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Taste Test: Milk And Honey Original Café Mix, The Alleged Best Cereal
Back in February, our Tim Marchman posted a list that purported to rank breakfast cereals in order of deliciousness. His selection of something called "Milk and Honey Original Café Mix" for the top spot—on what's a pretty comprehensive list of the breakfast cereals you can find in your typical sup...
Mathematician Uses Bagel To Prove That He's Kind Of A Dingus
What in the hell. What in the god damn hell....
Fast-Food Fight: Subway's Pulled Pork Vs. Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Burger
There are three main founts of greasy innovation whence spring the majority of new fast-food items. The bulk originate in the wide and shallow Same Shit, Different Condiments pool; they are joined by more ambitious offerings from the genres of Cynical Stunt Food and Honest-to-Ronald Attempts to Intr...
Chick-Fil-A's Grilled Chicken: The Emilio Estevez Of Chicken Sandwiches
Eating at Chick-fil-A is always a personal conflict. How do you decide between its super-friendly employees and quality food on the one hand, and the antiquated social views at the top of the company on the other? For the sake of loyal Foodspinners, I put that conflict aside to to help mediate an...
All Shock, No Awe: 7-Eleven's Doritos Loaded, Reviewed
Are you repulsed by the idea of eating prepared food from a convenience-store chain most notable for a sludgy cold-sugar drink with the word "slurp" in the name? Are you fundamentally opposed to having your lunch heated in a machine also used to reinvigorate yesterweek's Go-Go Taquitos? Are you not ...
God Save Dairy Queen: Scenes From The Fast-Food Franchise Wars
Manhattan's first Dairy Queen opened last month, its arrival heralded by months of agonizingly sincere public debate. Critics bemoaned the suburbanization of their precious city and exhorted responsible New Yorkers to patronize their nearest Mister Softee truck instead, rather than feed the soul...
Big Mac Vs. Whopper: The Ultimate Burger Smackdown
It's been a rocky week for the USA. We were let down by our Supreme Court and our soccer team, and we head into a potentially hurricanous Independence Day licking our wounds and pondering our mistakes and just kidding, we fucking RULE, and that's partly due to geographic good fortune and relatively ...
8-Months-Pregnant Woman Runs In US Track Championships
Alysia Montaño is a fast 800 meter runner. Alysia Montaño is the defending national champion in the 800 meters. Alysia Montaño always wears a flower in her hair. Alysia Montaño showed up yesterday to defend her national title, with a flower in her hair. Alysia Montaño also showed up eight months...
Map: What's The Nearest Burger Joint?
Continuing his "geography of American food and drink" series—which has already looked at pizza places, coffee shops, and grocery stores vs. bars—Nathan Yau of FlowingData has put together a map showing the regional territories of seven major burger chains....
Taco Bell's Quesarito: A Fast-Food Love Affair Gone Awry
Hybrid foods are hit or miss. When they're honest attempts to expand the human dining experience by combining the virtues of two or more complementary yet previously segregated items, the results can be extraordinary. Pizza bagels, peanut butter cups, and Jell-O shots are classic examples of dispara...
How To Make Pancakes, A Marvel Of Labor And Science
The pancake—the notion of the pancake as a breakfast food—comes to us from an older time, a slower time, a time before boxed cereal. A time when your breakfast choices included grinding wheat into flour, mixing it with liquid, and cooking it, or else just chewing on some un-ground wheat like an ass...
Burrito Smackdown: Chipotle Vs. Qdoba
Serious Mexican-food folk talk mostly about tacos these days, which is cool, except that tacos are sorta bullshit. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a taco, other than the fact that it's just a miniature open-faced burrito, i.e., a lesser burrito. Disdaining the burrito—it's not even authentic Mexi...
BBQ Chicken Pizza Smackdown: Pizza Hut Vs. Domino's
Several years ago, I came across a ranking of careers based on overall desirability. "President of the United States" was somewhere in the lower-middle of the pack, because it offers the most power and prestige, but also has the highest workplace fatality rate, terrible job security, brutal hours, a...
True Expression Is Making Your Own Running Clothes
When Maggie Vessey toes the line at this year's pre-Prefontaine Classic on Friday night, you'll notice her. And it's not because she's tall or blonde or statuesque—though she's all these things. You'll notice her because while the half-milers that surround her are in muted black uniforms with the o...
Breakfast Sandwich Smackdown: Dunkin' Donuts Vs. Starbucks
The hyper-importance of breakfast as regards overall physical wellness has been largely discredited, but the first meal of the day is still crucial from a psychological perspective. From a strictly corporeal angle, the totality of your day's calorie and nutrient intake matters more than the composit...
Fuck Chipotle
Everyone's rightfully goofing on Chipotle today for unveiling a line of cups and bags featuring insta-literature from the likes of Toni Morrison and George Saunders. Now, I have no issue with restaurant chains scrawling stuff on their packaging. Cook Out could post entire passages from Leviticus o...
Fried Chicken Sandwich Smackdown: Wendy's Vs. KFC
Fried chicken is the best. The main reason I had to stop reading about death row inmates' last meals is that every single thing about this sentence so far is ghastly; I was also secondarily appalled by how many of them forgot to request fried chicken. I understand that if they were good decision-mak...
The Fast-Food Bacon Wars: McDonald's Goes High, Burger King Goes Low
Over the past decade, the American burgersphere has been shaped by three major forces: The first and most odious is the grind-your-own contingent's constant harping about how to flip a fucking hamburger. Having declared victory in their charcoal-fueled war against convenience (gas grills are still m...
How To Hard-Boil Eggs, For Godly Or Ungodly Purposes
Interestingly (or maybe not interestingly) (I mean, we are talking about boiled eggs, and we are gonna have to calibrate our "interesting" scale pretty generously here), hard-boiled eggs, when made properly, receive a much softer boiling than soft-boiled eggs. The "-boiled" is what confuses things: ...
Flatizza Vs. Waffle Taco: A Fast-Food Smackdown For The Ages
Fast-food outlets are often criticized by the discount burgeratti for overstating the innovation of their "new" offerings, and for good reason. Every chain has been guilty of twisting an existing menu item two degrees toward novelty by using the same few tired tricks. Maybe they flop another protein...