Category: Food & Drink

Applebee’s Created Chicken Wing Lip Gloss in Four Saucy Flavors

Applebee's restaurant exterior

Do you love Applebee’s Chicken Wings?  Do you especially love their dipping sauces?  Do you love them so much you want to wear them on your lips?  Well, now’s your chance!  According to Food & Wine, the biggest name in casual dining has teamed up with the makeup brand Winky Lux for a limited-edition collection […]

Fancy Feast Will Serve Humans Cat Food-Inspired Dishes at an Exclusive NYC Pop-up Restaurant

Have you ever read the descriptions on your cat’s canned food and thought, “Heck, that sounds like a dinner I’d like to eat?”  Fess up.  You know you have.  Well, canned cat food brand Fancy Feast is opening an ultra-limited edition pop up restaurant that gives you a chance to do just that.  For two […]

Been Hankerin’ for Hot Dog and Hamburger Flavored Candy Corn? Now’s Your Chance!

For decades, Candy Corn was a mainstay of the Halloween season, but disappeared from view for the rest of the year.  But that’s been changing in the past few years, as Brach’s been looking for ways to include pastel candy corn in Easter Baskets,  red and green “Reindeer Corn” in Christmas Stockings, and in 2020, […]

Sprite, Fresca, Seagram’s and Mello Yello will no longer be sold in their Iconic Green Bottles – Here’s Why

The green bottle classically associated with Sprite is going to become a thing of the past. The reason?  Green isn’t well, green.  Although green plastic bottles can be recycled, clear ones are a more useful recyclable material. And so The Coca-Cola Company, the owner of the brand, had already started transitioning from Sprite’s iconic green […]

Krispy Kreme releases Ice Cream Truck Doughnuts to help ease us through Hot Summer Months

Krispy Kreme store interior

In June, Krispy Kreme kicked off summer by taking their signature doughnut flavors and turned them into ice creams with their new Original Glazed Soft Serve Ice Cream. Now, as the summer temperatures soar, they’re doing the reverse: bringing classic ice cream flavors to a new line of limited-edition doughnuts. According to Food & Wine, […]

July 24th is International Tequila Day. Here are 12 Things Every Tequila Aficionado Needs to Know

1. Tequila has an appellation of origin. Like champagne, cognac, and some fine wines, tequila can only be produced in five regions in Mexico—Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, Tamaulipas, and Jalisco, though far and away the largest producer is Jalisco. 2. It must be made from the blue agave plant… mostly. To be classified as tequila, a […]

Pardon Me, Would You Have Any Grey Poupon? Good Mustard Is Getting Hard to Find

If you’ve not checked your “What Are We Running Low On Now” bingo card lately, give it a look to see if you have the Dijon mustard square. According to reports from both Canada and France, the condiment could be in short supply for the next few months. One major factor in the shortage?  It’s […]

Iowa Utility Workers Discover 150 Year-Old Beer Cave

2 glasses of lager beer on a table next to wheat in front of lit candles

As reported by Food & Wine, a team of Iowa utility workers had a more exciting-than-usual day at work recently, when some underground electrical work revealed a well-preserved “beer cave” from the mid-19th century. According to KCCI, the electrical workers from the city of Winterset were doing some excavation on a project in Madison County […]

Amazon’s Smart Shopping Carts Are Coming to Whole Foods Markets

Amazon may be one of America’s largest retailers, but technology has been the driving force behind the brand, whether online, where Amazon built its business, or at its brick-and-mortar stores, where things like their “Just Walk Out” technology has revolutionized the shopping experience. Similarly, in September 2020, the brand began introducing “Amazon Dash Carts” at […]