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How WWII-Era Scarcity Led To Aldi’s Success Matthew Horwood/Getty Images By Courtney Iseman/April 2, 2021 3:20 pm EST World War II had many profound impacts on citizens’ daily lives, one of the biggest being limited supplies and resources. Everyday food items and household staples were diverted to the war effort, trade was interrupted, and many manufacturers’ employees went off to fight (via National Park Service). The situation was even more dire in areas directly affected by the war, like Essen, Germany....

Kori Sutton Reminisces About Her Time On Hell’s Kitchen - Exclusive Interview Facebook By Steven John/Aug. 24, 2021 11:40 am EST If you take a look at her LinkedIn page right now, you’ll see the LA-based, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico-raised Kori Sutton lists her current job as “Private Chef,” a title she has held for several years under the auspices of her own company, Chef Kori Sutton LLC. Browse through her “About” and “Experience” sections some and you’ll read about her decade and a half (and counting) of experience in the culinary world, including work at an Aspen resort, a Mexican steakhouse, a French bistro, and on it goes....

McDonald’s Sweet New Breakfast Menu Item Is Turning Heads 8th.creator/Shutterstock By Felix Behr AND Molly Harris/Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 1:09 pm EST From September 1 until a currently undisclosed endpoint, McDonald’s will be offering glazed pull apart donuts as part of their McCafé Bakery lineup. The idea is that the donut will be reduced to a series of smaller blobs of deliciousness, glued together by a sugary sweet glaze. One might interpret this as the chain essentially serving Munchkins but with a tearing gimmick that speaks to the destructive streak in our souls....

Raid The Fridge: Release Date, Contestants, And More - What We Know So Far Emilee Ramsier / Food Network By Lucia Capretti/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 12:37 pm EST Unless you always have a stocked fridge, then you know the plight of trying to decide what to make for dinner with such limited options. Faced with similar ingredients night after night, it can be hard to find inspiration. But, what if you were shown the contents of a fridge at random and asked to produce a high-quality meal?...

Read This Before Using Eggs For Baked Goods Again Shutterstock By Sophie Putka/Jan. 22, 2021 7:02 am EST If you’ve ever baked anything at home in your life, this is for you. Chemistry in the kitchen, especially with baking, can be a little bit of a mystery. You could have made something ten times before and still get inconsistent results. Why did those cookies from your favorite recipe turn out perfect and domed the first time, and then flat and spread out the next?...

Spam Flavors Ranked From Worst To First Shutterstock By Kori Ellis/Updated: March 23, 2021 10:42 pm EST Many people think of Spam as something you buy to stash in your fallout shelter in case disaster strikes. While it does have a shelf life that is measured in years, this canned meat isn’t just for emergencies. There are more than a dozen flavors of Spam, some of which are legitimately delicious....

The Complicated Way Martha Stewart Feels About The Me Too Movement Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/Feb. 25, 2021 3:15 pm EST Once upon a time, the self-made billionaire, Martha Stewart, was just a model trying to get a job (via Insider). Stewart told People that she walked into an advertisement agency at just 16 years old, where a group of men asked her to undress. She left. “I think women just have to understand that you can say no,” Stewart told the publication, “You can walk out of a room....

The Internet Can’t Stand This Aldi Australia Sign Inconsistency Shutterstock By Katherine Mclaughlin/July 13, 2021 9:45 am EST There are a lot of things Aldi is known for: inexpensive groceries, allowing their cashiers to sit in chairs, intense efficiency, and cart rentals. Yet, apparently, sign consistency isn’t one of those things. At least not in Australia. According to news.com.au, a local father recently shared a photo of some signs in his neighborhood Aldi, noting that its lack of coordination was now impossible to unsee....

The One Chicago Food Jeff Mauro Thinks Beats Deep-Dish And Hot Dogs - Exclusive Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 3:28 pm EST Jeff Mauro’s been not-so-secretly waging a campaign to beat deep-dish and hot dogs for years now. It’s not that the Chicago chef doesn’t like a good pie. The Sandwich King has been known to stuff his chicken with pizza on “The Kitchen” (via YouTube). And hot dogs — Mauro also grew up eating Johnny’s Red Hots on North Avenue, which we’re told is authentic Chicago....

The One Food El Guzii Couldn’t Get Right - Exclusive Instagram By Hanna Claeson/Aug. 20, 2021 2:56 pm EST El Guzii — aka Gustavo Figueroa — has been in the business of teaching people how to not take themselves too seriously while making irresistible comfort foods since 2008, when he uploaded his first YouTube video. Here’s a man who walks his 5.88 million followers through making Harley Quinn’s bacon egg and cheese sandwich without blinking an eye (via YouTube)....

The Real Reason Ina Garten Will Never Open Another Store Noam Galai/Getty Images By Ashley Steinberg/April 20, 2021 2:16 pm EST Did you know Ina Garten once owned a store? Or that her nickname, the Barefoot Contessa, actually came from that store? According to The Cut, before her career as a go-to recipe gal, Garten spotted an ad in a paper in Westhampton Beach about a store for sale. She’d begun losing interest in her job, and decided to take a leap and buy it....

The Real Reason McDonald’s Doesn’t Serve Burgers For Breakfast S3studio/Getty Images By Amanda Tarlton/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:51 pm EST Most fast food joints have breakfast menus these days, but McDonald’s has long been one of the most popular spots for a morning meal. A 2015 poll by Instantly, a consumer insights platform, found that the Golden Arches was the number one fast food breakfast, with 44 percent of Americans dubbing it their favorite (via Eater)....

The Sweet Way Ted Allen Reacted To Maneet Chauhan’s Tournament Of Champions Win YouTube By Kate Hagan Gallup/April 20, 2021 8:15 pm EST Ted Allen simply tops the list when it comes to being a team player, and he couldn’t be happier about his “Chopped” teammate Maneet Chauhan’s victory on Guy Fieri’s “Tournament of Champions II.” Sharing a retweet of her epic victory on social media, he writes, “SO proud of our amazing @Chopped colleague @ManeetChauhan for this huge victory!...

The Truth About Australia’s First ‘Hands-Free’ Farm Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/Aug. 13, 2021 3:25 pm EST The farming industry has been coming under scrutiny in recent years because of the serious impact many large-scale farms have on the environment. With concerns over environmental health growing, there has been an increased effort to find ways to grow the food we need in a sustainable way. And one farm in Australia may be well on the way to doing just that....

The Truth About Oreo’s Sold-Out Alien Cookies Instagram By Aimee Lamoureux/June 8, 2021 5:06 pm EST The truth is out there — and so are Oreo cookies. Nabisco’s popular chocolate and creme cookies have apparently been taken in by the current UFO fever that has been sweeping the nation, and they have just released a special pack of Oreo cookies to greet the extraterrestrials if they ever do arrive on our planet....

The Untold Truth Of Oscar Mayer Shutterstock By DB Kelly/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:53 pm EST You know the jingles, you’ve filled lunchboxes and sandwiches with their bologna, you’ve had countless hot dogs from those yellow packages. Some of you — at least, according to The LA Times — even named your children after the curly-haired little cutie in the commercials. But how much do you really know about Oscar Mayer, the company that’s supplied America with its processed meats for several generations?...

This Junior’s Cheesecake Flavor At Costco Is Perfect For St. Patrick’s Day Shutterstock By Molly Harris/Feb. 23, 2021 11:39 am EST The eye-catching indicator of the next holiday around the corner is usually themed candy and even decor you might spot on display at your local grocery, but the times are changing. Some might say it’s all about what kind of Junior’s cheesecake is stocked at Costco. For Valentine’s Day they had a huge heart-shaped Junior’s cake....

This Might Be The Largest PEZ Dispenser Collection In The World Erin Cadigan/Shutterstock By Courtney Iseman/Aug. 25, 2021 12:55 pm EST PEZ dispensers are one of the most instantly recognizable, beloved, and straight-up fun pieces of nostalgia still being made today. They’ve been around long enough that families have been able to pass their PEZ love on over generations, stocking stuffings with them, swapping them, and, of course, enjoying the actual PEZ candy within them....

TikTok’s Newest Sugary Food Trend Uses Only Three Ingredients Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/Jan. 29, 2021 3:46 am EST One of the latest TikTok trends isn’t really so new after all, but we suspect many of the young Americans who call TikTok home are finding out about it for the first time. The young and random TikTok couple behind @samandjessofficial were latecomers to the trend, which you can find on the video-sharing platform by searching for the hashtag #candiedfruit....

Trader Joe’s Just Brought Back Its Popular Eggnog Trader Joe’s By Hanna Claeson/Updated: June 1, 2021 4:53 pm EST Right in time for Thanksgiving, Trader Joe’s has come through again. Instagram handle @traderjoes_addict was the first to announce the glad tidings. “Eggnog is fully stocked and ready to spice up your holiday season,” they wrote after finding fully stocked fridge shelves full of Trader Joe’s Light Egg Nog, Egg Nog, and Almond Nog....