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Let me sum up this article in five words: There will be Duff Beer. Other than that, yes, Universal Orlando will be building a real-life Springfield — the hometown of America’s most endearing animated family (Full House? Get outta here). The new outdoor attraction will include the actual restaurants, stores, characters and food featured in The Simpsons. Visitors will be able to feast upon a “Krusty-certified” meat sandwich at Krusty Burger, pizza at Luigi’s Pizza, donuts at Lard Lad, fish at the Frying Dutchman, a “Taco Fresho” with Bumblebee Man and Duff Beer at Moe’s Tavern. “This will be a must-see experience for Simpsons fans all over the world,” raved Mark Woodbury, President of Universal Creative, in a press release. “For the first time ever, they’re going to be able to enter a world that they’ve only seen on television – and we’re really excited to bring that world to life.” I’m not gonna front, I’m way more excited for this than I was for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley. Mostly because I felt cheated when I found out the Butterbeer was a cream soda sham. H/T + PicThx Eater The post Simpsons Theme Park Will Feature Krusty Burger & Serve Duff Beer appeared first on Foodbeast.

The Beefy Crunch Burrito is back at Taco Bell as of May 23rd!  No more strange looks from people in the cars next to you as you try to stuff chips into your fast food, because Taco Bell has answered your cries for help. Yes, it’s back baby. The Beefy Crunch Burrito has five layers of goodness for just 99 cents.  Ground beef, rice, warm nacho cheese sauce, reduced-fat sour cream (oooo, “healthy”!), and Flamin’ Hot Fritos. Plus, Taco Bell and the NBA have come together to create Big Boxes, which include the Beefy Crunch Burrito Box and the Doritos Locos Tacos Box for $5.00 each. It’s like a childhood dream-come-true.  Burritos filled with chips, stuffed in a big box.  What more could you want in life? H/T + PicThx GrubGrade The post Taco Bell Brings Back the Beefy Crunch Burrito in ‘NBA Big Box’ appeared first on Foodbeast.

For all you food-porn-loving Instagrammers out there, here’s something new for you to gawk at.  Talking Food (@talkingfood) doesn’t mess around with #selfiesunday or #womancrushwednesday or #throwbackthursday or any other themed day you can think of.  They keep it clean with slick photos of food paired with a cheeky phrase that we guarantee will garner a snicker or two. Having only been up and running for a month, @talkingfood has about 150 followers. Although, let’s be honest, “Shit’s about to get eel. . .” Check out our favorites below: Oh hey, since it’s Memorial Day Weekend, “Happy Hollandaise!” H/T + PicThx FirstWeFeast The post ‘Talking Food’ Porn Takes Instagram to the Next Level appeared first on Foodbeast.

Arby’s recently impressed us with its use of King’s Hawaiian buns and now Wendy’s has plans on going with the pretzel bun to catch our interest.  2013 looks to be the year of a fast food trend to add some interesting variety to sandwich buns.  Back in December I received an email from a reader in regards to a Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger being offered at Wendy’s in Garfield Heights. Ohio.   The test market burger was being sold for $4.49 and $6.49 for the combo meal.  Today Darren Rovell tweets a picture of the bacon cheeseburger with the pretzel bun… “Analyst: Wendy’s will roll out its Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger nationally this year.”  Take a look:

7-Eleven’s Summer Slurpee Days starts today and you can get medium Slurpee drinks for 49 cents all weekend long.  Also… Slurpee Lite is introducing Slurpee Lite Sugar Free Sprite Flavor.  The Splenda-sweetened Slurpee Lite Sugar Free Sprite has no sugar and 20 calories for per 8 oz. serving.

Let’s be honest — pregnancy is pretty much a constellation of things that suck. There’s the nausea, the weight gain, the swelling that makes your feet look like overstuffed sausage casings, and to top it all off you can’t even have a drink or your baby will be born with flippers instead of eyeballs. Or something. However, a new study is claiming otherwise. The study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and tracked 10,000 children born in the U.K. between 2000 and 2001 for the first seven years of their lives. The children were tested for math, reading, and spatial skills while their parents answered questionnaires on their emotional and social development. Turns out that the kids whose mothers drank a little alcohol during pregnancy were doing just as well as those whose mothers abstained completely, and some of the alcohol-exposed kids scored higher. Of course, this doesn’t mean that pregnant women should start tapping kegs any time soon. The government still recommends that women “not have more than one to two units of alcohol once or twice a week, and not to get drunk” during pregnancy (to put that in perspective: a  four-ounce glass of wine is roughly one and a half units). Keep in mind, it’s difficult to judge one’s individual limit when it comes to booze, as “one to two units of alcohol” will affect certain people differently. Bottom line: Imbibing any form of alcohol during pregnancy is potentially dangerous. H/T + PicThx NPR The post Pregnancy Just Got Awesome: Study Okays Drinking ‘A Little’ During Pregnancy appeared first on Foodbeast.

Oreo’s latest ad campaign, Wonderfilled, features a song by a man who literally goes by the name Owl City! That’s the most absurd thing I’ve found out all week, outside of the realization that I am going to have to obtain internet via exposure therapy. Seriously, Starbucks is my ninth level of hell. I hope that’s how he’s billed at Jiffy Lube and how the servers shout his order at Five Guys. Owl City. On the plus side, the hipster swooning that elicits must be insane. In any case, I received the press package for the campaign this week, which contained an Oreo book, and a set of three things to play, learn, and share: an iPod loaded up with the new Owl City song, an Oreo-shaped thumbdrive, and Oreos. I sense a theme!Having already forced my latest bedfellow (henceforth known as Bedfellow) to read the book with me, which made for an entirely awkward evening, I decided to focus on the song bright and early in the morning, while my ears were at their keenest. The campaign is pretty cute and centers around aggressively tying the abstract concept of ‘wonder’ to America’s favorite cookie. “Wonder can be twisted, licked, dunked, stacked, rolled, crunched, nibbled, and savored,” which makes me wonder (see what I did there?) if I ought to change my name to Wonder. Wonder Watsky has a swell ring to it. I’m a food critic, but I decided, then and there, that I could also be a music critic. The song is obviously called ‘Wonderfilled,’ not to be confused with ‘Wonderwall,’ or ‘Wonderful’ from Wicked, and starts off ominously, as the only file on the iPod is called ‘OREO WONDERFILLED ANTHEM’ which makes me wonder if I’ve stumbled onto a top-secret plot to take over the world with Oreo cookies. If so, it would totally work. Bitches love Oreos.But not with this song. Oreo City lays down a thick beat that I immediately want to snort a line of cookie crumbs to, then quickly transitions into some straight-up autotuned jams. There is a story, and the ending leads to roads paved of cookies and cream and triangle-accented syllables. It’s precious. Too precious. I mean, it’s literally the most twee thing I’ve ever set eyes to, and I willingly read Kristin Chenoweth’s entire memoir. I’m not sure that Oreo should have something more saccharine than its cookies advertising them. Owl Cookie puts a friendly flair on some dour dope fairy tales. I was definitely not aware of the fact that the three little pigs were killed in any non-Oreo related versions of the story, but now that I do, I’m damned glad I have some Oreos to eat away the post-traumatic stress with. Wonderfill my belly! Vampires turn vegetarian, sharks share things and ‘cuddle up with giant squids for a friendly meal’ that apparently consists of nothing but cookies, and I end up dying from diabetic shock from the sheer campiness of the song alone. It’s cute, catchy, and dreadfully unsubstantial. Now that I’ve wholly established that I’m not going to be the next Ben Brantley, let’s move to an Oreo product I picked up at the grocery store, Oreo Cookies ‘n’ Cream Jell-O Pudding! Full FCC/blogger disclosure: I ate this out of a Tupperware container and I have no regrets, because it’s one of the best Oreo-flavored products on the market. So many of these lose that iconic flavor, even, in some cases, the Oreos themselves when they’re flavored with berries or sorbet, so it was a real pleasure to dig into this and find that the flavor of the cookies was as bold as ever. The pudding is extremely thick, at least it was when I made it, and features huge chunks of cookies that vary in size, so some are soft and cake-like when you eat the pudding, and others are still crispy.The flavor is great- the pudding itself doesn’t overshadow the salty, sweet cookies with too much sugar or flavor, despite the huge imbalance in between the ‘crème’ and the cookie component. What I liked best was that it appeared that Kraft only used the wafer part instead of crushing up Oreos with crème inside, which would have certa

I think I’ve had Arby’s no more than twice in my life. Part of the reason is because I have never lived near one. Also I’ve just never thought, ‘Wow, that [insert Arby's menu item] sounds fantastic and I need to drive out of my way to have it.’ The only time I ever hear [...]

Torimi Cafe, a peculiar spot in Japan that serves homemade treats while guests enjoy their meals surrounded by birds, recently rolled out a new feather-friendly flavor: Pet Bird-Flavored Ice Cream.  Because you know, pizza-flavored and ramen-flavored ice cream are so banal by now. The cafe’s new flavors include Cockatiel, Java Sparrow and Parakeet, all which debuted last week at a small bird expo in Osaka. According to the business, the ice cream is made with all-natural ingredients and  “once in your mouth, the aroma of a parakeet would spread intensely.” Oh, but it gets better. According to Torimi Cafe, the Java Sparrow flavor evokes “the feeling of pressing the breast of a java sparrow into your mouth,” while the Cockatiel ice cream emulates that moment  “when you’re sleeping with your mouth open and your cockatiel runs over your face and gets its leg in your mouth.” Happens all the time. And to think I was so naive as to think that this “Pet-Bird” flavored ice cream would taste like chicken. Silly me. H/T + PicThx RocketNews24 The post ‘Pet-Bird’ Flavored Ice Cream is A Real, Edible Thing appeared first on Foodbeast.

From the World of Uber-Expensive, Ultimately Useless, But Really Convenient Gadgets (Williams-Sonoma for short) comes the Press Art lemon and lime squeezer. Imagine this: You’re hosting your annual $4500 a plate dinner for Socially Challenged Purebred Poodles. The food is hot and pricey and fancy. You can tell because it’s the type of stuff that has at least three names and always tastes better with fresh squeezed lemon. Like, really fresh squeezed. Of course, you want your guests to feel involved, so you give everyone their own lemon slices and let them at it. Unfortunately  your men have diamond cufflinks, and your ladies are wearing Bedazzled silk gloves, so juicing a lemon the standard way is a no go. Enter Press Art and their admittedly gorgeous citrus squeezers. Made of acid-impervious, BPA-free, “almost unbreakable” Copolyester, the little plastic doohickey is dishwasher safe, and comes with a built-in spout for easy juice distribution. Plus, it makes your lemons 50 percent more efficient, so you’re saving money in the (really) long run. The spout also makes it easy to pour lime juice directly into your Corona, meaning it’s an all-around winner in my book. Other features include the potential for personalized engravings and the fact that it’s made in France. France. Press Art Lemon & Lime Squeezer $8.95 – $12.95 for one or a set of 2 for $15.99 @Amazon The post This is Admittedly the Most Gorgeous Way to Squeeze a Lemon appeared first on Foodbeast.