Ask Uncle John Anything: For When You Crave Trivia
What do individual cravings mean? Here’s what some very common cravings mean, or what it is you’re really craving, not the food itself.
Food & Drink
12 Hot Dog Facts
With the summer BBQ season around the corner, here are some amazing food trivia facts about hot dogs. Happy almost summer!
Weird Beer News
Beer can often lead to a lot of weird news stories, but these weird news stories are actually about the beer. Thanks, Mr. President! In March, President Barack Obama participated in Jimmy Kimmel Live’s recurring segment “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets About Themselves.” One of the tweets President Obama read was from a Twitter user named […]
The World’s Best Coffee?
The coffee shop in your neighborhood probably claims that it has the world’s best java but this island, where Napoleon was once exiled, supposedly offers the real deal. Getting your hands on a cup, however, could be pretty difficult.
7 Things Called Champagne that Aren’t Champagne
Many regions produce sparkling wine, but only the ones made in the French area of Champagne can legally be called Champagne. Here are some other sparkling wines…and their proper names.
How to Save the Bison By Eating Them
What brought the American bison back from the brink of extinction? A billionaire who wanted to eat them. Really.
A Toast to Andre the Giant
“As far as great drunkards go, there is Andre the Giant, and then there is everyone else,” wrote Richard English in Modern Drunkard about the professional wrestler and actor. He was a beer enthusiast whose bottomless thirst only had a little to do with his 7’4″, 500-pound frame—consuming as much beer as possible was partially a party trick, and partially a way to numb the physical pain from his wrestling career.
8 Strange and Interesting Facts About Cotton Candy
What’s in a normal serving of cotton candy? Two tablespoons of sugar and a lot of air. Nutrition: 96 calories and no fat. And that’s not all. Here are some strange and interesting facts about cotton candy.
Weird Ben & Jerry News
The Vermont-based maker of groovy frozen treats has been in the public eye a lot this month.
Ask Uncle John Anything: What is White Chocolate?
Is white chocolate a form of chocolate? Or, is it this other thing that is sort of like chocolate in texture and creaminess (but not flavor, appearance, or myriad other things)?
6 More Deliciously Heart-Stopping Ballpark Foods
We wrote about deliciously bad-for-you ballpark eats just a month ago, but with Major League Baseball starting last week, there are even more culinary curiosities to sample.
Flopped! 4 Beers That Went Flat
Today is National Beer Day, a perfect time to pre-order Uncle John’s next book…Beer-Topia. It’s a heady brew of beer miscellany, and here’s an exclusive taste.
It’s National Beer Day, So Why Does Your Beer Smell Weird?
There are three ways to celebrate. The first is obvious, the second is to read this article, the third is to enter the giveaway of our brand-new beer trivia book “Uncle John’s Beer-Topia” on Facebook.
6 Interesting Facts About Peeps
Hey, peep these Peeps facts! Up until the 1950s, Rodda Candy Company was a small manufacturer in Pennsylvania best known for its signature Easter candy: hand-formed, hand-colored yellow baby chicks made out of marshmallow and sugar. In 1953, a Russian immigrant named Sam Born bought the company and changed its name to Just Born—playing off […]
5 Fun Facts About Pepsi
Here are some fun facts about the choice of a new generation.
5 Weird KFC Items From Around the World
Stateside KFCs mostly serve down-home fare like fried chicken and coleslaw. Around the world, it’s a free-for-all.
7 Restaurants Who Serve Food Creatively
Inspired by the twitter feed @WeWantPlates, here are some real restaurants who serve food on really weird things instead of plates.
6 Deliciously Heart-Stopping Ballpark Foods
You can get these real foods at Major League ballparks…but you probably shouldn’t eat anything else for the rest of the week if you do.
