The Curious Canadian Soda
As a plucky pig-tailed 7-year old, I took my first trip to Canada and back then I didn’t appreciate a single thing about the country—the everyday sights and sounds of Montréal and odd curiosities of Chinatown didn’t appeal to me at all. Years later, I would realize how silly I was and fell in love with all that our “neighbor up North” has to offer. It wasn’t the idyllic beauty or the amazing nightlife that would forever affirm my love of the country but a bottle of soda. Yes, you read that correctly—a bottle of soda. //// I’m not talking your standard-issue bottle...
Read MoreRush Limbaugh and His Non-Oxycontin Flavored Tea
A few months ago, in the most overt display of capitalism and mental retardation ever, Oxycontin-popping, liberal-hating blowhard Rush Limbaugh decided to jump into the celebrities-hawking-crap fray with his own line of–wait for it–iced tea. Yes, you read it correctly. The label features a colonial-outfitted Limbaugh atop a horse warning, as the website states, “The liberals are coming! The liberals are coming!” (Enough with the Paul Revere references already.) Most likely spurred by declining ratings, Rush recently announced that the drink, (stupidly named) Two...
Read MoreWho is The Palate Princess?
Iris McCarthy is a food writer and author of the popular book Food Lovers' Guide to Philadelphia. This website is where she gets to sound off on all things culinary.