Author: Jawdah Hannad Basara

This week, thousands of Walmart customers will have to deal with the situation after Maryland-based food manufacturer Kettle Cuisine LLC discreetly started a voluntary recall of its Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kit due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. 3,240 fourteen-ounce kits with UPC 194346474004 and a use-by date of August 22, 2026 are included in the recall. The news, if it reached them at all, was likely unexpected for the majority of people who picked one up from a Walmart deli shelf sometime in early July. The goods were delivered to a few Walmart stores in 29 states between June…

The flavor disappears, fans beg for its return for years, and then it reappears in freezer aisles like an old friend unexpectedly showing up at the door just as a Texas summer is about to become intolerable. With temperatures in some parts of the state surpassing 105 degrees this August, Blue Bell pulled the flavor out of retirement for what the company is once again referring to as a limited-time run. The formula is still the same. A carton featuring a sprawling oak tree holds Blue Bell’s best-selling Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream, which is swirled with a rich chocolate fudge…

Nobody sat down in a boardroom and said, “You know what would work? Hello Kitty. And Godzilla. Together. At McDonald’s.” Or maybe someone did, and the room went quiet for exactly three seconds before everyone decided it was brilliant. Hello Kitty and Godzilla are two characters that probably were not on anyone’s 2026 crossover bingo card — one is an adorable Sanrio icon, the other a giant monster famous for leveling cities in films like Godzilla: King of the Monsters. And yet here we are, on August 18th, with the McDonald’s Hello Kitty Godzilla Happy Meal available at participating locations…

A Cornish pasty is a very particular, legally defined food product associated with a location, a method, and a recipe. Simply put, a regular pasty is the more general term for a filled, crimped pastry that can have nearly any shape. Blast-frozen pasties are shipped up from St. Columb in Cornwall and baked fresh all day long at a shop in Sheffield that was once a proper old jeweller’s unit but has since been converted. The smell alone makes the case for you when you stroll by at noon. The majority of people who bite into one can tell that…

Opening your freezer on a hot August night to get a strawberry fruit bar makes you feel very uneasy. You don’t know if what you’re holding could actually hurt you. That’s the truth for some families in the US right now, since Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. voluntarily recalled five flavors of its Outshine Fruit Bars on August 16, 2026, because they might have been contaminated with glass. Six-count, 2.5-ounce packs of strawberry, watermelon, grape, tangerine, and black cherry are being recalled. These products are sold all over the country. The lots that were recalled have best-before dates between June…

The fresh foods section of most H-E-B stores in Texas feels like a dependable anchor when you walk in on a typical Sunday afternoon. The guacamole containers are stacked and dated, the pico de gallo tubs are arranged in tidy rows, and everything looks just right. Right now, it’s more difficult to imagine that familiar order. Following a voluntary recall linked to possible salmonella contamination in jalapeño peppers, the San Antonio-based grocery chain is removing over fifty items from its shelves. It’s broad enough to make any typical H-E-B customer hesitate. What This Article Covers Coast Citrus Distributors’ jalapeños-containing products…

The Lacnola Lactation Granola, a product made to help with breastfeeding, is now the subject of a nationwide Salmonella recall. It was taken off the shelves and marked as contaminated by the FDA after a problem was found with a single ingredient supplier. What This Article Covers It was posted on August 14, 2026, by The Hampton Grocer, Inc., a small-batch granola brand based in Montauk, New York. The FDA said that Salmonella could be present in some 8-ounce packages of Lacnola Lactation Granola. Between October 21, 2025, and August 12, 2026, the faulty item was sold all over the…

Nearly $24 million in debt is a pretty sad ending for a company that was built on guilt-free indulgence. Rebel Creamery, a brand from Utah that gave health-conscious shoppers hope that they could eat ice cream without all the sugar, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 14 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah. The filing came just one month after a federal judge said Rebel had copied the packaging of rival Van Leeuwen Ice Cream on purpose. The numbers are very bad: Rebel has only $13.78 million in assets and $23.85 million in debts. The…

Millions of people suffer from what is known as diverticulosis; most of them don’t feel anything, and the only times it warrants attention are when it has the potential to worsen. But the interesting part is the diet that goes along with it, perplexing and sometimes incorrect. For many years, a type of nutritional folklore served as the foundation for the standard advice given to anyone with diverticulosis. Steer clear of seeds. Don’t eat popcorn. Avoid eating nuts. Patients dutifully removed sesame seeds from their burger buns, and doctors confidently passed this along. The issue is that there was never…

A specific type of search query reveals more about the culture than the individual being looked up. “Mary Beth Barone weight loss” is one of those questions. Thousands of people have entered it into Google, presumably hoping to find some neat narrative about a diet plan or before-and-after pictures. Instead, if they bother to look, they discover something much more honest and unsettling than any transformation montage could provide. Comedian Barone, 35, has never advocated for weight loss. His first Netflix special, Galaxy Brain, debuted in late July 2026. She has never presented her body as a project with a…