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Burger King Gives McD's a Hook to the McRibs

USA Today just reported that there's a great rib sandwich smackdown in the making. Burger King, which has been hustling to capture new customers recently with inventive menu items like bacon sundaes and Cinnabons, will roll out a rib sandwich this summer. Like the McD's original, the BK rib creati ... More >>

McDonald's to Introduce Egg White Delight Soon, a Yolk-Free McMuffin

For all of you hard-core McDonald's enthusiasts trying to watch your waistline, we've got great news. This might be the year you don't have to buy bigger pants, because on April 22 McDonald's will introduce a yolk-less McMuffin. According to The Daily Meal, this new sandwich is called the Egg White ... More >>

They Might Be Giants Does Not Need More Conspiracy Theorists

Hard to believe that it's been over three decades since John Flansburgh and John Linnell first started playing music as They Might Be Giants. What started as two nerds and a drum machine has slowly evolved into a multi-media company with two distinct divisions: indie rock and children's music. Spea ... More >>

Is Hopdoddy Just A One-Off Burger Concept, Or A Sign Of Better Food To Come

It was the Smackdown that lead me to reviewing Hopdoddy. I couldn't believe how much work the small chain put into burgers they charged so little for. Most customers will likely spend a little more on burgers topped elaborately with gourmet cheeses and toppings, but if you want, you can get a plain, ... More >>

Eat this Dallas Dish, Not That: Local Alternatives to the Men's Health 20 Worst Foods in America

This is a bad bad list, people. Nasty. Men's Health has published a list of the top 20 Worst Foods in America. Usually it's fun to look at gut bombs, but after cruising through this list you'll want to brush your teeth and wash your face. The list is part of Men's Health on-going "Eat This, Not Th ... More >>

Chili's To Improve Conditions For Pigs, But They're Not In A Hurry To Do It

Dallas-based Brinker International has joined a growing list of restaurants that have pledged to improve conditions for pigs in their supply chain. The group owns Chili's, which is responsible for 1,500 casual restaurants known for their baby back ribs. The new policy also applies to Maggiano's and ... More >>

Dallas Restaurant Inspections Not Quite as Up-to-Date as We Thought

A week ago, code enforcement officials reported on progress plowing through that backlog of restaurant inspections. The backlog was taken care of with the help of an outside company, they told a City Council committee. From now on, with a few new hires, the department would be able to handle the req ... More >>

The Problem With... Gym Class Heroes' "The Fighter" Feat. Ryan Tedder

See also: The Problem With Gym Class Heroes and Adam Levine's "Stereo Hearts" The 2012 London Olympics are a month away, but I'm not as interested as I was for Beijing 2008. If London's opening ceremony has a TARDIS float, I'll be interested. To tie in to the Olympics, Gym Class Heroes -- the hip, ... More >>

UK McDonald's Texas BBQ Ad Achieves Perfect Score in Annoying Texas Stereotyping

Another tiresome food trend to add to the Valhalla-like halls of the Museum of Annoying Food Trends: the Taste of Whatever City/Country. Japan McDonald's Big America campaign, which attempted to surmise the taste of entire American locale between the crusty buns of a meatburger, did roughly the sa ... More >>

Burger King Swears Off Gestation Crates and Ups the Ante with Cage-Free Eggs

Back in February, McDonald's announced it was through with gestation-crated pork products. We feared for McRib sandwiches, Sausage McMuffins and everything topped with bacon, so we called Paul Shapiro, a spokesman for the Humane Society, to talk out the impact of the move. Shapiro called the event ... More >>

McDonald's Has Released Fish McBites for Lent, and They Are McTerrible

Lent is a time of sacrifice for Catholics, but McDonald's wants to be sure they don't give up grease. The fast-food giant created the Filet-O-Fish in 1962 to cater to Catholics who typically give up meat on Friday. The marketing paid off, and McDonald's still sees increased sales of the fish sandwic ... More >>

Brain Freeze: Our Panel of Experts Samples New Summer Coolers

Lauren Drewes DanielsArby's Jamocha Oreo Shake, a summer drink worth fighting for.​Being bored for extended amounts of time builds character. Everyone (kids, in particular) needs to stare at the wall so long that it makes them crazy. Then go outside and stare at the hot grass. Then lie on the ... More >>

Our Top 5 Broke-Ass Tuesday Dinners

At half price, carne asada never tasted so good.​So you've probably spent your whole paycheck on gifts for the kids and now you're looking for ways to save some cash. Rather than going on the McDonald's dollar menu diet, check out our list of the best Tuesday food specials. 5. It's not ... More >>

Making a List: Who's Been Naughty
Or Nice on the Web?

Gosh, and we wonder why meat-eaters so often make fun of vegans.​As any web editor will tell you, the best way to up the "viewage" is a daily list. People love lists. Five Ways to Hack a McRib and Six Things to Do with Disturbing Halloween Candy proved this theory. My pitch for Top Five Sauces ... More >>

The McRib Hacked: Five Ways to Enhance the McRib

Photos by Patrick MichelsSo versatile, so meatlike. Is there anything you can't do with a McRib and a little free time? Just last month we got word of the McRib's long-awaited return, beginning in a blessed few locations -- trackable online with the McRib locator -- and finally reaching its ribby f ... More >>

Growing Number of Eaters Find Convenience Stores, Um, Convenient

Grab-and-go eaters are increasingly patronizing convenience stores, a trend one market research group thinks could threaten fast food restaurants' traditional breakfast hour dominance. RoadfoodMcDonalds fears this sandwich (which is not available at Big E's.)​"We'll see an expansion of foodse ... More >>

Five Fast-Food Breakfast Staples That Should Go Away -- Now.

Hardees Monster Biscuit Sandwich has 2310 mg of sodium.​Most important meal of the day, right? The Associated Press announced Burger King's new business plan recently to add nine more breakfast items to their masterpiece of all-things-obese menu. The Sun-Times reported that Burger King's breakfa ... More >>

10 Other Foods That Should Be Foot Long (or Larger)

FoodBeast.comNo, not one of our clever photoshops.​Carl's Jr., in its infinite wisdom, has developed a foot-long cheeseburger. Like Burger King's BK Shots, this is another burger innovation beyond the limits of imagination. Clearly, human minds will be puzzling over this long-food-meat and bun inv ... More >>

Any Food Fad That Involves Cake and Frosting is Fine With Us

Photos courtesy of The Cake Ball CompanyFor more views of cake balls, macarons and whoopie pies, click here to see our recent slideshow.​What would our diets be without humanity's lemming-like habit of chasing the latest food fads? The acai berry would remain in the swamp lands of South Ameri ... More >>

The Latest Stack o' Council Memos: No-Bid Contracts, Policing the Protesters and More Retiring City Employees

Brian HarkinIn May, Vonciel Hill voted to keep concessions at Love Field in the hands of one company, whose CEO contributed to her campaign. ​Every so often I like to post the pack of memos Frank Librio sends to council and media at the end of every week; below are the ones that went out late Frid ... More >>

Snuffer's and Scotty P's Go Head to Head in Our Coronary Cheese Fry Conflict

Snuffer's Glorious Pile O'Fries​There are occasions when even the best of us have that animalistic craving for something basic, something wonderful, something loaded with cheese and bacon. After all, as City of Aters know, everything is better with bacon.I am waxing on about the perfect burger sta ... More >>

Top 10 Most Important Influences On Food In Our Lifetimes

​Consequences are near impossible to predict and rather difficult to judge, even in hindsight. For example, the Baby Boom generation, so interested in besting their elders in freedom of thought, turned into the kind of wimp-ass parents who dumb down education so every kid could pass. And you coul ... More >>

First Look: Texas De Brazil Express

​We love the idea of Texas de Brazil Express: take a trusted name in meat-coma dining and parlay it into a quick meal concept. Round out said concept with a simple assisted assembly-line format and plop it in a busy shopping center (with ample parking) and you've got yourself a winner. At first ... More >>

Food For Thought 4.30.09

"I'll either look like a genius or a fool." (Ed Bailey, owner of the just opened Bailey's Prime Plus in Cedar Hill--as well as three more proposed branches of the upscale steakhouse--on his prospects over the next year as he sells off profitable McDonald's locations in favor of fine dining venues. A ... More >>

Back Yard Burgers

10 Questions: Jim Severson

Before he opened Sevy's Grill back in 1997, Severson had already piled up 23 years of food service experience...probably not counting his time at McDonald's as a teenager.The Michigan native studied at the famous Culinary Institute of America and worked several kitchens before earning a local follow ... More >>

Southwest Airlines Ties FedEx as Seventh Most-Admired Company in ... the World!

Courtesy Southwest AirlinesFortune just posted its list of the World's Most Admired Companies -- at least, admired by the other bidness folks surveyed by the magazine. Five Dallas-based companies made the list of 363, and they are, in alphabetical order: AT&T, Brinker International, Centex, Sout ... More >>

Food For Thought 2.23.09

"When you order a recall and don't get a response, you've got to do something to protect the public." (Doug McBride of the Texas Department of State Health Services, noting that the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview had not responded to an order to recall all products shipped fro ... More >>

Pairing Off: Big Mac

Patrick MichelsRevisit your old grade school or the patch of neighborhood grass where you played football as a kid and you'll likely find the once-vast expanses, um, seriously shrunken.Maybe it's the workings of global warming. Or perhaps the earth contracts naturally as it spins through space--I do ... More >>

The Olympics: Patriotism vs. Commercialism

Jumbo Screen

Ring up the funds for the DCT

Last Night: Neil Hamburger at Rubber Gloves

Garbled

Hear the song (but not the lyrics) of Michael McDonald

Going for Broke

NASCAR team owner Jeff Milburn might never win a race, but there's more to life than a checkered flag

Viva Revolution!

The Texas Strangers

Otherworldly Feast

Experimentation is rewarded at Sura Korean Bistro

Usher in the Love

How to make a puff piece: an instructional transcript

Puddy Good

Oishii is a culinary adventure

Farewell to the Flame

See the Idiots before they return to their villages

Euro-Hash

Who has the worst cuisine in Europe?

Friendly Local Fascists

Young conservatives get a little peeved

Best Root Beer Float

Prince of Hamburgers

Josh Alan Band

Josh Alan Band (Black Cracker Music)

Seeds of Discontent

Can growing protests stem the tide of genetically engineered crops?

Hash Over

Chicken booger boo; Mixed hash; List watch

Of men, meat, and money

Capital Grille lays it on thick

Success made simple

What Else is the best new entry on the dining scene in a year

Stylistic etouffee

Hippie Gumbo gets it right

Surprise for a snob

The Italian Oven satisfies children and soothes their fussy parents