The Food and Drug Administration is warning parents and teens about “very unsafe” social media trends, including a recent one that has begun trending online involving cooking chicken in NyQuil. The challenge — which the FDA called “silly and unappetizing” and “very unsafe” — encourages people to cook chicken in NyQuil or another similar over-the-counter cough and cold medication before eating it. It is unclear how many people have participated in this trend even though the FDA has taken the […]

If you’ve ever felt an urgent need to make confit potatoes or fold a tortilla wrap in a clockwise direction, then you have been influenced. It can creep in from anywhere, an overheard conversation on the bus about three-ingredient brownies (I was responsible for this one), or a quick chat at the start of a Zoom call about that feta pasta for dinner. Coronavirus wasn’t the only thing spreading virally in 2020. There were the dalgona coffee and banana bread […]