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No-Bake Banana Pudding Recipe Nathaniel Lee/Mashed By Nathaniel Lee AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 17, 2021 9:17 am EST If you asked a kiddo what one of his or her favorite desserts happens to be, pudding would make the top ten list. Chocolate pudding, cheesecake pudding, vanilla pudding. They’re all sugary sweet, rich in calcium, and often can be found packed in a portable plastic pudding cup. Even better is homemade pudding layered in a glass cup, served with sprinkles on top or a sugar wafer tucked into the side....

Quiznos Has Something In Store For Lobster Lovers CTHB/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/Feb. 15, 2022 8:31 am EST The Quiznos sandwich restaurant has seen better days, from having 4,700 storefronts in 2007, down to only about 400 now dotting the landscape (via Restaurant Business Online). Although the chain is known for its warm, toasted bread, it’s still outmatched by Subway, Jimmy John’s, and other sandwich masters. This isn’t to say that the fast-casual chain isn’t a good spot to grab a sub, but still, Quiznos is slowly disappearing across the country....

Reddit Is Freaking Out Over The Artwork On This Starbucks Chalkboard Manu Padilla/Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Dec. 17, 2021 10:49 am EST For anybody who doesn’t follow Starbucks on social media, the best way to know about their limited-edition drinks, festive offers, and discounts, or any other promotions is likely through the chalkboards placed outside a Starbucks store. Sometimes, it’s the beautifully drawn coffee on the chalkboard that will make you want to walk inside and get yourself a real one, even when you never planned to!...

Sam’s Club Fans Are Loving This Stainless Steel Storage Set Sam’s Club By Aimee Lamoureux/Dec. 7, 2021 2:23 pm EST The holiday season is upon us, and with it usually comes lots of cooking, baking, and preparing meals to serve up to our loved ones during festive celebrations. And as any home chef knows, having the right tools in your kitchen can go a long way towards helping your holiday preparations run smoothly....

Sunny Anderson Shares Her Favorite Comfort Foods - Exclusive Jim Spellman/Getty Images By Steven John/Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 10:45 am EST Anyone who knows much of anything about chef, TV personality, and generally beaming person Sunny Anderson knows that this lady loves her mac and cheese. As in, she could eat the stuff multiple times a week with no complaints. During an interview with Mashed, Sunny said: “I have to have macaroni and cheese, so much so when I was dating a guy one time and I was invited over to his family for Thanksgiving, I just asked what they were having and they didn’t have mac and cheese....

The Real Reason You’re Seeing Less Diet Soda In Stores Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock By Molly Clark/Dec. 16, 2021 12:04 pm EST When Royal Crown Cola debuted Diet-Rite Cola in 1958, the company marketed it toward diabetics (via Our Everyday Life). However, as Diet-Rite Cola quickly became one of the nation’s best selling sodas, companies like Pepsi and Coca-Cola began noticing that most consumers were actually not diabetics, but dieters, and quickly invented their own comparable products to compete in the diet soda market (via Fast Company)....

The Restaurant Justin Warner Wants To Create A Menu For Theo Wargo/Getty Images By Katherine Mclaughlin/Sept. 15, 2021 3:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s safe to say Justin Warner knows a fair bit about recipe building. The Food Network personality, aside from winning the eighth season of “Food Network Star,” is also the author of “The Laws of Cooking: And How to Break Them....

The Truth About PAM Bloomberg/Getty Images By Emily Alexander/Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 10:41 pm EST PAM: she might be everyone’s favorite cooking companion. A kitchen mainstay since the 60s, this popular brand of cooking oil is a product many home cooks and bakers can’t live without. PAM makes greasing any surface a quick and easy process, and with all the trendy PAM flavors hitting the market, it’s the perfect solution for any kind of kitchen experiment....

The Untold Truth Of Daphne Brogdon Bryan Bedder/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:10 pm EST As a comic, radio show host, television personality, and blogger, Daphne Brogdon’s comedic timing and charisma have constantly put her in the spotlight, according to Food Network. You might recognize Brogdon from when she began to host her own show, “Daphne Dishes,” in which she used her sense of humor and vast knowledge of food to put together family-friendly recipes....

The Unusual Currency This Aldi Cart Was Rented With Shutterstock By Laine Doss/Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 7:19 pm EST The grocery chain Aldi is known for its reasonable, affordable prices. The German-based market famously keeps prices low by cutting corners in other ways. For instance, Aldi shoppers aren’t supplied with bags and must place their own groceries in the totes they bring from home. Products at Aldi aren’t taken from their shipping boxes and put on display, which saves money in stocking labor....

This New Chocolate-Themed Video Game Might Be A Stardew Valley Sequel Photo by Universal Eye on Unsplash By Ralph Schwartz/Oct. 22, 2021 2:03 pm EST Independent video games are alive and well. Yale Daily News reports that the niche carved out by the likes of 2015’s “Undertale” proves that simple, low-budget games can be extremely fun to play (and extremely lucrative for their developers). A few months after “Undertale,” another overhead 2D role-playing game with pixellated graphics made a huge splash: “Stardew Valley” by creator Eric Barone aka ConcernedApe, per the game’s website....

TikTok Couldn’t Stop Watching This 15-Hour Potato Hack RVillalon/Shutterstock By Elise DeVoe/Jan. 24, 2022 1:49 pm EST The booming social media app TikTok includes a contradictory mix of food hacks that can make cooking seem super simple, as well as complicated recipes that are satisfying to watch, but involve an intimidating amount of steps. The videos range from gourmet foods that take 10 hours to make to dishes that can be thrown together in the air fryer in 10 minutes....

Trader Joe’s Fans Are Freaking Out Over Its Pine Tree Scented Candle Instagram By Lauren Cahn/Nov. 17, 2021 1:42 pm EST Sense memories can have a profound power over human emotions, but according to the Harvard Gazette, “scent memories” may be one of the most powerful. There’s actually a scientific reason for this — “olfactory signals” travel to the limbic system (a part of the brain that deals with memories and emotions) with a special speed, according to Venkatesh Murthy, Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard....

Who Actually Makes Kirkland Rum? Costco By Karen Hart/Updated: Jan. 20, 2022 1:10 pm EST Costco’s Kirkland brand offers one of the best selections of economically priced alcohol regardless of whether you are on a budget or just spending sensibly. One of the brand’s offerings that is climbing in popularity is its Kirkland Spiced Rum. But have you ever wonder who actually makes it? Costco started their private Kirkland label in 1995, as they wanted to offer great quality at a price that was affordable....

Why You May Have Trouble Finding Champagne This Holiday Season Alexander Naglestad on Unsplash By Ralph Schwartz/Oct. 25, 2021 4:27 pm EST Champagne importers are calling it a “perfect storm” (via The Washington Post). Not just Champagne but all kinds of products are scarce, due to the all-consuming supply chain crisis. To give just one example, the backlog of container ships waiting to be unloaded has led to a shortage of glass bottles used for wine, Business Insider reported....

You Need To Try Air Frying ‘Baked’ Potatoes. Here’s Why pbd Studio & pilipphoto/Shutterstock By Kirstie Bingham/Nov. 9, 2021 3:47 pm EST Baked potatoes are one of the simplest dishes you can make. Prick the skin, shove them in the oven for an hour, and out comes a warm and tasty side dish. But what really makes a perfect baked potato, Insider points out, is the contrast between the fluffy interior and a crispy, toasted outer skin....

10 Best Substitutes For Parmesan Cheese Shutterstock By Taylor Huang/Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 9:50 am EST It’s sprinkled on our pasta, sits on our charcuterie boards, and is melted into our fondue — it’s parmesan cheese. Though it’s certainly not as expensive and luxurious as its “authentic” Italian relative, Parmigiano-Reggiano, American parmesan’s affordability and accessibility make it a staple in many people’s fridges. However, the discovery that wood pulp is added to certain brands of parmesan cheese has caused many consumers to be wary and check their food labels before leaving the supermarket....

Baked Spaghetti Recipe Mikayla Marin/Mashed By Mikayla Marin/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 11:51 am EST It’s pasta night again and the debate is on once more, spaghetti or lasagna, baked or fresh? Well, what if you could have both? Enter baked spaghetti. We’ve lovingly nicknamed it “cheater’s lasagna.” It’s a quick and easy casserole that combines all the delicious red sauce and noodles of spaghetti, with the gooey cheese and crisp edges of lasagna....

Classic Panna Cotta Recipe Mark Beahm/Mashed By Mark Beahm AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 20, 2021 8:32 am EST Panna cotta is a classic Italian dessert: creamy, rich, and almost sinfully simple to make. Translating to “cooked cream,” classic panna cotta thickens rich, vanilla-scented cream with gelatin for a silky-smooth dessert that’s particularly perfect on warm days. “If you want a different flavor other than vanilla, you can try other extracts instead,” explains recipe developer Mark Beahm of The Sunday Baker....

Costco Shoppers Are So Excited For These Sweet And Savory Popsicles Instagram By Kalea Martin/Sept. 16, 2021 9:19 am EST If you like mangonadas, there’s a good chance you’ll also be a fan of the GoodPop mango chile popsicles now being sold at Costco. The flavor is a combination of sweet, spicy, and tangy, consisting of mango with a hint of chile, as well as lime and sea salt. According to Instagram account @Costco_DoesItAgain, the product is available for a limited time exclusively in Costco’s Los Angeles and Hawaii locations, and shoppers outside of the two states are already urging the grocery store chain to make it available nationwide....