I am deeply ashamed to admit this, but as a teen I was one of those girls who refused to eat around people I had…
Jen Sabella
jensabella
Jen Sabella is Managing Editor of The Takeout. She loves: fried chicken, mezcal, cats and stalking celesbians on Instagram.
If it happened as much as people thought it did, half the population would be dead from cholera. Read more
Also, they offer a bucket of doughnuts, like yay, so many doughnuts. But the doughnuts are just tossed in a bucket and they all stick together and what the fuck are they thinking. Read more
“Good things come in pink boxes.” Read more
It was almost worth them making the doughnut for this. Read more
You think you can eat this doughnut? It’s already been eaten once, for the sins of the world. You can’t eat a doughnut twice!
You think it’s in your stomach, but it’s free! You’re the one that’s in a stomach, with your rules and your society.
Read more
Helpfully linked at the bottom of the article, last week’s edition addressed this: Read more
This is so right. ALWAYS use your server’s knowledge of the menu to your advantage. I have had some absolutely fantastic meals that I otherwise might not have tried all via server recommendation.
Read more
I do this and have never been steered wrong.
Read more
I have this thing, where I always ask if slaw is creamy at any restaurant. Invariably, the wait staff puts on a huge grin and says “It’s the creamiest slaw that ever creamed” and I make a face and order fries. I feel like I’m deflating their cheer every time it happens.
Read more
Everyone know you don’t use a tennis racket for mashed potatoes. You use it for making spaghetti. Read more
I can’t imagine a racquet is all that efficient at mashing potatoes, but it doesn’t seem like this joint was managed by reasonable people. Read more
As our Pilgrim forefathers no doubt uttered at their first Thanksgiving: Good pie don’t come cheap. According to Niel…
Among the rainbow of possible turkey brines, marinades, and rubs, none glows more luminescently and fluorescently…
Listening to people go full-on batshit crazy over a pair of illustrated hands on a coffee cup IS MY JAM. Read more
The original habanero ones came out about 15 years ago IIRC and then they brought them back as 3rd degree burn Doritos about five years ago and discontinued them again.
Unless they’re in someone. Read more
Everybody knows that the best (and only?) cure for a hangover is ripping a bong, eating breakfast, and then going back to bed. Read more