Tedium Highlight in Food: How long do sauce packets last, and can you recycle these old Heinz Ketchup packs? We research condiment packaging so you don't have to. 

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Tag results: Food

Never A Dull Moment

How sharp knives disappeared from the dining room table, only to return, centuries later, in steak knife form. Kings, cardinals, and factories are involved.

The Science Oven

A reflection on the microwave oven, perhaps the most important invention to come out of a World War that sparked a lot of them.

Freeloader Culture

Reddit seems to be crumbling under the weight of a big controversy. The reason? It didn’t account for its free-riders.

A Side of Gloss

Tedium continues on its long journey to fill its glossary with hundreds of entries, and today’s list takes a long, hard look at all things food-related.

Whipped Cream, No Other Delights

How whipped cream, of all things, helped to drive innovation in the food technology space. Henry Ford and the humble soybean had something to do with it.

Meal Deal Economics

What a price hike for a U.K. supermarket chain’s popular meal deal tells us about the way we perceive food in a time of inflation.

Let's Get Sauced

Yes, this is an article about ranch dressing. And yes, ranch dressing was invented at Hidden Valley Ranch. Here's some stuff you didn't know about ranch.

It’s Not Delivery, It’s …

The evolution of the frozen pizza, the ideal form of sustenance for people who have an oven, a microwave, or an aversion to delivery. (Possibly all three.)

Hydrogenated Marketing

How Crisco, which avoided naming its primary ingredient in ads, toppled lard more than a century ago—and made Americans believers in industrial food.

Bread End

Why are the heel pieces, or end pieces, of bread seen as undesirable compared to the rest of the loaf—and what kind of waste does that create, anyway?

Paper That You Bake

What the heck is parchment paper, where did it come from, and why is it such a prominent baking aid these days? So many questions—here’s my attempt to answer.

Eat More, They’re Healthy

The ’90s defining treat might have been SnackWell’s, a low-fat cookie brand that sold itself as healthy, but really just exposed public health policy failures.

Beyond The McRib

Pondering the way that retired or obscure fast food menu items create cult followings. Had a Taco Bell Chili Cheese Burrito lately? Consider yourself lucky.

Going Nuts for Beer Nuts

The story of Beer Nuts, the alcohol-accompanying brand of nuts that you’ve probably seen in a sitcom bar somewhere.

What The Hellmann

The hidden stories behind some of the sauces you eat every single day, from a confessed overuser of sauce. You are entitled to a little more, by the way.

Smashing Potatoes

Mashed potatoes have a long, drawn-out history—especially, ironically, in instant form. Guess the recipe for the Thanksgiving icon is harder than it looks.

We Are All Made Of Stars

Strung Out

The story of the stringy part of the banana nobody ever talks about, and why it might be worth talking about a little. Yes, it has a name.

Cheese, American Style

Despite cheese existing long before the U.S. did, it has come to define American food culture globally—and not just because of American cheese. Why is that?

Seaweed: The Next Kale?

Entrepreneurs are making the case that seaweed, a nutrient-rich but weird food source, should go mainstream. Even if it doesn't, kelp could still prove key.
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