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In 2022, lettuce bested the prime minister in a contest of endurance.
politics

Why Do We Roast Politicians With Food-Based Insults?

When you can't throw a vegetable at a rotten official, call them one.
Sam Lin-Sommer November 14, 2022
Seymour, Wisconsin

Hamburger Charlie

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.
Interned Italians enter Fort Missoula in 1941.
prisons

When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil

For the "enemy aliens" held at Fort Missoula, suet was an insult.
Reina Gattuso February 1, 2019
Chicken feet are just one part of an international wrangle over poultry imports.
food

Why China and America Fight Over Chicken Feet

International squabbles have stopped a once-mighty chicken foot trade.
Kristi Allen January 28, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Gerber Sandwich

The St. Louis creation earned the "best use of the worst cheese" award.
Gastro Obscura

Marabou M Peanut

These chocolate-covered peanuts got M&M's banned in Sweden.
Gastro Obscura

Trashing

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.
Gastro Obscura

Pebersvend

The way to celebrate unmarried Danes’ 25th and 30th birthdays is to attack them with spices.
A wagon-borne tamale vendor in 1910.
food

A Short History of America's 'Tamale Wars'

Their popularity made for some bloody turf wars.
Anne Ewbank August 31, 2018
Gastro Obscura

Jucy Lucy

This beef patty oozes cheese from within.
Gastro Obscura

Batalla del Vino

Goggles are a good idea at this wine-slinging battle.
Gastro Obscura

La Merengada

This Spanish city gears up for Lent with a massive meringue fight.
Henderson',s flavour potato chips (or crisps as we say in England)
Gastro Obscura

Henderson's Relish

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.
A watercolor of a cafe in Istanbul, painted by Amadeo Preziosi sometime between 1850 and 1882.
politics

In Istanbul, Drinking Coffee in Public Was Once Punishable by Death

Rulers throughout Europe and the Middle East once tried to ban the black brew.
Mark Hay May 22, 2018
The "Battle of the Tea" is on.
food

Was the Long Island Iced Tea Invented in ... Tennessee?

"Not since the 'Battle of Long Island' has Long Island's honor been so challenged."
Anne Ewbank May 21, 2018
A Tampa Cuban sandwich pictured at the Tampa Sandwich Bar in Seoul, South Korea.
food

The Unlikely Triumph of a Cuban Sandwich Shop in Seoul

The chefs have amassed awards at an international competition with skills they honed on YouTube.
Katherine Alex Beaven May 11, 2018
A maraschino cherry adorns a slice of pineapple upside down cake.
food

How a Vibrant, Factory-Made Sweet Usurped the Original Maraschino Cherry

The same term describes two wildly different cherries.
Robert Lamb April 24, 2018
Fresh gelato awaits.
food

When Family-Owned Gelato Shops in Italy Almost Went Extinct

Did Big Gelato try to wipe out artisanal stores in the 1950s?
Vicky Hallett April 23, 2018