It may not be the real deal — but it was worth a shot. A woman is taking the Sazerac Company — which makes alcoholic beverages including Fireball Whisky — to court over what she claims is misleading packaging after discovering mini bottles of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky don’t in fact contain any whiskey. Anna Marquez filed … Read more
You’d be working on your “night cheese.” A new study looks to prove that eating cheese before bed can cause nightmares. The study — undertaken by Sleep Junkie — is looking for five American testers to slice their way through several types of cheeses every week, asking the participants to record their dreams and nightmares. … Read more
Oh my, that’s a big pizza pie! Pizza Hut officially made the “World’s Largest Pizza” with the help of YouTuber Airrack (Eric Decker), according to the Guinness Book of World Records. On Jan. 18, nearly 14,000 square feet of the Los Angeles Convention Center was covered by 3,653 pounds of dough, 4,948 pounds of sweet … Read more
Opening a bag of chips to find it only half full is always a disappointment, but it turns out the extra space actually serves a purpose. The “empty” part of the bag of chips actually keeps the products from going stale too quickly and from the damage of the fragile chips, according to the UK’s … Read more
Happy National Pie Day (not to be confused with National Pi Day). In his post apocalyptic debut novel, “The Gone-Away World,” Nick Harkaway writes, “Pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and … Read more
Time to toast another clever kitchen hack! Finding himself “bored” one day, Joan Manuel Hidalgo devised a hands-free, but margarinally complex machine that toasts and butters bread, Jam Press reports. In the ultimate fete of lazy genius, the Argentina-based creator recently showcased his toast conveyor belt on TikTok, breaking 1.5 million views and rising! Viewers … Read more
Cooking is a piece of cake — unless you don’t know how to handle food safely. An estimated one in six Americans falls ill from food poisoning each year, sending 128,000 people to the hospital and killing 3,000 more, according to the CDC. These types of illnesses typically can be avoided by following proper food safety … Read more
Turns out a meme can be life-changing. When Dieunerst Collin was just 9 years old, he was waiting in line, holding a lemonade cup at a Popeyes in Irvington, New Jersey, for his family pack of chicken, biscuits and fries. A stranger pulled out their phone to record Collin and compare him to Lil TerRio, … Read more
Now this is serving up heartbreak with a twist. Next month you can shake — or stir — it off with your cocktail of choice at a Taylor Swift-inspired pop-up bar called Bad Blood in Chicago. Catering to those down-on-love drinkers who are anti Valentine’s Day this year, the “heartbreak bar” — which will be … Read more
He’s thinking outside the Happy Meal box. North Wales TikToker Ashley Osbourne, who goes by the username @ozzy_on_a_mission, is known for his money-saving McDonald’s hacks. Some 4.6 million viewers have watched Osbourne’s latest drop, where he shows customers how to seemingly get two free chicken McNuggets. Instead of ordering a large meal with six nuggets, which … Read more
Big Apple restaurateurs are sick of entitled social media influencers and their lemming-like followers wreaking havoc with ridiculous off-menu requests. Source link
This just might be a big hairy deal for carb lovers. Best-kept secret ingredients are blowing minds on social media: Your grocery-store breads could very well contain traces of human hair, duck feathers, cow horns and pig bristles. The gag-inducing food production practice was first revealed in a little-known study published in 2016. However, it’s … Read more
One man’s trip to McDonald’s made no cents. TikTok user Josiah Vargas, who goes by the username @dookiedoeboy, has claimed that when he swung by his local McDonald’s drive-thru to grab a quick bite to eat, he was handed a bag full of cash in addition to his requested sausage McMuffin. The video, which has … Read more
Talk about a super bowl. Scientists at Kirin Holdings Company and the Meiji University in Japan have developed an electric spoon and bowl said to use weak electrical stimulation to enhance the salty taste of low-sodium foods. The “Electric Salt” devices, slated to launch in Japan this year, will increase the salt taste by 1.5 … Read more
Eighty-six TikTok. As a rash of ridiculous menu hacks threatens to give fast food chains serious indigestion, at least one Waffle House location is refusing to let entitled customers make a hash of restaurant tradition. “Order from the menu. We are not making anything you saw on TikTok,” reads a posted warning — captured in … Read more
She might be the only one who is McLovin’ it. One TikTok foodie shared a McDonald’s burger hack — one that includes everything from the “air, land and sea” — but it doesn’t seem like it’ll be flying off the shelves anytime soon. Raina Huang, who goes by @rainaiscrazy on TikTok, showed off her fast … Read more
National Bagel Day arrives on January 15 and as we are all imperfect circles harboring unfillable emotional holes there is perhaps no greater metaphor for the human condition than the humble bagel. According to Maria Balinska, author of “The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread,” the origin of the bagel is hard to … Read more
Like many New Yorkers, I’ve long had a soft spot for the red, green and gold czarist fantasy of Midtown’s vintage Russian Tea Room, even if the food only intermittently lived up to the decor. Things hit what I thought was rock-bottom at a mid-December lunch. On that unfortunate occasion, snippy service and leaden dishes … Read more
Not long ago, while scrolling through her For You Page on TikTok, Riley Leach, a 25-year-old from Cloverdale, Indiana, found the answer to a question she hadn’t even known to ask — turns out, the Zillennial and her sisters had grown up in what users of the social media site have been referring to as … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Attention all vegans, plant-based peeps and carnivores who need more fruits and veggies in their lives: This one is for you. If cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner have become more dreaded chores than fun activities, meal kits and … Read more