Bantam Bagels

After a few Starbucks outlets in New York City tested demand for tiny cream cheese–stuffed bagel balls this summer, the bite-size dough globes from Bantam Bagels have rolled into about 515 stores in the city, as well as a some locations in Philadelphia and Indianapolis.

To grow sales, the giant coffee chain's strategy includes increasing sales of foods like sandwiches, pastries, and meal boxes, which are now about 19% of sales. There are more than 12,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S. Bantam hopes to expand into more of them yet.

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For a better sense of scale, this is how big a bagel ball is. Bantam Bagel co-founder Nick Oleksak has said the idea came to him in a dream.

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Bantam, a business started in 2013 with a small storefront in Manhattan's West Village, also sells its products online and has a catering business that delivers to offices and events like weddings.

The market for bagel balls is bigger than you might think. Bantam saw a bump in sales after being featured on Shark Tank in January. So far this year, it has sold more than 2 million bagel balls, with sales of over $2.1 million. As it develops corporate partnerships, Bantam also began offering its bagel balls on Delta flights out of LaGuardia Airport about a month ago.

At about 100 calories each, they're a snacker's delight, but they're not cheap. Each bagel ball costs $1.75 at Starbucks — nearly the cost of a normal-size bagel — or you can get two balls for $2.95. That's one way to control how many you eat.

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Starbucks offers three flavors of bagel balls: french toast, everything, and classic.

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Each are filled with different cream cheese flavors. French toast gets a buttery, maple cream cheese; everything has veggie cream cheese; and classic gets plain old cream cheese.

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They're like the doughnut holes of bagels, although some bagel purists may protest such bold deviations from the cherished norm.

Yo quiero.

Let me offer a lifechanging suggestion: Walk into your favorite Taco Bell and order an Enchirito.

The cashier may hesitate. They may ask you to repeat yourself. "A what?" the cashier may ask.

Don't be deterred. State your order again, clearly. A more senior burrito artist may come forward to assist, showing the cashier which computer buttons to poke to access the forgotten items of Taco Bell Past. The Enchirito is there, hidden in the depths of the menu, waiting for some hero to come and call its name. Enchirito, the best fucking thing at Taco Bell.

Trust me, I know. I'm a T-Bell scholar.

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You can no longer find the Enchirito — a combination of beans, ground beef and tiny onions hugged by a warm flour tortilla and blanketed in melted cheese — on Taco Bell's brightly colored website. But that doesn't mean this is a secret menu item. I repeat, this is not a secret. Secret menu items are exclusive. Only cool people know about them, clinging to the knowledge like a badge of honor. The Enchirito is for the people. It's not about being hip, unique, cool. It's about flavor. It's about the motherfucking sauce.

The life blood of Taco Bell is the restaurant's signature "red sauce." The classic bean burrito, for example, is just five ingredients: beans, onions, cheese, tortilla, and sweet-tangy-spicy-delicious red sauce. Unless you get a wack burrito artist who doesn't put enough sauce on it, the bean burrito is near perfect.

Well, the Enchirito takes that perfection to a whole other level, because it is literally covered — slathered, lathered, bathed — in red sauce. And, again, topped with melted cheese.

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“Never get out of bed.”

The first trailer for The BFG, the film based on Roald Dahl's beloved children's book, is here and it's just a little scary at first, but mostly magical — just like the BFG himself.

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We get our first look at the orphanage where our heroine, Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), is the only orphan still awake during the witching hour.

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Don't get out of bed, Sophie.

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OMG SOPHIE, DON'T GO TO THE WINDOW.

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15 minutes into Cheeky Nando’s and chill and Drake gives you this look.

Today, I found out my son was never accepted into the local university 2 years ago. He actually went out and got a job, and only lied about it so he could keep living in my house rent-free. The conniving bastard makes more than I do at my minimum-wage job. FML

As Tarzan would say “Ahhh-uh-ah-uh-aHHHHH!”

This is how you no doubt imagine Tarzan, like the animated 1999 Disney movie.

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The first official stills, featuring Alexander Skarsgård as the main man Tarzan, were released on Wednesday and they're heavenly.

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Seriously.

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WASHINGTON—Finishing off the judicial pragmatist with his signature Flying Hammer Of Precedent, John Roberts reportedly dove from atop the Supreme Court bench Tuesday and delivered a final knockout blow to Stephen Breyer to retain the title of Chief Justice. “It’s all over! John Roberts is the undisputed head of the judicial branch!” said Supreme Court law clerk Jonathan Urick, adding that Roberts had maneuvered the dazed Breyer into position after hitting him with a flurry of dissenting chops, an Atomic Gavel Drop, and the punishing Procedural Powerslam. “What a battle! They were neck and neck right until the very end. Both men were bloodied and stumbling around the courtroom. But in the end, Breyer was worn down by the Habeas Corpus Choke.” Sources confirmed the brawl was the most entertaining Supreme Court matchup since Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg popped out from behind a marble column and smashed ...

This is going to bum you out a lot unless you’re a big fan of luxury high-rises and BMW dealerships.

FAO Schwarz, 767 5th Avenue in Midtown

This iconic New York shop, founded in 1862, was the oldest toy store in the United States. Its famous "Big Piano" was immortalized in the 1988 Tom Hanks movie Big, which came out not long after the store moved to its Fifth Avenue location across from The Plaza Hotel in 1986. The FAO Schwarz brand is currently owned by Toys "R" Us, and there are plans to open a new store in a neighborhood with more reasonable rent at some point in the future. But it just won't be the same, you know?

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Winnie's Bar & Restaurant, 104 Bayard Street in Chinatown

Winnie's, a small and fairly run-down dive bar in Chinatown, was a mecca for karaoke enthusiasts for 28 years. There are certainly nicer karaoke bars in New York, but few had the lived-in charm of Winnie's tiny stage and shaky backing tracks, many of which had to be played manually from vintage laser discs.

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Trash and Vaudeville, 4 St. Marks Place in East Village

This shop, which specialized in punk, goth, and glam clothing, was one of the most iconic businesses on St. Marks Place for four decades, and supplied clothing to stars like Blondie, The Ramones, and The Dead Boys in the glory days of New York punk. Store owner Ray Goodman is planning to reopen in a new location, but the St. Marks location was so essential to the identity of the shop that it's hard to imagine it being anywhere else. The building is now on sale for $11.9 million and is being marketed as "highly desirable" for student housing. You hear that, NYU?

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A goddamned pantsless Passion Play.

The man pictured below with his pants around his ankles is Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, the head of the Croatian Helsinki Committee. He is the leading human rights official in Croatia. He is having a bad day.

The photo was taken on Tuesday to mark the forthcoming international human rights day.

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He is standing next to the president of Croatia, his boss. He is taking a group photo with coworkers. He is losing a battle with gravity. He is now without trousers. He is exposed, laid bare to the world. He is all of us when we have been at our lowest.

That's president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on the right.

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But does he despair at his nude-kneed nadir? No. He does what heroes do when the universe in its cruel capriciousness strips us of our khakis. He bends goddamned over, he picks up his goddamned pants, and he pulls them up one goddamned leg at a time.

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So here's to Ivan Zvonimir Cicak, a man who refused to give in to depantsed desolation. A man whose pants and pride rose Phoenix-like from ashes of his ankles. We goddamned salute you.

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These 30 seconds will make your day 300 times better.

YouTube user Dan Zaleski uploaded a video of an orangutan at the Barcelona Zoo being shown a simple "magic trick" and it's ridiculously delightful.

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Here's our guy, dutifully observing as the trick is set up.

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There's some minor sleight of hand.

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And with the reveal comes pretty much The Greatest Reaction Ever™.

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Anybody who knows me will tell you the same thing: I get what I want. Whether it’s food, being held, my binky, you name it—if I decide I’d like it, you damn well better believe I don’t rest until I get it, one way or another. And from the very second I saw those blue and red detergent pods come out of that shopping bag last week, I knew immediately that, come hell or high water, I would eat one of those things.

So with God as my witness, I swear to you: I’m going to find that container of multicolored pods, I’m going to take one out, I’m going to shove it in my mouth, and I’m going to chew it up and swallow it down, and nothing and no one is going to stand in my way.

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Martin Shkreli has a strong claim to be the most hated man on the internet, and his latest obnoxious display of wealth is about to piss off plenty of hip hop fans. Bloomberg has learned that the smirking hedge fund mogul was the mysterious buyer of t...

Cheers to the year you probably don’t remember!

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Of course December is a time to eat, drink, and be merry — but you know what else it is? A time to remember and honor the things we ate and drank in the previous year.

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With that in mind, I asked the people over at Foursquare, the city guide app, for the most popular bars of 2015 — which they determined by looking at ratings and number of visits to each spot.

So here are the top 51 places where the magic and the memories happened — straight from the Foursquare users who very likely don't really ~remember~ them happening.

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Hodor.

Kristian Nairn, who portrays Bran Stark's bodyguard Hodor on Game Of Thrones, was in New Delhi over the weekend as part of Comic Con Delhi.

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As with every comic convention, the place was full of cosplayers, and Nairn noticed that one of the cosplayers lost a part of their costume.

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Unable to locate him, Nairn uploaded a picture with the caption, "If this is you, in the Arrow cosplay at Delhi comic con, I THINK I have a piece of your costume that fell off in the signing area. Shout me!"

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And it looks like the Arrow cosplayer got the message.

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No clothes, please.

This kid, who only has one thing in mind.

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This kid, who doesn't seem to like his room or his family.

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Nathan, who's just keeping it (real.)

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This kid, who literally couldn't be more specific.

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Can you spot the difference between the real Champions League teams’ badges, and the fake badges we’ve created?

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It’s about damn time.

For 98%* of people, the crippling anxiety of a haircut feels like this:

*This is not an exact, scientific percentage, but a rough estimate based on the fact that the only people who enjoy small talk with hairdressers are other hairdressers.

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Because even if you LOVE your haircut, the process is awkward AF.

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Enter the QUIET CHAIR, offered by the Bauhaus salon in the U.K. and hopefully a soon-to-be trend on in every single continent on Earth.

Yes, Antarctica, too. That's how important this is.

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Apparently, hairstylists finally got the hint that hour-long small talk with someone you see four times a year is the MOST AWKWARD SHIT ON THE PLANET.

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