The Boston Market website lists the sandwich as costing $6.99. We were charged more, presumably in error—but we’ve updated the text to reflect the price listed online. Sorry about that! Read more

Luckily, it looks like our $9 price tag might have been an error. According to Boston Market’s website, the sandwich is $6.99. Sorry for the mixup! We have updated the text to reflect it. Read more

The good news: Boston Market lists the sandwich on its website as costing $6.99. Our $9.29 sandwich might have been a register error! We have added a note clarifying this within the review. Read more

That reminds me of the Cheetos Mac and Cheese Flamin’ Hot variety: https://thetakeout.com/taste-test-cheetos-mac-n-cheese-1844678413 Read more

They’re selecting 1,000 winners, so I like your odds! Read more

Yep. While Cheetos macaroni strikes me as an intuitive pairing, I can’t even imagine the flavor profile that would be necessary to make candy mac & cheese work. Read more

Your pie is so extreme that it made its *own* lightning bolt. From what’s visible of the filling, this looks like it’s gonna be a good one! Read more

Nice! And was the salad any good? Read more

That’s a great point. I will edit the post to make that clearer. Thank you! Read more

We’d love that! Read more

Quite possibly you could puree the blueberries in our grandperes recipe: https://thetakeout.com/blueberry-almond-grandperes-make-a-sticky-sweet-unfuss-1844781132 Read more

That’s so funny, because I was actually relieved to see the inclusion of dark sweet cherries. The thing that usually turns me off of cherry pie is the tartness! Read more

Thank you kindly! It tasted pretty darn good. And it’s fun pouring the soda onto the frozen cherries and watching the mixture briefly fizz up. Read more

There haven’t been as many studies of the carbon footprint of fake meat (which makes sense, since beef has been around a lot longer!). Also, the scale of fake meat operations hasn’t yet reached the level of factory farming, and some scholars point out that the manufacturers of plant-based meat are making claims about… Read more

We do have a recipe for tavern-style dough, if that’s not too thin: https://thetakeout.com/homemade-chicago-style-thin-crust-tavern-pizza-a-love-1844549899 Read more

J.B. Alberto’s in Rogers Park! Read more

J.B. Alberto’s in Rogers Park! Read more

They do! Those spin in a pattern that forces food to move to the perimeter of the chamber so that it can get ground up by the serrated cylinder. There’s a good illustration here:

Hear hear! For now, the closest thing we’ve had to cat ice cream is when associate editor Aimee Levitt served her cat a fishy Thanksgiving feast: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2008/11/25/cooking-for-your-cat-thanksgiving-feast Read more

Joey Clift wrote about his experience on the podcast in a thoughtful essay: https://www.avclub.com/i-celebrated-native-american-heritage-month-by-ruining-1840152081 Read more