Monday, September 21, 2026 · New Jersey
Food & Dining
RMN dispatches tagged Food & Dining.
We Have Diagnosed the Avocado
Good Foods Group has named the familiar panic of avocado timing “Guacxiety.” The joke works because we have turned the language of psychology into everyday shorthand — and because the avocado really does seem determined to be ready for approximately nine minutes.
We Didn't Give Up the Little Treat. We Learned How to Manufacture It.
Rising prices were supposed to make small luxuries disappear. Instead, TikTok has helped turn some of them into DIY projects - giving consumers the skills, aesthetics and shopping lists to reproduce the experience at home.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Apparently All of Our Food Has Anxiety Now
Two days after “Guacxiety,” a New Jersey snack company has arrived with the “Snack-Xiety Report.” At some point, the coincidence becomes a language story: advertising has discovered that anxiety is one of the quickest ways to name ordinary consumer friction.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
The Pizza Is Usually the Excuse. Being Together Is the Point.
A HelloNation feature on a South Carolina pizzeria makes a simple case for pizza as social glue: it is easy to share, hard to make formal, and remarkably good at turning an ordinary night into a gathering.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
New Jersey Has a Pumpkin Concierge. I Kind of Love That.
Jersey Girl Pumpkins will design, deliver, install and even remove a custom fall porch display. It is unmistakably a luxury service, but it is also an unusually specific New Jersey small business built around artistic judgment, seasonal ritual and the value of letting someone else handle the entire job.
Culture Jersey Girl Pumpkins · Wayne, New Jersey
This Is How You Bring a Snack Back
Slim Jim just made a 429-foot meat stick. That is ridiculous. It is also a reminder that some brands survive because they become attached to a particular time in our lives.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
The Black Market Behind the Fryer
Once restaurant grease became renewable-fuel feedstock, the bin behind the kitchen became inventory — and thieves with pumps and tanks followed the value into the alley.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
Fine, Knorr Got Us
We do not usually write about limited-edition pantry products. We also do not usually have the brand already sitting in our pantry before the press release arrives.
Reported Feature Somerset County, New Jersey
The Sandwich Has Acquired Counsel
Smucker spent decades turning a crustless PB&J into a recognizable industrial product. Now a federal court is being asked where sandwich architecture ends and brand identity begins.
Culture Northern District of Ohio