You’ve got to hand it to Olive Garden. Sales at “casual dining” restaurants are on the skids, yet the Garden has apparently found a way to buck the trend. The secret?…
Category: What Not to Eat
Each of these restaurant items manages to cram in close to a day’s calories, often accompanied by at least a day’s saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar. That’s not easy.…
Food companies can’t seem to help themselves. It must be so-o-o tempting to stretch the truth…even just a tad. So what if consumers are misled? The clues are (almost always)…
As long as there’s Madison Avenue, companies will twist the truth to pitch their products as healthy, real, essential, or name-your-buzz-word-du-jour. So they play up nuts or protein rather than…
“Magnum Tubs offer a new, multisensory way to enjoy Magnum Ice Cream that is unlike anything available in the category today,” said Unilever (Magnum’s parent company) in a January press…
An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the deadline for industry to stop producing foods with artificial trans fat is June 15. The deadline is June 18. This post…
You’ve never been to a cookie dough parlor? How 2017! “There’s an emotional connection that you can’t manufacture. It’s inherent in the product and unique to cookie dough,” the owner…
“It all began when Ike Sewell imagined a pizza unlike any other,” says Uno Pizzeria & Grill’s menu. “Fresh dough with a tall edge, topped with homemade sauce and more cheese…
June 2016: Burger King and Frito-Lay unleash Mac n’ Cheetos—portable bites of mac and cheese in a Cheeto-flavored crust. The limited-time-only item sells out at Burger King in weeks. October…
In the supermarket, every day feels like April 1st. Here’s a sampling of the latest tricks. Yes, there’s some avocado in Hidden Valley Avocado Ranch Dressing. But the bottle basically…