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Taco Bell fans can now make two of the chain's most popular menu items at home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

(KTLA) - Taco Bell fans can now recreate two of the chain's most popular menu items at home.The California-based fast food company and Kraft Heinz have teamed up on new home-cook versions of Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme and Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla after seeing social media users trying to create their own versions of the dishes.A look at Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme and Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla cooking kits. (Business Wire) Taco Bell described the Crunchwrap Supreme as “perhaps its most iconic menu item in history” and noted that copycat recipe videos garnered over 50 million views on TikTok. Doritos rolls out nacho cheese-flavored liquor The quesadilla was one of the company's best-selling menu items in 2023, a news release said.This is the first time Taco Bell is releasing cooking kits for both menu items. The “craving kits” include “proprietary Taco Bell restaurant ingredients, seasonings and sauces” essential to make the dishes at home, a news release said. Each cravi...

FDA investigates reports of hair loss, suicidal thoughts in people using popular diabetes, weight loss drugs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

(The Hill) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into reports of adverse side effects from using GLP-1 diabetes medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro, with hair loss, suicidal thoughts and airway obstruction being among the reported complications.According to the latest information from the agency, the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) received reports of patients experiencing alopecia, aspiration and suicidal ideation while taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists.The agency is "evaluating the need for regulatory action."GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozepmic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and Zepbound work by mimicking the hormone known as GLP-1. This hormone stimulates insulin secretion and can also reduce appetite. While initially approved for treating diabetes, these drugs have become well-known for their use in weight loss. Nearly 17,000 people may have died from hydroxychloroquine: study Semaglutide — marketed under the names Ozempic, Rybelsus and...

01/05/2024: The first winter storm of 2024

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

The latest Storm Tracker Forecast from Meteorologist Jill Szwed.Happy Friday! Old Man Winter has finally arrived. It's all about the cold today. We are waking up to wind chills in the single digits and teens. Despite sunny skies again, there won't be much of a warm up. It will "feel" like the teens and 20s for the better part of the day.Now is the time to prepare for the weekend winter storm. Whether it's grabbing the essentials at the store, tuning up your car and snow blower, or de-decorating. Clouds from the storm will start showing up tonight. It won't be as cold with a lighter breeze and lows around 20 degrees.Conditions will deteriorate Saturday night. We are tracking the snow to push into the Catskills around sunset (5 PM.) Roads will quick become snow covered and visibility will be reduced. Best to stay off the roads through Sunday afternoon.It will be snowing area-wide by midnight. The snow doesn't just become widespread and steady, but the intensity will pick up, especiall...

What’s driving Colorado’s obsession with the new retro black license plates?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Joe Duran first saw the strange new license plate on his Arvada neighbor’s car and thought it was fake.Though Colorado has a sizable collection of specialty license plates — as alternatives to its standard green-sky, white-mountains design — Duran had never seen this one before: black plate, white letters.His first sighting was in early 2023, shortly after a series of previously retired plates were released to the public as retro options. Now, a year after their triumphant return, the “blackout” plates are seemingly everywhere, catching on at a pace that surprised state officials and left records in their dust — while the extra $25 annual fee charged for them has raised millions of dollars to help Coloradans with disabilities.Just shy of 170,000 vehicle owners have snapped up the black plates, according to state figures.That has far outpaced the two designs for Colorado’s 150th anniversary plates, which went on sale in August and had been sn...

10th Mountain Division: “To be selected as one of them was really an honor”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Because of its unique mission, recruiting for the 10th Mountain Division during World War II focused on experienced skiers and mountaineers, but soon the demand for them exceeded the supply. The Army began assigning soldiers to the 10th without any background in the mountains, and Cruz Rios became one of them. A native of Colton, Calif., a small town near San Bernardino, he enlisted in 1943 and was sent to Camp Hale randomly after basic training.“Being a Hispanic man, there weren’t that many in the 10th,” his son Val told The Denver Post while he was in Denver for the opening of the new History Colorado exhibit about the 10th, “Winter Warriors.” “It made it really special. To be selected as one of them was really an honor. He absolutely loved it. And the prejudice that existed at the time, he didn’t experience any of that with the 10th guys. They just welcomed him as a brother, as he would say.”Related ArticlesOutdoors | New docum...

Call Your Mother Deli opens third location in Denver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

There’s another bagel shop in town worth calling your mother about. Washington, D.C.-based Call Your Mother Deli opened its third Denver location last week.The restaurant: Call Your Mother Deli, 217 S. Holly St., DenverAbout: This trendy bagel shop made its Denver debut in May at 3870 Tennyson St., which garners lines so long on the weekend that employees provide fresh-poured cups of coffee while you wait. Known for its bagel sandwiches, the brand opened a second store in October at 1291 Pearl St. in Capitol Hill. The third location, located next to High Point Creamery and Park Burger, was previously home to The Rotary, which closed in May. Call Your Mother has trademarked the space with its playful bright blue, pink and yellow exterior finishes, a flower wall in the dining room surrounding its logo, and a flamingo that greets you on the way to the bathroom.Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | There are no more TGI Fridays in Colorado Restaurants, Food...

Is your New Year’s resolution to hit the gym? Here are 4 of the most Colorado workouts you can do

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Every January brings a wave of New Year’s resolutions — promises made at the stroke of midnight to do better over the next 12 months. And often, as you clean up confetti in a prosecco-induced haze on Jan. 1, you realize those vows included hitting the gym.It’s 2024. Leave behind the old-fashioned notions of creating a fitness routine aimed at dropping 10 pounds or fitting into that old pair of jeans — in fact, throw that tired denim away entirely. Instead, find a workout regimen that inspires you to get stronger, feel healthier and, most importantly, keep coming back.In Colorado, that’s an easier task to accomplish, with the state ranking as the most physically active in the U.S. The land of the Rocky Mountains lends itself to plenty of activities that get the blood pumping while — could it be? — having fun.As one of The Denver Post’s fitness junkies, you can often find me sweating over high-intensity interval training at my locally-ow...

There are no more TGI Fridays in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

TGI Fridays is no longer a Colorado resident.The Dallas-based casual-dining bar-and-grill chain said Wednesday that it is closing 36 “underperforming locations” as “part of the brand’s ongoing growth strategy,” including its two remaining Colorado restaurants. TGI Fridays also sold eight previously corporate-owned restaurants in the northeast to its former CEO Ray Blanchette.Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | Call Your Mother Deli opens third location in Denver Restaurants, Food and Drink | New brewery will take Ursula’s space at UC Health campus Restaurants, Food and Drink | Blackbelly Market opening first Denver location next month Restaurants, Food and Drink | 12 hottest Denver restaurant openings of 2023 Restaurants, Food and Drink | With Alma Fonda Fina, Denver chef elevates Guadalajara specialties he grew up eating “By strengthening our franchise...

Colorado business leaders more confident heading into 2024

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Colorado business leaders aren’t ready to sing Happy Days just yet, but they are in a much better mood heading into this year than they were last, according to the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index from the University of Colorado Boulder.“Entering 2024, business confidence remains suppressed but is on the rise,” according to the report, which is published quarterly.The LCBI looks at six different categories and asks respondents what they expect over the next two quarters. An index score of 50 indicates an expansionary or positive outlook, while one below 50 is negative, indicating expectations for a contraction.The overall index came in at 45.3 for the first quarter of this year, which is up 43.6 in the fourth quarter of 2023. The outlook for the state economy was 47.2, up from 45.5 in the last report, while the outlook for the U.S. economy came in at 45.2, up from 40.2.That two-point gap between the U.S. and Colorado outlook is the smallest measured in the pa...

Ban on new oil and gas wells in “cherished” Colorado landscape is close after years of grassroots efforts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

For nearly two decades, a unique coalition of conservationists, ranchers and recreationists have fought to block oil and gas development on a rugged section of land on the Western Slope.The Thompson Divide is “quintessential, old-school Colorado,” as one advocate put it. It encompasses rugged canyons, dramatic mountains, scraggly foothills and broad valleys. Few roads cut through it, and cell phone service is sparse.Temporary protections for the land are now on the horizon after years of lobbying and organizing. The U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management requested that the U.S. secretary of the interior block future mining and energy development on more than 350 square miles of the Thompson Divide for the next 20 years.The final public comment period is set to end Monday for the proposal to withdraw the land from eligibility for oil and gas leasing under federal law.“The 20-year withdrawal would be a big win for everyone who values the Thompson Divid...