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Our latest Hot on Instagram gem comes from @taylorcorner. Apparently, the man is a culinary genius and comes up with the most magnificent dishes during his lunch break. The “KFC bowl inspired burrito” pictured above is stuffed with “[m]ac’n'cheese, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and corn.” Taylor, we’re seething with jealousy over here. Please tell us you have leftovers sitting in your fridge, never mind that it’s probably weeks old by now. We aren’t picky. Tag #FOODBEAST in all your food photos. If it’s sexy enough, it just might make our next feature. The post Mac n’ Cheese, Fried Chicken & Mashed Potato-Stuffed Burrito [HOT ON INSTAGRAM] appeared first on Foodbeast.

If you’d like to hear four grown men talk about a Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe, Taco Bell Fajitas and Bacon-flavored Cotton Candy, you’re in luck with The Nosh Show.  Episode 6 of The Nosh Show is now available.  Thanks to everyone who has subscribed and rated us on iTunes.  As of writing this, there are fourteen of you who like us on iTunes and that is overwhelming and heartwarming.  We do it for the fans!  The Nosh Show is also available on  Stitcher Radio, or just subscribe to the show’s feed if you’ve got another podcast player in mind.  Thanks for listening.

Grill ‘Em All, winners of season one of Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race, is offering “Primate Fries” on their menu. The item is the  restaurant’s version of In-N-Out’s signature off-menu Animal Fries, but packs a heartier punch. Having tried these fries in all their fatty glory, it’s safe to say that the Primate Fries bear definite similarities to Animal Fries, as both are slathered in Thousand Island. However, that isn’t to say Grill ‘Em All’s take doesn’t hold it’s own. There’s enough of a difference in ingredients and style that make the Primate Fries a formidable dish. First off, the Primate Fries order is huge and enough to share between two very hungry people — making it a great deal at $5 per single order. The recipe also swaps out the American cheese used in the original Animal style and uses cheddar cheese instead. The result is a sharper taste that pairs well with the crunchy, roughly chopped onions. Although, the most notable difference can be found in the actual fries that are thicker cut and able to handle the weight of the heaping pile of sweet onions and cheesy goodness. Heaping piles of awesome? Always a plus in our book. Photo Courtesy Ashley Khawsy The post Meet In-N-Out’s Stoned Cousin: ‘Primate Fries’ from Grill ‘Em All Truck appeared first on Foodbeast.

In a recent article in the Chicago Tribune online publication, details emerge on what’s next for McDonald’s and the Dollar Menu.  With higher costs of doing business, the prices of our beloved McDonald’s value menu are going to take a hit over time.  McDonald’s has a plan in the works to introduce a “Dollar Menu and More” value menu with some interesting new additions.Over the years we’ve seen changes on the Dollar Menu such as the Double Cheeseburger being replaced with the McDouble and the 4-piece McNuggets taking an exit.  We’ve also seen McDonald’s toy with the value menu double burger with alterations like the Daily Double and the Bacon McDouble.  Add-options have always been available, but for the most part not really advertised.  With the Dollar Menu and More, adding bacon to anything won’t seem too unusual and the same goes for adding a burger patty.  The newbie Grilled Onion Cheddar currently on the Dollar Menu will be made a Grilled Onion Cheddar McDouble for $1.79.  According to the article, the Dollar Menu and More will be tested in Albuquerque, Memphis, Fresno, Hartford, Connecticut and Columbia, South Carolina.  Check out the new grub:Southwest Burger: This looks like the most far-out item from the new offerings.  The white Cheddar we’re familiar with from the Grilled Onion Cheddar is featured along with a barbeque ranch sauce and tortilla strips.  Also available with an additional burger patty for 79-cents more to make it a Southwest McDouble.Dijon Swiss Burger: Fans of Swiss cheese are probably disappointed to see the Mushroom & Swiss Angus no longer on the McDonald’s menu so the return of Swiss comes in the form of the Dollar Menu Dijon Swiss Burger.  The burger also features lettuce, pickles, and mustard sauce.  Also available as a Dijon Swiss McDouble for $1.79.Bacon McChicken:  It’s about time the McChicken receive a much needed upgrade.  The Dollar Menu McChicken with added white Cheddar and new thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon becomes the new Bacon McChicken.  Priced at $1.79.Buffalo McChicken: This is your standard McChicken made just with added buffalo sauce.  A Hot ‘n Spicy McChicken with added buffalo sauce to make a Hot ‘n Spicy Buffalo McChicken sounds entirely possible.Buffalo Bacon McChicken: Here’s where some McDonald’s Math comes into play with the $1 Buffalo McChicken becomes $1.79 with the addition of bacon, but not bacon and cheese (see Bacon McChicken above).  So an extra burger patty and strips of bacon are both a 79-cent upcharge.So out of all the new menu items available in select markets, which one would you like to see make the national jump?  How do you feel about value menus and the prices that keep creeping up?  What’s your current favorite McDonald’s Dollar Menu item?  Let’s discuss!

In this episode, Dubba eats ice cream that makes his hands shimmer; Ryan shows off his deep fried food knowledge; listen to Eric’s voice start off bad, but magically get better after five minutes into the show; and find out what snack makes me cry. We also talk about Watermelon Oreo cookies, fast food fajitas, and our Noshes of the Week! You can subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or, if you want to listen in the podcast player of your choice, subscribe to the show’s feed. If you enjoy the show and subscribe to it on iTunes, we would greatly appreciate it if you took the time to rate us. You can also download the episode or listen using the player below: The show notes can be found on The Nosh Show website. Thanks for listening! Related posts: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Nosh Show Episode 3 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Nosh Show Episode 5 ANNOUNCEMENT: The Fourth Episode of The Nosh Show ANNOUNCEMENT: Episode 2 of The Nosh Show ANNOUNCEMENT: Introducing The Nosh Show

News flash: The circle of life is not an Elton John song, but instead a delicious wheel made entirely of chips. Funny how life works, isn’t it? Reddit user getoffmypropartay (seems like a nice fellow) was able to create a continuous circle of Pringles without the use of any glue or extra materials.  Despite “much doubt and discouragement from the peanut gallery,” the determined architect created the unicorn of snack foods pictured above. Dear sir, you have an incredible amount of time on your hands and we love you for it. Also, if you think this has something to do with Stargate, you are wrong. It was obviously first seen in the Lion King. Obviously. H/T + PicThx Reddit The post In Case You Missed It: Mythical Pringles Wheel Creates Circle of Life appeared first on Foodbeast.

Dear readers, I am here to tell you that you have been tricked. Bamboozled. Flim-flammed. By McDonald’s, of all places. The most universally trusted fast food restaurant in the world. Okay, that’s probably not true. Neither is the idea that you’ve been tricked, per se. The truth is, McDonald’s has, rather quietly, removed the Angus Third Pounders from their menu and replaced them with three new Quarter Pounders. The old Angus Third Pounders were Bacon and Cheese, Deluxe, Mushroom and Swiss, and, later on, the Chipotle BBQ Bacon and Cheddar Bacon Onion. A lazy amount of Internet research seems to indicate that the Angus Third Pounders weren’t doing that well, possibly due to their high price – $3.99 – in relation to the rest of their menu and the current trend towards value menus. This idea is directly contradicted by the fact that the new Quarter Pounders are the exact same price, so I’m just going with “nobody seemed to like the Angus Third Pounders so we’re trying something else”. The new Quarter Pounders are Bacon and Cheese, Deluxe and Bacon Habanero Ranch. Guess which one I chose to review? …Oh, right, you don’t have to guess. It’s in the review title. Gosh darn spoilers. The Bacon and Cheese and Deluxe varieties are just as boring as you can imagine they are, containing ingredients like…bacon, and…cheese. I’m not even sure what I’m supposed to be impressed with in the Deluxe – it’s got mayo, and lettuce, and tomatoes, and zzzzzzzzzzzz. So I find myself with the Bacon Habanero Ranch Quarter Pounder, which, in stark contrast to the other two, actually sounds interesting. “A quarter pound* of 100% beef topped by smooth white cheddar,** thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon, tomato and leaf lettuce, and a spicy-cool habanero ranch sauce, all on a toasted, bakery-style bun.” If you’re curious about the asterisks, the first lets you know that’s the weight before cooking and the second informs you that the cheese is pasteurized process. There, I’ve done my boring due diligence. At this point I was about to launch into the part where I actually eat the fucking burger, but I stumbled upon something on McDonald’s website that I just could not, in good conscience, ignore. In recent times I’ve made a point of not poaching pictures, because I’m pretty sure there’s copyright issues involved. But a picture is worth a thousand words, which I’ll probably end up writing anyways, and I just couldn’t help myself on this one. So up it goes until I get a cease and desist email from Ronald. Look at it. Love it for its ridiculousness. HABANEROS SLAPPING YOUR TONGUE! ZING! Bacon shaming! The tongue-slapping is my obvious favorite, but I’m also very fond of, “I see you looking at me?” With some different punctuation, it could be construed as an amusing threat from the aggressive habanero pepper. But phrased as a question, it a.) makes no goddamn sense and b.) makes the habanero sound insecure. I’m lovin’ it. (Please kill me.) Okay. Burger time. Hab. First off, I took pictures and ate my Bacon Habanero Ranch Quarter Pounder before I did all that researchy stuff, which led to me being surprised by the lack of habanero peppers on my burger. I thought it was bacon, habanero and ranch, not bacon and habanero ranch. I was a little disappointed, but that’s okay. As far as I can remember, this is the first time a major fast food chain has gone habanero, in any form. In case you didn’t know, habaneros are pretty serious business. To give you a point of comparison, jalapeño peppers rate between 3,500–8,000 units on the Scoville scale, while habaneros are between 100,000–350,000 units. Even if you don’t know what the Scoville scale is, and you should, you can see the impressive disparity in those numbers. What I’m trying to say here is that habaneros are hot. Let’s

Few things scream summer quite like watermelon. Cool, refreshing and – not to mention – light on calories, it’s the perfect guilt-free summertime treat. But how would something so fresh and so watery translate into solid cookie-form? Fairly well, apparently. Following in the footsteps of Oreo’s other wildly popular limited time flavors like Candy Corn, Gingerbread and Birthday Cake, the new Watermelon flavor features a vanilla-flavored cookie and a faint, not-overbearing, Bubblicious/Jolly Rancher-esque cream filling. Blogger Matt of Dinosaur Dracula describes his surprise over the taste’s welcome subtlety: “The problem with so many of these wild Oreo flavors is that they’re sickly sweet, to the point where the cream tastes like honey. Not regular honey, mind you. Not like, Stop & Shop honey hiding in a plastic bear […] Not these, though. […] If I can call 75 calories’ worth of pure fat ‘light,’ each of these cookies is light.” Junkfoodguy.com reports the treats are now available for $3 from Target, which means you should probably just head over, grab a pack and a bottle of Corona, and spend the day at the beach. Come on guys, these are Watermelon Oreos we’re talking about. Like suffering through a gorgeous day in summer school, it’d almost be a crime to do anything otherwise. H/T + Picthx Dinosaur Dracula The post Watermelon Oreo Cookies Are Real, Mark The Official Start To Summer appeared first on Foodbeast.

As anyone whose done their stint in college knows, weed does funny things when paired with alcohol. For those of you who are fans of this glorious feeling, good news: Weed wine exists. Although, you can’t just chug any boozy pot, according to journalist Bonnie Collins at VICE. Red wine laced with marijuana will make even your 21st birthday hangover pale in comparison, while white wine will give you a more “balanced” flavor and more pleasant effect. Collins notes that some of the most successful producers — flower children of the ’70s out in California — create a “tincture” by soaking nuggets in Everclear (yowza!) to extract the THC. The liquid is then added to wine in the throes of fermentation. The ABV (alcohol by volume) can jump as high as 12 percent, making for an especially potent drink when paired with marijuana. Unfortunately, it’s illegal to produce weed-laced wine, so you won’t find it in the liquor aisle. If you do happen upon it though, we know some willing taste testers. H/T + PicThx First We Feast The post Weed Wine Exists, Getting Crossfaded Now Easier than Ever appeared first on Foodbeast.

It’s Monday and we have another Eating Styles poll for you. I’ve got Chipotle on the brain, and I can’t decide if it’s Chipotle I’m addicted to or just their guacamole. Because it really is the best. I’ve only tasted one better guacamole, and that came from Alton Brown’s recipe I got off the Food [...]