This week 7-Eleven introduced their new Slurpee Lite, which is sugar-free and contains 50% fewer calories. This is the first time in the ice treat's 45 years that the Slurpee is being offered to the sugar-free set. Fancy. To celebrate the launch, 7-Eleven has announced SlurpFREE Day, which is today! Their stores from across the country will offer a free 7.11 ounce Slurpee drink from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. more ›

What we call a night in front of the TV watching Bad Girls Club, Mike Pierce, wine director and part owner of Maverick, will call a sugar-and-wine-soaked night to remember. What are we talking about? This: Maverick will host their 12th Junk Food Wine Pairing on May 16th. Four popular junk foods will be paired with four different wines selected by Pierce. Said food that your mom told you would rot your teeth include: house-made fried cheese curds, Cincinnati chili, Fritos, and more. more ›

Exemplary writer Joyce Slaton dares to go where some artisan half-baked food scribes should. Take, for example, the turkey she recently prepared as an assignment for CHOW, prepared using "Twinkling Turkey," a recipe from The Twinkies Cookbook of 2006. Yep. She made it. She ate it. It was horrific. more ›

Noted nut purveyors Diamond Foods, based in San Francisco, plan to purchase Procter & Gamble's Pringles for $1.5 billion. And we couldn't be prouder. Pringles are the best selling snack chip in the U.S. and U.K. Plus, they're doused in salt and thus super tasty. more ›

In what could be the news story of the year, the Outer Sunset will soon score a Schweet Boks, the city's first "cereal eatery." Artisan müesli and Alice Waters-approved walnut granola, you fret? Perish the thought. Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi has word that, while the cereal diner will serve Intelligentsia Coffee, "the rest is pretty straightforward: choose your cereal(s), choose your toppings and then your milk. So if you’ve ever wanted to eat Cocoa Puffs with strawberries with soy milk in a social setting, now is your chance." more ›

Yes, it's the time again when Bay Area chefs, critics, and other artisan slop notables break their silence on what junk food they let pass over their acclaimed, richly-textured palates. Everything from aged (read: stale) Swedish Fish to Tombstone Pizza (mmm) to Rotel cheese dip (quadruple mmm) to Beard Papa cream puffs receive tips of the hat from the gastronomic elite. Many thanks goes out to the fine food folks who participated. more ›

In an effort to expose the fructose- and sodium-laced underbelly of the Bay Area foodie scene, SFist asked famous gastronomic types to reveal their junk food habits of choice. more ›