Food

For its latest flavor, ice cream purveyors Ben & Jerry’s drew from history. Comedic history.

Months after Alec Baldwin dropped hints that a flavor named “Schweddy Balls” was on the horizon, B&J have made it a reality. The concoction, made of vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered rum and malt balls, got its name from an old ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch win which Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer play low-key NPR hosts who delight in holiday confections made by eatery-owner Pete Schweddy (Baldwin).

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People who smoke pot once a week are about 25 percent less likely to be obese than non-smokers.

According to a study by French researchers, marijuana smokers have a 16 percent rate of obeseity, whereas those who don’t partake enjoy a rate of obesity between 22 and 25 percent.

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After abandoning his car in the middle of a busy interstate, Cicero, Indiana man Bryon Womack stripped down to his shorts and shoes began marching along the side of the highway while swinging a 35-inch samurai sword ”up and down in rhythm with his marching cadence.”

Well, it didn’t take long for the police to get involved, and after a brief struggle in which Womack tried to jump in another vehicle, he was cuffed and brought to the station, where he channeled Sonny The Cuckoo bird and blamed his erratic behavior on being “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

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The man who broke into Celine Dion’s home in the Montreal suburbs earlier this week seemed to have little interest in the pop star, but his heart did go on for her stocked fridge and warm bathtub.

Neither Dion or her husband Rene Angelil, who live most of the year in Florida, were home when the 36-year-old man let himself in by using a garage door opener he found in an unlocked car on the property. Once inside the house, he took some pastries from the fridge, and started to draw himself a bath.

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According to a new survey, Five Guys is the number one quick service restaurant in the land.

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If an ad campaign from Domino’s Japan is to be believed, the pizza giant is making plans to take their brand to the final frontier: the moon.

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In the clip below, a little fuzzy duckling has an unlikely nosh: a large pizza.

If this video makes you go, “Mmm, duck pizza,” you’re not alone: The YouTuber who posted the recording of his pet going to town on a loaded Pizza Hut pie actually disabled all YouTube comments “due to sick idiots that want to eat him.”

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They had to fight for the name, but actors Mark and Donnie Wahlberg are about to become restauranteurs once again when they open the excellently named Wahlburgers in Boston.

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Erin O’Keefe and Amy Milano set an officially-sanctioned world record by slapping each other in face with slices of pizza a combined 174 times in 15 seconds.

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Bea and Sophie learned valuable lessons in too much of a good thing when the girls each devoured an entire giant sour-flavored Pixy Stix.

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After months of speculation concerning their existence and a slow rollout, the absurdly decadent Triple Double Oreo cookies have begun popping up in stores nationwide.

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In the tradition of Scanwiches, a new Tumblr blog has emerged that combines the beauty of fine foods with the technology of the scanner: Scandybars. In it, common and obscure candies are halved and scanned, gi