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- On this week’s episode of Parts Unknown, late host Anthony Bourdain explores Indonesia, a country with a diverse and expansive culinary history. In the clip below, Bourdain gets a sampling of the local fare and learns it would take 40 years to try every single traditional Indonesian dish. Parts Unknown: Indonesia will air this Sunday, October 7, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. Prior to the episode, CNN will display a message acknowledging the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated portions of the country.
- Howard Schultz may deny it, but the political prognosticators mostly agree that the former Starbucks chief executive officer is considering a run for President of the United States in 2020. ‘Bucks investors aren’t wild about the idea, but would a Schultz run really hurt the company? Restaurant Business Online tries to answer that question.
- A woman is suing Chick-fil-A because a drink served by the fried-chicken chain was allegedly contaminated with cleaning fluid, reports Business Insider. This is remarkably similar to a lawsuit that Starbucks faced in 2015.
- Residents of Gilbert, Minnesota, are being terrorized by drunk birds, according to Time. The birds are reportedly schnockered because an early frost has fermented local berries that they eat, and the only solution to this problem is to wait for these party animals to sober up.
- Rest in peace, Will Vinton, the claymation artist who created the California Raisins and the Domino’s Noid mascot, two weird ’80s advertising successes. Vinton died Thursday at the age of 70, reports Paleofuture.
- Popeyes has a new menu item for the fanciest of fast-food fans: gold-plated chicken wings. The gilded wings are being served at select locations today only, per Food & Wine.
- Finally, in sad news, the world lost a lot of prosecco this week. About 8,000 gallons were spilled after a fermentation tank exploded, according to multiple reports.
