At Consumerist, we take burgers very seriously. So much so, that we wanted to share some tips we gathered from an expert about the basics e...
Charges Re-Filed Against Restaurant Owners Accused Of Dumpster-Diving For Deer Heads
Preventing food waste is good, but not to the point of dumpster-diving for deer brains at a wild game butcher. The former owners of a Chines...
Here’s Some Advice On How To Avoid Getting Head-Butted By A Bison
Look, we’re not wildlife experts by any stretch of the imagination, but there is one very easy way to avoid injury by head-butting or other ...
Fidget Spinners Not Just Exploding In Popularity, But Literally Exploding With Fire
If you have been in the vicinity of any children between roughly ages 6 and 18 lately, you have been in the vicinity of fidget spinner toys....
Which Fireworks Are Legal In My State?
This holiday weekend is a long one, giving people everywhere ample opportunity to stock up on all manner of fireworks from not-at-all sketch...
Here’s A Bunch Of Patriotic-Ish Movies You Can Stream This Fourth Of July
For many people, this Fourth of July weekend is sure to be a busy one — Parades! Picnics! Parties! But when the fireworks have all stopped a...
Today In Streaming TV: Charter Tests Skinny Bundle, CenturyLink Launches $45 Package
The trend continues: As consumers increasingly cut the cord and back away from traditional pay-TV, they still want to watch content. And rat...
RadioShack Creditors Sue Sprint, Accuse It Of Destroying 6,000 Jobs
Just over two years ago, venerable but bankrupt electronics chain RadioShack cut a deal with mobile carrier Sprint to save thousands of jobs...
Convenience Store Clerk Shames Would-Be Robber Into Apologizing
Proving that a guilty conscience can be a powerful thing, a convenience store clerk in South Carolina shamed an armed man who was trying to ...
5 Questions To Ask Before Using A Peer-To-Peer Mobile Payment App
It’s never been easier to split the bill with your friends — from “Venmo-ing” $20 for a birthday gift or Facebook messaging $12 for your sha...
Sony Returns To Making Vinyl Records After 28-Year Break
Although streaming music services are currently duking it out for listeners’ ears, there will always be people out there who insist to their...
Trump, GOP Senators Suggest Simply Repealing Obamacare Without Replacement
With Republican lawmakers unable to reach a consensus on how to replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and some influential senato...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are seven of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumerist...
UPS Deliveries By Golf Cart Now Legal In Kentucky
UPS is testing package delivery drones on trucks so a single driver can make multiple deliveries at once, but how can it make short-range d...
Budget Office: Long-Term Medicaid Spending Would Drop 35% Under Obamacare Repeal Plan
As we mentioned in our coverage of the Congressional Budget Office’s review of the Senate proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the t...
Phone Sex Operators Say They Are Making Less Than Minimum Wage
No matter what field you work in, we all have the right to make at least minimum wage. But phone-sex operators working for a Florida-based ...
GOP Might Not Include $172 Billion Tax Cut In Obamacare Repeal Plan
Though Senate leadership recently decided to delay a vote on its plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the GOP is still hoping...
Former StarKist Tuna Executive Pleads Guilty To Price-Fixing
Of all the industries to be rocked by scandal, you probably never expected that Big Tuna would be a hotbed of conspiracy. And yet, another f...
Strapping Dressers, Bookshelves, Lamps, Cleaning Supplies, A TV, & A Bike To Your Minivan Will Probably Get You Pulled Over
Just because you can arrange every item you own into a patchwork rooftop tower of furniture, household items, cleaning supplies, blankets, ...
Amazon/Whole Foods Merger Forcing Supermarkets To Take Delivery Seriously
With Amazon set to merge its massive delivery network with Whole Foods’ existing retail business, more supermarkets are beginning to realiz...
These Forms Collect Your Data Even If You Don’t Hit “Submit”
If you fill in a web form and hit “submit,” you expect your data to get whisked off into the great ether, and probably from there to be shar...
Garlic Fries Returning To McDonald’s, But Only In San Francisco
McDonald’s continues to tease most of the country, dangling the promise of garlic fries — not some caked-on garlic-and-puke-flavored powder...
RadioShack Closes Last Store In Its Hometown
Even as the number of remaining RadioShacks dwindled to below 100, the once-popular retailer held off on closing the one store left in its h...
Owner & Seller Of 20 Lb. Lobster Not Thrilled That TSA Made A Celebrity Of Oversized Crustacean
Deserved or not, the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t usually get much affection on social media, so it must have been a nice ...