Jell-O Desserts

Moonshine Tasting at Randall's on Saturday

Forget wine tastings, scotch tastings, Jell-O shot tastings and the like. There's gonna be a Thunderbeast Storm Moonshine tasting at Randall's Wine and Spirits (14201 Manchester Road, Manchester; 636-527-1002) from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday. Woot! See also: - Mad Buffalo Distillery Makes Moonshine Eco ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: January 25 to 27

If I had a quarter for every Jell-O shot I've been offered since I started this job, I'd probably have enough change to get a couple beers out of the boozy vending machine downstairs. I've never been much of a lush, but it just seems un-American to turn down a dessert with such high regard from the ... More >>

America the Jell-O Shot: A Boozy Dessert Experiment Involving the Lower 48

Earlier this week Gut Check talked to Salute American Vodka founder Pete Kelly about the product's launch in Missouri. Eager to concoct ways to taste test Salute American Vodka, we threw around a few ideas, until one stuck: red, white and blue Jell-O shots! For awhile, Jell-O o'clock was our favorit ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Day One: A Surprise Guest Whose Name Rhymes With Drillex

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, a.k.a. Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events.) T ... More >>

In Hotel Transylvania, a comic Dracula still kills

The Jellinator: A Test of the Ultimate Jell-O Shot Maker

So. You need to make some Jell-O shots. A lot of Jell-O shots. First, you'll need to boil some water, add about a cup of vodka, and a packet of Jell-O mix. Cut to a black-and-white film reel of a woman spilling piping hot, alcohol-infused Jell-O juice from the pot everywhere! What a disaster! Is th ... More >>

The 10 Dumbest "Sports" of the Summer Olympics

This week thousands of international athletes will descend upon London to compete in 2012 Summer Olympic games. Some of the dozens of contests that make up the games are as old as ancient Greece; others are relative newcomers; and others are so incredibly inane that the International Olympic Committ ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 15, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Could it be that St. Louisans' Hunger Games lust has been sated? ... More >>

City Alderman Wants to End Booze Sales at Gas Stations

"One for you. One for me!" That was Homer Simpson's fantasy of an alcohol-fueled car, and according to 24th Ward Alderman Scott Ogilvie, the city's current laws allowing liquor sales at gas stations is providing a similar temptation. "Right now, you can walk into a gas station, you can buy prepack ... More >>

Eat, Drink and be Merry to Help an RFT Staffer Rebuild His Home [Updated]

Image viaGut Check invites you to eat, drink and donate to help this RFT staffer rebuild his home.​Update: A friendly reminder, Gut Check readers: We're eating and drinking tomorrow after work at Three Kings Public House (6307 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-3355). Twenty percent of ... More >>

Watch It Wiggle

Applebee's Gets Toddler Drunk: Six Kiddie Cocktails They Should Try

​An Applebee's in suburban Detroit accidentally gave a two-year-old a margarita in a sippy cup instead of the apple juice his mom ordered, a mistake that wasn't discovered until the kid's blood alcohol level was .10 -- beyond the legal limit for drivers. The kid was okay, after a trip to the d ... More >>

Drunken Dunkin' Donuts!

​It's a positively Homer Simpsonian concept with a Mr. Burns execution. Chef Zac Young of Flex Mussels in New York City and Top Chef: Just Desserts has been injecting doughnut holes with upscale booze. Of course, it's a hit. How could it not be? It's doughnuts and alcohol! But not everyone can ... More >>

We're Number Six! What St. Louis Needs to Do to Become America's Drunkest City in 2012

Bravo, St. Louis! We worked hard, and we did it: Men's Health has named us America's sixth-drunkest city -- and the drunkest city in the entire Midwest! Daily RFTSt. Louis: Where the squirrels go to hide their Everclear!​But we can do better. What do Fresno, Reno, Billings, Riverside and Aus ... More >>

Jell-O Pudding Pops: Better Than Ever -- Or Are They?

The legendary Bill Cosby appears at the Fox Theatre on Sunday afternoon, October 24. (Tickets are still available for the 3 p.m. show.) The 73-year-old is known for many things: comedy, acting and, of course, being the patron saint of pudding. Specifically, Jell-O Pudding and its associated products ... More >>

Double D Lounge's Tanner Scott: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Alissa Nelson profiles Double D Lounge bartender Tanner Scott. Below is a Q&A with Scott, followed by a video of him mixing a Creamsicle cocktail. Alissa NelsonJell-O shots, anyone? Jel ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 4: St. Mary Magdalen in Brentwood

Church fish frys don't have marketing budgets. But at St. Mary Magdalen in Brentwood, they've at least got someone with a sense of humor and an eye for cute graphics. Why else would they have yard signs dotted with colorful fish, proclaiming, "God's Cod!" with their fish fry times? Robin WheelerNow ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 3: Epiphany of Our Lord

A church with a bowling alley's a bit out of the ordinary. Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church is also a school, though. What? Your school didn't have eight lanes and an arcade with a smoking lounge and bar? Or a Lenten fish fry in the gym next door? Robin Wheeler​Having learned from last ... More >>

Remember "Cum Gum"? Five TV Commercials for Extinct Foods

"Here it comes," she's about the enjoy the "gum that goes squirt," so says the old-school commercial for Freshen-Up gum.​Food products come and go, often with good reason. What seems like a good idea might leave diners gagging in retrospect a decade down the road. Some products die because t ... More >>

20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to Make Them

After about a year of perusing old-school cookbooks looking for weird recipes and spotting bizarre trends (hot dogs eggs, inside a Jell-O mold) from the '50s, food blogger Robin Wheeler compiled her twenty most stomach-turning concoctions. (Do not view this list before lunch. Jeez, or maybe after ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Apricot Salad Ruins Teeth, Christmas

On Christmas Eve, work was the last thing on my mind. My husband, daughter and I were in Sedalia, Missouri, with my parents, bracing for the incoming snowpocalypse and preparing for the next day's food orgy to honor Baby Jesus.Robin Wheeler​My mom, Maxine, held a yellowed index card with a hand-w ... More >>

2009 in Review: May

​​It was the month of Kristen! My colleague Kristen Hinman won three prestigious journalism awards for her stellar feature about Missouri hog farmer Russ Kremer, "The Pope of Pork": a James Beard Foundation award, an Associaton of Alternative Newsweeklies award and an Association of Food Journal ... More >>

Review Preview: Phuc Loi

This week I visit Phuc Loi, a small Vietnamese restaurant at 3723 Gravois Avenue in Tower Grove South. (It's the tiny storefront with the blue awning and what looks like two men right outside the entrance in the photo above.) When the guy behind the counter at Phuc Loi asks if you're sure you want p ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Multi-Generational Poke Cake

Robin Wheeler​Even when I was a kid, I wasn't much of a fan of Jell-O. The only Jell-O-related food I really liked was poke cake. Make a white cake from a mix, poke holes in the top, pour ungelled Jell-O -- I preferred orange since I like that baby aspirin taste -- cover the cake and chill. The r ... More >>

The Novice Foodie: Monarch, Fit for a Queen (and Her Hungover Husband)

The first time my husband and I ate at Monarch was for my 29th birthday. This was not so long ago, when our visits to nicer restaurants were reserved for a birthday or our anniversary. I'd chosen Monarch because we'd never been there and also because I'd loved chef Josh Galliano's food when he was a ... More >>

Innovations in Sneaking: The Solid-State Cocktail

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons While I'm constantly amazed at the number of movie theaters in St. Louis that offer beer, wine and decent coffee, there still aren't many places you can enjoy a good cocktail during the show. What's a sneak to do?1. Pre-mix the cocktail and bring it in a bottle ... More >>

Throwback of the House: The Pickle Stretcher Salad Is Not Funny

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsNo one can beat a joke dead into the dirt like I can. Since last week's meat-stretching edition of Throwback, my brain has been on a giant innuendo feedback loop. You know what cracked me up? Pickle Stretcher!Oh, the hilarity of the Pickle Stretcher Salad recipe in 196 ... More >>

Throwback of the House: The Bombs Wobbling in Air

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsHalfway through summer vacation, and my daughter is completely sick of my face. I know I'm not much fun for a five-year-old, what with my crappy food and my perpetual hangover. A kid can only take so many viewings of the Ice Age trilogy before she revolts against poor p ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Orange Jell-O for the Diet-Conscious Dearly Departed

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsRobin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. After years of making and eating fancy food, Robin is sick of it all. She's returning to the basics: recipes that haven't surfaced in three decades. She reports on the results for Gut Check every Tuesday.This week, I looked ... More >>

Dining by Delorean: Asia

User "Grenex," Wikimedia Commons Ian hops in Gut Check's time machine and returns to restaurants Riverfront Times has reviewed in the past.It's fitting that I'm visiting Lumière Place for this inaugural installment of Dining by Delorean. Casinos operate outside the usual space-time continuum. Is it ... More >>

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Feel Like Family

Fiji Natural Artesian Water

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The Jeff Weaver Wire Watch -- Special Sidney Ponson Edition!

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Green Party

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Food to Float Your Boat

Get gourmet on Missouri's rivers

Margaritaville Lives

We picnic with Parrotheads, get literary with book-minded bands and witness an old-fashioned blues royale

Evanescence

Anywhere But Home (Wind Up)

BANG sugar BANG

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On the House

The Black Rep's Home the Musical is a bit of a fixer-upper

Please Pass the Macaroni

Bellaluna combines family recipes with culinary panache

Extremities

Boarding, biking & blading confab

Hot Damn! Cherries

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