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Dismembered Gingerbread Men, Peppermint White Russians and 3 Other Recipes Santa Might Actually Want to Eat This Christmas Eve

December 20, 2012 // 2:15 pm

Here’s the thing: free food is always great. But after several millennia of eating the same thing year after year after year, wouldn’t you get sick of plain old milk and cookies too?

So Apparently, We’ve Been Using Tic Tac Containers All Wrong

August 24, 2012 // 2:56 pm

Last week I learned that my ketchup cup usage was a lie, and now this week, I’m learning that Tic Tac box lids have a crevice built to catch exactly one mint?! What the hell were our parents…

This Restaurant Will Give You a Discount for Not Using Your Cell Phone During Dinner

August 15, 2012 // 1:17 pm

It’s a common picture, a group of people sitting at a table for dinner with all the common tools in hand: fork, knife and of course, the cell phone.

A Los Angeles restaurant looks to break down the walls that seem to be getting in the way of the…

Video Guide to Eating Terribly at the Summer Fair

August 10, 2012 // 3:08 pm

It’s the heart of the summer fair season, and one of the questions I get asked every day is, “Dude, I’m at the fair right now…what should I eat?”

Everyone is different. Some folks want the casually calm fair experience: nibble on a churro, maybe try a foreign delicacy,…

So Apparently, We’ve Been Using Ketchup Cups All Wrong

August 1, 2012 // 11:54 am

Apparently, we — a collective of food-eating-ketchup-using hooligans — have been consuming ketchup all wrong.

If you’ve ever poured ketchup into those tiny paper cup containers and brought them back to your table for fry dunking and burger smearing, you might be a victim of ketchup ignorance as well.…

4 Drinks That Can Turn Your Independence Day Party Into a Sh*t Show, Real Fast

July 3, 2012 // 7:35 pm

Wooo! America! Time to pound some more alcohol! Give me another shot! Let’s drop a deuce on your neighbor’s back porch!

Admit it. You’ve heard some variation of the above, and as much as you hate to agree with it, it’s true. You’re at a really awesome 4th of…

Guys, Here are the 10 Worst Food-related Gifts for Mother’s Day

May 10, 2012 // 8:50 pm

Mother’s Day is a toughie for us men. According to our female counterparts, there are plenty of time-tested gifts to get those special mothers in our life…but very rarely do we have an organized list of things not to get.

Until today.

I hate to be that pessimistic guide who…

Will This Burger Making Robot Change the Food Service Industry Forever?

May 4, 2012 // 12:02 pm

Science fiction has always positioned the idea that one day our human jobs would be replaced by machines. For those working in burger assembly lines, that day might be sooner than you think.

Introducing a machine that makes burgers. Literally, it’s a burger making machine, in prototype, that takes unprepared…