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Extreme Eats: 15 Things You Won't Believe on Fast-Food Menus
Wendy's pretzel-bacon cheeseburger is the just latest in a long line of extreme experiments from fast-food brands.
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Watch Out World: This Milkshake Contains Beer & Bacon
According to Eater, the Shake n Bacon Brew is a milkshake that was created in honor of Nascar and is now for sale at the Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas.
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Popcorn
Skunk Bear boots up its time machine, microscope and slow motion camera to explore the science and history of popcorn.
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Takeaway boss creates a 30,000-calorie 'pie-scraper’ burger
It is enough to make a vegan weep. Takeaway boss John Clarkson has taken extreme food to new heights, or should that be depths?
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How Food Companies Court Nutrition Educators With Junk Food
Corporate sponsorship of professional events for nutritionists has been on the rise. But should the gatekeepers of nutrition information be taking free meals and snacks from McDonald's and Hershey's?
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Coca-Cola Invents 16 Crazy Caps to Turn Empty Bottles Into Useful Objects
Rejoice, happy-go-lucky and environmentally conscious Coca-Cola-lovers. Thanks to this new "2nd Lives" kit from the brand, you can now transform your Coke into something even more delightful. Is that just an empty soda bottle? Nope, it's a squirt gun. Useless piece of trash?
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John Oliver on Sugar
Sugar. It's in everything! Is it good for us? Well, the sugar industry thinks so.
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What are McDonald’s fries made of? and how?
Does McDonald’s use real potatoes? Why do the fries always taste so good? Are they mashed and formed in a mold? There are a lot of questions about our fries so Grant Imahara is going to investigate our fry making process in his own way. Watch and discover how we make our World Famous Fries.
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Waffle Hot Dog
How ubiquitous are these things in Thailand? They are so prevalent that companies manufacture single-purpose cast-iron presses to make them. (Even here in the Home of the Brave, all you have to do is send twenty-eight dollars to Walmart.com, and you can have a nonstick electric waffle-dog press delivered to your doorstep!)
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KFC Just Released One Of The Most Ridiculous Fast-Food Menu Items Ever
While this menu item is bizarre, it represents a few food trends. Restaurants have been ramping up offerings of protein as more diners watch their carbs. Taco Bell released an entire menu of protein-heavy items last year. And the Double Down Dog's popularity on social media is free advertising for KFC. Here's a photo of the original Double Down.
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There's No Such Thing as Nacho Cheese
Few things in this world should be taken for granted, including a particular fluorescent orange food called nacho cheese. Here's the truth: There’s no such thing. This story begins months ago, while I was reporting the launch of Old El Paso’s new nacho cheese-flavored taco shells. These shells, the marketers bragged to me, have a “big, bold cheese taste,” which naturally led me to ask them to describe how it tasted—a topic they doggedly deflected: “We don’t get too much into detail about...
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McDonald's is now selling its Big Mac 'secret sauce' in tubs
For years, Big Mac fans have been trying to replicate the unique Big Mac special sauce, that addictive blend of relish, mustard, onion, garlic and other ingredients (instant happiness tinged with lingering regret?) Now, for a limited time only, Big Mac aficionados will be able to buy the special sauce in takeaway tubs. As long as they live in Australia. Oh, FFS. For the month of February, McDonald’s Australia is selling special sauce in 25ml tubs, from 920 of its stores, for a bargain 50 cents.
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Little Caesars To Introduce Pizza Wrapped In 3.5 Feet Of Bacon
Bacon lovers rejoice! Bacon-bacon! Little Caesars is introducing a new crust that will blend chewy, cheese pizza and crispy bacon. The Detroit-based company announced Wednesday it is introducing Bacon Wrapped Crust DEEP!DEEP! Dish pizza on Feb. 23. “The Bacon Wrapped Crust DEEP!DEEP! Dish is another example of how we’re continuing to innovate and offer variety on our menu while fully leveraging our core strengths built around value, convenience, and quality,”...
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American Snack Food Looks Healthier All the Time — But it Really Isn’t
Even though we're seeking out healthier, more natural options, the junk food industry is sneakier than we think
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McDonald's is testing all-day breakfast
McDonald's is going to experiment with serving breakfast all day. The chain will start testing a 24-hour breakfast menu next month at several locations in San Diego, the company told Business Insider. If the test is successful, McDonald's could expand it to other markets. Testing all-day breakfast "makes sense," Janney Capital Markets analyst Mark Kalinowski wrote in a recent research note. Some of the most "craveable" items on the McDonald's menu are the McMuffins and McGriddles, he noted.
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Kraft Mac & Cheese Says Goodbye to The Dye
This is the last year that the original version of Kraft Mac & Cheese sold in the U.S. will contain artificial preservatives or synthetic colors. In January, Kraft says its macaroni and cheese will be colored using paprika, annatto and turmeric. There has been a huge shift away from processed foods in the U.S. and larger food producers are trying to follow their customers in that direction.
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Junk food kills bacteria that protect against obesity, heart disease and cancer, study finds
Strong link between good bacteria, diet and overall health discovered after researchers lived on McDonald's meals for 10 days straight.
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Cost of healthy living soars in developing world - while junk food gets cheaper
Fruit and vegetables have almost doubled in price in parts of the developing world over the past 20 years, calling into question the idea that modern farming methods lower basic food prices for the poor. Paradoxically, the cost of some processed foods has fallen by a fifth over the same time, prompting fears over increasing obesity.
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Obese teens' brains unusually susceptible to food commercials, study finds
TV food commercials disproportionately stimulate the brains of overweight teenagers, including the regions that control pleasure, taste and -- most surprisingly -- the mouth, suggesting they mentally simulate unhealthy eating habits that make it difficult to lose weight later in life.
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Pizza Hut and Taco Bell to Cut Artificial Flavors and Coloring
The sister chains are upping brand standards to appease the quality-oriented customer.
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