10 Mar 13:23
by Kate Bernot on The Takeout, shared by Kevin Pang to The A.V. Club

No sooner had the door hit Papa John’s on the ass than Pizza Hut slid in as the new “official pizza of the NFL,” the league announced today. Old PJ’s and the NFL broke up yesterday following a series of public shitstorms, most notably CEO John “Papa John” Schnatter’s assertion that NFL players’ protests were hurting…
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29 Jan 14:42
by David Anthony on The Takeout, shared by Katie Rife to The A.V. Club

Loyalties to fast food French fries run deep. But for all the love they garner, few fast food chains have made attempts to innovate. There’s Wendy’s, which in 2010 switched to a fry made from skin-on Russet potatoes and added sea salt. But that’s about it. Burger King’s chicken fries isn’t even a fry. It seems as if…
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09 Jan 13:18
by Kate Bernot on The Takeout, shared by Kevin Pang to The A.V. Club

You may have heard of this timeless aphorism: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you may charge them a hefty fee at a novelty restaurant in New York City.”
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16 Dec 15:12
by Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Alex McLevy, Erik Adams, and Katie Rife

The Mondo empire has grown well beyond limited-edition prints of cool movie-inspired posters and T-shirts. The Austin-based company has moved into soundtrack LPs, statues, enamel pins—just about anything you can shape into a character from a beloved decades-old film. This fall Mondo even released its first board game, …
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20 Nov 14:20
by Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin

Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington spend most of their time watching and reviewing bad movies on their biweekly podcast The Flop House. As with How Did This Get Made?’s Paul Scheer, we asked the pair: of all the terrible movies they’ve watched, which five are the worst? In contrast to Scheer’s list, McCoy and Wellington…
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