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If you live for ugly Christmas sweaters and kitschy holiday merchandise, it’s a wonderful time to be alive. As in past years, restaurants and food brands are coming out in droves this season with a plethora of fun, festive and funny products to get us all in the holiday spirit.
From sassy sweaters to matching pajamas and everything in between, these are a few food-themed holiday products we’d love to find under our Christmas tree this year.
When Cheddar Bay Biscuits are alive, you need an ugly holiday sweater to pay homage to your cheesy obsession. This $45 frock is decorated with snowflakes, lobsters and a sleigh filled with the cheesy biscuits Red Lobster customers love so much. It even has an insulated pocket — that resembles a kangaroo’s marsupium — which keeps biscuits (and other tasty treats) warm.
Red Lobster’s 2022 holiday collection also features other festive items ranging from lobster ornaments and hoodies to beanies and more.
Just when we thought we’d seen it all, Miss Swiss entered the chat and brought something new to the holiday table. The brand recently dropped a hot cocoa-scented holiday sweater complete with an insulated zipper pouch you can use to keep your cocoa warm.
Available in sizes S-3X, the $60 sweater also has a reversible sequin pattern that can read “I am hot” or “I am sweet” depending on how you’re feeling. Scented and sassy? Sounds like it’s right up our alley.
Who needs Christmas cookies when you can have never-ending soup, salad and breadsticks? Olive Garden is getting into the holiday spirit with its new collection of hooded onesies that are decorated with the restaurant’s popular Never-Ending First Course offerings, pasta and after dinner mints.
The matching family pajamas retail for $25 for kids and $35 for adults and come in a variety of sizes. But they’re selling out quickly!
If you plan to be attached at the hip with certain members of your family this holiday season, the Pearl Milling Company came up with an easy way to keep you ultra close.
The brand, known for its syrups and pancake mixes, created a Family Stack Sweater that comes in two-person, three-person and four-person varieties. Each sweater has oversized pockets that are large enough to fit a bottle of syrup and a spatula, so you can whip up some breakfast treats together. Unfortunately, the sweater sold out quickly after it was released Dec. 12, but you can still enter for the chance to win one here.
Hot Pockets is giving a new meaning to the term “hot pants” with its innovative new product. on Dec. 12, the brand is releasing limited edition Hot Pockets Shorts that feature insulated cargo pockets so you can keep your food warm and your legs cool.
The unique shorts, available in men’s sizes S-XL, read “Stay heated” on the front alongside a fiery cartoon, and they even come with a matching hoodie. The best part? You can score them for free (while supplies last) online and get an accompanying coupon for one free Hot Pockets sandwich.
Pillsbury’s limited edition Doughboy sweater recently sold out in a flash, and it’s easy to see why. The festive frock is decorated with a giant picture of the iconic Doughboy himself and comes with a button you can press to play his infectious laugh. The sweater even has a scannable crescent roll on its left sleeve with access to recipes, baking tips and more.
From stockings and hats to socks and sweaters, Frito-Lay’s holiday collection has everything you need to stay festive and warm this season. The collection represents several of the company’s brands, including Cheetos, Doritos, Lay’s, Flamin’ Hot and Ruffles. So whether you want to cuddle up on the couch with a Cheetos pillow or brave the elements with a Doritos scarf, you’re covered.
7-Eleven is joining in on the festive fun with its holiday collection that features items ranging from apparel to décor and more. You can show off your love for Slurpees with a T-shirt that reads “All snug in bed visions of Slurpee in my head” or turn heads in a punny tee that reads “Tis’ The Cheese’n.”
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AND THEN ALL THE OFFICERS ALSO LOOKING FOR A ROBBER. THEY SAY MACED MCDONALD’S EMPLOYEE. THIS HAPPENED AT 108TH IN KEW LAST NIGHT AROUND 9 PM POLICE SAY THE MAN WALKED UP TO A DRIVE THRU WINDOW AND TOOK THE CASH DRAWER. HE RAN AWAY TO THE SOUTH. IF YOU KNOW
OPD: Robber maces fast-food worker at drive-through window
Police are asking anyone with information on the robbery to call Crime Stoppers.
Updated: 11:08 PM CST Dec 4, 2022
Omaha Police say a robber maced an employee at a McDonald’s Saturday night. It happened around 9 pm at the restaurant on 108th and Q streets. Officers said the man walked up to the drive-through window, maced the worker and took the cash drawer from the register. The suspect ran away to the south. Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to submit a tip to Crime Stoppers by calling 402-444-STOP or on the P3 Tips mobile app.
Omaha Police say a robber maced an employee at a McDonald’s Saturday night. It happened around 9 pm at the restaurant on 108th and Q streets.
The officers said the man walked up to the drive-through window, maced the worker and took the cash drawer from the register.
The suspect ran away to the south.
Anyone with information on the robbery is asked to submit a tip to Crime Stoppers by calling 402-444-STOP or on the P3 Tips mobile app.
Albie (Adam DiMarco), his father Dominic (Michael Imperioli) and his grandfather Bert (F. Murray Abraham) are in Sicily to find their long lost relatives, and they make several excursions. But one of those trips was to eat at a restaurant Bert saw in a movie, while others were made out of necessity. Interactions with the locals don’t reveal even a hint of authentic interest in their food, culture, or lives. The tragic Tanya McQuoid ventures out into Palermo, too, but generally she’s too involved with her own personal dramas to think much of anything about her surroundings.
Together, the three story arcs paint a picture of a certain kind of upper class American traveler—one who is more concerned with commodifying experiences and chasing an impossible satisfaction than letting a new travel adventure wash over them.
Not every meal in The White Lotus is eaten at the resort. Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), a chronically discontented 20-something who works as Tanya’s assistant, is taken out in the town by Jack, a rambunctious Brit staying with his “uncle,” to enjoy some (stolen) arancini. Ethan, Harper, Cam, and Daphne also have a long, chaotic lunch at a vineyard. Still, Cam’s comment after sitting down to yet another White Lotus dinner—“I don’t know why they keep giving us these menus, we know them back to front by now”—is an unmissable hint that these wealthy characters’ unimaginative dining habits drive them to eat at the same place repeatedly.
For food lovers who travel to eat, it’s maddening to see the characters of White Lotus blithely ignore the spectacular Sicilian cuisine that surrounds them. And in reality, many wealthy diners love to chase exclusive reservations at new restaurants and once-in-a-lifetime dining experiences. Sure, locally made Italian food is incredible, but the soil surrounding Mount Etna, one of Europe’s most active volcanoes, is enriched with volcanic ash which means it produces a brighter, cleaner taste than vegetables grown elsewhere in the area. Alas, Tanya would rather cosplay Monica Vitti.
Wealth and luxury, particularly as it’s expressed by Americans, wears down one’s ability to be self-aware, to find spontaneous joy, and to experience the world outside of oneself. If you let it, wealth can make you into the type of person who travels all the way to Italy, only to order Aperol spritzes and arugula salads ad nauseam.