I’ll Take the Check, When You Have a Moment
On June 2, 2015, I emailed Whitson Gordon, then editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, about a freelance writing opportunity on a fairly new, food-focused blog called “Skillet.” Eight years, five EICs, four…
How to Choose Between the Meta Quest 2, Apple Vision Pro, and Vive Pro 2
Consumers hoping to take their first steps into virtual reality (or upgrade their current VR setup) are facing a dilemma: Buy a standalone system like the Meta Quest 3 when…
Please Stop Ordering Off-Menu Crap You See on TikTok
Customization is cool, at least on TikTok. I’m old enough to remember a time when ordering In-N-Out fries “animal style” was a fast food in-crowd signifier of sorts. But now…
Build Your Next Ice Cream Sandwich on Saltines
If I were to place saltines on an alignment chart, I’d have to go with “neutral good.” They’re bland enough to get along with everyone, but just salty enough to…
Put Hash Browns Inside Your Breakfast Sandwich
Photo: A.A. Newton I am fanatically passionate about breakfast sandwiches. I love how customizable (and therefore deeply personal) they are; more than any other food, a person’s breakfast sandwich order…
TikTok Myth of the Week: There’s Plastic on Your Lettuce
The industrial-scale systems that grow and process our food can be strange and scary sometimes. But as we saw with myths like “whitened” milk and McDonald’s worm burgers, our imaginations…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Are You ‘Kenough’?
It is undoubtedly Barbie’s world, and we all (just barely) live in it. The movie has completely dominated the frothier side of the cultural conversation since it was released last…
Buy Your Fast Food Sauces by the Bottle
I have an impressive, well organized collection of fast food sauce packets and tubs, some of them quite rare. I keep them around for saucing emergencies, like if Taco Bell…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Are Grimace Shakes Killing People?
The slow pace of summer is giving us all time to notice subtle differences in screenings of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse, plan a ridiculous double-feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer, and…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Grimace?
This week, kids are eating rat snacks, staying off Reddit, considering their “canon events,” and finally asking important question about Grimace, McDonald’s inexplicable abomination of a mascot. Grimace memes take…