As rising food costs and a fraught economy make dining out increasingly expensive, one North Carolina restaurant is drawing fire for a controversial surcharge. STATS, a sports bar in Charlotte, allegedly charged a customer $6 to take her leftovers home. The outraged customer, known to the internet as Millionaire Mace, posted a picture of her … Read more
When Harley Langberg, 38, visits the grocery store, he doesn’t carry around a shopping list. Instead, he’s in the aisles studying photos on his phone of Jalen Brunson, the NYC skyline and the FIFA World Cup trophy to find vegetables with the right colors and textures to recreate edible versions of the visuals. Hustling during … Read more
A 28-year-old man got into a dispute with his father after asking for a to-go box at a restaurant — dividing diners on Reddit and prompting a larger discussion about etiquette. In a post, the man wrote that the dispute began after his family went out to eat at a diner, on his father’s dime. “I ordered a main … Read more
It may be tempting to gobble up your Thanksgiving feast over several days, but food safety experts warn that you can get severely ill if you don’t properly handle the leftovers. “Leftovers are one of the best parts of Thanksgiving, but once the meal is over, they need to be safely stored,” Lester Schonberger, an … Read more
A cold, mayo-slathered turkey sandwich? Toss it in the trash! A microwaved glob of days-old stuffing? You can do better! Give your Thanksgiving leftovers a glow-up instead. That’s the advice from cooking expert Dan Souza, chief content officer at America’s Test Kitchen, for the post-holiday period when your refrigerator bursts with containers of holiday has-beens. … Read more
This brings new meaning to “airstrip.” A stripping flight attendant might seem like an OnlyFans fantasy. However, that’s not the case for some air hostesses, who’ve turned to removing their clothes for cash and other desperate measures to make ends meet when not working the financially unfriendly skies. “I am definitely not a girl that … Read more
A husband’s “lazy” act after his wife cooked him and their toddler dinner has exposed a worryingly common act causing women to end their marriages. Amanda Palacio filmed herself confronting her other half after finding he’d placed their family’s leftover pasta and tomato sauce in an uncovered saucepan in the fridge. In the clip, the young … Read more
A third of parents eat their kids’ lunchbox rejects for dinner, according to a recent poll. The survey of 2,000 parents with school-aged children took an in-depth look at the American child’s palate, nutrition and how parents get creative to keep their kids fed. According to parents, although more than one in five (17%) said … Read more
Chill out! A TikTok creator who specializes in home health and body hygiene is assuring her followers that they can put warm leftovers in the fridge — and it’s actually better that they do. “My mother-in-law always said, ‘Leave the food out, let it cool down before you put it in the fridge otherwise it’ll … Read more
Is there anything more quintessentially Italian than solving differences over a hearty plate of pasta and a glass of wine? Not as far as “The Inner Cage” is concerned, a ponderous prison drama that teeters on the verge of violence right up until one of the inmates gets to cooking. The prison in question is … Read more
With the holidays up ahead, most people will have an excess of food in the house left over after Thanksgiving and beyond. Plus, holiday time or not, cooking large meals can be a way to stretch your budget — and then take a break from cooking and enjoy the leftovers for a few days. So … Read more
You may want to think twice before grabbing that doggy bag. A microbiologist is sharing the alarming reason she won’t go near leftovers, barbecues or oysters, warning of the dangers of common practices that could lead to food poisoning, which strikes more than 47 million Americans every year. Primrose Freestone, a senior lecturer in clinical … Read more
The average American spends nearly $3,000 a year on unused groceries, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 adults found that on average, those who do grocery shopping for their household spend $248 on weekly groceries, and one in 10 claim that they spend even more — upwards of $500. Of that, people usually … Read more