• The World's Most Famous Cheese Sandwich Is Now on Goldbelly

    It’s so simple: a creamy, tangy, red-speckled spread stuffed between two slices of Wonder Bread. Yet the pimento cheese sandwiches lined up like rows of library books wrapped in signature hunter green to-go baggies have flown off the shelves at Masters tournament since 1947, and they’re easily the world’s most famous in professional sports. Now, this iconic sandwich can be delivered to your doorstep, even if you didn’t make the qualifying round. Augusta National’s legendary pimento cheese...

  • Here’s How the New Chips Ahoy! Cookies Taste

    I have to hand it to Chips Ahoy!: Evidently, no other snack brand has ever claimed the term “MMMproved” when writing about their product’s updated recipe. So when America’s leading chocolate chip cookie brand announced this week that it’s rolling out its biggest update in 10 years, it made use of the term many times (18, in fact) as it conveyed the particulars of these MMMprovements: “tastier chocolate, the right amount of chocolate chips and just the right cookie texture.” The new cookies roll...

  • Chick-fil-A Changes Its Mind About Antibiotics in Chicken

    The shifting availability of high-quality chicken has fast food giant Chick-fil-A ready to relax its own rules a bit, the brand announced on its website. Beginning in the spring, the chain is changing its poultry standards from a “No Antibiotics Ever (NAE)” policy to “No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM).” Under the new policy, Chick-fil-A will allow for the chicken served on its menu to have been treated with animal antibiotics only if the chicken or the others around it were to...

  • CosMc’s Now Has a Second Location

    Just a few months after its debut in Illinois, CosMc’s, McDonald’s alien-inspired restaurant concept, has landed in Dallas. The second CosMc’s will feature the same beverage-forward menu as the first, and it’s one of several locations the brand plans to open in Texas in the near future, Restaurant Dive reports. Unique to the Dallas location, however, are two new beverages: the Beach Protein Frappe and the Melon Herb Chiller. Per the CosMc’s website, the former contains a blend of banana flavor...

  • What’s the Best Way to Cut a Cake?

    I have always suspected I was cutting cake wrong. With the typical segment approach, it’s hard to anticipate the results; the first piece is always ruined, and people who request “just a sliver” usually end up with a crumbly mess. The internet has some truly stupid ideas about how to cut cake (including wine glasses), but other suggestions seem, dare I say, ingenious. To determine the best method, I bravely destroyed several cakes. Cake Slicing Method #1: Vertical cuts How to: Using a large...

  • How Chain Restaurants Feed Millions of Customers

    You might slide into a booth at your nearest location of a national chain restaurant and notice that some seasonal specials are available. It’s always smart for restaurants to keep the offerings fresh, but getting them onto the menu is much more complicated than you might think. From farmers, to truck drivers, to the kitchen staff, countless people take part in creating every single new menu item offered to diners. First Watch, a breakfast and lunch chain with more than 520 restaurants in 29...

  • We Are a Nation Obsessed With Sauce

    Aioli, Heinz ketchup, Chick-fil-A’s Polynesian sauce, and the iconic Big Mac sauce. From our refrigerator shelves to our favorite restaurants, sauces of all kinds are proliferating, and the Wall Street Journal reports that it might be too much for some consumers to handle. But are all these condiments a sign of deterioration in America’s culinary skills, or just an indication of the new way we prefer to eat? Some might consider this proliferation of sauces a “shortcut” that takes away from the...

  • There Will Never Be a More Popular Easter Candy Than This

    There are many philosophical questions that will continue to be asked until the end of time. What is love? Why is the sky blue? Why is Easter synonymous with eggs and bunnies when the latter don’t even lay eggs? And will there ever be a more popular Easter candy than Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs? Time explains Easter eggs and the Easter bunny have separate roots. The eggs have a religious origin, as Christians were at one point forbidden from consuming eggs during Lent; the eggs that couldn’t be...

  • Try ALDI’s Affordable Alternative to Reese’s Eggs

    A few years ago, I was using my grocery store’s self-checkout lane just before Easter and spotted a display of Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs sitting on top of the screen. The eggs were $1 each, and I added one to my purchases. Trader Joe’s sits them in front of the cash register as well, and other stores put their peanut butter eggs up front with the impulse buys too, no doubt because this marketing is so effective. Who can resist the best Easter treat of them all? ALDI offers up an array of...

  • Flamin’ Hot Is Getting A Makeover

    The Flamin’ Hot lineup of products is so popular that PepsiCo, owner of Frito-Lay, has announced that it’s spinning off Flamin’ Hot as its very own brand. Along with the news that Flamin’ Hot would be its own category of product (rather than a subvariety of Cheetos that occasionally gets licensed out elsewhere), the company also announced that the entire portfolio, which includes more than 25 different products from snacks to mac and cheese, will now sport brand-new packaging to catch your eye...

  • Wait, So How Much Caffeine Is Okay?

    I started drinking coffee when I was in middle school. Since then, I’ve grown into what I think of as an “avidly caffeinated person.” My morning cup of coffee prevents a headache, cups two and three get me through my morning writing, and cup four is a nice little cap to my afternoon. Coffee is a big part of my day, and I love it. But lately, I’ve been wondering how much daily caffeine is the “right” amount. As you’ve likely heard by now, Panera has faced several lawsuits in recent months, with...

  • DoorDash Tests Drone Delivery at Wendy’s

    Food delivery has really taken off in recent years—sometimes literally. DoorDash has announced that it’s testing a new drone delivery partnership in a single U.S. test market, starting specifically with one fast food brand: Wendy’s. If all goes well, maybe we’ll all get our fries from the sky someday soon. DoorDash is testing drone delivery in Virginia Christianburg, Virginia, a town of approximately 22,600, will be the first to experience DoorDash’s foray into drone delivery. DoorDash has...