Let’s say you’re a chubby chick with a palate for pizza. So you drive — not walk — to your local Papa John’s Pizza, where your order takes much too long for your stomach to bear. And what happens? Watch the fun below…
In the village of West Yorkshire, England, a police force of extraordinary magnitude is taking shape — the shape of burgers. Due to budget cuts, the town’s police force has been pared down to a bare minimum — so local merchants have decided to use “street marshals” to help in…
It was a dark and chilly night, and I was completely bored out of my gourd. Fortunately, a new Goodwill Thrift Store had recently opened in my neighborhood, and shopping seemed a perfect diversion. So this little piggy went to market, and found a store packed with stuff. Some items…
Domino’s Pizza is as American as apple pie — and just as starchy. The pizza purveyor has been all over American TV, telling us how good it is; now it looks as though Domino’s strategy of brainwashing the masses has been exported to the Land of the Rising Sun. Domino’s…
Last week, San Francisco banned toys from McDonald’s Happy Meals, which as of December 1 cannot contain more than 600 calories — or a plaything! But that’s not the only unhappy McDonald’s news. While working at a McDonald’s outlet in Brazil for a dozen years, a store manager managed to…
What’s more fun than food? Cheesy song parodies that focus on food. When I couldn’t sleep last night, I stumbled on this Kieto’s Family Fun Center and Kitchen Club website that features ten hilarious songs — “Come Fry With Me” to the tune of “Come Fly With Me”; “Anchovies” to…
If you’re taking a road trip back east, make sure you stop in Champaign, Illinois, where you can try to wrap your hands around one of the biggest sandwiches around. The Fat Sandwich Company specializes in, yes, fat sandwiches, and the fattest of all is the Big Fat Ugly. This…
Some very hot sauce has a Cleveland Steak ‘n Shake in hot water. Tim and Mary Katherine Gann were at the restaurant with their son, who was eating chili — and encouraged by a server to add some hot sauce. Blair’s Mega Death Sauce, to be specific, a sauce not…
Kathleen Nevin, a breast-cancer survivor and owner of Big Fat Cupcake, held a party last night at Second Home to celebrate the release of her Big Fat Cupcake calendar and to raise funds for the Big Fat Cupcake Foundation, which assists cancer patients who need help paying their mortgage or…
Greetings from the Great White North, where the men are men and the women are wimps. Holly McDermott recently filed a $300,000 claim against the burger behemoth, complaining that a bathroom-stall door fell on her while she was doing what people usually do after consuming anything at McDonald’s. McDermott had…
Are you lovin’ it? Although many couples, including the happy pair pictured here, have made McDonald’s part of their nuptials, McDonald’s devotees now have a place where they can officially consummate their affection for the Clown: Hong Kong is the first city in the world to host weddings under the…
What happens when you put a McDonald’s Happy Meal on hold? Two very different women in two very different towns decided to find out. Coloradan Joann Bruso, author of the blog Baby Bites, which is designed to help parents transform picky eaters into healthy eaters, came up with an experiment…
This past Saturday, the Larkburger at 8000 East Belleview Avenue offered $2 burgers — for one day — as a thank-you to the Greenwood Village community. And what a thank-you: The lines stretched out the door, and before the day was done, the store had served up 1,700 Larkburgers…
Were you a pleasingly plump baby? If so, you might have a case against your mother — if she was ingesting trans fat by the gallon while breastfeeding. Alex Anderson, assistant professor at the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and his team studied 96 women and their babies…
Neil and Jennie Bakewell — a very aptly named British couple — had eaten so well that they couldn’t sleep together, let alone get nude with each other. Before they called a halt to their very conspicuous consumption, their combined weight was an unbelievable 924 pounds, according to this story…
Teenager Mellissa Peacock has had a medical issue on her mind for years: migraines. She has a condition that causes her body to make too much spinal fluid; since the age of nine, she’s suffered from periodic episodes so painful that she sometimes couldn’t get out of bed. Finally, specialists…
Volcano erupted on the scene yesterday at 10440 East Arapahoe Road in Englewood, in the former home of Sushi Club and Carlos Miguel’s. This new spot features both a sushi bar and hibachi, as well as a full bar…
Pro football player Chad Ochocinco is a generous man — but don’t toast him yet. The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver is touting Ochocinco’s, a honey-nut toasted oat cereal whose box includes a number that’s supposed to send callers to Feed the Children, the charity that’s benefiting from sales of the…
Making a date dish can be challenging — especially if you’re not in the bloomin’ mood. Serve one of these onion appetizers to your significant other, and we guarantee you won’t need that condom that’s been sitting in your wallet for the last three months. The top five onion appetizers…
Missoula, Montana, is a lovely town in the middle of nowhere with a population consisting primarily of cowpokes and carnivores. Yesterday, the two met in a standoff on the back porch of a house just outside of town, when a black bear paid a surprise visit to a local woman…
With the advent of the interwebs (big ups to Al Gore), just about anyone who eats — and yaps about it — can now be classified as a “Food Expert,” or “foodie.” Everywhere around us are douchey tools and butter-laden ladies who think that they are far superior to mere…
With the advent of processed byproducts, the cheap way to sweeten products has been alchemy: turning American corn into a sugar substitute. But “high fructose corn syrup” has acquired a very bad reputation in the last few years, and now the Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the U.S. Food and…
