Subject: Oreo Cookies

• The house that Hydrox built

  September 24, 2008

• Free ice cream tonight at Cold Stone Creamery!

  September 25, 2008

• King of Tamale

  July 5, 2001

• What has 2,600 calories, 135 grams of fat (59 g saturated fat, 2.5 g trans fats) and 1,700 mg sodium?

  The answer is a large Baskin Robbins' chocolate Oreo Shake.Once, I tried to eat an entire 2,400 calorie Baskin Robbins Heath Shake, believing it to be the worst thing on Baskin-Robbins menu. Although I only finished three-fourths of it (my estimate was 1,800 to 2,000 calories), it resulted in multiple brain freezes, stomach cramps and avoidance of Baskin Robbins ever since. Now I find my effort was for naught, because the Baskin Robbins chocolate Oreo Shake comes in at 2,600 calories and, accord

  January 22, 2009

• This Is Why You're Fat's more literary cousin

  I've noticed a lot of blogs and twitters (yeah I'm cool like that) linking to the Web site This Is Why You're Fat. While I commend TIWYF for pictures that raise cholesterol just looking at them, I was disappointed that it really is just food porn. And not attractive food porn.My personal definition of food porn is "a picture of an edible item meant to titillate, in which the text is secondary." Because TIWYF contains virtually no text, it qualifies. That's why I am happier to recommend the wordy

  February 11, 2009

• William S. Burroughs needed some "cat pans"

  William S. Burroughs' shopping listSince William S. Burroughs is going on 12 years dead, it must be time to shake loose the last few dollars from the famed writer's corpse. Someone is selling Burroughs' cat-centric shopping lists from his last days in Lawrence on eBay for the low, low price of $495 and you can "Buy it now." Don't worry. The lists are "authentic."The auction description says:Page 1: Items written by Burroughs -- 1. Cat Pans. 5. Limes & lemons. 6. Dry Cat Food. 7. Canned Cat f

  March 2, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, 3/04

  Another entry on the list of the world's most annoying commercials -- or is this Billy the Talking Mouth Bass spot a good way to sell filet-o-fish? [American Copywriter] A month ago, Fat City featured 93-year-old Clara and her uplifting Great Depression recipes. Now, KC Meesha looks at Clara's recipes and asks what's the big deal? He also says that, "a pound of hot dogs costs more than a pound of chicken." Not if you get the really cheap Bar-S hot dogs. [Kansas City with a Russian Accent]Get rea

  March 4, 2009

• Official declaration: Frankenstein food wars over

  For some reason, the internet is in crazy recipe mode with Web sites such as This is Why You're Fat drawing one million viewers and the bacon explosion creators landing a six-figure book deal. Every day it seems another food Frankenstein pops up, gets e-mailed about and forgotten a week later (100 stuffed Oreos, anyone?).Saturday Night Live was ahead of the curve when it parodied over-the-top combos three years ago in a skit called Taco Town, featured below. The target wasn't the Internet, but n

  March 12, 2009

• The Obama campaign might just win Springfield and rural Missouri

  October 30, 2008

• Sacred Ground

  The Unicorn gets its House in order, and Samuel Beckett books a room nearby.

  January 24, 2008

• Ego Trip

  June 21, 2007

• A Sugar Binge

  November 9, 2006

• Hit the Road

  August 31, 2006

• Suds and Grubs

  The Yard House expands the meaning of beer belly.

  June 22, 2006

• Night & Day Events

  October 20, 2005

• Secret Santanas

  Holidazed and confused? Consider this your stairway to shopping heaven.

  December 18, 2003

• Meat and Eat

  Spicy pork and sizzling Twinkies get all gooey at Captain Ribman's Meat Market.

  July 31, 2003

• Screwed by Sprint

  While the top brass parachuted out with millions, most workers got a brand new pink slip.

  November 21, 2002

• Best Decadent Dessert

  Snicker Bar Ice Cream Pie

  October 18, 2001

• Love on the run

  Prison-break sweethearts Lynette Barnett and Terry Banks were on the run for seven weeks untill they got nabbed by America's Most Wanted

  March 16, 2000

• The ultimate guilt trip: Sugar Stacks

  When it comes to eating food that's bad for you, many people like to keep blissfully in the dark. After all, who wants to go around all day feeling like a lard-ass? After browsing the Web site Sugar Stacks, it's hard not to feel that way no matter what you eat.The premise of the site is simple: Take a bunch of everyday items such as soft drinks, candy, snacks, yogurt, even fruit, and show how much sugar is in each one.While visiting the site, I was munching on an apple and considering myself a p

  May 12, 2009

• Generic versus brand-name

  Let it be said once and for all that when it comes to ketchup, no restaurant should mess around with anything but Heinz. Sure, it's all well and good to have premium house-made ketchup but if some people don't want that (and they won't) you better have that classic awkward-pouring glass bottle ready just in case.There are only a few other food basics that merit such loyalty. Hershey's chocolate syrup, Oreo cookies, Tabasco, Frank's Red Hot Sauce and Sriracha, for instance. Yet in categories wher

  June 10, 2009

• Think Pink

  August 3, 2006

• Battle of the Dishes: Frozen Custard

  ​There are differences, sometimes barely noticeable, between two dishes that look exactly alike. Egg rolls, come to mind. Or a slice of apple pie. Today we taste and consider frozen custard. Not the ne plus ultra of local frozen custard, the independently owned and revered Foo's Frozen Custard, which is in a category all its own, but the two national chains -- Overland Park-based Sheridan's Frozen Custard and Wisconsin-based Culver's -- who have been in a hea

  July 28, 2009

• Frozen coffee drinks are closer to meals than drinks

  ​As kids, we kept hearing that breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Now it turns out the choices we're making in the morning can have some big ramifications on our health. From Eat This, Not That  (the sister blog of the book by the same title) comes a list of frozen coffee drinks that can take up a big chunk of your recommended daily calorie intake. Consider the Oreo n' Cookies Cappuccino Blast from Baskin Robbins -- which runs you 950 calories, 37 grams of fat, and 111 gram

  August 6, 2009

• Party Patrol

  August 13, 2009

• Taco Bell tackling cupcakes?

  ​Three words I thought I'd never type together: Taco Bell cupcakes. But the taco chain is apparently test marketing cupcakes -- as well as a new line of smoothie offerings -- in California. The OC Register's Fast Food Maven gave a thumbs down to both potential new product lines after sampling vanilla and red velvet cupcakes and a Strawberry Banana smoothie. But the list of what could be in the dessert case by the register sounds fascinating: In fliers mailed to residents near Buena Park and Tu

  October 12, 2009

• The art of the walk-away

  ​You've done it before -- now you just have a name for it. The Food Section offers a definition for that moment you decide to leave a store because it's simply taking too long to purchase what you want: walk-a·ways (noun): Retail customers so frustrated by store checkout lines that they leave a shop without completing their purchases.It's always a difficult decision to walk away because of the time you've got invested in a given errand even before you get to the register. If it's a big-box st

  October 23, 2009

• Lee's Summit scoop shop gets national recognition

  ​When real estate appraiser Greg Berry realized that the real estate market was getting to the point where he could no longer support his family, he set about appraising what other business opportunities might exist around his neighborhood in Lee's Summit. He saw a need for ice cream. "We looked into opening an ice cream store without going the franchise route and that's when we started to learn that we could make our own ice cream in the shop," says Berry. Berry and wife Amy signed up for a w

  November 19, 2009