Food Trends & Trivia

  • Color vintage photo of Woman Choosing TV Dinner from Freezer in the 1950s

    Iconic TV Dinners That Once Ruled American Living Rooms

    Most people over a certain age have memories of eating frozen TV dinners. For some, it’s laughing at Lucy and Ricky while chewing on a hunk of gravy-slathered turkey. For others, it’s trying Polynesian food for the first time while…

  • Night jobs feature, carhops, at Carl's Junior, figueroa Street and Flower Street, Terry Perry, 23 years (carhop), Miss NMildred Macut (customer), Lou Russo (customer), Betty Trent, 22 years (caphop), Kitty Brenner (customer), Mr and MrsDean Center, LA

    18 Vintage Photos of Classic Drive-Ins Restaurants

    Whatever happened to drive-in culture? You’d cruise your car to the restaurant (not to be confused with drive-in theaters, though those two together made for perfect date nights), flash your lights to get the attention of a rollerskate-wearing carhop, and…

  • Sky Bar is an American candy bar introduced by Necco in 1938, discontinued in 2018, and reintroduced in 2019 by the Sky Bar Confectionary Company. Each Sky Bar has four sections—caramel, vanilla, peanut, and fudge—all covered in milk chocolate.

    9 Discontinued Candy Bars from the 1960s

    There was a time when candy was just candy. It wasn’t pretending to be good for you, or organic, or high in fiber. It was sugar. Cheap. That’s it. In the 1960s, some of the most memorable treats were the…

  • Roasted and sliced rib eye beef meat steak on a wooden cutting board with thyme. Dark wooden background. Top view.

    10 Regional Steak Styles Every Carnivore Needs to Try

    To cook a steak perfectly is an art, and one that people study for a long time to be able to do. Yet all over our country, the rules of steak are being reworked and rewritten constantly. As the saying…

  • A fork pierces a juicy, succulent grilled fillet steak, grilled medium rare.

    6 Ways You’re Ordering Steak Completely Wrong

    Many of us have been led to believe that ordering a steak is a simple enough process. However, there’s plenty of room for error. From smothering your steak in ketchup to ignoring the grade of beef, there are a handful…

  • Man grilling meat on a barbecue party at his backyard

    10 Things You Should Never Do When Grilling Steak

    It’s summertime, and that means grilling season. Chances are, you’ve thrown a steak or two on the grill in your time, but that can be a little stressful if you’re on a budget. Steaks are a relatively expensive cut of…