Reading the plethora of fun food news each week is just one of the perks of editing Food Dive. From a look at Starbucks’ global menu to a museum of Southern gastronomy, below are the most delicious reads that caught our eye in the past five days.
It actually pays to drink Red Bull now
After finding out that (shocker) Red Bull actually doesn’t “give you wings,” the company is paying out a class-action settlement to those who bought the drink in the last 12 years.
Because a good biscuit is a national treasure
If you ever thought fried chicken deserves a shrine in its honor, this is the next best thing: The Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Recently opened in New Orleans, the venture includes a display on absinthe, a demonstration kitchen, and—because it’s the Big Easy—a bar mixing up Sazeracs.
A potato is never an acceptable condom replacement
A Columbian woman was recently admitted into a local hospital after she followed the advice of her mom and inserted a potato into her vagina to avoid getting pregnant.
Pancakes, peanut butter panini, and the most decedent looking chocolate cake: Just some of the many foods offered at Starbucks stores outside of the U.S.
Breakfast of champions, global edition
As part of the New York Times Magazine’s Food Issue, a photographer traveled to seven different countries to document the morning noshes of 11 little tikes.
