Welcome to Hibernation Holiday, The Takeout’s guide to celebrating Thanksgiving in the comfort of your own home—and in your sweatpants.

Competitive athletics is all about knockin’ heads and takin’ names. Fast food rankings encourage the same approach, at least among those of us with strong feelings about pretzel buns. Well, fast food tastemakers, today is officially National Fast Food Day, which means it’s our time to shine. To celebrate, the Big Ten…

While many restaurants are taking a big fat hit from the pandemic, right now there’s one clear winner, and it’s pizza.

Here at The Takeout, we usually do a pretty good job of sorting overly sensationalized promotional items from genuinely awesome brand collaborations. And on this glorious Monday, I’m pleased to report on a really, really good one: Waffle House’s brand new bacon-scented beer, a collab with a small-town Georgia brewery.

It’s New Year’s Eve, and you’re lying in bed vomiting maraschino-hued bile into a small Mason jar. The room is spinning, your partner is shaking their damn head, and you are zonked out of your mind and longing for death. This is a strictly hypothetical situation, because I am a skilled wordsmith with a penchant for…

I haven’t taken one of these BuzzFeed quizzes in years, but here’s one from yesterday, regarding strong opinions on food that people occasionally (okay, constantly) argue about. I guess this is safer than stoking any conversations about politics.

What do Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Isaac Newton all have in common? Greatness, yes. Bravery, to be sure. Also, uncomfortably inflamed big toes. In other words: they all suffered from gout. And you can, too: A recent article in The New York Times explains that gout, an…

Welcome to Hibernation Holiday, The Takeout’s guide to celebrating Thanksgiving in the comfort of your own home—and in your sweatpants.

Welcome to Hibernation Holiday, The Takeout’s guide to celebrating Thanksgiving in the comfort of your own home—and in your sweatpants.

File under: Criminals breaking into places and causing unusual types of mayhem.

If you’ve read The Takeout for any amount of time, you know we love a good brand pivot. And this year has been a veritable ballet of corporations twirling, leaping, and plié-ing to accommodate 2020’s new normal. Take Hefty, for example: a big piece of its business is selling plastic party cups. For large gatherings.…

I love Dessert Week on The Great British Baking Show because it implies that all the other weeks are not dessert weeks, meaning that under the jurisdiction of Her Majesty the Queen, cake qualifies as dinner. God save that slappy bird! It’s also the semifinal, and we get a big surprise for this very special episode:…

Welcome, one and all, as The Takeout celebrates Thanksgiving 2020 style: Hibernation Holiday. Thanksgiving is just over a week away, and we don’t want to pretend that it will remotely resemble celebrations from years past. In fact, it really shouldn’t. If there’s one meaningful gift we can give each other this year,…