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- Patron Saint of Donkey Sauce Guy Fieri shares his tips for snacking while traveling. The Platinum Prince never touches airplane food, instead opting for a personal stash of beef jerky, almonds, Corn Nuts, and seaweed salad. Fieri’s philosophy on plane cuisine is pretty brilliant. “We get so few opportunities to eat in this lifetime,” he tells GQ. “All of them should be treated with as much consideration as possible. If you go and waste it on something that’s cooked and heated and held five hours before I’m getting it, it’s not necessarily my idea of what I want to do. Whenever I have a choice, I stop and get my food, predetermine what I’m going to do. I’d rather eat really good food lukewarm than mediocre food piping hot.”
- Speaking of air travel, the next time you’re on an airplane, save the flight attendants some hassle and don’t order a Diet Coke. The soft drink is fizzier than its classic counterpart, which means it annoyingly takes longer to pour.
- Halo Top, the supposedly “guilt-free” ice cream, is now available in Canada.
- Last night, restaurateur and Netflix star David Chang stopped by The Daily Show to talk with host Trevor Noah about making Ugly Delicious and “going down the rabbit hole” to explore the history of the comfort foods featured on that show.
- Convenience store chain and Slurpee purveyor 7-Eleven is attempting to increase its woke cred by giving away a franchise to a woman.
- In Scotland, impending inclement weather cleared out grocery store shelves — except for the frozen Hawaiian pizzas. Ham-and-pineapple-topped pies just can’t get any respect.
- Offering a bit of high-low service, the Vanity Fair Oscars party featured both Thomas Keller food and an In-N-Out Burger kiosk. In-N-Out sounds more appealing, tbh.
- Australians would probably agree with that statement. A recent In-N-Out pop-up in Melbourne sold out in 30 minutes.
- Here’s a guy who figured out how to stack Pringles into a circle. The tennis ball can-housed potato chips have never received such scientific consideration.
- Michelin has announced its Bib Gourmands for Taipei. This is the first time the Taiwanese capital has received the Bib Gourmand treatment.
- How much Kentucky Fried Chicken can you stuff into your face in 45 minutes? Find out at the chain’s Japanese outposts next month, when locations across the country will host all-you-can-eat seatings. Just be sure to make a reservation.
- Someone in Japan made a knife out of pasta and used it to cut plastic bottles before boiling and eating it. This could be a dish on a modern tasting menu at some house of molecular gastronomy.
- In an effort to get an edge over its competition, Starbucks may be moving to leased rather than company-owned storefronts. Chief executive officer Howard Schultz points to sagging retail developments and shrinking rent prices as reason for the potential change.
- Apparently the ‘Bucks is also cracking down on service to customers on horseback, as a couple of disappointed and equine-bound coffee drinkers learned over the weekend. One customer explained: “We weren’t given a reason, just, ‘we can’t take your order.’ My friend and I were going to get Frappuccinos for us and a cup of whipped cream for the horses.”
- Mixed martial arts fighter, boxer, and noted racist and misogynist Conor McGregor is now selling Burger King chicken sandwiches.
- Cooking an egg on hot pavement is cool, but cooking an entire fine-dining meal on an active Icelandic geyser is cooler.
- Here’s a glimpse at what it’s like to eat on a four-day Disney cruise: “Our waiter had a heavy Italian accent, yet was from Serbia. He seemed very pleased to present us with an antipasti cart — slices of prosciutto, chunks of Parmigiano-Reggiano, marinated peppers — which he then, without asking, doused with aged balsamic vinegar. Everything was overly fussy, but the food wasn’t bad — a Tuscan bean soup was particularly tasty — and service was extremely friendly. And Italian-ish.”
- Finally, it’s The Onion, but it sounds like a real headline: “Disgusted Robert Mueller Eats 2 20-Piece Chicken McNugget Meals In One Sitting In Attempt To Get Into Trump’s Mind.”
