Malcolm Bedell

Saturday, Nov. 16 was "National Fast Food Day," which might have been confusing if you live in America, where every day seems to be fast food day. Nevertheless, we thought it was important to mark the occasion of this day -- and every day, really -- not with cards, gifts,......

This week, the biggest names in food blogging have been breathlessly reminding us that the McDonald's McRib sandwich is available yet again, for the month of November. The boneless sandwich with "rib" in its name, introduced in 1981, was never one of the chain's big hits; sales suffered, and the......

We're not even going to bury the lede on this one, you guys: The new Arby's Smokehouse Brisket Sandwich is kind of friggin' awesome. What may be most impressive here, though, is not just that Arby's has managed to assemble a sandwich that is actually delicious and tastes at least......

Ever since the 1930s, the time when Henry Ford first needed a way to carry his amber-colored glass bottle of cocaine-spiked nerve tonic with him to the local flimflam joint, we've found countless ways to find new purpose for the humble automobile cup holder. There's the cup holder-mounted cell phone......

In its seemingly endless quest to bark eternally up the wrong tree as it attempts to revitalize its brand, Burger King has released a new lower-calorie version of its second-rate french fries. While we didn't think it was possible for the company to release a more yawn-inducing product than the......

McDonald's has finally overcome its 50-year resistance to the notion of animals having bones. And the results are kind of awesome. The company has spent nearly half a century working as hard as it possibly could to separate "eating" from "animals" in the mind of the public. Starting in the......

It's rather quiet out there. The entire fast food media (which is a thing that we pretend exists so that our parents will think we have real jobs) is holding its collective breath in anticipation of the launch of McDonald's new Mighty Wings, a breaded, bone-in spicy chicken wing that......

This is it, Burger King? This is what you're bringing to the (yellow plastic) table? While the other fast food giants are positively raking it in with inspired strokes of fast food mashup genius, while Carl's Jr. makes ice cream sandwiches out of Pop Tarts, while Dunkin' Donuts serves breakfast......

This week, we're looking at new offerings from two of the major fast food players: The inevitable expansion of Taco Bell's wildly successful "Doritos Locos Tacos" line (or "DLT," because ugh), and the new "Steak, Egg, and Cheese" McMuffins and breakfast biscuits from McDonald's......

The fast food industry never seems content to let us, the dining public, enjoy the relative sanity of a single cheeseburger, in peaceful (if mildly self-loathing) solitude. Heavens no. Instead, in a mad rush to capture the imagination of a jaded fast food–dining audience, each restaurant must spin off increasingly......