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At first blush, you could have taken Taco Bell’s new Toasted Cheddar Chalupa for a phone-it-in “innovation.” Start…
C
It’s pretty clear what went down in McDonald’s corporate offices a few weeks ago:
B+
Sometimes a fast food item debuts that is so outrageous on its face, it generates attention the way a 30-car pileup…
A
I’m able to separate politics and food, or if we’re being honest, I’m able to turn a blind eye. I find Chick-fil-A’s…
B
I ordered a plate of Panda Express’s Sichuan Hot Chicken on the same day I received a preview copy of The Food of…
B+
Why the clamor over Wendy’s spicy chicken nuggets? Why has this one foodstuff cross the threshold into the pop…
B
The Impossible Whopper has landed, and like John/Paul/George/Ringo stepping off their Pan Am flight onto the JFK…
Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain by a long shot, is in the midst of growing pains. It nixed its iconic…
C+
Let us acknowledge there are several gradations of tacos. At the top of the chain are ones you might find in, say,…
B-
I will never hide my enthusiasm for Pizza Hut. Of all the delivery pizzas our family grew up patronizing, Pizza Hut…
A-
I’m no Malcolm Gladwell, but surely he could pithily coin a psychological term for that moment of realization when…
Having recently eaten through much of the menu at McDonald’s in Hong Kong, it made me realize McDonald’s was like…
What are the wars left to be fought on the fast food front? First came the battle for French fry supremacy, then the…
A
French fries dominate fast food potato sides, an arrangement most of us take for granted. Wake up, sheeple, because…
B+
Being a parent of a toddler, as I found out, mostly involves finding things to keep the kid busy and looking for…
Quantity and quality, generally speaking, are mutually exclusive. Mass popularity usually does not mean critically…
B-
McDonald’s Shamrock Shake is the dessert McRib; its annual return sparks both a chorus of glee or a wave of…
In the mid-1980s, Boston Chicken was a fledgling chain out of Massachusetts that took the rotisserie chicken—back…
The origins of the smashed-patty burger lack a definitive birthplace, but somewhere in the Midwest would be an…