Denny's is one of the only restaurants open 24 hours a day even on Christmas, it's the place where teenagers go to drink coffee and eat french fries for hours, and in keeping with the American diner tradition Denny's is always affordable.

What started out as a donut shop called Danny's Donuts that opened in Lakewood, California back in 1953 has grown to become Denny's- one of the largest and most successful restaurant chains in American history:

The 24-hour doughnut shop grew quickly, expanding to a larger menu and roughly 20 locations by 1959, and changing its name to Danny’s Coffee Shops along the way. But the founders worried that the mini-chain was at risk of getting confused with nearby Coffee Dan’s, so they switched one letter to create the Denny’s we know today.

Up close and personal with superstar Grand Slam. #dennys #grandslam #food #delicious

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The Grand Slam Breakfast debuted in Atlanta in 1977 with a name inspired by legendary baseball player Hank Aaron, and the Grand Slam has been about the same price my entire life- which is probably why it's Denny's most popular dish.

When Denny's says they're "always open" they mean it, and their 24-365 status almost became an issue when most of the restaurants decided to close for Christmas back in 1988:

When almost all the Denny’s locations closed for Christmas Day in 1988, many stores realized that they didn’t have any keys, or even locks, since they never used them. All told, 700 of the 1221 restaurants needed to get new locks installed for the holiday.

Read 10 Things You Might Not Know About Denny's at Mental Floss

Visual media makes pranking people with laxatives look like fun, but eating too many laxatives can lead to serious health problems including kidney failure, low potassium levels and severe dehydration.

A bonehead named BG learned this lesson the hard way when he decided to participate in some stupid online laxative-eating competition- but instead of eating one or two laxative-filled brownie he ate 25 in an hour.

Each brownie contained the recommended adult dose of 2 laxative tablets, so needless to say BG was stuck in the bathroom, but it's the other effects of a laxative overdose which he'll never forget:

This foolish move sparked a trail of events starting with massive dehydration and low potassium. It led to rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury. If left in this condition without aid, “your body, down to its bones, will rot away and eventually you'll die in a pool of your own waste that should have been in your urine," Chubbyemu explains. Nice.

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Zeon recently wrote about the 19 types of beer snobs and how they compare to one another, but even more common (and often even more pretenious) are food snobs. Fortunately, the same site that brought us the list of beer snobs has now followed up with a list of the most annoying food snobs. 

From the sourcing stickler to the guilt-tripping vegan, you've no doubt seen almost all of these types in person and probably unknowningly went out to dinner with them before you found out how annoying they are at restaurants. It's hard to argue that all of these types of eaters are obnoxious, what is up for debate is which one is the worst. Personally, I think the over-pronouncer might just be the most terrible person on the list. 

So check out the list for yourself and then let us know who you hate the most in the comments.

The folks from You Suck at Cooking prepare a delicious Italian meal for a date while cranking out one double entendre after another about said date. There's also advice about keeping your expectations low. Not about the food, but about the date.

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While enjoying the video, I was a little bothered by the fact that he finished the pasta dish before he even started on the salad dressing. That's not the way you make a meal come together in real life. I understand that each recipe should be shown in its entirety so that the viewer understands, but the hot food should be finished at exactly time to put it on the table. You do the cold food while you are waiting for the hot food to cook. Maybe that's why he needed to keep his expectations low.

September 29 is National Coffee Day! How should you celebrate? With a cup of coffee, of course!  

Learn about the chemistry and physics behind the perfect cup of coffee at Smithsonian. Or see some coffee statistics. You'll learn a lot about coffee in the Neatorama archives, like 5 Fun Facts About Coffee For National Coffee Day. Read about the beverage's history, like the role coffee played in the Civil War and the story behind Starbucks.

There are a few coffee chains that are offering a free cup of coffee, and even more that have discounts or deals today on coffee. See the list at Buzzfeed.

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Wine was considered an everyman's drink for centuries, but somewhere along the way the elitists in the world decided wine was an upper class quaff and unsuitable for broke folks.

But, as the number of wine makers grew and the drinking of wine became a daily affair once again, the prices came down and good wine became affordable for all as it should be...and then things got weird.

Now from the makers of Forty Ounce Rosé comes Forty Ounce Red- 40 oz. bottles of red wine for people who want to drink like an OG but don't like malt liquor.

Each one holds about 1.5 regular bottles of wine and costs about sixteen bucks, but if someone asks you to play Edward Fortyhands with these 40s just say no!

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Astronaut Mark Watney survived on potatoes when he was stuck on Mars in the movie The Martian, but that was fiction. The Great Famine in Ireland came about because of potato blight, and although lack of potatoes caused starvation, they weren't the sole food eaten by the Irish. Andrew Taylor ate a potato-only diet in 2016, but he flavored them with other ingredients and took supplements. Could someone live off only potatoes of they had to?

Technically, the traditional white potato contains all the essential amino acids you need to build proteins, repair cells, and fight diseases. And eating just five of them a day would get you there. However, if you sustained on white potatoes alone, you would eventually run into vitamin and mineral deficiencies. That's where sweet potatoes come in. Including these orangey ones in the mix—technically, they belong to a different taxonomic family than white potatoes—increases the likelihood that the potato consumer will get their recommended daily dose of Vitamin A, the organic compound in carrots that your mom told you could make you see in the dark, and Vitamin E. No one on a diet of sweet potatoes and white potatoes would get scurvy, a famously horrible disease that happens due to a lack of Vitamin C and causes the victim’s teeth to fall out.

But there are drawbacks to potatoes as a life-sustaining food. Personally, anytime someone asks the question, "If you could eat only one food, what would it be?" the answer is supreme pizza. However, that is technically more than one food, which is what you need. Read about the nutritional bang for your buck in potatoes at Popular Science.

Beer used to be too common and lowly an alcoholic beverage to be judged in the same way as wine and fine spirits, but the craft beer revolution has turned beer into a beverage suitable for snobbery.

When you belly up to the bar for an ice cold pint of beer you may encounter one of the nineteen types of beer snobs, from the picky Sampler to the snooty Barrel Baron who only drinks barrel aged brews.

To me the worst kind of beer snob is the Glassware Obsessive snob, who judges you by the type of glass you pour your beer in to and rubs beertenders the wrong way...just drink the friggin' beer and SHUT UP! *scowl*

See The 19 Types Of Beer Snobs, Ranked By Obnoxiousness here

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Feeling hungry and happen to be in Anaheim? Well, if you're looking for something a little different you might want to head to the Grand Californian Hotel at the Disneyland resort where you can get mini corn dogs that are served up like classic nachos complete with cheese, guacamole and more. The tasty treats are only served until the end of September -that's right, you only have about two weeks to get your hands on these bad boys.

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Have you ever wondered why a scoop of ice cream from one brand or scoopery lasts twice as long as another?

It's because of the amount of air found in each brand of ice cream, and brands sold at grocery stores are allowed to have up to 50 percent air in there, which means you're only getting half of what you pay for.

To illustrate how much air gets pumped in to each tub of ice cream The Action Lab put a tub of Kroger ice cream in a vacuum chamber so we can watch it rise to the occasion.

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When you visit another country, you want to try the local cuisine in order to really get a feel for the culture, but to the people in those countries, the food is just an every day reality. People from other countries feel the same way about your culture's food as well. So have you ever considered what tourists visiting America feel like they just have to try? They you have to check out this Reddit thread on the subject. Just as a spoiler, some of the most common responses are corn dogs, Thanksgiving foods and Creole cuisine.

See all the delicious (and sometimes odd cravings) at Reddit.

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JP isn't just a spiritual guru and a life advice giver guy- he's also Vegan AF and one hell of a cook, so if you really want to Awaken your Ultra Spiritual life you've gotta eat like JP too.

And, as JP shows us in his Raw Vegan Cooking video, it's pretty easy to cut out all the worst foods and replace them with super power foods like cucumber, which is one of the best universal replacement foods out there.

What other vegetable can be used as the crust, the sauce and the cheese of a pizza? None other, that's what other, and JP's super fresh cucumber pizza will change the way you think about fake food.

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We are used to three forms of chocolate: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. Barry Callebaut, one of the world's largest chocolate manufacturers and a chocolate research center in Zurich, announced this week that the three main types of chocolate have been joined by a new form they call ruby chocolate, made from the unique ruby cocoa bean.  

The fourth type in chocolate offers a totally new taste experience, which is not bitter, milky or sweet, but a tension between berry-fruitiness and luscious smoothness. To create Ruby chocolate no berries or berry flavor, nor color, is added.

Ruby chocolate was unveiled at an industry event in China on Tuesday. I couldn't find any easily-accessible information on the ruby cocoa bean, but Eater says,

“This is classic marketing hype,” says Megan Giller, food writer, Eater contributor, and author of the new book Bean-to-Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution. “We don’t yet know what Callebaut means by the ‘ruby cocoa bean,’ especially since no expert I’ve ever spoken to has mentioned a unique type of bean that comes from the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, and Brazil.” Giller has done some research and believes this new product is made from “a genetically modified bean, maybe CCN-51, that has been processed in a particular way to get that ruby color.” (Schrauth would not go into specifics regarding how the bean was developed, citing intellectual property.)

The FDA will have to approve the new chocolate before it goes on sale in the US, so we might not see it in stores until Valentines day of 2019. Barry Callebaut is focusing on marketing the chocolate in China.  -via Laughing Squid

Chile con queso, or just queso, is a staple of Tex-Mex cuisine. The classic recipe is based on processed American cheese with tomatoes and green chiles, often Velvet and Ro-Tel.

From the time it was introduced, Ro-Tel hitched its wagon to processed cheese, producing early advertisements that encouraged home cooks to make their “cheese dip” with Velveeta and Ro-Tel. That partnership continues today, with millions of dollars spent between Kraft and ConAgra (who now own Velveeta and Ro-Tel, respectively) each year in joint television advertising.

From there, chile con queso staked its place as a popular party dish. With Velveeta and Ro-Tel now widely available on grocery store shelves, home cooks could simply warm the block of processed cheese with a can of tomatoes to produce a dip that was always consistent, and always perfectly smooth. “The first recipe with Velveeta I could find was written in Lubbock in 1939,” says Fain. “From that point on, there was no looking back. It became the cheese to use for chile con queso. American cheese has more dairy in it, so you have to add stabilizers. You need starch and liquids to stabilize the sauce. And who doesn’t love processed cheese? It’s salty, it’s tangy, it’s delicious.”   

But there are many different ways to make queso, and local preferences vary across the U.S. I make queso by stirring a jar of homemade salsa into a jar of store-brand cheese sauce. It's good with everything! Read up on the history and varieties of queso at Eater. -via Metafilter, where you'll find links to queso recipes.  

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It used to be a heck of a lot easier to figure out whether a piece of produce was a fruit or a vegetable, because people were inclined to keep the fruits fruity and the vegetables crisp and veggie.

But then some smarty pants started wondering why tomatoes were classified as veggies when they grow from the ovary in the base of the flower and contain the seeds of the plant, and the food reclassification war began.

According to this Mr. Lovenstein comic that was the beginning of "strange times" and the end of the Berry Club as we know it, and fruit salads would never taste the same again...

-VIa Geeks Are Sexy