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Boycott McDonalds -- Unless You're Gay

I Have Seen the Devil, and His Name Is Big Mac Snack Wrap

You know, F. Scott Fitzgerald was right about American lives having no second acts. I found that to be sadly true yesterday as I sat down at the McDonald's near the bus station off Main and jumped teeth first into an American tragedy. Somewhere in a cold and sterile boardroom at McDonald's headqu ... More >>

Guitar Goddess

Classical guitar is deadly serious, right? Not to Susan McDonald.

Once, Twice, Three Times a Lunatic

They don´t serve nuggets in jail. Trust me on this one.By now, you've probably heard the news about the gem of a lady in Florida (there's a reason Florida has its own tag on FARK, you know...) who called 911 not once, not twice, but three times to report that her local McDonald's had run out ... More >>

Area Man Asks: What's It Gonna Take For McDonald's To Fix All Those Ike-Damaged Signs

Photo by Chris MacGregorChris MacGregor has a bone to pick with McDonald's and the Facebook group to prove it. "Six months ago Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Ike," he writes on the page he calls McDonald's Broken Arches Are a Blight on Houston.    "Six months later you can drive through ... More >>

Healthy Big Macs, Only In Houston

Photo by Chris MacGregor Why the hell is your Big Mac so small? Because you live in Houston. Houston is apparently the only US test market for McDonald's new "Snack Wrap Mac," which looks to be a  smaller Big Mac in a tortilla. We're sure grosser things have been contemplated before, but ... More >>

Oh, the Noise, Noise, Noise

Eating out can be hazardous to your hearing

Through Being Cool

Eating out can be hazardous to your hearing

Ike, hooters, Snack Wrap and Budge and Bistro

Eating out can be hazardous to your hearing

Mexican-American Culture

Tied to mami's apron strings?

Big Mac Boogie

Would You Like Fries with Those Lyrics?

Wabs and Gabachos on Leprecanos

Would You Like Fries with Those Lyrics?

McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

Chingo Bling

The Tamale Kingpin (Big Chile Enterprises)

Mushroomhead, and Dope

Thursday, February 5

Double Standards?

Plus: Defining Moment, Egg on the Face, Get Off Death Row!

Goat Doughnuts Go Global

The Hot Breads franchise serves unique pastries to a worldwide audience

Globalization's McBacklash

Guatemala’s Pollo Campero has American fast-food franchises running scared

Mac Attack

A cancer patient sues McDonald's, contending a peppered burrito caused his nosebleed

Pig in the City

A foodie saint is tainted by fast food's evil empire

Dominic Quijano

Owner/operator of McDonald's, 6815 Harrisburg Boulevard, 713-928-5335

Best Place to See Houston's Cannibal Ducks

Hermann Park

Ten Classic Restaurant Commercials from the 1980s

If you're a child of the '80s, much of your misspent youth was misspent in front of the television taking in shows like Mr. Wizard and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But just as those classic TV shows from your childhood have remained with you all these years, so have the equally classic commercials. ... More >>

City of Coffee: Houston Coffee Culture

If you're a child of the '80s, much of your misspent youth was misspent in front of the television taking in shows like Mr. Wizard and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But just as those classic TV shows from your childhood have remained with you all these years, so have the equally classic commercials. ... More >>

Top 5 Holiday Hangover Cures

The holidays are great -- parties, presents, and vacation. Well, that is until you wake up Saturday morning with a vicious headache. Maybe vampires have the right idea by only coming out at night. But, for now, we still have to get up in the morning and join the living. Here are our top five cures f ... More >>

Aftermath: Hour After Hour at the Sprite Step Off With Lupe Fiasco, Brooke Valentine, Letoya Luckett, Trae and Sheila Jackson Lee

Photos by Marco Torres/ See our slideshow here​ 8:20 p.m.: Somehow, without checking in as media or anything, we've found our way backstage. That was a bit too easy; like, "Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable About The Security Level At This Event" uneasy. 8:24: Yipes. Congresswoman Sheila Jackso ... More >>

Y'all Musta Forgot: Odd Squad's Fadanuff Fa Erybody

Houston's history is dotted with albums that, fairly or un, have been swept aside. We'll examine them here. Have an album that you think nobody knows about but should? Email sheaserrano@gmail.com. Odd Squad, Fadanuff Fa Erybody (1994, Rap-A-Lot/Priority) ​The Odd Squad is what The Coughee Bros., n ... More >>

Super Size Me

Want a Shake with That?

Food Fight: Battle Iced Coffee

This is still my all-time favorite, when I can find it.​It's only the very beginning of May, yet it's already becoming oppressively hot by 10 a.m. each day. And although no good morning can start without a cup of coffee, the hot black stuff just doesn't appeal on days when my legs are sticking ... More >>

Jim Kyle, Young & Recessioned: A Lot Of Compromising Going On

​Today's installment of Young & Recessioned features Jim Kyle, owner of Houston's Express Employment Professionals, who says today's job market is all about compromise. It's been planted in people's minds that we're in the middle of a bad time, so they believe that. But jobs are out there. W ... More >>

Coldstone Creamery's Sinless Shakes

​It's getting to be that time of the year in Houston when all I care to consume is chilled liquids. This craving, combined with my general predilection for sweets, makes milkshakes enormously appealing. Thus far I have told myself that full-fat milkshakes are an essential part of a weekly diet ... More >>

McDonald's New Fruit Smoothies Surprisingly Good

Stock photo courtesy of McDonald's because - unlike other menu items - the smoothies really do look just like this.​At a chili cookoff a few months ago, I struck up a conversation with one of Houston's many McDonald's franchise owners. The gentleman had owned and operated the McDonald's near t ... More >>

International Food Diplomacy: How Not to Get Into a Fight at an Austrian McDonald's

​I received a lovely email this morning from an intern at My Table Magazine, requesting my "favorite food memory while traveling" for an upcoming issue. Because I realize that My Table is soliciting these food memories from numerous people and probably doesn't need my rambling recollection, an ... More >>

What's Your Burger Bag?

Photo by Adam KubanOne-third of a pound of Angus: disgusting or delicious?​When I was in middle school, my mother put me on a bus to the East Coast. (This is a long story.) The bus stopped in Kentucky at one point, and we all got off to eat lunch. We'd stopped in a McDonald's parking lot, and ... More >>

"McDonald's Fat Menu Will Kill You" Ads May Be Coming To Houston

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who presumably spent years trying to come up with the most boring "eat your spinach" name ever, may be targeting Houston with its latest attack ad.That ad, which has run in Washington, DC, features a fat guy on a gurney in the morgue with a death gr ... More >>

Refreshments

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who presumably spent years trying to come up with the most boring "eat your spinach" name ever, may be targeting Houston with its latest attack ad.That ad, which has run in Washington, DC, features a fat guy on a gurney in the morgue with a death gr ... More >>

Top 10 Fallen Fast Food Items

Much has been made in the past few weeks about the McRib, McDonald's exalted ground pork and barbecue sauce wonder. You may remember it first hitting America's mouths in the early '80s, not selling extremely well, and only coming back every now and then. It returned briefly in 1994 as the "Brontos ... More >>

McDonald's Now Serving Oatmeal: Fast Food Is Dead, Long Live Fast Food!

​That's right: McDonald's, long the bastion of unhealthy yet filling breakfasts, is now serving oatmeal. Seemingly in response to Starbucks' decision back in 2008 to start offering oatmeal in addition to fatty pastries at breakfast, the fast food giant has rolled out a $1.99 cup of oats that ... More >>

Jesse Brown, 20, Bayou Body Count No. 59: Wild Downtown Shoot-Out

Wild West in Midtown​A man who tried to smuggle guns on a Greyhound bus and then engaged in a wild downtown shootout with police apparently killed himself after being injured, Houston police say. The exchange of shots and SWAT team reaction to the man barricading himself in a parking garage l ... More >>

Fast Times: Saucy New Sauces at McDonald's

Only three of the four new sauces were available. They threw in two of the old sauces as a consolation prize, I guess.​Normally I wouldn't pay much attention to an ad touting new dipping sauces at McDonald's. On the rare occasion that I darken a Mickey D's doorstep--or drive-thru--I opt for a ... More >>

Fast Times: McDonald's Mango Pineapple Real Fruit Shake

Me and my Real Fruit shake, waiting for the train.​For me, McDonald's falls squarely into one category: I Have the Worst Hangover Ever, And Just Enough Energy for The Drive-Thru. Seriously, even on road trips, McDonald's is a last-resort meal for me. (I am willing to admit that few things beat ... More >>

Beyonce's Mom Selling Her Kinkaid-Area Mansion

HAR​Got a spare $3.5 million lying around? You can buy the home of Beyoncé's mom, Tina Knowles, and still have a dollar left for a McDonald's breakfast! The 8,850-square-foot mansion is near the Kinkaid School by San Felipe and Voss. According to its official listing, it: unfolds on 2.6 acr ... More >>

Eight Businesses We Expect Will Be Getting Custom Texas License Plates Soon

​We recently wrote about a new crop of Texas license plates with a variety of themes, most of them sports related. One of the designs, however, was for the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain that isn't even based in the Lone Star State. We certainly understand the passion of a sports fan, but ... More >>

When McDonald's Kept Us Thin

Photo by John Kiely​I recently found myself on the quiet side of the glass partition from the McDonald's Playland at the new Ella location, in what I like to call the Old-Timers section, the place in just about every small-town McDonald's where retirees congregate. Oak Forest is like a small ... More >>

Fast Times: McDonald's Under 300 Menu

Photo by Christina UticoneMcDonald's breakfast take-out buffet.​When I see a McDonald's commercial I don't exactly stop everything I'm doing and pay close attention, but I couldn't help but take notice of their recent attempt to brand "Egg McMuffin" as a descriptor for "the best" of something. ... More >>

The 10 Dumbest Fast Food-Related Crimes

We're still not sure if Cheeseburger Josh is real...​Tuesday's news that a homeless woman had been arrested for "offering BJs" in exchange for Chicken McNuggets at an L.A.-area McDonald's sunk the whole fast food-crime genre to a new low. For years, there have been an increasing number of weir ... More >>

Before We Cared: 10 Bit Players Who Became Superstars

"Whole Lotta Love" it wasn't.​On this day in 1965, British songstress Petula Clark reached number one on the charts with "Downtown," a pop classic with an unforgettable hook that has become a mainstay of oldies radio, film soundtracks and TV advertisements in the years since. The song even se ... More >>