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Keep These Food Safety Tips In Mind While Serving Snacks On Super Bowl Sunday

(Lisa Pisa) You might think that throwing some hot cheese chili dip and shrimp cocktail on the table is all fun and games, and well, it is. But you should still be careful while serving snacks this...

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Walmart Worker Treated Store Shelves As Personal Snack Pantry For 4 Years

(strobist)Most workers like to take a break in the middle of their work day and have a meal or a snack. That’s a nice idea, as long as it’s your break time. You’re not supposed to help yourself to...

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There Is Now A Machine That Removes Unwanted Creme From The Oreo

(YouTube) In a world where plenty of people just continue to grumble and complain when there’s something they don’t like, it’s refreshing to know that there are enterprising minds out there willing to...

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February Food And Drug Recall Roundup – Antibiotic Pig Ear Edition

Don’t chew these!HAPPY EASTER Zachary Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Eggs – possible salmonella contamination SNACKS Green Day White Melon Seeds – undeclared sulfites Grassplot Ginger Slices –...

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No More Kinder Surprise Smuggling: New, Legal Chocolate Eggs With Toys Inside...

Chocolate and toys: everything America loves If you’re a lucky and/or worldly person, you’ve experienced the tiny ovoid wonder that is the Kinder Surprise candy. It’s a chocolate egg with a plastic egg...

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Snack Food World Collapses In Upon Itself As Doritos Announces Doritos Locos...

And the snake eats its own taco-flavored tail.It was an inevitability we all secretly knew but refused to openly admit for fear of having to face the inherent existential dilemma it presents, but the...

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Behold The Magical Potato Chip Machine

(PepOmint) Potatoes enter a factory as dirt-covered round brown things, and leave as potato chips. What kind of mysterious magic happens to them in between? Two reporters from NPR’s Planet Money team...

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Irish Snack Fans Can’t Get Enough Cheese And Onion Potato Chip-Flavored...

Even though this is America, we are not the top country as far as wacky and amazing snack foods go. No, that would probably be Japan. But Ireland is making a serious run at the title, since their...

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I Report A Plastic Thingy In My Snack Bag, Utz Showers Me In Chips

(*whims*) When Kevin found a foreign object in his bag of Utz chips, he wasn’t after a freebie or about to sue for pain and suffering. He just wanted to let the company know. He couldn’t find an e-mail...

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Finally, Breast Milk-Flavored Lollipops That Don’t Actually Contain Breast Milk

A photo from the Lollyphile website.Are you one of the dozens of people who have craving a lollipop with all the flavor of breast milk but didn’t want that flavor to actually come from the mammary...

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Incredibly Important Poll: Would You Eat This?

(Reddit)Do you feel like Double-Stuf — or even Mega Stuf — Oreos simply don’t have enough cream filling to fulfill your snack-food fantasies? Or maybe you just want complete control over how much cream...

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Bizarro Snack Time: Bacon-Flavored Doritos And Pepsi-Flavored Cheetos

The world has pretty much accepted that the next Doritos Locos Tacos flavor from Taco Bell will be the chili-lime deliciousness of Flamas. That’s only because most of us didn’t know that the...

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High School Students Blow The Lid Off Oreo’s Double Stuf: There’s Only 1.86...

(kenfagerdotcom) If you’re the kind of person whose world can come crashing down when a long-held snack belief is blown into a million pieces, well first of all — don’t be so dramatic. But second — you...

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Why Does Everyone Tell You To Eat Almonds If You’re Trying To Lose Weight?

(Shelby PDX) A common refrain often bandied about in the general vicinity of dieters is “Instead of eating [insert junk food you really, really love] as a snack, just eat a handful of almonds!” While...

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Doritos & 7-Eleven Team Create Unholy Snack Food Alliance With Something...

(Photo: Twitter user @ohmykevin)Remember that scene at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey where the apes/proto-humans realize that blunt objects like bones can be used as weapons and tools, thus...

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Walmart Shells 4 Ounces From A Pound Of Store-Brand Pistachios

Ernest likes to eat pistachios. He’s also a good consumer, checking unit prices and choosing the store brand of his favorite snack. When he picked up a bag at his local Walmart recently, he noticed...

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Peanut Butter Cup Oreos And Oreo-Filled Chips Ahoy Are Now Real Things

Readers of this site might think that Consumerist staff eat a lot of junk food and fast food. That’s not true at all: maybe the amount of time that we spend reading about new permutations of food-like...

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Dunkin’ Donuts, Where A 640-Calorie Sandwich Is Considered A Snack

Would you eat this for a snack? (Morton Fox)When you hear the words fried chicken sandwich, you probably think of lunch or dinner, right? Well, if you’re at Dunkin’ Donuts you might want to rethink...

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The Mad Genius Behind The Rebirth Of Hydrox, Astro Pops And Maybe Marshall...

We’ve all felt the sting of losing a beloved brand when a company goes out of business, stops making your favorite candy or gets sold off bit by bit to the highest bidder. But what if you could...

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Shocker: Those Fake-Looking Fried Chicken Oreos Are Indeed Fake

(source)Given the sheer number of Oreo varieties that have been dumped on store shelves in the past year — from sherbet to peanut butter cup to fruit punch to lemon and limeade — it’s almost not beyond...

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