2015 is already proving to be an strange, even contradictory year for foodies to follow. Between the weird-ass buttered coffee micro-trend and major fast food chains putting out feelers to re-brand burgers, fries, tacos, pizza and fried chicken as being fresh and less processed, 2015 is already shaping up to…
Last month, Chipotle got a public hand-smack because an employee did a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture to nine visiting NYPD officers who blew off the burrito bowls and left, sparking a store boycott by local cops and a pile of customer complaints. Chipotle co-CEOs Steve Ells and Monty Moran…
This year has seen some almighty good food trends from paleo-inspired, wood-grilled meats to the proliferation of pop-up restaurants, citrus everywhere and DIY foods, more global tastes than ever before, and even a ramen renaissance. But like every year, 2014 had its share of downer-grade food fails, and plenty of…
There are plenty of trendy eats and drinks from the entire decade of the 1990s that we either don’t miss or that just won’t die so we can miss them — like spinach-artichoke dip, weirdo fruity martinis, molten chocolate cake, chicken Caesar salads and sun-dried tomatoes on everything. But there…
Every holiday season brings consumers a big, mixed Santa bag of Christmas-themed nibbles and sips, and it’s pretty much a guarantee that at least a few of them are gonna be memorably good, while the rest will be the nightmare during Christmas. This year at least we have some better-sounding…
This year has produced some pretty marvelous gadgets for foodies, and culinary technology for 2014 has given us some bizarre finds like a 3-D latte art tool, a wine glass holder that makes you half an inch away from being a drunkard, build-your-own-burger tablets at McDonald’s, a remote-controlled beer holder,…
Every holiday shopping season gives friends and families of hardcore foodies chances to really hit, or severely miss, with gifts. You could be a right-good ‘ol pal and buy whole Wagyu beef ribeye roasts for all your foodsy chums (that’ll only set you back $1,200 per pal!) but let’s be…
This year’s holiday season has gifts for every type of foodie, from culinary noobs to sophisticated connoisseurs — and even a few shiny tidbits for the bougie hipsters on your Xmas lists, like Sriracha candy canes, a home bacon-making kit, a clever “spin the shot” way of getting drunk on…
The last couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for customers who like some really off-beat food products. Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew, TGI Friday’s bacon-crusted ribs and a Stroganoff burger are some of the trippiest food products yet, and that’s just the tip here, because with the holiday season coming on,…
It’s that time of year again: time to celebrate Thanksgiving with a gigantic feast — and then head out to stand in line in various dark and chilly parking lots for early Black Friday barbarian raids shopping. Our dinners of thanks usually include a large hunk of roasted protein (not…
Chik-fil-A always seems to be in the news for something: This month, Denver Chik-fil-A stores will be blessing customers with free Chick-n-Minis every Monday in November in the restaurants and the drive-throughs. It’s a struggle to recall a time when Chik’s wasn’t shooting free food from effin’ stadium cannons to…
It’s all about the Cheddar Bay biscuits with Red Lobster, right? Well, churning out those deliciously addictive little biscuits is the best thing Red Lobster has ever done in a history of some awesome hits — and terrible misses. RL just announced it’s making some changes by booting non-seafood items…
Today Dunkin’ Donuts is launching its version of the fading fad-tastic cronut, simply named the Croissant Donut (creativity, naming and trend-necromancy fail). At $2.49 each — the usual single donut price is around a buck — the extra dough lands your croissant donut in a fancy box. Fancy packaging is…
Qdoba is taking a stand, according to its website. The second-stringer Mexican fast-casual chain is doing a crazy — except more like business savvy — new promotion involving free queso dip, which is one of the smartest things any chain could do, ever. Yep, Qdoba is giving up up-charging for…
Every single person who’s been spreading the rumor that because recreational cannabis is now legal in some places, trick-or-treating kids will suddenly be loaded with THC-infused edibles needs to sit down, shut up, quit scaring the fuck out of everyone, and just do what they would normally do on Halloween…
Food companies pair creativity with marketability — along with a little luck — to score “the next big thing” in food trends. There are some amazing ideas for new foods and drinks out there, but at the same time, some new products never really take off. Some aren’t appealing to…
At some point Halloween went from real pumpkins, elegantly toilet-papered trees and hellishly funny Halloween films to plastic “fun-kins,” polite, chaperoned gatherings and bad Tim Burton movie reruns on the tube. Although I can’t identify exactly when the caramel apple fell off the stick, Halloween has become the soon-forgotten candy…
Halloween season means we get homemade orange-iced cupcakes with too much icing, black ginger ale punch full of sodden gummy worms, and those little rolled fondant ghosts that somebody’s auntie made by hand that everyone compliments but nobody actually eats. The store-bought treats usually end up being a slightly better…
Pumpkin spice season gets earlier and earlier every year, much like the Xmas shopping holiday, and somewhere around mid-August the traditional pumpkin spice goodies appeared on shelves. The beloved PSLs have been shooting through Starbucks drive-throughs like nutmeg-scented balls from a seasonal-favorites cannon. Sadly, the pumpkin spice condoms, tampons, toilet…
There seems to be no end to the bizarre, weird, wild and wacky edible creations that pop up every day. Last week alone was rife with tales of wasabi toothpaste (technically not a food, but food-ish), some people who thought airline food was so loved it should be offered for…
This has been a bad week for Olive Garden. First, its new “Never Ending Pasta Pass” promo has been poked at — or outright kicked — by almost everyone on earth (Jimmy Kimmel’s poke was particularly hilarious) and then Olive Garden investor Starboard Value slaps the chain with a nearly…
So your brother dumps a bag of Cheetos on your bed so what’s your next move? Stab him in the neck with a hunting knife, obviously. A Glenwood Springs guy was arrested for this very act last week (he got caught orange-handed), which could lead to the ‘ol “Cheetos made…
