With Hostess leaving this world and taking its sugary baked goods with it, Fat City wanted to remember what the creme-filled confectioner has meant to all of us. In case Twinkies don't return (which truly might be the end of the world for some), we thought we'd point to the five most memorable Hostess cameos in film.
The chicken wings at Mac's Sports Pub pair nicely with football.
Sports are best served in high definition with cold beer and hot wings. I could even live without wings if the other two arms of the triumvirate are done right. After the jump, Fat City has put together a list of the five sports bars where you should be watching the game this Sunday.
Today we're delving into barbecue etiquette — the rules that should govern how you eat the lifeblood of this city. The idea stems from Kevin van Haaren's tweet (which made the list, but isn't the top rule for consuming a pile of ribs or enough brisket to equal a small cow). And so, here are Fat City's five rules for eating barbecue in Kansas City.
Esquire published a list pairing beers with NFL teams and determined that your Kansas City Chiefs go best with Boulevard's 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat. While I have to give some praise for being up on the latest releases from Boulevard, Hoppy Wheat is not the first liquor that comes to mind when I'm thinking of the Chiefs.
I'm thinking copious amounts of booze (either in victory or to wipe away the taste of defeat) and as a result, I've put together a list of five recommended liquor pairings for the 2012 Kansas City Chiefs.
This chart holds the key to every kind of coffee drink.
Fat City is usually about uplifting and inspiring readers to fill their gullet with fried or seared bits of culinary excellence. At times, you probably wonder if Oprah herself is behind this keyboard, touch-typing out small electronic missives.
Alas, all of you are not getting a toaster. But today, we channel our inner Jerry Springer and bring you five recent food stories from around the Interwebs that are nothing but empty (delightfully empty) calories.
Just when you think that iced coffee has lost its sexiness, The New York Post swoops in with a story about how Philip Seymour Hoffman practically lives on the stuff. New York City is catching on to what Kansas City has long known, iced coffee is the only way to survive in a world gone heat-crazy.
To those who want to have the same allure as Hoffman, Fat City presents to you five iced coffee drinks to ease the pain of summer.
There are five questions sure to bring on a chef's sad face.
It's a good decision to keep the people with knife skills in your life happy. The barrier has broken down more between the dining room and the kitchen, giving diners more opportunity to get the chef's blood boiling. It's not often a question of intent, but rather what happens after you open your mouth. Here are the five questions that chefs wish you wouldn't ask them.
Sadly, bagels are not something that can be harvested in KC.
Cities have been outlawing salt and trans fats, and requiring full disclosure on menus for years. But it's time that Kansas City took the next step. I think we need to ban several foods originating in other cities, the dishes that are intrinsic to those municipalities in the same way that KC lays claim to burnt ends. It's not enough to re-create another place's specialty; you've got to be able to overcome a lack of history, geographic relevance and potentially secret ingredients.
Here are the top five iconic city dishes that should be banned from this city.
Bloom Baking Co. in the City Market knows what to do with strawberries.
With the warmer weather, strawberry season has come a bit sooner. Desserts and salads with fresh strawberries are popping up as a sweet red harbinger of summer. Even though NPR dampened the party a bit with yesterday's piece on why store-bought strawberries can be beautiful but tasteless, there are still plenty of outstanding strawberry dishes on menus. Here are five to help you celebrate the upcoming season.
People are obviously unable to resist a free mustard drizzle.
The world has had a few days to digest the news that Pizza Hut has managed to smuggle a hot dog in its pizza crust for a new menu item available in the United Kingdom. Here's The Guardian's delightful take on the pizza-strosity:
I soon neared the end of my slice and its bedoughed, pink-brown phallus. I took a tentative bite. It was a hot dog sausage. It was rubbery and processed and salty and smoky. How, in its own filthy way, could it be anything other than delicious?
Indeed. Since Pizza Hut has clearly defined the future of pizza, Fat City has decided to offer five more pizza-crust frontiers that we should strive to cross in the coming years.
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