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Burger King Corporation

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Boston Transplant Chews His Way Through Mission Street -- Literally

    ​Dave MP is new to San Francisco but it hasn't taken him much time to note the stretch of Mission between Cortland and Cesar Chavez is sadly underrated, especially in the food department. As Bernalwood points out today, Dave MP has pledged to chomp his way through the strip, investig-eating the ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Boston Eater Chews His Way Down Mission Street

    Man v. Food, the outer Mission editionCross-posted on The Snitch.​Dave MP is new to San Francisco but it hasn't taken him much time to note the stretch of Mission between Cortland and Cesar Chavez is sadly underrated, especially in the food department. As Bernalwood points out today, Dav ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2012

    Remembrance of Things Dreary: Welcome Back to 1993

    Man v. Food, the outer Mission editionCross-posted on The Snitch.​Dave MP is new to San Francisco but it hasn't taken him much time to note the stretch of Mission between Cortland and Cesar Chavez is sadly underrated, especially in the food department. As Bernalwood points out today, Dav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Downton Abbey Recap: Season 2, Episode 5

    Welcome back to Downton Abbey, where we are no longer at war! Well, kind of. World War One is over, but the shit is still on at Downton. The soapiness increased roughly a thousandfold, as we saw the return of the heir who drowned on the Titanic (Or did he? Or did we?), and the theft of Mr. Carson by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    This Whole 'Food Desert' Thing? Maybe That's Not the Problem

    apdesign / ShutterstockActually, it's not quite like this.​For the past decade or so, there's been a big push to identify "food deserts" -- low-income neighborhoods and even cities that don't have ready access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Plant markets in those deserts, the thinking has gone, a ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2011

    Law & Disorder: "The Examiner" Punches Crooks in the Junk

    apdesign / ShutterstockActually, it's not quite like this.​For the past decade or so, there's been a big push to identify "food deserts" -- low-income neighborhoods and even cities that don't have ready access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Plant markets in those deserts, the thinking has gone, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Ajamu Stewart, Clifton Sanders, Former Health Inspectors Charged in Food Safety Scandal

    You don't really need a certificate to tell you that this meal here doesn't look safe​Two former health inspectors with the San Francisco Department of Public Health Food and Safety Program appeared in court today to answer to charges of forging food safety certificates in exchange for cash bribes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Filthy Fast Food Playgrounds, Michelle Obama Eats a Burger (Gasp!)

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Dirty fast food slides. The Chicago Tribune/LA Times profile an Arizona woman who is evaluating the playgrounds at fast food restaurants by taking video of the filth and sending s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Seeds of Death, Chickens of Death, and Terminal (2) Food Prices

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The week in killer foods. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the source of the European E. coli outbreak that killed 48 people may have been found: Egyptian fenugreek se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Peanut Butter Wolf on His History with 45s, and Why the Vinyl Comeback is Overhyped

    Leader of the Pack​ Bay Area native Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, is best known for his distinctive production style of jazz, hip-hop, and funk-soul beats. Starting out his career in the early 90's with the late emcee Charizma, the then-teenage duo found instant success but never chose to c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Burger King Finds New Way to Make You Fat

    Burger KingThe Jalapeño and Cheddar BK Stuffed Steakhouse burger: digusting or brilliant?​It didn't take long for the creative geniuses behind fast-food marketing to come up with a new way to make you fat in the New Year. Earlier this week we noticed a new menu item at our local Burger King, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    For Epiphany or a Secular Pig-Out, It's La Victoria's Rosca de Reyes

    La VictoriaRosca de reyes: Score the baby Jesus and you have to host a tamale party.​As a college student abroad (Scotland, near Glasgow) visiting an American friend in France (Bordeaux), I was totally charmed by the ritual of the galette des rois, the kings' cake. You ate it on or around Jan. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    McDonald's Sued Over Happy Meal Toys

    You've been served​A Sacramento mother yesterday filed a class-action suit against McDonald's in San Francisco Superior Court, claiming the fast-food chain engages "in the unfair, unlawful, deceptive and fraudulent practice of promoting and advertising McDonald's Happy Meal products to very young ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Shock G 'Fesses Up About Humpty Hump

    Digital Underground in 1989​Rap ruses get no better than Humpty Hump. The alter-ego of Digital Underground's leader Shock G, Humpty's mythology has him wearing a fabulously-personalized Groucho Marx-style nose to cover up horrific facial scars incurred during a (fictional) accident with a deep-fat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    King Khan & BBQ Show Score Short Film About Love, Awww

    Modern Love from Cassandra Edes on Vimeo.Don't worry, this only seems like a Burger King promo. The girl in this short film wisely keeps her fast food dude options open. Most importantly, dig the soundtrack by King Khan & BBQ Show.Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

    Modern Love from Cassandra Edes on Vimeo.Don't worry, this only seems like a Burger King promo. The girl in this short film wisely keeps her fast food dude options open. Most importantly, dig the soundtrack by King Khan & BBQ Show.Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Peking Duck Worth Leaving Town For

    Please don't call it "quack." ​The idea of San Franciscans skipping town for the singular purpose of eating Chinese food is a little silly ― like Canadians driving to Phoenix to go skiing. From Shanghai soup dumplings to Islamic hot pots, this city's offerings stretch far beyond the battered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Move Over, Burger King Whopper Bar: Wendy's Strip Clubs and Other Fantasy Fast-Food Expansions

    With the announcement that Burger King is readying Whopper Bar in Miami Beach, the chain's first beer-and-burger joint, we think it's time for BK's competitors to step up into the area of brand extension, too. We wonder what would happen if these ideas were floated at corporate meetings:8. Jack in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Bay Links: Compost, Global Warming, & Unicycles

    Dude don't compost.​Burger King, Subway  flout S.F.'s composting laws. [SF Appeal]Ghostbusters in the Mission! [Misison Mission]City technology: There are some glitches in the system. [Sweet Melissa]Irony Alert: Chevron Towers decorated with symbol of Global Warming. [SF Citizen]So, there's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    City Attorney Releases List of Restaurant Workers with Tainted Safety Certificates

    jwrb/FlickrWorkers at Burger King will have to re-certify.​The San Francisco City Attorney's office has released a list of workers whose food safety certification are invalid as the result of a scandal involving questionable testing and certification procedures by two or three Department of Pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. You mean the answer isn't "pop"?: Maybe you were flashing on the first time you heard "Billie Jean," or remembering how, for the life of you, you couldn't imagine what Macaulay Culkin might have been doing on those Neverland sleepovers. Mission M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Dos Equis 'Interesting Man' is Entirely Too Common

    Interesting men are all too common latelyI'll admit it -- I listen to a lot of Energy 92.7. And over the past weeks and months, that's meant I've been repeatedly subjected to Dos Equis' "Interesting Man," commercials. You know, the one's about the old guy guy with the spray-on tan w ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 18, 2009

    Out of the Wild

    Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Urban Forager: Or, Risking Death to Accomplish a Collector's Double Hat Trick

    By Meredith Brody Last Sunday night, I was floating out from the Pacific Film Archive on the wings of satisfied cinephilia after indulging in my latest guilty pleasure - seeing one of the over-the-top, melodramatic, kitschy, wildly sexual movies of Teuvo Tulio, a Finnish auteur of the Thirties and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Thursday Club Spotlight: Hold It at SF Underground

    By Meredith Brody Last Sunday night, I was floating out from the Pacific Film Archive on the wings of satisfied cinephilia after indulging in my latest guilty pleasure - seeing one of the over-the-top, melodramatic, kitschy, wildly sexual movies of Teuvo Tulio, a Finnish auteur of the Thirties and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2008

    Fried Ice Cream in a Big Cup? The Future is Now!

    By Meredith Brody Last Sunday night, I was floating out from the Pacific Film Archive on the wings of satisfied cinephilia after indulging in my latest guilty pleasure - seeing one of the over-the-top, melodramatic, kitschy, wildly sexual movies of Teuvo Tulio, a Finnish auteur of the Thirties and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    The Year of Living the Fantasy

    How to chase your dream job this year

  • Home Entertainment

    October 31, 2007

    Mercury Meltdown Revolution Gets Wii Users all Wet

    How to chase your dream job this year

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    The Cutting Edge

    How to chase your dream job this year

  • Film

    March 29, 2006

    Slugfest

    Slither is silly and gross, but it might worm its way into your heart

  • Music

    December 28, 2005

    Party Like It's 2006

    On New Year's Eve disappointment waits around every corner, so follow these tips for partying hearty.

  • Music

    October 26, 2005

    Danger Doom

    The Mouse and the Mask

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best New Bar

    The Mouse and the Mask

  • News

    March 16, 2005

    Weekly Obsessions

    Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005

  • Music

    December 15, 2004

    Grammar School of Rock

    Never mind the bollocks, here's $lot Ma¢hine, the newest, meanest punk band in town -- aged 12 and under

  • Music

    June 2, 2004

    New Found Glory

    Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Pinheads and Vidiots

    Walking the floor with the arcade obsessed

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Underground Loft Party

    41 Powell (at Market), no phone

  • Calendar

    January 23, 2002

    Food for Thought

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Dining

    December 9, 1998

    Third Base

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • News

    October 7, 1998

    Letters

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Dog Bites

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Calendar

    September 3, 1997

    Savage Love

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Culture

    June 11, 1997

    Stage

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Music

    May 7, 1997

    Riff Raff

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1997

    Unspun

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Calendar

    March 19, 1997

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • Calendar

    January 31, 1996

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    Off-Base (Part II)

    The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

  • Music

    October 11, 1995

    It's All in the Game

    Fillmore rapper J.T. the Bigga Figga and his Get Low Records

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