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The Best Burger Chain In The Country Is Announced

They polled a bunch of (barely) human hogs and heifers and decided that the best burger chain in the country... isn't McDonald's.

Today Is Nation Rum Day. What's Your Favorite Fakey Foodoliday?

[See More Rants: Restaurants That Only Pretend To Be Reopening | 13 Reasons Why Banning 'Pig Gulp' Sodas in NYC Isn't Such a Bad Idea] Did you know August 29th is National Lemon Juice Day? What are you planning on doing? We don't get off work, but I'm thinking of taking it as a personal day. You kn ... More >>

More Sweet Treats: Dairy Queen Coming To New York City

DQ's sweet treats are coming to the city. According to Bloomberg, Dairy Queen is expected to open three or four stores in the city, including one in Staten Island this year. It's a brave move for the company to make, especially in the wake of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban of sales of sugary soft ... More >>

Hit So Hard

Screw the McRib: Bring Back These 5 Discontinued Fast Food Items

McDonald'sWhat's better than the McRib? Oh, we'll tell you what's better.​ If you haven't been watching television, reading any food blogs, or paying visits to McDonald's recently, you might not know that the cult favorite McRib sandwich is back. The sandwich stuffs a pork patty (sorry, no act ... More >>

Nine Fast-Food Franchises Missing From NYC and How Far You Have to Go to Find Them

​To reenact this scene, you'd have to travel 1,360.1 miles from the Empire State Building. With his developer-friendly real estate policies, Bloomberg has opened the floodgates to fast-food franchises. Ten years ago we had a fraction of what we have now, and ma-and-pa eateries prevailed at ... More >>

Rare E. Coli Strains Banned; Caramel Desserts to Rule the Fall

​New food safety regulations have been passed that include a ban on the sale of ground beef tainted with six rare toxic strains of E. coli bacteria. [NY Times] Meanwhile, inspectors are now using more sensitive tests to detect antibiotics in pork, the use of which is rampant in conventional f ... More >>

Chicken for Breakfast; Oscar Mayer Launches a Wienermobile Food Truck

​A new survey shows that people want to eat chicken for breakfast, either in the form of a chicken breakfast sandwich or turkey sausage or turkey bacon. [Nation's Restaurant News] In her forthcoming cookbook, Cooking Without Borders, Anita Lo shares fusion recipes. But at home, the chef likes ... More >>

Steve's Ice Cream Is Being Reborn in the Blue Marble Space, and Giving Mix-Ins the Brooklyn Artisanal Treatment

Steve's​If you grew up in Boston, you probably grew up with Steve's Ice Cream, the Somerville store that is credited with introducing Americans to the concept of both premium ice cream and mix-ins. When owner Steve Herrell decided in 1973 to smoosh bits of Heath Bar Crunch into his scoops, he ... More >>

Purdue Calls for New Chicken Labels; Dairy Queen Seeks to Stop Blizzard Infringement

​The latest addition to the ever-growing list of food recalls: frozen mice. MiceDirect, which provides mice as snake food for pet owners, is recalling millions of frozen mice due to potential salmonella poisoning. [NY Times] Katie Holmes is flying in her favorite cupcakes, made by Todd Englis ... More >>

More Songs About Treason And Pork: Here Are Eight Talking Heads Tracks That'd Also Work Great In Political-Campaign Ads

We've been here before. So yesterday former Talking Heads frontman and current omni-artistic silver fox David Byrne dropped a $1 million dollar lawsuit on Florida Governor and embattled Senatorial candidate Charlie Crist, who'd used the Heads' 1985 romp "Road to Nowhere" in a campaign ad without a ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Village Voice's Field Guide to Cold Summer Treats

From gelato to affogato to fro-yo&emdash;our recommended frozen fun

What's The Weirdest Place You Ever Had Sex?

​And don't say "up the butt." I'm asking what's been the most offbeat and unlikely locale for some of your life's most penetrating encounters? A church? Trevi fountain? A ferris wheel? A Dairy Queen? I'll tell you mine: A bed!

Poutine Pizza, Peanut Butter and Bacon Burgers & a KFC Double Down Krispy Kreme Mashup

This week in food blogs... Slice discovered the abomination that is poutine pizza. A Hamburger Today weighed in on Shake Shack's peanut-butter-and-bacon burger. Eater compiled a series of images of anonymous food critics from across the country... although no one is quite sure why. Diner's Journ ... More >>

Martha Stewart Saves Emiril Lagasse; Mike Huckabee Invited to a Big Gay Dinner Party

​Hummus maker, Sabra, is leaving its Astoria, Queens location this summer and moving its headquarters to a larger space in Richmond, Va. [Crain's] Yet another look at the popularity of raising chickens in New York City highlights online meeting groups for urban poultry farmers. [NY Daily News ... More >>

William Lustig's 'Buried Treasures' at Anthology

Presenting a '70s hit list where the results aren't pretty

Kinda Fast Food Places Rule "Healthiest Fast Food Chains" List

What we would call real fast food places.(photo by Flickr/AdamL212, some rights reserved)Health magazine has released its list of the ten healthiest fast food chains in the country, but it's hard to come by the supposed healthiest option in the city, much to Mayor Bloomberg's dismay, we're guessing. ... More >>

Sweet Pop Pleasure From the Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Influences: MBV, JAMC, and DQ

How Obama's Hopesters Took Ohio

An ailing factory town votes for change

Unflattering Photo Alert: Hillary Clinton

Nervous Exploding Arabs

And meet Mr. Hoptoit McNegropants—a Daily Show writer offers A Practical Guide to Racism

Coming of Age

1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

When Johnny Comes . . . Marching Home

Half-and-Half Off

Everything Is Illuminated

The Critics Speak

Cardinal Knowledge

Church Leaders Can't Run From the Scandal, but They Can Hide

Deadly Game

Crazed Coyotes, Car Crashes, Cocaine Deals: One Mexican’s Illegal Journey Into the United States

Handyman's Special

Steven Brower's Art Is Jerry-Built by Design