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5 Father's Day Gift Ideas For the Carnivorous Dad

GuySpeed Editors — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:36:22 +0000

It’s just days away, and if you’re like us, you’re stumped about what to get your pops for Father’s Day. Ugly polo shirts wrinkle and fade, and no dad has ever actually cracked the spine on a book called 101 Great Grill Recipes. So what do all dudes love? Meat. We scoured the internet to [...]

'Dinner in the Sky' Lets You Feast in the Clouds

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:22:29 +0000

We all go out for dinner, but how many of us can say we’ve gone up for dinner? A company in Australia called Events in the Sky offers a culinary adventure for thrillseekers: it caters events for people — harnessed for safety — who are suspended as high as 164 feet up in the air. [...]

Dunkin' Donuts to Honor Employee at Center of Rage-Filled, Viral Tirade

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:29:36 +0000

The customer is not always right. In this very NSFW video, which has gone viral, a woman identified as Taylor Chapman unleashes a torrent of hate on a Dunkin Donuts employee in Florida because she’s furious she didn’t get a receipt during a previous trip to the eatery and wanted a free order to make [...]

Prepare Yourselves for Wendy's Nine-Patty 'T-Rex' Burger

Donald Deane — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:02:24 +0000

First featured in a joke ad in ‘Sports Illustrated,’ Wendy’s nine-patty “T-Rex” burger is now a real thing. We can feel our arteries hardening already. Seriously, even a real T-Rex would have trouble choking this thing down. After the fictitious burger was featured in the sports magazine nine years ago, fast food customers actually started [...]

Wendy's 'T-Rex' Burger Is Heart-Stoppingly Delicious

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:09:59 +0000

You don’t need a big appetite to enjoy this burger. You need several big appetites. A Wendy’s (which once had the insanely popular “Where’s the beef?” ad campaign) in Canada is actually selling this mammoth burger, called the ‘T-Rex.’ The ad for the towering heap of anti-vegetarianism was posted on Reddit. It appears in the [...]

NYC Restaurant Eliminates Tips for Servers

Donald Deane — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:25:59 +0000

Have you ever gone to a restaurant and agonized over how much of a tip to leave? Well, an eatery in New York City has decided to save you the trouble by completely eliminating tips and paying staff salary plus benefits instead.

Flying Food Tray Will Deliver Food and Eventually Maim Someone

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:50:29 +0000

A new invention could possibly spell the end of the waitering profession as we know it. British sushi chain YO! Sushi has unveiled a flying food tray at one of its restaurants in London that brings orders to customers and prevents staff from having to, you know, spend more time talking to people. The iTray, [...]

Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe Donut Debuts At San Diego Fair, Sends Hearts Into Delicious Panic

Joe Student — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:31:00 +0000

To paraphrase the late Robert F. Kennedy, some people would ask 'Why put sloppy joe meat into a deep-fried, glazed donut shell?' but Charlie Boghosian asks 'Why not?' Boghosian, known to many fans of fair food (and presumably their cardiologists) as "Chicken Charlie," debuted a Krispy Kre

10 Insanely Delicious Doughnuts for National Doughnut Day

Emerald Catron — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:49:07 +0000

Whether you love doughnuts, or hate your pancreas, Friday, June 7 is National Doughnut Day! Celebrate by getting a free doughnut from Krispy Kreme, or getting a "free" doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts if you buy a drink. If that's a little too tame for you, let these epic doughnuts inspire you to search for a doughnut so good, it's actually worth paying for.

Here's How You Can Celebrate the Awesomeness That Is National Donut Day

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:24:21 +0000

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. That’s right: Friday is National Donut Day. You can celebrate this most sacred of holidays by injecting some sugary goodness into your body. Dunkin Donuts will give a fee donut to anyone who orders a drink. Krispy Kreme is trying to one up the competition by offering [...]

Candy Company Offers Breast Milk Flavored Lollipops — Makes For Great Treat After Therapy

Chris Illuminati — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:56:52 +0000

The award-winning gourmet lollipop company, Lollyphile, has never been afraid to experiment with off-the-wall flavors. Four years ago, the “adult candy company” started producing absinthe-flavored suckers just before the absinthe ban was lifted. Now, they boast a line of tasty suckers which includes Sriracha, maple bacon and bourbon flavored. Their newest creation is sure to [...]

13 Awesome Ways to Carve Your Watermelon

Emerald Catron — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:59:01 +0000

Oh, were you just planning on slicing your watermelon into wedges this Memorial Day weekend? We regret to inform you that plain old wedges are now kind of lame. It turns out there are so many awesome ways to carve a watermelon that we are probably just not going to buy one ever again, because [...]

Hungry Delivery Man Caught Eating Customer's Pizza

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:13:53 +0000

You may want to think twice the next time you order a pizza. In this clip, a pizza delivery man in Russia is caught on camera helping himself to some of the food he’s about to bring to a presumably hungry customer. And we can all imagine just how mouth-watering pizza in Russia is, so [...]

Bird-Flavored Ice Cream Is the Most Disgusting Thing You're Dying to Try

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:59 +0000

Oh, Japan, you never disappoint. The country that brought us this has now decided to offer bird-flavored ice cream, finally filling a terrible void and putting the “robin” in ‘Baskin-Robbins.’ A Japanese eatery called Torimi Cafe recently offered bird-flavored concoctions at the Small Bird Expo in Osaka (something tells us Torimi doesn’t understand exactly what [...]

Short on Cash? Restaurant Lets You Work Off Your Bill

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:36:39 +0000

There’s a restaurant out there that will let you eat up without making you pay up. But, there is a catch. While we in the US are greeted with gimmicks like Chili’s two-for-20, a restaurant in the Spanish city of Terrassa has come up with a novel way to serve cash-strapped customers, as the country [...]

15 Chocolate Rules That You Need to Know [SPONSORED]

Aaron Galloway — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:03 +0000

Everyone knows chocolate rules, but do you know your chocolate rules? To celebrate the release of seven new chocolate ice cream flavors, Braum’s came up with these 15 chocolate rules – just to start a conversation. _________________________________________________________________________ 1. You can never have enough chocolate. 2. Everything tastes better with chocolate. 3. There [...]

11 Peppers With People Faces

Emerald Catron — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:48:44 +0000

If you’ve never seen half of a bell pepper that looks like a face, you need to do one of two things; either A) eat more vegetables, or B) look at these pictures. Actually, it probably wouldn’t hurt to do both. And if you’re a carnivore of the “I don’t eat anything that doesn’t have [...]

Billy Corgan Asks California Pizza Kitchen to Stop Cheese Suppliers From Mutilating Calves

Chad Childers — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:11:57 +0000

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is the latest to lend his celebrity to a PETA cause, urging the California Pizza Kitchen chain to stop using cheese suppliers that employ the barbaric practice of dehorning their calves.

Taco Bell Waffle Tacos Are Coming to Make You Fatter

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:15 +0000

Taco Bell recently changed America’s taco calculus by offering Doritos-flavored shells. Their next move appears to be far more radical. Fast food fans in Southern California are reporting the presence of waffle tacos on the menu at some local Taco Bell franchises. The item, which goes for 89 cents, features a waffle folded around sausage [...]

A Staggering $84 Ice Cream Bill Sparks Outrage

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:41:35 +0000

A sweet treat left a bitter taste in the mouths of some hungry tourists. Four British people on vacation in Rome were recently stunned when they were charged a mind-boggling $84 for four ice cream cones. You’ll get brain freeze trying to figure out the math so we’ll do it for you – that’s $21 [...]