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French’s Yellow Mustard-Flavored Hot Dog Buns Are Turning Heads Courtesy of McCormick By Gillie Houston/Aug. 4, 2021 12:24 pm EST On any given day at the ballpark or a backyard barbeque, mustard often plays second fiddle to its condiment cousin, ketchup. But for one day a year the sunny condiment gets its moment in the spotlight. National Mustard Day — which falls each year on the first Saturday in August — is an annual celebration of everything mustard, and nobody celebrates this yellow-tinted holiday quite like French’s....

Fresh Vegetable Lumpia Recipe Miriam Hahn/Mashed By Miriam Hahn AND Mashed Staff/July 20, 2021 9:12 am EST If you have been hankering to try a new appetizer, a fun snack, or an interesting side dish, recipe creator Miriam Hahn has the perfect option. These fresh vegetable lumpia are “the Filipino version of fried spring rolls,” she explained to Mashed. “But lumpia wrappers are thinner and don’t contain egg.” The filling for this fresh bite comes together with a refreshing mix of carrots, jicama, cabbage, and bean sprouts....

Here’s What’s In Costco’s Premade Easter Baskets Noam Galai/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/March 10, 2021 10:50 pm EST The Easter Bunny doesn’t give interviews, so we don’t know if she’s struggling with the same pandemic-induced supply-chain issues that have led to shortages in canned beer and soda, Spam, and even Grape-Nuts cereal. Will the Easter Bunny be able to gather all the chocolate rabbits and jelly beans she needs to make her rounds on Easter morning?...

How Collectors Can Tell If A Pez Dispenser Is Authentic M Outdoors/Shutterstock By Rachel Pasche/Aug. 25, 2021 10:57 am EST We all remember PEZ Dispensers, those iconic candies that came out of the adorable and unique dispensers. From their origins in Austria in 1927 to 1949 when the first “dispensers” were invented and sold, to now, these little treats have had quite a life and they’re still popular today (via PEZ)....

How Colonel Sanders Almost Became A DC Comics Superhero DC Comics By Ashley Steinberg/Updated: April 27, 2021 3:10 pm EST As far as fast food brands go, some icons are just that, iconic. Ronald McDonald managed to take the creepy out of clowns, Burger King’s King is known for making his “royal” Whoppers available to the masses, and Wendy is the delightful face of sumptuous burgers and fun Frostys. On top of that stands Colonel Sanders in a league of his own....

IHOP Fans Are Thrilled With Darius Rucker. Here’s Why Bruce Bennett/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Jan. 28, 2021 12:22 pm EST Who doesn’t like pancakes from an old favorite like IHOP? The brand has managed to retain its popularity over the years, thanks to its unique brand personality. According to Mental Floss, the brand’s founders worked hard on making sure that its pancake recipe was top-notch before introducing it to their customers....

Klondike’s New Milkshake Pouches Are Turning Heads Klondike By Hanna Claeson/Jan. 19, 2021 1:40 pm EST Are Klondike’s new milkshake pouches the single upcoming product that we’re most excited to see hit the frozen goods section in 2021? Quite possibly. “We saw an opportunity to bring the delicious taste of a classic diner shake directly to your freezer — no blender needs,” Russel Lilly, vice president of U.S. Ice Cream at Unilever, explained in a statement....

Martha Stewart Just Revealed This Famous Chef Is Actually Her Neighbor Arnold Turner/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/July 9, 2021 10:21 am EST Celebrity chef Martha Stewart is used to a lavish life. Per Hello! Magazine, she has several homes around the country. According to an article on her website, one of her most favorite spots is in Katonah, New York. Of course, it’s very important for Stewart to make sure that her kitchens are perfect and equipped with everything she needs to cook delicious meals whenever she’s at home (whichever home that might be)....

People Can’t Believe How McDonald’s Gets Its Onions Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 1:40 pm EST One of the best parts about eating at McDonald’s stems from how fast we get our order made. According to The Fiscal Times, McDonald’s serves 62 million customers a day and as of 2012, sells 75 burgers every second (via USA Today)! With numbers this staggering, the restaurant chain needs an efficient method for creating food to satisfy even the pickiest of fast food fanatics....

Rachael Ray Accidentally Set This Celeb Chef’s Kitchen On Fire Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Aug. 7, 2021 10:45 am EST Rachael Ray has definitely had her fair share of mishaps in the kitchen. Per “The Rachael Ray Show,” the celebrity chef readily admits, “Anyone who works in a kitchen for — in my case, 40 years, of course — you cut yourself, you burn yourself.” Label it a hazard of the job because, as the “30 Minute Meals” host once explained, “I’ve cut and burned myself a thousand times....

The Gourmet Burger Service You Forgot McDonald’s Used To Offer Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images By Felix Behr/March 29, 2021 1:33 pm EST In the mid-2010s, McDonald’s experimented with a “Create Your Taste” concept. The gist, as they explained in a 2015 press release announcing the program’s expansion, is that customers are presented with a tablet on which they can assemble a fully customizable burger, from buns to cheese to toppings to sauces....

The Interesting Thing Human Beings Have In Common With Bananas Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/July 18, 2021 11:53 pm EST Mankind is a unique beast. We have debated for years about our origins, trying to determine if we walked from the jungles or crawled from the sea. We seem to share certain traits with the good Lord’s second-most strongest warriors for Christ: the monkey. Man and monkey both share the traits of opposable thumbs, upright mobility, and our amusement at the ever-popular shiny object....

The Sriracha Peanut Butter Combination You Need To Try Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/May 30, 2021 4:17 pm EST It doesn’t matter if you’re team crunchy or team smooth — when you think of peanut butter, you likely also think of jelly. There’s no sandwich as iconic as the trusty old PB&J. Maybe it’s the combo of sweet and salty, or maybe it’s the nostalgic flavor that takes you right back to the years of lunchboxes and recess....

The Truth About Chick-Fil-A’s Keto Menu Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/May 11, 2021 11:36 am EST Chick-fil-A is an old favorite for many fans across the country that vouch for its high-quality meals. As noted on the official website, the brand is particularly keen on including fresh ingredients in its dishes. As the restaurant states, “Since the beginning, we’ve served chicken that is whole breast meat, with no added fillers or hormones, and we bread it by hand in our restaurants....

The Unhealthiest Shake You Can Buy At Sonic Scott Olson/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/March 30, 2021 4:18 pm EST The milkshake is undisputably the crown jewel on Sonic’s menu, as Thrillist journalist, Lee Breslouer discovered the day in 2013 when he tried every single one of them. Breslouer loved that the fast-food chain prepared its peanut butter bacon shakes with “actual” bacon; he raved that the crumbled graham crackers on top of its coconut cream pie shake were “mad tasty;” and when he tried Sonic’s peanut butter banana shake, he hit actual delirium....

The Unhealthiest Thing You Can Order At McDonald’s Might Surprise You Epics/Getty Images By Hope Ngo/Updated: Jan. 25, 2021 1:21 pm EST “I need to eat healthy, let’s go to McD’s,” says no one ever. And while we know McDonald’s is working hard to turn the nutritional profile of its offer around by adding more healthy food choices (via Shape), it’s probably safe to assume that the chain will keep serving up things that we should be considering as treats, and not make part of our daily diet – at least for the foreseeable future....

The Untold Truth Of Buffalo Wings Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Jan. 25, 2021 7:54 pm EST What did we ever do without Buffalo wings? How could we watch a football game, or any major sporting event, without a plate of these by our side? How did we drink sufficient amounts of beer to keep Milwaukee famous? And whatever did we do with all of that blue cheese dressing? (Surely nobody ever ate that much salad....

This ‘Kylie Jenner’ Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Has TikTok Divided Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/Aug. 9, 2021 6:26 pm EST If culinary prowess has become a trend in the past few years, then celebs turned chefs is the subtrend people cannot seem to shake. Us Weekly reported on a whole list of celebs who love to cook, including Lauren Conrad, Blake Lively, Chrissy Teigen, and Neil Patrick Harris to name a few....

What Is Babka And How Do You Make It? Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Jan. 31, 2021 3:51 pm EST Between cake and bread, babka, as Joanna O’Leary describes in My Jewish Learning, is a staple Jewish dessert that originated in Poland before spreading through the diaspora. At its most fundamental, babka consists of a twirled dough that is rolled and braided with some kind of filling. One Sarcastic Baker purports to share a traditional recipe for chocolate babka....

When You Drink Tap Water Every Day, This Is What Happens Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Updated: April 12, 2021 10:14 am EST The advice to drink water is repeated enough that you may assume that the fluids seeping from our faucets would be safe for consumption. Yet, as One Medical mentions, we are inundated with advertisements for filters and various brands of water bottled and resold. However, they add that for most American adults, water (tap or bottled) doesn’t contain an amount of pollutants that exceeds national rules....