Drew Disabatino
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Boston, MA, United States
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Are You on Gordon Ramsay's Side of This Fiery Food Debate... Or Are You (in His Words) an "Old Fart?"
To photograph or not to photograph? It's the eternal question when you go out to eat. On the one hand, sure, you should probably just be enjoying your meal and the people you're with instead of playing with your phone the whole time. But on the other hand, sometimes a dish just looks too damn good not to shoot. Pics or it didn't happen, right? → Read More
Someone Just Donated the World's Saddest Can of Soup to a Food Bank
We've all accidentally hoarded something before. A jar of peanut butter or box of crackers hides out on the back shelf in the pantry, or a can of corn unknowingly rolls behind the refrigerator, and it's not until you move out of the apartment or do some deep spring cleaning that you realize — "wow this box of waffle mix is older than my car." → Read More
How Did Fireball Whisky Become One of the Most Popular Drinks in America?
“If you haven't tried it yet, just imagine what it feels like to stand face-to-face with a fire-breathing dragon who just ate a whisky barrel full of spicy cinnamon.” → Read More
A News Crew Gamely Tasted a Searingly Hot Pepper on Air... And Vomit Ensued
Last month we brought you a story about Pepper X, which is likely to soon earn title of hottest pepper in the world, with its Scoville rating of more than 3 million. But until that heat is confirmed and the crown is officially passed, the ranking heavyweight and current spiciest pepper in the world is the formidable Carolina Ghost Pepper. At 1.9 million Scoville units, the Carolina Ghost seems… → Read More
Taco Bell Is Now Serving a Kit Kat Quesadilla, As If That Needed to Happen
Taco Bell has never been one for the faint of stomach. You could walk into one at 9 a.m. and order a taco made out of a Dorito and loaded with nacho cheese sauce, guacamole, and jalapeño peppers, for example. So you know, there's that. So at this point, it takes a lot for us to be caught off guard by any sort of new Taco Bell menu item. We’re seasoned veterans of unusual seasoning. Nothing's… → Read More
9 Childhood Halloween Candies You Probably Forgot About
The big annual excuse to go candy crazy known as Halloween is finally here — hooray! Kit Kats, Snickers, Junior Mints, Skittles, Reese’s — whatever your poison, it’s probably being sold in bulk at a brightly colored display inside your neighborhood convenience store right this very moment. (We'll wait while you go make a run — you know, "to get ready for the trick-or-treaters.") → Read More
9 Fun and Weird Food-Related Halloween Costume Ideas You Can Actually Make at Home
Given all the pumpkin spice mania currently going down all around you, you surely know Halloween is on its way. And whether you already know exactly how you’ll be celebrating or you don't, consider this your dress-up inspiration — in the form of 10 food-related Halloween costumes you could make at home with some basic supplies like poster boards, fabrics, and the clothes you already have in your… → Read More
This Facebook Post Claimed to Offer a "Brilliant" PB&J Sandwich Hack — But Ruthless Commenters Called BS
No matter how you slice it, so-called life hacks sourced from the Internet have gotten a little out of control. Sure there are some useful ones (who knew you could use toothpaste to effectively clean your car's headlights, for example?) but for every good one, there are a bunch of duds that are more work than they're worth. → Read More
McVegan Is Here — But Is a Vegan Burger What America Wants From Fast Food?
Remember back in the day when fast food chains poured millions of dollars into commercials just to promote the amount of beef in their burgers? It became a bit of a competition between big names like McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s over who could create the biggest, beefiest burgers. Who recalls this old chestnut? → Read More
Creepy-Ass Clowns Are Delivering Donuts Now, So Don't Expect to Ever Sleep Again
Clowns are creepy. They're creepy when they’re making balloons at the circus, creepy when they’re the title character of Italian operas, and creepy as all hell when they’re sauntering mysteriously around the woods. (Remember when that was a thing? Don’t forget that was a thing. If we do, the clowns win.) But now there’s a new way clowns can creep you out: as your donut-delivery people. Indeed,… → Read More
Remember Those Freaky Black Hamburger Buns? Let's Hope These Gorgeous Blue Ones Won't Mess Up Your Insides as Much
We've seen burger buns in creative hues before: Who could forget the black bun that had everyone talking? → Read More
Apparently the Dairy Industry Is Suffering — So it Came Up With Pink, Sparkly Milk in Desperation
Why would you ever drink boring white milk — approximating how it came out of a cow — when you could drink fizzy, sparkly milk that looks like it was bedazzled by a paint-huffing unicorn? It’s crazy, right? Pictured here: mediocrity. Luckily your days of only having the option to drink white milk from dairy cows (ugh, how pedestrian) may soon be coming an end — thanks to a British dairy group… → Read More
"Pepper X" Is Now the Hottest in the World — But Can Anyone Actually Survive Tasting It?
We're not here to kill anyone's good vibes. But why was there a need on this earth for a pepper spicier than the way-too-spicy varieties that already existed? Why would anyone spend more than decade working to create a totally new and lethally spicy pepper? And then of course, why would anyone want to purchase hot sauce made from a pepper that seems like it would be better-suited for stripping… → Read More
Jimmy Fallon Proves Nobody Knows How to Pronounce LaCroix in Hilarious — and Totally Relatable — Video
Americans have a long history of mispronouncing foreign-sounding brand names for retailers and and retail products. Heck, we do it all the time! Like did you know that Greek yogurt brand Fage is pronounced Fa-HEY? Or that Swedish furniture giant Ikea is really pronounced ee-kay-uh? Seriously. Look it up. → Read More
This Pizza Topped With Halloween Candy Is an Affront to Decent Humans Everywhere
We've seen pizza lovers go to bat for some truly disgusting pizza toppings. We're talking ingredients that have no business being on pizza. And we've also seen fans of autumn take seasonal flavor and ingredient combos way too far — for example, pumpkin spice cough drops. (Just no.) But when Twitter user @TheRealAsswolf (yes, that's right) posted this horrible, trolling pizza creation topped with… → Read More
List: Has Autumn Arrived?
1. Have the leaves begun their colorful transformation? 2. Are cooler temperatures sweeping into the forecast? 3. Is flannel clothing popping u... → Read More
See the Hilarious Cease-and-Desist Letter That Shut Down the Stranger Things Popup
If you were hoping to visit The Upside Down and haven’t been... you’re running out of time. And no, we don’t mean the actual creepy, scary, world-beneath-the-surface/home of the Demogorgon from Netflix’s wildly popular Stranger Things, (why would we mean that?) but rather the Chicago pop-up bar that goes by the same name and features drink specials and décor inspired by the 1980s-based sci-fi… → Read More
These Gummy Bear Works Of Art Are Something Else And We're Totally Into It
Whoever coined the phrase “don’t play with your food” obviously never met artist Melissa Rachel Black, or realized just what exactly could be accomplished with an easel, a bit of creativity and a metric butt-load of gummy bears. Feast (literally?) your eyes, on Starry Gummy Night: → Read More
Yes, Your Kitchen Sponge Is Disgusting — But This Popular Cleaning Method Actually Makes It Way Grosser
You’ve probably seen some surprising stats about bacteria before. Something like “Your credit cards are dirtier than a toilet bowl,” or “your toothbrush contains up to 10 million bacteria.” People love to toss around such charming cocktail-party trivia. Picture above: harbingers of death. → Read More
Millennial Pink Chocolate Now Exists So Your Candy Can Match Your Instagram Feed
We thought we’d hit peak Millennial Pink with the pink trash can. Or the pink kids' recorder. → Read More