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Harold Simmons' NL Industries Being Sued for Dumping Radioactive Material 70 Years Ago

In the same way that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC once America caught on to the fact that deep-frying things isn't good for you, National Lead -- one of the dozen stocks that comprised the original Dow Jones industrial average -- became simply NL Industries. At some point, it also ... More >>

The Hot Mess from Jack in the Box, Taco Bell-Flavored Doritos and More Fast Food Crazy

With the big game this weekend I was trying to find some interesting and gluttonous fast-food options. Nothing insane stuck out, but I came across a few items of note, both in the States and from around our big fat globe. Some of them are good, others awful. Well, actually, they're mostly awful. F ... More >>

Ten of This Week's Big Show Announcements: Pink, Neil Hamburger and Tim Heidecker, Unsilent Night and More

Pink Friday, February 22, at American Airlines Center, $39.50 I get the appeal of Britney, Christina and Gaga, but Pink has always been the bad girl of the current run of massive pop singers. Nevertheless, she's carved out a niche for herself, and this show will likely sell out.See also:- Ten con ... More >>

The Secret Chain Restaurant and Fast-Food Shame of an Englishman

You see all those chain restaurants, Dallas? All those bright shiny lights, beckoning you in to eat products of a questionable providence at a price so reasonable there's no need to go home and time-consumingly construct a meal for your baying, hungry, ungrateful family? You grew up around them (the ... More >>

KFC Wants to Give People Who Move Back Home Free Rent and Hardened Arteries

No, you're not a loser if you move back in with Mom and Dad. It's sweet. Really. Sometimes we all need a little help to get us from one exciting adventure to the next. And KFC evidently thinks it can provide for some pretty funny stories. So KFC has partnered with Comedy Central and "created the ... More >>

Jack in the Box Waffles Your Buns with Breakfast Waffle Sandwich

Surely after the recent news of Pizza Hut threading a hot dog into their pizza crust, and KFC air-dropping a slice of shitty cheese on top of their "burger," you were wondering: what's next? Well, here comes the news this morning (thanks to writer Sara Blankenship, who sends along with photo), snag ... More >>

Bravo, KFC Philippines: Cheese On Top of The Burger Bun. Bravo.

Years back, we'll look to June 27 as the day when fast food broke free of its physical constraints: It's now totally cool to melt cheese in illogical places. I know, I know this has nothing to do Texas. It's not even on the same continent (KFC Philippines), but this was just too good to pass up. I m ... More >>

The Cheap Bastard's Ultimate Guide to Eating like a Total Cheap Bastard in Dallas

For this week's cover story, Alice "The Cheap Bastard" Laussade provides an extensive and profane guide to, as she puts it, her "favorite restaurants in Dallas where cheap meets delicious (without meeting diarrhea)." It follows. Drive-Through Deals White Rock Coffee 4216 Abrams Road The Starbucks d ... More >>

Tto Tto Wa Bistro and the Arrival of Korean Fried Chicken

While researching Tto Tto Wa Bistro, the subject of this week's review, I read everything I could on an Asian delicacy that's become a personal obsession: Korean fried chicken. The earliest reference I could find to the stuff served in the States was in John T. Edge's book Fried Chicken, published ... More >>

The 10 Worst Fast Food Trends of 2011

Denny's Mac and Cheese Big Daddy Melt, which was part of their "Lets Get Cheesy" Menu​Last year, Planet Earth sorrowfully asked mankind "Why, dear peoples, why?" after the invention of something sinister and bizarre: KFC's Double Down. Well, congratulations, 2011: You are the mind-fuck of a fast ... More >>

Jimi Hendrix Plays Memorial Auditorium: A Recording From 1969 and A Poster from '70

​One of the best photos we've ever posted to Unfair Park was this February 16, 1968, snapshot of Angus Wynne and Jimi Hendrix taken at Love Field, shortly before Dallas experienced the man and his band at the Fair Park Music Hall. That picture, of course, accompanied an audience recording of the J ... More >>

Mother-Daughter Team Thinks Newspapers Have Money, Sues Local Daily for $21 Million

Waxahachie Daily Light! You're on notice. Because when you get crossways with local firebrand Linda Lewis, protesters will march, media will descend, and comically high settlement demands will be made. Kentucky Fried Chicken got a taste back in 2006. Lewis claimed she found baby cockroaches sprinkl ... More >>

Ten Fictional Foods (and Beverages, Of Course) We Wish Were Real

"Mmm-mmmm, that is a tasty buger."​Throughout movie and television history, there have been fake foods and drinks that have given us the urge to punch through our TVs and force-feed the goods into our faces. Here we stroll through of our favorite faux products.Big Kahuna BurgerScrew In-N-Out ... More >>

Eight Quick and Easy Rapture Meals

If this is The End, we're getting KFC Double Downs.​The end of the world cometh this Saturday, right y'all? We figure, whether we believe that or not, better to be safe (and full of cheesecakes) than sorry. So, here's our list of eight quick and easy rapture meals your whole family can enjoy: ... More >>

10 Fast Foods That Sound Like Sex Positions

Paris Hilton dives into a very 'Big Carl.' (Western bacon style)​Just about anything can take on a sexual connotation, and while efforts are being made to sex up food, what of the unsexiest of all edibles: fast food? Nope, there are still fuck-tastically named items on every drive-through menu ... More >>

Foie Gras: Cruel To Eat, Too Delicious Not To

Force-feeding a duck for foie gras.​I have a friend who likes to say that the cuteness of an animal is directly proportional to how delicious it is. I see his point: rabbits are adorable and also excellent braised in white wine. Lambs are beautiful, whether they're frisking through a meadow or ... More >>

Flanked by Cowboys Legend Roger Staubach, Mike Rawlings Kicks Off Mayoral Campaign

Photos by Sam MertenMike Rawlings and Roger Staubach​Mike Rawlings formally announced his candidacy for mayor this morning to a group of approximately 150 supporters in front of Dallas City Hall, claiming he'll utilize public-private partnerships to protect both the city's infrastructure and i ... More >>

Five Best Eats In Dallas for Out-of-Towners

Welcome to Dallas, Super Bowl people! While you're in town, we hope you check out some of the best restaurants for tourists in Dallas. (Here's hoping you stick to this list so our actual favorite local spots don't get all crowded with giant foam fingers and face paint.) ​ Trail Dust! Better not w ... More >>

The 10 Crazy Fast Food and Chain Restaurant Releases of 2010

KFCIt's real, oh GOD, it's real.​On April 12, 2010 a new product was released by KFC. It began as an April Fools' Day press release. A joke, people thought, it must be a joke. The nation denied its existence. Then the billboards came, and somewhere, deep into the bowels of YouTube, a commerc ... More >>

Tre Wilcox on His Guilty Pleasure,
Beautiful Food and Adventurous Dining

​Yesterday, we gave you the goods on Tre Wilcox, executive chef at Loft 610. Today, we asked Wilcox to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his no-nonsense recipes. (Note: Wilcox's words are after the ellipses.) My friends say I'm... a gym rat. And a very disciplined che ... More >>

Six Fast Foods That Look Disgusting, Even In Their Professional Photos

McDonald'sHappy returns, pork patty thing!​A very special time is approaching, a time of warmth and family-gathering. It will be a time of great celebration under the crisp autumn leaves: The nationwide return of the McRib on November 2nd. For the first time in 16 years, the shaped-pork patty ... More >>

Blogger Consumes the Doublicious Deuce and Doesn't Spend His Day on the Can

What the Doublicious actually looked like.​The KFC Doublicious, released July 5, has been unleashed upon the fast-food coprophiliacs. Naturally, City of Ate had one of its own take one for the team, eating the Original Recipe and Grilled versions of the heir to the Double Down The Original Re ... More >>

KFC Continues Bringing the Booty With the Doublicious

Only wusses and healthy people prefer bread as sandwich toppers.​If you thought KFC's Double Down was an extraordinary feat of fast-food salaciousness, the stuff of wet dreams -- like suffering a fatal heart attack mid coitus -- then we have one for you. KFC is following up the Double Down wit ... More >>

Historian Exhorts Texans to Fry Their Own Chickens

Attendees assuaged their fried-chicken sadness with Jell-O.​Rebecca Sharpless was ostensibly at Farmers Branch Historical Park last night to hold forth on "Southern women's cooking accomplishments," but the TCU professor lingered longest on a food that few Southerners of either gender are still ma ... More >>

At Plano's Fish Shack, It's Not About The Location, The Presentation Or Even The Service--It's All About The Fish

How 'Bout Them Knockers: Domino's Pizza

dominos.com/Patrick MichelsMy Domino's order: even hotter in real life. But online, the pizza was less like a greasy sponge.​Each week in 'Knockers' we order from a different delivery restaurant, assessing their efficiency and keeping a running score.Dominos.comdelivered from 4420 Gaston Ave.Promi ... More >>

If Memory Serves: Steak And Kidney Pie

​If Memory Serves chronicles moments from my dining past, perhaps explaining why I'm so damn strange.We lived just off Hampstead High Street in London. This was back in the days when Brits in search of a decent meal headed for French restaurants. On trains you could buy tomato and butter sandwi ... More >>

Dude Food: Pollo Campero

Noah W. BaileyEach week the Dude Food guys assess the 'masculinity' of Dallas area dives. The more fried meat and junk on the walls, the better the rating...Pollo Camperomultiple locationsDude Factor: 8, or Jaime Viñals, on a scale of 1 (Sergio Andrade) to 10 (Daphne Zuniga)The logo for Pollo Campe ... More >>

Williams Chicken, For When You Want it Fast and Done Right

Food For Thought 4.1.09

"Every patched pothole comes with the Colonel's very own stamp of approval." (Roger Eaton, president of KFC, announcing the fast food chain's plans to fill potholes in at least four American cities, free of charge. In return, the company gets to stamp its brand on each patch--which you will notice, ... More >>

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL ... More >>

Tio's Will Return. Some Day. Somewhere.

A good Friend of Unfair Park sent word earlier this week that Tio's Tortas is reopening soon, following its December demise. But it won't make a comeback in February -- don't believe everything you read on cached Web sites full of misspellings. Founder Lex Berlin tells Unfair Park today that, yes, " ... More >>

Pairing Off: 2008's Most Graphic Moments

Looking back on an all too brief year matching wines with everyday foods--you know, things from cans, boxes, fast food joints, and so on--it occurs to me the experts consulted each week performed admirably.Suspiciously so, as if they had already guzzled rose with their Taco Bueno takeaway on several ... More >>

And The Winner Is...Christopher

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