Knock Knock. Who’s there? Whopper. Whopper Who? Toilet Chicken will not be sweeping the Nation anytime soon. Woman eats bull testicle pizza. Has a cow. Is Trader Joe’s cheese with chocolate the next Reese’s? It’s fitting that Kellogg’s Wafflers can’t decide if they’re meal or a snack. Parents with more money than brains make Babycinnos [...]

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Despite being a 70-year-old brand, Cheerios seems to fit right in with America’s latest (ostensible) push to become slender and healthy. With low sugar and only 110 calories per serving, the cereal has always held a place on the “healthy” side of pre-packaged grocery items. But admirable nutrition stats do not a diet fad make, [...]

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I have been a big fan of cooking shows for a long time. Even as a teenager I spent a lot of time watching Justin Wilson “Gawr On Tee” how delicious his gumbo was going to be. Or learning exactly what Yan could cook, When the Food Network hit the airwaves in 1993, I could [...]

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Growing up in a Catholic household, I am well versed in Lent. For those of you not in the know,  Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up in the weeks leading up to Easter. For a kid growing up in a semi-observant Christian household, this may have boiled down to cutting out [...]

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Oreos are awesome. If you disagree, there are two possible reasons: One, you are not American. I’ll give you a pass because there’s no way you could truly understand the awesomeness of Oreos. Two, there is something seriously wrong with you and you should go the the emergency room immediately. Your taste buds may have [...]

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PepsiCo, owner of the Tropicana line of juice products, has found a new way to squeeze revenue from the orange branch of their family tree. Leveraging consumer’s misplaced fixation on low-calorie, low-sugar alternatives, Tropicana has been selling Trop50, a juice with “50% less sugar and calories.” This doesn’t sound like an unreasonable idea until you [...]

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I’m at Taco Bell HQ right now (Follow me on Twitter for live-tweeting) and they’ve just announced that the new Doritos Locos Taco, which has been in test-marketing phase, will be on-sale nationwide starting at 12:01 AM March 8th.

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Valentine’s Day may be over, but chances are you’ll be wading through a leftover pile of white, pink and red offal for the next month or so. Cheesy cards, mounds of designer chocolates, heart-shaped pizzas and garish pink teddy bears are just part of the mound of refuse retail stores pump out every year, essentially [...]

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If I told anyone 20 years ago that  in 2012 I could take them out to a fine dining restaurant and be served an edible helium balloon that tasted of green apple, they’d probably have scoffed & asked me to say Hello to George & Jane Jetson. Yet here we are. Molecular Gastronomy itself has [...]

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