Brit Richard Taylor decided to rob his local Burger King — but instead of loot, he got a royal pain. Taylor gained entrance to a closed BK not by brandishing a firearm, but by waving a broom handle. This so spooked an employee that he opened the door, whereupon Taylor…

America is the home of the free and the land of the brave. And if you appreciate that, then you’ll also enjoy the genius behind this heart-attack dispenser from Bob Evans Bob Evans, restaurant chain whose outposts are located primarily on the east side of the Mississippi. Bob Evans, whose…

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from McDonald’s. Ronald McDonald apparently wants his laying hens to spend their days inside a cage too small even for a waif supermodel s addicted to binging and purging her morning Egg McMuffin. The Humane Society of the United States…

Robert Sherk was just doing his day job, canvassing the local burb, pounding on doors, peddling meat door to door, when he got caught in a spliff of trouble. Sherk was on the job in Athens, Tennessee, when police accused him of selling meat without a proper permit, according to…

Pizza Hut, that bastion of American, has largely given up on the 320,000 citizens who inhabit the country of Iceland. The Hut’s departure is based purely on economic reasons, and not the fact that it’s difficult to deliver pies by dog-sled. Since the economy, like the sun, went south, Iceland’s…

A restaurant supplier in Aachen, Germany, has driven a steak through the hearts of carnivores everywhere. When the owner of a steakhouse there didn’t have enough euros to cover his outstanding balance, the supplier sensibly decided to confiscate the meat he’d already supplied that day. He started with the steaks…

When does breast-feeding constitute a crime? When local police officers don’t know the law. Bethany Morton was at the Old Country Buffet in Maplewood, Minnesota, for Easter dinner when her six-month-old son, Dawson, got hungry — so she started feeding him milk au natural, without bothering to cover up for…

There’s a saying that war is not won on an empty stomach, but American officers on the battlefields of Afghanistan seem to have forgotten that adage, since Reuters reports that some American eateries have been stricken from the menu there. Kandahar, the location of our biggest base in that opium-based…

The United States government thinks your child is an obese, junk-eating machine. How to put a stop to this? The best idea the feds have come up with is to remove the toys from fast-food meals — because the meals contain so many calories and the toys contain lead from…

If you’re in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday, hop on over to Caffe Boa for an Easter dinner with all the trimmings. Most of them bunny. Executive chef Payton Curry planned the menu for this Easter service, which includes such rabbit-enriched dishes as carrot soup with a crispy rabbit confit, ravioli…

Ronald McDonald is under fire in this country, with activists encouraging McDonald’s to retire its longtime mascot. But in Shanghai, now home to a brand-new McDonald’s University — it’s known as Hamburger U– they’re down with the clown. The Chinese people crave fast food, which is why McDonald’s decided to…

A husband and wife were just popped by police in East Northport, New York, and charged with product tampering and petty larceny after they tried to peddle repackaged Jell-O pudding. Sixty-eight-year-old Alexander Clement and his 64-year-old wife, Christine, allegedly bought boxes of Jell-O pudding at local stores, then emptied the…

Still fat, part deux. Donna Simpson, the female fatty from New Jersey who wants to eat her way to 1,000 pounds, now has a doctor in her kitchen corner. Dr. Sanford Siegal, “a practicing physician in South Florida best known as the creator of the popular Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET…

An incredible story out of Charlotte, North Carolina, where a Taco Bell was robbed — not of money, but of food! Who knew that Taco Bell even served edible items? A car with three men had pulled up to the drive-thru window when one of the men pulled out a…

Paula Deen, Food Network star and restaurateur, is being sued by Celebrity Chefs Tours LLC for an alleged breach of contract involving a ten-city promotional tour with Paula, her two boy-toy sons and her bearded snowman husband. In its suit, CCT claims it had multiple problems with the Deens, including…

The eleventh annual “Teens and Personal Finance Survey” conducted by the Junior Achievement and the Allstate Foundation was just released, and it contains a number of surprising findings. For example, the survey assures us that teens would be willing to not eat out, to stop loitering at the fast food…

After a weekend of great basketball and not-so-great snacks, I’m planning some sweet eating action for this coming weekend’s Sweet Sixteen. Here’s some of the top local fare from three of the remaining top-ranked teams, and one from a post-game replacement. We’re not in Kansas any more…

Las Vegas, the city of pole-dancing, huge production numbers, guys and dolls, and guys dressed as dolls. The recession has hit Las Vegas in more ways than can be counted by a roll of the dice. But don’t let that deter you from blowing your expense account at the fine…

The Emerald Isle is no match for the globe-conquering Christopher Columbus and his ship of fools. For years, the two cultures have waged an epic battle for ethnic supremacy in this country. On the one plate, you have some boiled potatoes. On the other, a generous serving of seven-layer lasagna…

Sasquatch is a mythical creature who lurks in the shadows and is rarely seen by humans. All we get are a bunch of plaster casts and maybe some hair samples. Well, we now know how they breed, as the mother of all the creatures has been found: in the swamps…

Dean Ornish M.D. — founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco — has a few thoughts about how to keep off the weight. Let’s find out what’s up white, medical coat sleeve…