey brownies. Why? Because whenever dough and batter are involved, buttery euphoria is always on the horizon....

Costco Shoppers Can’t Get Enough Of This Chicken Stir Fry Instagram By Lauren Cahn/Updated: May 9, 2022 11:08 am EST If you want to get a sense of just how excited Costco fans are about its Yakisoba Stir Fry with seasoned chicken, you might consider the fact that a mere 20 hours ago, Costco super-fan Instagram account @costcobuys posted a photo of it to its 464,000 followers with the caption, “This Yakisoba Stir Fry with seasoned rotisserie chicken is back at my Costco and I’m so excited!...

Daphne Oz Just Shared A Pancake Recipe From Her New Cookbook Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Alia Hoyt/March 24, 2022 12:29 pm EST Daphne Oz has a new cookbook coming out soon, and she’s doing her part to set mouths watering in anticipation. Called “Eat Your Heart Out,” the new cooking tome is a collection of Oz’s 150 favorite recipes that are all completely don’t have refined sugar and are gluten-free but still “full of flavor,” as she explains in a cooking demonstration posted to Instagram....

Everything We Know About Krispy Kreme’s 2022 St. Patrick’s Day Collection Krispy Kreme By Amanda Tarlton/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 4:40 pm EST Krispy Kreme may be best known for its classic glazed donut — which is made with a super secret recipe that’s been around since 1937 — but the popular bakery brand has also become famous for its seasonal releases. Fans wait all year for the limited-edition donut drops. In the fall, you could dig into a pumpkin spice donut or the Gobbler, complete with a turkey face made of fondant....

Food Trends You’ll See In 2018 Shutterstock By DB Kelly/Updated: May 2, 2022 5:04 am EST Thanks to social media, food trends are huge. Every year has them, and while some stick around others are anywhere from just plain weird to entirely forgettable. If you’re at all familiar with the power of the internet — and you know you are — you’ll also know there’s no telling what people are going to come up with next....

Grocery Store Hot Dog Brands, Ranked Shutterstock By Kori Ellis/Updated: May 2, 2022 7:16 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Each year, Americans buy 9 billion hot dogs at retail stores. That’s 30 hot dogs for every man, woman, and child in the country. To say that people in the United States have a love affair with wieners would be an understatement. And that 9 billion number isn’t even factoring in all the hot dogs purchased at carnivals, restaurants, baseball games, food carts, and everywhere else where frankfurters are sold....

Here’s How Inflation Is Really Affecting Grocery Store Visits Prostock-studio/Shutterstock By Elaina Friedman/Aug. 19, 2022 3:46 pm EST If you ever want an update on the state of food inflation, pay a visit to your nearest supermarket. It’s easy to see how the cost of common goods such as produce, eggs, flour, and ground meat are fluctuating simply by strolling down the aisles and taking note of the clearly labeled price tags....

Here’s What Happened To Brümachen After Shark Tank Facebook By Maeve Reilly/Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 10:23 am EST Business partners Ross Smith and Kweku Larbi really like their coffee, and as such, they wanted to create a product that allowed them to bring freshly brewed, hot java everywhere they went. And thus they created Brümachen, the world’s first fully portable machine that brews six ounces of 190-degree coffee in about five minutes, using K-cups or their own refillable pods....

How Meijer Inspired The Creation Of Walmart 1000 Words/Shutterstock By Dave Malyon/Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 9:24 am EST Frederick Meijer left a legacy of inspiration for everybody who knew him, including Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. While capitalistic ventures thrive on growth and expansion, some favor relationships and community above all. The Meijer brand was built on the latter, sacrificing the mega wealth that comes with proliferation for philanthropy, per Ozy....

Hunter March On Wellness And How He Powered Through Sugar Rush - Exclusive Interview Aaron Poole/E! Entertainment By Hanna Claeson/May 19, 2022 1:44 pm EST Stock up on your microwave popcorn. “Sugar Rush” and “E! Nightly Pop” host Hunter March is about to entertain you with a new YouTube show called “First Date,” where he’ll cook for celebrity guests in his kitchen. “We have a long-form date interview, and it’s really fun,” March promised Mashed in an exclusive interview for National Mental Health Awareness month....