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Taste Test: Hardee's Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich Challenges Wendy's Premium Cod Fillet

Last week's edition of Fight Club Sandwich pitted two fast-food chains' "premium" fish sandwiches against one another, as Wendy's Premium Cod Fillet Sandwich took on Burger King's Premium Alaskan Fish Sandwich. Having declared Wendy's the victor, Gut Check figured we'd performed our fishly obligati ... More >>

Taste Test: Burger King Premium Alaskan Fish Sandwich vs. Wendy's Premium Cod Fillet Sandwich

Be honest: The last thing you're thinking about when you go to a fast-food restaurant is "fish sandwich." However, when Lent rolls around, it's a valid thing to consider, especially if you're giving up red meat until Easter. Some fast-food chains pounce on this opportunity and feature fish on their ... More >>

15 Presidential Debate Dinner Ideas Inspired By Obama and Romney Campaign Spending

Last week Politico broke down information from a recent review of Federal Election Commission reports detailing Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's campaign spending. It contains everything from office supplies and gas expenses to which hotels and restaurants the respective campaigns patronize most often ... More >>

Mariah Carey, No Doubt The Latest Victims Of Inexplicable NFL Counter-Programming

Disclosure: I like both No Doubt and football, and after I used Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" to make a 90s-pop-related point I couldn't stop listening to it. I think this puts me in a unique position to say that the NFL's continued attempts to attract a non-traditional audience by tossing female po ... More >>

St. Louis Pho transforms former Burger King into a deliciously noisy affair

50 Ounces of 7-Eleven Double Gulp Is Still a Lot of Double Gulp

Shocking news from the fountain-soda beat: 7-Eleven has reduced the capacity of its Double Gulp from 64 ounces to a mere 50. Is 7-Eleven taking a stand in the contentious debate about obesity in America? Nope. Seems the 64-ounce Double Gulp was just too damn big for the average vehicle's cup-holde ... More >>

Burger King Goes Cage-Free, Man Makes McDonald's Mummy

Oh, Burger King. For many years Gut Check called you the perpetual fast-food bridesmaid because your Jan Brady burgers could never catch up to McDonald's Marcia. Then earlier this year Wendy's passed you to become the No. 2 fast-food chain. What to do, BK? What to do? Own the animal-welfare issue. ... More >>

Review Preview: "Better" Burgers

​This week, I look at four of the so-called "better burger" joints to have opened in St. Louis over the past several months: Christy's Hamburgers (14560 Manchester Road, Winchester; 636-527-4737), Dave & Tony's Premium Burger Joint (12766 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur; 314-439-5100), Jim H ... More >>

New Vietnamese Restaurant for South Grand

​I reported on Monday that a new restaurant called Wut a Steak is slated for the former Mama Pho Vietnamese Restaurant space at 3737 South Grand Boulevard. In the comments section of that post, a couple of readers informed me that a sign is up at the former Burger King space at 3863 South Grand an ... More >>

Demolished: Five St. Louis Restaurants That Are No More

Laura Ann MillerDel Taco: Set to join Noah's Ark and the Parkmoor?​We're all abuzz about the possible demolition of the Googie-style Del Taco on Grand, enough to merit Facebook pages and news stories about how outraged -- outraged! -- we are as a city. Were we equally outraged when these othe ... More >>

Send Out the Clowns? 10 Potential Replacements for Ronald McDonald

Image via​This week, a letter signed by some 550 health professionals appeared in several major newspapers, urging McDonald's to drop Ronald McDonald as its mascot.McDonald's response? Hell, no.Still, like any successful Fortune 500 company, McDonald's has a contingency plan should circumstances f ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Ian Froeba Mr. X Pizza​This week, Ian established a brand new column -- Lunch Bucket List. In it, Gut Check will scope out local lunch specials and give you a full report. The first installation posed the question "Does Mr. X Pizza Hit the Spot?" What else did we do this week? We introduc ... More >>

Burger King Giving Away 272 Million Chicken Tenders

There's a lot more where that came from!​Burger King has reformulated its chicken tenders to include actual chicken with a new shape and seasoning for the breading. To promote these new tenders, the perpetual fast-food bridesmaid is mailing coupons good for free four-piece servings. Watch your mai ... More >>

Burger King to England: Your Women Are Ugly

Flickr​The U.K.'s all a-flutter with royal wedding fever. And really, who doesn't adore pretty princess-to-be Kate Middleton? She's been honored with a beer bearing her name, a Dunkin' Donut celebrating her nuptials to Diana's kid. She flipped pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and is getting acceptab ... More >>

Stuff This, Burger King: A Visit to the Wicked Lady Pub

Ian FroebThe "Wicked Burger" at the Wicked Lady Pub​I was already planning to visit the Wicked Lady Pub (4534 Gravios Avenue; 314-448-1978) to order the "Wicked Burger" when I saw that Katie Moulton had taken a bullet for Gut Check and sampled the new "Jalapeño & Cheddar BK Stuffed Steakhouse ... More >>

Top 5 Fast Food Frankensteins

Alllllllrighty, folks! The theme of this post: These foods shouldn't exist.​Creators of the following high-calorie, mixed-metaphor monstrosities flew a little too close to the sun (remember what happened to Prometheus?), and yet their charred and grease-soaked bastard children of Fast Food Nat ... More >>

The Firth King, and Other Acadamy Award-Inspired Fast Food Treats

In honor of being nominated for Best Actor in his role as stammering King George VI in The King's Speech, fast food-loving Brit Colin Firth will get to create his own sandwich at Burger King if he wins the Academy Award. hollywoodnews.com​ Firth hasn't said what he'll put on his burger if he ... More >>

Brazilian Investment Firm Buys Burger King

Image viaBurger King now has an even greater global presence!​Brazilian investment firm 3G will purchase perpetual fast-food bridesmaid Burger King for roughly $4 billion, the New York Times reports. The deal holds some (admittedly tangential) interest for St. Louis.A backer of 3G is Brazilian bil ... More >>

My Bread & Butter Now Open on South Grand

Ian Froeb​Driving down South Grand Boulevard today, I noticed a new restaurant at the southwest corner of the intersection with Keokuk Street: My Bread & Butter. As the awesome sign pictured above shows, My Bread & Butter is open for breakfast (all day), lunch and dinner and serve shrimp, ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 5.20

Can't eat as much since having weight loss surgery? According to Eater, a Pennsylvania smorgasbord joint is issuing discount cards to patrons who've had gastric bypass procedures. With proof of surgery and a doctor's signature, customers get half-priced all-you-can-eat for the first year and ten per ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week was all about drive-through dining. While Hardee's added some extra protein to its biscuits & gravy and Burger King announced a brunch menu is in the works, Dunkin' Donuts is now going to sell its swill in Russia. All this just as the KFC Doub ... More >>

Burger King Experimenting with "Brunch" Menu, Including...Whoppers?

The Whopper, in its natural habitat​When Hardee's introduced a 1,000-calorie version of its biscuits and gravy with sausage and egg, it wasn't that shocking. That's what Hardee's does. When KFC announced its fried-chicken-as-bun Double Down sandwich, we all gasped in shock, but the result was oddl ... More >>

Thai Breaker: Looking to add a little spice to his curry, Ian visits Pearl Café

Review Preview: Pearl Café

Jennifer Silverberg​This week I visit Pearl Café, a Thai restaurant that opened earlier this year at 8416 North Lindbergh Boulevard in Florissant:The Thai restaurant Pearl Café doesn't hide so much as hunker down -- one more squat, featureless building on a long stretch of Lindbergh Boulevard lo ... More >>

Audio: Woman Calls 911 to Get Her Burger Made Correctly

Via Burger Club NY comes this audio recording of a 911 call placed by one very upset Burger King customer who couldn't get her Western Cheeseburger made properly. The dispatcher receives approximately 15,000 bonus points for how she handles this. Most people, I imagine, would have sent a deputy to a ... More >>

Word of the Year: Unfriend

​The New Oxford American Dictionary is out with its "Word of the Year" for 2009. That term? Unfriend, meaning to remove someone from a social media site, such as Facebook. The New York Times quotes Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg as saying unfriend has ''real lex appeal'' for best reflecti ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 11.13

​ Missouri's Share the Harvest gets boost from the state to provide donated deer meat to the needy. (St. Louis Business Journal)Burger King owners sue corporation for money-losing promotion. (MSNBC)New Orleans prepares to celebrate the po' boy. (The New York Times)How to act right around cel ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 10.9

​ Fast food moratorium probably won't solve obesity problem, even as Burger King redesigns to bring people closer. (Los Angeles Times, Advertising Age)Michael Pollan's readers share their eating rules. (The New York Times)New York Times disses southern fried chicken. Civil War II commences. ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8.21

​ Contaminated food recalls, corporate farming horrors, chemical over-saturation, antibiotic-resistant cooties ... America's in a deep food crisis. (Time)Don't bother catching your own fish for dinner, unless you like mercury. (USA Today)Fourthmeal? Fifthmeal? How many meals a day does this ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8.7

Nepal faces a severe food shortage. (AFP)Burger King apologizes after a Sunset Hills franchises kicks out a family with a shoeless baby. (AP)From the people who brought you Bacon Salt, it's bacon-flavored lip balm. (Uncrate.com)

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 6.25

How about a little news of the offbeat today:Wallabies eat poppies, make crop circles. (Reuters)Lil Jon's wine wins an award. For real. (Baller Status)Has Burger King's new print ad finally gone too far? Does anyone still care? (EW.com)

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 5.12

The New York Times attempts to sum up all the recent food-safety scares.The EPA bans the pesticide carbofuran. (AP)A man sues Burger King for getting his order wrong and including tomatoes, onions and pickles. (Virginian-Pilot, via Eater)

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 4.16

More bad news for Maryland crabs: The lack of workers to pick crabs has the industry looking to the prisons. (Baltimore Sun)The battle over artificial sweeteners. (New York Times)Burger King sales plummet. (Bloomberg)

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.14

A new study finds that Americans pay attention to the news of food recalls -- but don't search their own houses for recalled items. (Reuters)An Iowa company touts a new genetically modified soybean that could produce frying oil with zero transfats. (Des Moines Register)Mexico objects to a Burger Kin ... More >>

Lost in the Supermarket: Republica, "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and CeCe Peniston, "Finally"

(Welcome to Lost in the Supermarket, an occasional blog recurring feature in which we discuss unexpected songs we've heard in unexpected places. This doesn't just have to be your local Schucks or Dierbergs, either; any weird pairing you've heard is fair game for the feature. Email the scenario to me ... More >>

This Tuesday, Help Write History

So you've resigned yourself to spending Inauguration Day here in St. Louis, sitting in front of the tube in your pajamas, sipping a homemade Barack-O-Tini, filling the air with your sighs of regret that you didn't make it to Washington.What happened to that Got Hope/Yes We Can spirit? A few enterpri ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 12.30

In today's news: More on Mexico and U.S. meat, prosecco and Burger King's meat cologne sells out.

The Morning Brew: Monday, 12.22

In today's news: Zimbabwe's strife, trouble for Ruby Tuesday and meat cologne.

Always on Sundae: The Fountain on Locust is everything that's good about soda shops with none of the faux finish

In This Week's Issue: Everest Café & Bar, Burger King Snacks

Can they package a Whopper into a potato chip? Yes, they can! But something's missing...

The Morning Brew: Friday, 9/14

The Strange, Strange Tale of the U.S.S. Inaugural

An old warship meets its most formidable enemy — the Mississippi River.

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