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Candice Brown Reveals What It’s Really Like On The Great British Bake Off Set - Exclusive Interview David M. Benett/Getty Images By Steven John/Aug. 12, 2021 10:04 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s really no surprise Candice Brown ended up on “The Great British Baking Show,” authoring multiple cookbooks, or even running her own pub: food was always going to play a central role in her life....

Chick-Fil-A Employees Have Strong Feelings About Their New Chef Uniforms Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/May 14, 2021 5:14 pm EST Chick-fil-A takes their employee uniforms seriously. “We want restaurant Team Members to feel good about what they put on every day. We want them to feel self-confident, not self-conscious,” David Rissier, the Chick-fil-A Service Innovation Manager, said of the responsibility of designing outfits for everyone from the managers and the front of house team members to the chefs in the back of the house (via The Chickenwire)....

Doritos Roulette Is Finally Returning. Here’s What You Need To Know Instagram By Boshika Gupta/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 12:48 pm EST When you’re looking for a satisfying snack to satiate your taste buds, few things in the world compare to a pack of Doritos chips. According to Thrillist, there’s actually a scientific reason Doritos are so endlessly craveable. As one food scientist told the publication, when you eat Doritos, you’re not going to feel full by eating a handful of these chips because fatty food items tend to “melt in your mouth” and trick your brain into thinking you’re not done eating yet....

Giada De Laurentiis Begged Her Aunt Raffy For This Recipe Shutterstock By Savanna Swain-Wilson/June 17, 2021 5:50 pm EST For celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis, sometimes the best recipes are all in the family. And there’s no person who makes the chef believe that more than her Aunt Raffy. To this day, De Laurentiis calls her aunt one of her biggest influences when it comes to cooking (via Twitter) — and it shows through the pride she has in sharing Aunt Raffy’s iconic recipes with the world....

Hell’s Kitchen’s Kori Sutton Reveals What Gordon Ramsay Is Really Like - Exclusive DFree/Shutterstock By Steven John/Aug. 27, 2021 1:08 pm EST If you have watched your fair share of cooking-themed television, you have probably seen Gordon Ramsay yelling at someone. The chef’s ostensible anger issues have become a cultural meme of our times, but one that, according to those who have spent any meaningful time with him, is pretty inaccurate....

How to make the 49th cocktail (with or without the kit) Pool/Getty Images You may not need additional glasses if you purchase the limited edition Hennessy X.O 49 Commemorative Cocktail Set. According to a statement sent to Mashed, the set includes not only a 750 milliliter bottle of Hennessy X.O, but an ice cube mold (it plays a part in the cocktail recipe), a tray, and glasses etched with the number 49....

Here’s How 19 Crimes Wines Got Its Name Shutterstock By Melissa Campana/June 21, 2021 10:22 am EST What do Australia, the British penal code of the 18th century, and a cold glass of rosé all have in common? If your answer is “Snoop Dogg,” you are exactly right (and weirdly good at this game). The artist formerly known as Snoop Lion recently released Snoop Cali Rosé — a wine Bloomberg namechecks in a recent article about rosés to look out for this summer — under the popular 19 Crimes label....

Here’s What Ina Garten Says It Was Like To Make Cocktails And Tall Tales Manny Carabel/Getty Images By Gabriela Mungarro/March 23, 2021 3:51 pm EST If there’s one good thing that came from the ongoing pandemic is that many of us learned how to make a mean cocktail. Thanks to the thousands of recipes that inundated our social media feeds from bartenders and mixologists alike, it wasn’t necessarily difficult to keep up with the latest trends or easy drink inspo that convinced us we no longer needed to go to the nearest swanky lounge or bar to get a decent drink....

How Pretzels Actually Saved The Real Auntie Anne’s Marriage Instagram By Amanda Tarlton/Feb. 16, 2021 9:37 am EST No trip to the mall is complete without a stop at Auntie Anne’s Pretzels to refuel after an exhausting afternoon of shopping. You can smell it from yards away — that drool-inducing scent that smells buttery, cinnamon-y, and doughy all at the same time. With over 1,000 locations in shopping malls across the country, Auntie Anne’s has become famous for its fluffy fresh-baked soft pretzels that are coated in melted butter and dusted with chunky sea salt....

How To Tell If Your Baking Soda Has Expired Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/May 12, 2021 7:07 pm EST Baking soda and baking powder are pantry staples. You can easily buy a box of each just like salt and sugar without any real worry of them expiring before you can use all of it. But that’s until you use baking soda to bake a cake and it comes out looking wonky and nowhere near as soft and airy as it should be....

Popular Hamburger Helper Flavors, Ranked Worst To Best Shutterstock By Samantha Maxwell/June 3, 2021 11:19 am EST Hamburger Helper may not be what you think of when you hear the words “gourmet food,” but when you need a satisfying family dinner on the table fast, it certainly gets the job done. And while boxed and packaged foods may have largely gone out of style in recent years, let’s just be honest with ourselves — sometimes, they’re not so bad....

Snickers Just Apologized For This Controversial Ad In Spain Shutterstock By Ralph Schwartz/Aug. 10, 2021 2:32 pm EST Snickers was forced to pull a commercial and issue an apology to the LGBTQ community … again. Snickers has been riding the highly successful “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” ad campaign ever since it launched during the 2010 Super Bowl with the famous “playing football like Betty White” spot. As Better Marketing observed, the new ad campaign reversed the fortunes of the chocolate bar brand, and it clearly worked better than Snickers’ controversial 2007 Super Bowl commercial....

Stop Believing This Common Olive Oil Myth Shutterstock By Erica Buehler/June 28, 2021 1:59 pm EST Olive oil is the type of universal ingredient that you can find in many kitchens across the globe. It’s loved for its signature, light olive flavor, smooth texture, and versatility in cooking. It can be used in a variety of ways, as-is or cooked with heat and other elements. But olive oil has also been around for quite some time, and so has developed many myths and urban legends about what it can or cannot do....

The 2 Best Wendy’s Breakfast Items, According To Nutritionists Shutterstock By Emily Weaver/April 30, 2021 10:59 am EST In order to be successful, fast food chains must hone in on a few menu items and make them absolutely irresistible. Craving a handful of salty fries? McDonald’s has them mastered. For In-N-Out, it’s their top secret special sauce. Chick-fil-A has addicting AF lemonade and the best chicken nuggets. At Wendy’s there are two items that don’t necessarily go together, but both of which you can’t leave a Wendy’s drive-thru without: their signature meaty chili and classic Frosty....

The Best Recipes To Make With Avocados Susan Olayinka/Mashed By Veronica Brush/April 8, 2021 5:00 pm EST There’s no denying that avocados are just plain delicious. If you disagree, then why are you even reading this article? That’s on you. On top of being a tasty treat, avocados are also beneficial to your body. The list of nutrients in avocados is long, says Cedars Sinai, including magnesium, potassium, and a variety of B vitamins, along with fibers and healthy fats....

The Big Difference Between The McFlurrys In The US And The UK Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/June 3, 2021 11:44 am EST McFlurrys are not only known around the world, but have sparked many a conversation. The machines are famous for constantly being broken, so much so that PopSugar highlighted a website that tells fans of the McFlurry where broken machines are, so they can find a location that has a working one....

The Chick-Fil-A Copycat Recipes You Can Now Make At Home Carina Finn/Mashed By Jessica Merritt/April 16, 2021 12:02 pm EST Whether you love Chick-fil-A or have vowed never to eat there again, there’s nothing stopping you from making Chick-fil-A favorites for yourself at home. So if it’s Sunday, or you love the chicken but not the politics, you can still get the flavors you’re after from Chick-fil-A. Yes, it probably takes more effort to make Chick-fil-A favorites for yourself than it does to hit the drive-thru, but it can be fun to take on classic restaurant recipes at home and see how they stack up against the real deal....

The Most Popular Fast Food Chain The Year You Were Born Joe Raedle/Getty Images By Korey Denton/Updated: March 29, 2021 12:04 pm EST Perhaps one of the most American things in the world is fast food. No matter what your favorite chain is, pretty much everyone in the US, and many people abroad, have eaten fast food at some point in their life, and for good reason. Delicious, reasonably-priced food that you can get without even leaving your car?...

The Real Reason 2 Alabama Chick-Fil-As Had To Close Their Dining Rooms Scott Olson/Getty Images By Alia Hoyt/Aug. 23, 2021 11:17 am EST In 2020, nearly all fast-food restaurants closed their dining rooms in an attempt to quell the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Recently, some began to cautiously reopen. Although the Delta variant is wreaking new kinds of havoc on the world, some convenience food spots are limiting hours and services for a totally different reason — the labor shortage....

The Reason Virtual Kitchens Like MrBeast Burger Might Not Be Around Long By Felix Behr/March 30, 2021 2:02 pm EST MrBeast Burger, the launch of which we at Mashed covered in December, is very much a brand for the times. 300 locations (which, as The New York Times noted, were ghost kitchens and not brick and mortar MrBeast Burger locations), sprang onto delivery apps everywhere overnight. However, though some like Eater paint ghost kitchens as the future of the industry, the ghost kitchen model (and therefore MrBeast Burger) may not prove tenable in the long term....