Even Real Cooks Cheat Sometimes

This week’s mission: frozen food with highfalutin notions.

Strip Club Eats

Ten gentlemen’s lounges with good food. Seriously.

Chicken in a Burger Suit

This week’s mission: preseasoned, grillable chicken patties and fancified crackers.

Meal Kits: From Good to Worse

This week’s mission: Just add chicken to two different premade dinners.

Alluring Burger King Apple "Fries"

This week’s mission: low-fat prepackaged ice cream cones, and a healthier Burger King kids' meal.

From Tub to Mouth

This week’s mission: premade spreadable cheesecake filling and high-end mass-market soups.

Shelf-Stable Ice Cream Float Disaster

This week’s mission: a fake prefab float, and a better-quality Nestlé Crunch bar.

Toaster Pastries Fit for a Monk

This week’s mission: ready-made meals for gluten allergy sufferers and a healthier alternative to Pop-Tarts.

Special Moments with Grim Gruel

This week’s mission: personality-based soft drinks and microwave baked desserts.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

World of Warcraft–Flavored Soda

This week’s mission: a beverage for gamers.

Crazy Pretzel Sandwich

This week’s mission: off-kilter but refreshing soft drinks and a zesty hodgepodge of a pretzel snack.

Good Label, Bad Wine

CHOW tastes wines with great labels and discovers the duds.

Italian Ice Cream Trance State

This week’s mission: fake fancy mac ’n' cheese, and real fancy gelato.

Take Your Lunch to Work: Beans

One package of white beans; five easy, varied, and quick lunches.