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With a Glut of Burger Joints in South Florida, Haven't We Had Enough?

PBSO Would Really Like to Catch the Guy Robbing Burger Kings in a Barack Obama Mask

​Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in Dece ... More >>

My Shamrock-Shake Obsession: When a Food Fixation Doesn't Pay Off

​A few years ago, a roommate and I Netflixed a portion of the first season of Punky Brewster. It was one of those months-later arrivals in which you open the red envelope and stare at the little white sleeve with zero recognition until Ah, yes -- alcohol and the Netflix queue. In a fit of nos ... More >>

McDonald's Gets Me High

​One of my roommates is a highly driven young entrepreneur raised in Asia by American parents, and he is an enthusiastic consumer of all ingestibles, be they solid, liquid, or smoke. Like me, his favorite foods are uni and foie gras. Like me, he loves excellent craft beer, appreciates delicate ... More >>

Ten Stories From McDonald's Twitter Fail

​You might think twice before hitting up the drive-through for this morning's McMuffin.The New York Observer, Huffington Post, and others reported how a McDonald's twitter marketing ploy has gone awry. Two dipshit tweets from McDonald's with the hashtag #McDStories -- "When you make something ... More >>

Chipotle Versus McDonald's: Why Chipotle is Kicking Ass

​​Why is Chipotle growing at three times the rate of McDonald's?

Not Just For Dessert, Fast Food Minis Are A Whole Meal

​USA Today reports on the mini-dessert trend, which includes today's rollout at Baskin Robbins of the four bite cake-and-ice-cream dessert that fits in the palm of a hand. While fine and mid-range dining restaurants have featured mini sweets for decades, the trend is finally hitting the mass ... More >>

The Ten Worst Food Tattoos... Ever

Forget Mom....we love meat more!​The 16th-annual South Florida Tattoo Expo takes over the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention Center this weekend, filling the center with a cornucopia of talented ink artists and painted ladies and gentlemen. Tattoos are a thing of beauty. Dating back to th ... More >>

McDonald's Customer Throws Ice Cream Cake at Employee

​A McDonald's customer in Indiana was a little displeased by the state of her ice cream cake. And by a "little displeased" we mean that she went into a rage about the state of her melted cake, threw the dessert at an employee, and then slapped the employee in the face.The Huffington Post posted th ... More >>

McDonald's to Serve English Pub Burgers: Is Fillet of Fish and Chips Next?

Burger Business The new McPub...Wonder if they'll be a McGuiness to go with it???​Burger Business has reported that a new McDonald's English-style pub burger is in the works. The English Pub Burger is an Angus third-pound burger, garnished with hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar and Ame ... More >>

"Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer" Advocates Embracing One's Idiosyncratic Spirit

Burger Business The new McPub...Wonder if they'll be a McGuiness to go with it???​Burger Business has reported that a new McDonald's English-style pub burger is in the works. The English Pub Burger is an Angus third-pound burger, garnished with hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar and Ame ... More >>

Will Remodled McDonald's Restaurants Invite Customers to Hang Out?

McDonald's makeover underway in Fort Lauderdale​McDonald's recently began a billion dollar renovation project to update their stores to a more inviting, modern look, as reported in USA Today. The refurbishment project, which began with stores in Tampa, is the largest in the chain's history.  ... More >>

Shops of Boca Center Mall to Get Brio Tuscan Grill

Brio Tuscan Grill in Tampa​Upscale casual Brio Tuscan Grill, part of the Ohio-based Bravo Brio Restaurant Group chain, is slated to debut in the Shops of Boca Center mall sometime this fall.  The 8,400-square-foot Brio will be the chain's fourth SoFla location, joining fellows in Hallandale B ... More >>

Increasing Numbers of Newborns Are Born Addicted to Pain Pills

via Damon Winter/The New York TimesA nurse administers methodone to a newborn, 4 weeks old.​This week, the New York Times called attention to a largely overlooked demographic of pain pill addicts -- newborn babies. The Times reports that as pain pill abuse "ravages communities across the country," ... More >>

McDonald's Looking to Hire 50,000 New Employees, Brings Back Ronald McDonald

McDonald's Corporation McDonald's is looking to hire 50,000 people​On April 19th, Mc Donald's is having a one-day hiring blitz. During that day, the fast food giant is looking to hire 50,000 full and part-time employees in almost 14,000 restaurants. People interested can apply at any ... More >>

Subway Beats McDonald's for Title of Largest Fast-Food Chain

​Subway is beating the crap out of McDonald's to win the title of largest fast-food restaurant chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, at the end of 2010, Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide, compared to 32,737 for McDonald's. The number of McDonald's stores was disclosed in an ... More >>

Four Things to Drink on St. Patrick's Day Instead of Green Beer

SpaceAgeSage via Creative CommonsMmmm...delicious FD&C Green No. 3. ​Green beer - the defacto and decidedly non-authentic Official Drink of St. Patrick's Day - is the liquid equivalent of shouting "Whoooo!!" when your favorite song comes on in the club: innocent fun, but a little amateurish.Un ... More >>

Time Is McRunning Out to Enjoy a McRib!

Jamie LongConglomerate of tasty confusion​Less than three weeks remain to get your fill of McDonald's mysterious McRib sandwich. The saucy sensation returned for a limited amount of time after a 16-year hiatus. It will be sold through Sunday, December 5.Most of the drive-through chowhounds we k ... More >>

Anti-McDonald's Ad Snubbed by South Florida Newspapers and TV Stations

South Florida's two largest newspapers, the Sun-Sentinel and the Miami Herald, ran stories on their websites yesterday about local TV stations refusing to run an anti-McDonald's ad. Oddly, the stories, written by a Herald reporter, both lacked something obvious: the actual video. Or at least a link ... More >>

Five Gluten-Free Fast Food Options

Flickr: dannyrayv​Fast food restaurants still haven't caught on to offering gluten-free options.  P.F. Chang's can coat their lemon chicken in a GF breading, but McDonald's still smothers their nuggets in wheat.That poses a problems to celiacs on the run. But never fear! You may not have a wi ... More >>

"Ew, You Ate at McDonald's??!!" Ten Ready-Made Excuses

​What could be worse than eating at a McDonald's?In this post-Fast Food Nation, post Super-Size Me, anti-corporate clime, there's hardly anything less PC than taking your jalopy through a Mickey D's drive-through for a greasy gut-bomb. Especially now that the Indie Burger Revolution has rolled thr ... More >>

Tal Ronnen Interview: Q&A with The Conscious Cook (Part 1)

​Tal Ronnen made history when his book The Conscious Cook -- the first full-color vegan cookbook to be published in North America -- hit the New York Times bestseller list last fall. Since hitting the big-time (thanks also to Oprah, who had Ronnen develop a 21-day vegan cleanse for her), Ronnen ha ... More >>

"I Ate the KFC Double Down" and 25 Other Reasons to Hate Myself

John LinnInto the belly of the beast...​I did it. In the interest of the blog (and curiosity), I tried the new KFC Double Down.  The "sandwich," featuring fried chicken breast strips in place of buns, is being marketed as an excessive, meaty, egregious offering. And it is. I ate one for lunch ... More >>

Are There More Pain Clinics in Broward Than McDonald's?

C. Stiles​Everyone has heard some of the startling statistics about the scourge of pain clinics in South Florida: that a new clinic opens here every three days, that doctors in Broward alone dispense nearly 10 million Oxycodone pills a year, that more than half of the illegal prescription pills in ... More >>

The Decade in Meat: From the McRib Comeback to a President Obama Meat Blunder

Photo from Flickr user Cap'n SurlyThe decade brought us many great meat products, like the Bacon Explosion.​Growing up, I was always a fan of those ubiquitous "best of the year" stories that news outlets put together every December, so I thought it fitting that I give a little something back this ... More >>

Are Animal Rights Activists -- and Local Multimillionaire -- Behind the McDonald's-Causes-Cancer lawsuit?

flickr user: nukeit1​Today, newswires were abuzz with the information that a Washington-based nonprofit group called the Cancer Project, on behalf of two plantiffs in Connecticut, filed a class-action lawsuit against Burger King, McDonald's, and Friendly's.  The lawsuit alleges that chicken s ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Stephencooks.com​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.By now, you're probably checking out Burger Beast regularly, thanks to its reviews of Checker's' Baconzilla Burgers ... More >>

For Ponzi Victim, One Last Luxury: A Trip to Fort Lauderdale

Allen Stanford Yeah, depressing isn't it? Today's Houston Chronicle reports on one victim of that slightly lesser (alleged) Ponzi, the Stanford Group. A North Carolina man named William Allen couldn't close his Stanford account before the Feds froze it. Among the last things he bought before the com ... More >>

The McDonald's Rationalization

"Where you been, bitch?"Last week, I did something bad. Really, really bad. It was Wednesday, and I was very hungry. But I was also very busy, and short on cash. And so I decided, with a sorrowful resignation, to do something I hadn't done in ages: I went to McDonald's.  It was $.59 cheeseburge ... More >>

Everybody's Kung Food Fighting

We used to joke about serving a "knuckle sandwich" and washing it down with a cool "can of whoop-ass" (pictured above). But no more. Not since this rash of cuisine-related crime struck Florida. This past week, we've been too scared to enter a Dunkin' Donuts, and only now that our brave sheriff has a ... More >>

America's Best Fast Food Drive-Thru

We used to joke about serving a "knuckle sandwich" and washing it down with a cool "can of whoop-ass" (pictured above). But no more. Not since this rash of cuisine-related crime struck Florida. This past week, we've been too scared to enter a Dunkin' Donuts, and only now that our brave sheriff has a ... More >>

McDonalds Has a New Ad Campaign

We used to joke about serving a "knuckle sandwich" and washing it down with a cool "can of whoop-ass" (pictured above). But no more. Not since this rash of cuisine-related crime struck Florida. This past week, we've been too scared to enter a Dunkin' Donuts, and only now that our brave sheriff has a ... More >>

Teen Beats Police To Punch, Shoots Self

We used to joke about serving a "knuckle sandwich" and washing it down with a cool "can of whoop-ass" (pictured above). But no more. Not since this rash of cuisine-related crime struck Florida. This past week, we've been too scared to enter a Dunkin' Donuts, and only now that our brave sheriff has a ... More >>

Irish Eyes are Smiling, Compadre

Mexicans and Irish proclaim our columnist the patron saint of leprecanos.

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good.

Notes from the Weekend

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good.

Best French Fries in Broward

Le Tub

Dirty Vegas

One (EMI)

Die Stinkin'

One (EMI)

McRibbing

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

Best Dive

Curly Sue's Hideout

Best French Fries

Ronnie B's Taste of the '50s Diner

Xmas Spirit

Folks at Happy Times get the news just like the prez: with the ugly

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Anybody but Wayne Huizenga's Maroone, says one unhappy buyer

Best French Fries

Argentango Grill

Maniac Rocking

Where there's a Willis, there's a cult icon who can whup rock's geniuses

Comida Rapida

If only all fast food joints were as good as Baja Fresh Mexican Grill

Best Natural Food/Vegetarian Restaurant

Sara's

Foodstuff

Charlie's Bar-B-Q

Chute to Kill

In October a skydiver named Mike McDonald made a fatal leap. He was the third client of Skydive Palm Beach to die in a year.