KFC’s Colonel Sanders Dome Will Shield You From the Horrors of the Internet

• Is 2017’s torrent of bad news clogging your social media feeds? Let the warm embrace of KFC’s Colonel Sanders escape pod shield you through the holiday season. For just $10,000 this structure will “disrupt the internet coming to and from your devices.” Designed with a steel and stainless steel mesh cage and a rooftop Colonel molded from architectural foam, the dome comes complete with drumstick door knob. For the price, it should probably also include a complimentary bucket of fried chicken.
• A Star Wars-themed pop-up called DarkSide Bar has arrived in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, to school drinkers in the ways of the force. Eater NY reports that the SoHo pop-up features intergalactic adventure-themed drinks and food such as “tentacles on sticks” (soy barbecue-glazed octopus skewers) and “Bantha fodder” (vegan sushi egg rolls).
• A24, the production company behind Greta Gerwig’s critically acclaimed new film Lady Bird, has released an online Thanksgiving cookbook from the cast featuring recipes for “Mr. Gerwig’s Stuffing” and “Saoirse’s Soda Bread with Raisins.”
• Chef Gordon Ramsay is being criticized for shilling a South Korean beer called Cass, according to The Guardian. One follower described the lager as “maybe the worst beer in the world.” Ramsay has defended the brand as “the freshest and coolest — in these difficult times of the economy — a beer that we can easily buy and have fun with,” the Korea JoongAng Daily reports.
• McDonald’s workers in Britain are preparing to strike, citing the company’s low wages, zero-hour contracts, poor working conditions, and insufficient responses to sexual assault allegations, according to The Guardian.
• South American chef Francis Mallmann — whose fire-fueled cooking techniques were featured in a 2015 episode of Chef’s Table — has opened his first European restaurant at an organic winery in France.
• Food is politics but the New York Times reports that major brands and advertisers such as Jim Beam, Papa John’s, and Keurig are still learning how to navigate a culture that’s seemingly more politicized than ever before.
• Patrons at Tokyo Disneyland can find boiled eggs with Mickey Mouse-shaped yolks swimming in their bowls of curry rice, according to Sora News 24.
• Trader Joe’s has issued a recall for three varieties of packaged salads — White Meat Chicken, Curried White Chicken Deli, and Turkey Cranberry Apple — after a supplier reported that the products might contain shards of glass or hard plastic.
• Canada’s first location of the Cheesecake Factory is expected to drop on November 21 in Drake’s hometown of Toronto.
• The food world’s leading champion of Puerto Rico’s hurricane recovery efforts, chef José Andrés has suggested that Time consider naming the People of Puerto Rico as Person of the Year. “Puerto Ricans were patient in adversity, hopeful, compassionate to each other, where others saw disrepair they saw opportunity...” he writes on Twitter.

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