Not normally big on covering fast food chains, we will make an exception for this story about beating KFC's $10 dinner challenge thing because we've been in heated discussions with a friend all week about just this kind of...
We came across an odd "blog" — it's more like a series of articles, all of which are lists — on a site where one can look up x-ray technical schools. What x-rays have to do with the top...
Did you stay up late over last night's election? Cheering on your guy or practicing your stalwart-but-gracious attitude of concession? We sure did. So please forgive us if, this morning, we're a bit electioned out. Too much nerves, too...
A while back, MenuPages reported on a group in Lebanon who were planning to sue Israel for the rights to hummus. And apparently this agitation over the origins of hummus came to the attention of everyone's favorite Election Day Personality,...
There's something to be said for bribery, especially when you're the one getting bribed, and especially when the currency is sweets and coffee. That was the theory, as you may have read in today's FYI, of Krispy Kreme, Starbucks,...
We haven't been able to tear ourselves away from the fascinating OCD diet, to which we were directed by Coldmud. It's absolutely disgusting, but so amazing: The only requirement is that all foods rhyme, so you get meals like...
We are a multi-talented group here at MenuPages. We eat a lot, we edit menu content, we even blog. But did you know we also go home and do other stuff? For example, MenuPages Boston editor Leila Cohan likes to...
We're going to depart, today, from our usual Friday movie, so that we can give a nod to the ongoing Sandwich Duel, in the New Yorker's Cartoon Lounge. Yesterday's entry was especially entertaining because it was all about New...
• Harrowing Halloween cocktails! [MP: Boston] • Bloodcurdling butt sizes! [MP: Chicago] • Eerie economic times for restaurateurs! [MP: Philadelphia] • Shocking "screaming orgasm" salads! [MP: San Francisco] • Spine-chilling snakes! [MP: South Florida]...
As Election Day nears (only four more days!!), it seems like most people we know are living on a figurative diet of electoral projections. From the sophisticated (like FiveThirtyEight or Real Clear Politics) to the intensely simplified and straightforward...
In these lean times, almost any expense can be hard to justify, especially spending more than necessary on food. This, obviously, makes it hard for restaurants that sell anything fancier than a Big Mac to stay in business. So...
The baseball season may end tonight when Game 5 of the World Series resumes. The Phillies and Rays were tied at two after five-and-a-half innings on Monday when rain forced them to stop playing. The Phillies, up three games...
It's not exactly restaurant-related, but we were still fascinated by the howstuffworks article linked on Cold Mud today, detailing the history of why we're so terrified of strangers poisoning our children's Halloween candy. Did you know most such cases...
Everyone's all abuzz today over the launch of MTVMusic.com — a massive repository of basically every music video ever made. We are particularly psyched because there are many many awesome food-related music videos (and songs!) that really get our juices...
Be afraid, college students and the creative underclass. Be very afraid. No, it's not because jobs are drying up faster than ramen noodles to an unwashed pan. It's not because you'll never get another student loan again, and Sallie...
The idea of recycling kitchen grease into diesel fuel is probably not news by now, but grease is certainly not the only by-product of food production produced by commercial kitchens. Can we find an alternate disposal method, then, for things...
The weekend''s food news seems to have been dominated by the eminently disgusting story of the family that is accusing an Australian hotel of intentionally serving them a particularly unsanitary bowl of complimentary ice cream. We don't want to...
There's no accounting for why we're so obsessed with finding old Sesame Street videos on YouTube, but for some reason this week has been all about digging up old clips of that "falling baker." Remember him? He'd come out of...
• What do a Boston-area restaurant and a bookmarking site have in common? Confusing names. [MP: Boston] • If you want to make Alinea's smoked paprika taffy at home, you'd better plan ahead. [MP: Chicago] • As Philly anxiously awaits...
We've been reading a lot this week about the new sustainable sushi guide that was put out by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Blue Ocean Institute. The idea behind the guide is that lots...