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May 23, 2012
Ben & Jerry's 'Euphori-Lock' Protects Your Pint From Ice Cream Thieves
It's a scary world out there, folks. As we speak, there there could be thieves hovering around the freezer with a spoon, ready to swipe a bite of your ice cream and hope that you don't notice. How will you protect yourself?
Blogs
May 17, 2012
Haven Gastropub Celebrates American Craft Beer Week
Wait, what? It's American Craft Beer Week? Here I thought it was Bike to Work Week, and I could have been sucking down beers instead of pedaling to the office, uphill and into a stiff headwind both ways. Wil Dee, the Beverage Director at Haven Gastropub and enthusiastic road cyclist, can celebrate ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Beverage Giant Diageo Screws Independent Brewer At Scottish Awards Show
What do you get when you're a hugely successful independent brewer headed to an awards show you're expected to win at?Well, if the awards show was partly sponsored by Diageo, the largest distiller in the world, the answer is "not the trophy you actually won."
Calendar
April 19, 2012
California Wine Festival
Dana Point Yacht Club
Food
April 5, 2012
How Doritos Were Born At Disneyland
Adapted from 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America'
Blogs
April 3, 2012
A "Pink Slime"-Using Beef Producer Files For Bankruptcy
The Wall Street Journal reports that AFA Foods, which contributes to about 2% of total U.S. beef production has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company's products are sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Burger King Holdings Inc., Jack in the Box Inc., Carl Karcher Enterprises Inc., Wendy' ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
Brazilian Beer Company Creates Beer-Flavored Easter Eggs
I'm not a beer drinker, but I am a chocolate Easter Egg eater and Catholic. So there's no better way to celebrate the coming of Christ that to eat beer-flavored Easter eggs!Skol, a Brazilian beer company owned by Anheuser-Busch, announced last week that they had just released the product, but tha ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Vons, Albertsons, and Walmart To Stop Selling "Pink Slime" Beef
What Louis Braindeis once said about sunlight being the best disinfectant can probably apply here. After being "pink"-listed by The Daily as sellers of "pink slime" beef, several supermarket chains have announced that they will stop offering beef that contains the filler previously known as ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
Were Doritos Invented at Disneyland?
Over the weekend, I gave my short history of Mexican food in Orange County at the Segerstrom Center's Samueli Stage as part of its hosting of the awesome, ribald Chautauqua! show. Since I doubt I'll ever grace any stage at the Segerstrom again, I decided to focus my 10-minute lecture on OC's two ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
On the Line: Chris Kim of Rolling Sushi Van, Part One
What can you say about someone who pimps sushi out of his nontraditional wheels? Chris Kim's luxe lonchera is a Mercedes Sprinter van, and he has even fewer square feet to work with than any New Yorker (assuming they're using their kitchens). While he recovered from the New Year's Eve event at th ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
10 Great Gay Bars in Orange County (and Long Beach)
A while back, we received instructions from the suits to put together a set of lists of the ten best in several categories. As Gustavo explained, this is meant to make our already awesome Best Of applications even more awesome...er.One of the categories was gay bars, and we all stood around sc ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
Budweiser To Launch a Reality Show on ABC (That Has Nothing To Do With Beer)
PR NewswireToday, Beerpulse posted on its Facebook page the news of a Budweiser reality show coming to ABC on Jan. 21. Those who follow Beerpulse, a craft beer news site, are typically those programmed to hate the Anheuser-Busch InBev empire, and thus, a snark explosion ensued. "I envi ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Carl's Jr. Does Handmade Biscuits. Really?
Dave LiebermanIt's a rare occasion when we link to Fast Food Maven around here, but I was intrigued by the recent article post handmade biscuits at Carl's Jr.After all, everything in a fast-food chain comes preportioned and pre-dumbed-down so that anyone can do it, right? Creativity and individua ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Stone's Greg Koch To Sign Books and Share Rare Beer Flights at The Bruery Provisions on Thursday
StudioSchulz.com KochThe founders of Stone Brewing Co., Greg Koch and Steve Wagner, have written a book on how they built SoCal's biggest and arguably best-known craft brewery. The Craft of Stone Brewing Co. reveals the 15-year history of the Escondido-based brewer, and includes recipes for ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
New (Fake) Ben & Jerry's Flavor: OccuPie Wall Street
Tauntr.comSpeaking of fake Ben & Jerry's flavors, this one is 99 percent awesome. Illustrator John Defreest created the conceptual OccuPie Wall Street, described as "apple pie ice cream with some other good stuff in there, we think. We're not really sure. No one can explain it to us." ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Huffington Post Gets Punked by Fake Ben & Jerry's Arrested Development Ice Cream Flavor
It is amazing (and hella disturbing) how most people even bother to scan, let alone read a story anymore before spreading it around the Internet. Sign of the times, I guess. But when the offending organization is the Huffington Post (which carries my ¡Ask a Mexican! column), such a rush for web ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
Wine Company Trying to Trademark Term 'Taco Truck'
Today is something called National Taco Day, which is a total bullshit holiday made up in 2000 by Chuy's in Austin. It started as a marketing ploy, and Chuy's actually filed a trademark application for it, but it let its rights to the term slip, meaning hundreds of lazy bloggers and reporters can ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
[UPDATED: Tentative Agreement Reached] UFCW Cancels Grocery Contract, Removes Final Barrier To Strike
UPDATE, SEPT. 19, 11:50 A.M.: After an lengthy session that extended well past the end of the union's declared cutoff time, negotiators have announced that they have reached a preliminary agreement with the grocery stores; it looks like the strike is off for now, pending a vote by the union members. ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Apple Accuses Chinese Noodle Maker of Trademark Infringement
About the same time that Dave revealed that Kellogg's was threatening a non-profit for using a toucan as a logo, news that Apple has a similar complaint about Chinese company spread through the web. According to a report from GoChengdoo, the computer maker is alleging that Sichuan Fangguo Fo ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
En La Noche
MOLAA
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August 11, 2011
Hardees Commercials for Fried Bologna Biscuits
You may or may not like Carl's Jr's. commercials. They're purposely polarizing and provocative. The ads use either tits or creepers to capture your eyeballs and your wallet. Now they're using both at the same time--creepy old man moobies to sell Hardee's Fried Bologna Biscuit breakfast sandwic ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Best Bar Snack Ever: How to Make Murky Jerky
Dave LiebermanDoesn't look like much, but it's still awesome.I love dive bars. Dive bars are my birthright as an American. I love walking into a dim, dank room, bellying up to a worn old bar of no pedigree whatsoever, ordering a beer and maybe a shot, and talking to the random characters sitting ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Anheuser-Busch Wants the 713... and the 714?
Flickr user tsandHow is drinking Bud Light 713 Beer like having sex in a boat? Both are fucking close to water.Our sister blog, Eating Our Words over at the Houston Press, reported that Anheuser-Busch's parent company, AB InBev, has applied for trademarks on the number 713--which just happens to ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
The Mumlers at the Commonwealth Lounge Last Night
The Mumlers June 20, 2011 Commonwealth Lounge, FullertonSan Jose's The Mumlers, whose vintage-rock stylings were the point of focus in Fullerton last night, represent an interesting bit of musical irony in the post modern indie scene: they sound incredibly soulful--for a bunch of disaffected pro ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
The Mumlers
Commonwealth Lounge
Blogs
June 15, 2011
The Bruery Collaborates with Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione on Japanese-Inspired Beer
From left: Bruery head brewer Tyler King, Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione and Bruery CEO Patrick RueThe Bruery Facebook pageSome big news from The Bruery. Founder Patrick Rue, who we recently profiled in a Weekly cover story, is teaming up with Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery on a specialty br ... More >>
Food
May 26, 2011
Patrick Rue Is the Brue-master
From a Placentia industrial park, Patrick Rue and his Bruery have revolutionized craft-beermaking in Southern California
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May 25, 2011
As Food Prices Rise, is an Economic Slowdown Our Only Hope?
Well this is a great story: mega-chains ranging from McDonald's to Nestle, Cracker Barrel to Whole Foods, are raising their prices, not because they're trying to milk you dry, but because the cost for food is going up, up, up. Yay!The United States Department of Agriculture had already forecast t ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
American, Mexican Beermakers Fight Over Mexican Livers in the United States
It's no big secret that beer companies have long targeted Latinos in the United States to drink their swill, going as far as to turning an obscure Mexican holiday into the Cinco de Drink bacchanal we celebrate every May 5. Beer-company logos now decorate everything from booth banners at Mexican I ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
Former Karl Strauss Culinary Director To Open Restaurant in Huntington Beach
Red Table Chef Louie Jocson grew up in Fullerton, studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked at Antonello Ristorante. He eventually became the Culinary Director of Karl Strauss Brewing Company.
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Pepsi Unveils ~~Spambot~~ "Be Social" Vending Machine
PepsiOMGWTFPepsiIn a move that ups Coca-Cola's decades-old "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" campaign, PepsiCo introduced a new vending machine prototype that allows consumers to buy their friends around the world a soda.
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April 19, 2011
Chili's Allegedly Serves Alcoholic Mudslide Instead of Chocolate Shake to 4-Year-Old
It was first Applebee's, then Olive Garden, and now this. Chili's is the third restaurant in the last few weeks to be accused of serving an alcoholic drink to a child. This time it's in Chicago, and the drink was a Mudslide allegedly mistaken for chocolate shake.
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Carl's Jr. Turkey Burger: Not Bad
Flickr user keenanpepperDuring last week's Carl's Jr. Missed Connection, I mentioned that I was waiting patiently for a turkey burger and a salad. This is a new development at Carl's Jr., whose advertising for the last half-decade has revolved around manly men doing manly things and eating 1,000- ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Beer Makers Raising Prices on Budget Beers to Make Consumers Buy More-Expensive Brands
Better load up on the Pabst Blue Ribbon, Keystone Light, and other budget brews that help this Great Recession go down a bit smoother: the nation's beer cartel is openly raising the prices of such beers in a blatant effort to squeeze consumers into buying their more-expensive brands. So much for ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
A Review of New Sun Chips Flavors
Edwin GoeiI have a love-hate thing with Frito-Lay. I hate some of their products but love others. Sun Chips goes in the "love" column. I don't buy into the idea that they're really any healthier than a regular snack chip. Junk food is junk food. Furthermore, I think their "multigrain" compo ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day is April 12!
Yep, it's been a whole year: Ben & Jerry's free cone day is coming up on Tuesday, April 12. And as much as we love classics like Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia, why not try one of four new (or newish) flavors? There's even one that contains chocolate-covered potato chips. And it's tastier th ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Coors Light Exec: "Budweiser is Going Down, Baby"
As I always point out, I'm not a beer drinker, but that doesn't mean I don't taste it. And I've never understood why anyone would bother with either Budweiser or Coors, or their Light derivatives--it all smells like piss to me, and tastes barely better. But that obviously means nothing to America ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Carl's Jr., Hardee's to Sell Turkey Burgers--Chain Finally Going Healthy?
Is this burger going the way of Carlos Jr.?Carl's Jr. has spent most of the last decade boasting of its waistline-busting burgers, proudly proclaiming their entrees are for sloppy guys who think a salad and any thought of health is one fey thang, hanging their hat on 1,000-calorie-plus creations ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
Diet Coke Now Outselling Pepsi--Are the Cola Wars Finally Over?
Flickr user joyosityAdAge is reporting (via the subscriber-only Beverage Digest) that "a historic shift for the beverage industry" has occurred: Diet Coke is now outselling longtime second-place holder Pepsi. Last year, Coca-Cola's junior product sold 9.9 percent of all sodas in the United States ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Tapatio-Flavored Fritos Now Available at Costco, Coming to a Store Near You
Last week, I interviewed the Saavedra family, the clan behind the wonderful Tapatío Hot Sauce, for my book on the history of Mexican food in the United States. I might release some details of it later, but this one can't wait a year: Sometime in February, Tapatío-flavored Fritos hit Costco, the ... More >>
Calendar
February 24, 2011
Phil Shane and the Hot Damn Band
House of Blues
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Haven Gastropub Expanding to Pasadena
OC's own Haven Gastropub is opening a second, Pasadena location in late 2011. It's not just a clone of the Old Towne Orange restaurant, but an ambitious expansion into their own, on-site beer brewing operation.
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Orange County No Longer the Promised Land for Fast Food?
Taco Bell, Del Taco, In-N-Out, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.--the list of fast-food chains with headquarters in Irvine is among the largest in the country. They came to our land of plenty not just because of a friendlier business environment, but also because Southern California has always offered delive ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Dee Nguyen of Break of Dawn and Gabriel Zambrano of Soho Tacos Get into a Knife Fight!
From Soho Taco's website, obviously...Kind of. The owners behind my top choices for the best restaurants of 2010, Break of Dawn (número 1) and Soho Taco (# dos), met at Dee Nguyen's Laguna Hills temple to breakfast and lunch. "But, it looks like Chef Gabe made an attempt to get express his culin ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Princeton University Doctoral Candidate Writing Dissertation Partly on Northgate Supermarket
Yesterday, I enjoyed a lunch at Zait and Zaatar in Anacrime while getting interviewed by Alejandro Rivas. He's a doctoral candidate in sociology at Princeton University, and his dissertation is...well, I'm not going to spill its thesis or main contents, but I am allowed to share one of the focuse ... More >>
Culture
August 26, 2010
BB Cream: Your Makeup Kit In One Tube
[Trendzilla] The Asian skincare sensation that's sweeping the nation
News
February 26, 2009
Playing Hive and Seek With the Backyard Beekeepers
[Trendzilla] The Asian skincare sensation that's sweeping the nation
Food
January 24, 2002
Coffee Crusade
The great Little Saigon coffee inquiry
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