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- Burger King, the fast-food purveyor that has been known to pull a stunt or two, is celebrating fake food holiday National Doughnut Day in a bizarre fashion. The chain plans to serve a “Whopper doughnut,” which is the traditional burger with a big hole cut in the middle. This novelty food will be available in locations of the chain in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and Salt Lake City this Friday, June 1. And because doughnut holes are a thing, the portion of the Whopper that was cut out of the middle will served on the side as a slider.
- A trade group in the Chinese city of Tianjin is trying to impose a rule to standardize the preparation of the jianbing, to preserve the traditional way that the meat crepe is prepared.
- Fast-food giant McDonald’s is rolling out a new line of trendy merch.
- In a very Texas moment of synergy, supermarket chain H-E-B is now selling bacon from fast-food chain Whataburger. The two companies are based in San Antonio.
- In Japan, someone paid an eye-watering $30,000 for two Yubari melons. That must be some good fruit.
- Science has been replicating beef in a lab environment for a few years, and now chemists are working on a similar idea to replicate fine wines. Here’s a deep dive into the process.
- One Tuesday, Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores for the afternoon as employees went through racial-bias training. This was in response to the unwarranted arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia location, but Phillip Atiba Goff, a psychologist who researches the relationship between race and policing in the United States, believes the training isn’t enough to stamp out prejudice. One Starbucks employee tells Time magazine, “I was angry we had to educate people on how to not be racist.”
- Meanwhile, The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. shared his take on the Starbucks training with his own version of the company’s racial sensitivity video.
- Sonic Drive-Thru, the nostalgic burger chain where diners pull up and order from servers on roller skates, is leaning into the future with its own mobile app that allows users to order and pay ahead of time. This model has been successful for other big chains such as Starbucks.
- Those new Whole Foods discounts for Amazon Prime subscribers are now in effect in 12 states.
- Racecar driver Danica Patrick broke a glass ceiling with her success in NASCAR And IndyCar. Now that she’s retired, she plans to promote her own winery and a health-conscious cookbook.
- Finally, Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye’s resident food expert, tells CBS News all about his favorite recipes. “I recently soaked cauliflower that I cut up into a steak in Silk almond milk — not flavored — and when you roast it, you put Maldon salt and cilantro on it,” he remarks. It may be difficult to convince his gruff makeover subjects to try this one.
