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Dennis Lee
dannisree
Staff writer at The Takeout. Also: Saveur Humor Blog Award Winner, professional pizza maker, and insufferable troublemaker.

Back in 2000, I started working at my present job, and I worked alone most nights, and my main complaint was the damn music they had playing. At first, it was loud enough that people I was talking to on the phone could hear it, and after I complained for several weeks about it, they dropped the volume down to the Read more

If they started having more than 1 cashier at a time that would be greeeaaaaat. Read more

You mean you don’t love being bombarded with fluorescent light and hearing a “DJ” from the “Walmart Radio Network” yell at the top of his voice for two minutes before playing the worst pop country song ever written? Read more

Having tried this, it’s more of a sherry made from beer. Really lovely stuff, but yes, it’s a cordial, not a “beer” per se. Worth trying. Read more

Hmm. I wouldn't shell out $240 for it, but if someone were generous enough to share a taste with me, I definitely wouldn't turn it down. If it's my own money, though, I'd rather spend it on a couple bottles of nice bourbon.  Read more

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For the upper middle class holiday parties so that someone can brag about it or sounds like the target audience to me. I also have a few friends that have done drunken online shopping and ended up with a replica WWE belt or similar weird stuff, I could see people like that buying this too. Read more

I’m sorry, I just can’t imagine this tasting good. And this coming from someone who prefers high-ABV beers. My beer of choice tends to be the imperial stouts (10-14%). Great sipping beers, good flavour, etc.  Give me a Prairie or a Founder’s... Read more

Man Dennis I hope you’re getting danger pay or at least good health care re: your sodium levels lately.  Read more

Makes sense, the goldfish bag that is half extra cheddar and half pretzel is delish.  This seems like just putting both in one  Read more

Make your own - many similar recipes to this out there, i’ve been making this for years, it’s super customizable:

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As someone who occasionally eats vegan (meaning that I am not vegan or even vegetarian, but my family does vegan nights occasionally for dietary variety), I have found that the least successful vegan dishes are the ones that try to emulate non-vegan dishes. Having the vegan version seems like a letdown and makes me Read more

Honey, will you wear your special outfit while you eat that snack cracker for me?
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Sorry, but for me, not just any kettle chip is the ideal caviar chip, but specifically Cape Cod chips. Ideally the lower sodium version that doesn’t outcompete the salty caviar. Granted, that’s a level of specificity not possible for this article, but the thinness of Cape Cods over other kettle chips plus a lower salt Read more

I have Grandma Utz’s chips that I ordered online, totally worth getting a case of snack bags IMO. Now if I just get off my ass and order some caviar (usually splurge on a little sampling over the winter holiday) I would actually try that combo. Read more

Would an unsalted chip like Utz (classic, not kettle) do better since the caviar has its own salt/brineyness? I can’t get them on the west coast, so someone else will need let me know. Read more

Across the United States, food service has become the sector with the most positions to fill. Read more

It looks more like a colony of parasites than nicely fat layered salmon to me.  Read more

Choco pies are more like a Moon Pie or a Wagon Wheel I think? Read more

Turtle Chips are really staggeringly good. Easily in “best bagged snack ever” territory—especially the chocolate churro flavor. Like, they’re simultaneously satisfying in the way cheetos and phyllo pastries are. Read more