Tiny food stories, treated seriously.
Food News treats everyday eating like headline material, from KitKat thefts and Reese’s controversy to McDonald’s pricing quirks and Ruth’s Chris dress codes. The appeal is the quick back-and-forth: opinionated, affectionate, and willing to spend real energy on tiny food details.
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Food News is a fast-moving food-culture conversation about the stories people send each other before they know why they care. It is casual, but not empty. Juliette Littman and David Jacoby take snack launches, restaurant policies, delivery-app oddities, and listener voicemails and turn them into highly specific debates about taste, habit, etiquette, and brand behavior. The scale is part of the fun. A truckload of missing KitKats can feel as important as a major sports trade. A Ruth’s Chris dress code can become a referendum on steakhouses, hats, and what counts as basic elegance. A Marriott soda switch opens the door to Coke-versus-Pepsi loyalties. Even a Happy Meal pricing experiment gets treated like evidence in a larger mystery about apps and consumer life. The show also has a strong tasting streak. Alternative soda, unique chips, Oreos, cherry Coke, Erewhon food, Lloyd’s carrot cake, and midday snacks all become material for quick reactions and longer riffs. Nothing stays in its lane for long. A story about Olive Garden can lead to TikTok, family phones, unlimited soup, and the appeal of Alessandro eating breadsticks. Listener calls give the show another gear, bringing in questions about quick bites, slow food, neighbor relationships, restaurant ordering pressure, and oddly memorable personal food habits. The conversations are loose, but they have a recognizable shape. A headline lands, a reaction follows, and then the speakers keep tugging until the tiny story reveals some larger feeling about eating in public, craving in private, or caring too much about a snack. The tone is warm and mildly sarcastic. It can be blunt, especially when a product sounds terrible, but the bluntness usually serves delight rather than contempt. Food News suits people who like food media best when it sounds like smart friends overreacting to the right things. It is not recipe-driven or chef-centered. It is a weekly record of how packaged snacks, chain restaurants, internet trends, and personal food rules keep turning into shared culture.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy food culture, chain-restaurant lore, snack tasting, and quick conversational comedy. It especially fits people who like consumer news with personality instead of polished food criticism.
What sets it apart: Food News stands out by making low-stakes food stories feel socially revealing without draining them of fun. The chemistry, listener calls, and taste tests matter as much as the headlines.
Join Juliet Litman and David Jacoby every week for ‘Food News,’ in which they will sample various snacks, share personal tales about food, and round up the latest in food news from around the world!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Juliette Littman and David Jacoby turn food headlines, taste tests, and chain-restaurant oddities into sharp, funny conversations about everyday appetite.
Food News turns food headlines into a running conversation between Juliette Littman and David Jacoby, where a KitKat theft, a hotel chain's soda switch, or an improbable restaurant drink can become material for argument and amusement.
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