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The Taylor Swift industrial complicated is alive and flourishing. The newest to capitalize on it? None aside from the NFL, clearly. After Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce gifted the NFL with the sheer truth of their relationship, the league has made a conspicuous level of calling consideration to her presence at this season’s video games. Final Sunday, certainly, the Buffalo Payments’ catering group served up a Swiftie-themed menu at a house sport towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, that includes gadgets like “Dangerous Blood” waffle fries and a “Karma” quesadilla. The Chiefs are nonetheless within the working, which means there may very well be many extra Swiftie meals within the pipeline. That’s showbiz!
Additionally this week, Dunkin’ is getting slammed with a lawsuit for charging further for non-dairy milks, alleging discrimination towards the plant-based amongst us. Individuals are frying and consuming toothpicks, and for apparent causes (or so one would possibly assume) it is a dangerous factor. Lastly, the ceaseless Stanley craze noticed one California girl steal 65 of them, earlier than getting arrested.
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I’ll admit that after I heard there can be Taylor Swift-themed meals finally Sunday’s sport between the Buffalo Payments and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, I used to be skeptical. What might Taylor Swift-themed meals even be? Some form of sandwich they’ve named “Anti-Gyro?” “BarbaCruel Summer time Ribs?” Another half-baked meals pun that nobody of their proper thoughts would ever share with most people? Because it seems, principally sure. The stadium served “Dangerous Blood” waffle fries (topped with buffalo rooster and blue cheese on one half, and pork, coleslaw, and pickles on the opposite) and “Karma” quesadillas, crammed with rooster tenders and bacon. I can solely hope that whoever is answerable for figuring out what TS snacks are within the pipeline is given extra assets subsequent time. I’m searching for area meals like a MilkShake it Off, or Look What You Made Me Stew. I can even take this chance to let it’s identified that I’m accessible for Taylor Swift food-name-consulting. Considerably egregious names apart, I confess I’d completely go to city on any of those dishes, which is why I’m ranking this information a greasy, tacky 4/5 scrumptious. —Sam Stone, employees author
Is it discrimination to cost further for non-dairy milk? That’s what a brand new lawsuit towards Dunkin’ claims. The go well with argues that the $2 surcharge for plant-based milks like oat or almond is discriminatory towards individuals with dairy milk allergic reactions, and that the doughnut-and-coffee chain must cease.
Look, I really feel for small cafes that wish to supply different milks. Plant-based milks like oat and almond merely value extra to make for a wide range of components, and small outlets wrestle to swallow the additional charges. However in 2023, a number of main coffee-selling chains began ditching surcharges for plant-based milks. Panera, Pret a Manger, Philz, Stumptown, Blue Bottle—all of them began making oat milk the identical value as dairy milk, and a few of them even made oat milk the default possibility. “Bigger chains with huge order volumes are seemingly, not less than partly, capitalizing on the hype round oat milk,” my colleague Ali Francis reported final yr about oat milk surcharges. So actually, Dunkin’—the mega-chain that it’s—doesn’t have a lot floor to face on right here. Allergic reactions or not, swallow that price, DD! 2.4/5 distressing. —Serena Dai, editorial director
After taking the bus house in major faculty, I used to microwave slices of processed cheese and eat the oily slick as just a little snack (let me simply say I’m at the moment utilizing my most well-liked utensils to sort this). After greater than a yr contributing to this deliciously distressing column, I form of contemplate us associates. Like, you may preserve a secret, proper? On this case: I’ve eaten my fair proportion of actually disgusting issues. However nothing as bizarre as…fried toothpicks, an obvious delicacy amongst Mukbang lovers just lately.
