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It's Friday, March 1, and You Can Buy the Now-Dilapidated Burgermobile from 'Good Burger'

Plus, Huge Ass Beers and Giant Ass Beer are facing off in federal court over who owns the rights to, uh, big-ass beers.
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Welcome to Off-Menu , where we'll be rounding up all the food news and food-adjacent internet ephemera that delighted, fascinated, or infuriated us this morning.

  • A federal judge in Louisiana will soon have the unenviable task of deciding whether Giant Ass Beers are the same thing as Huge Ass Beers. According to The Advocate, the company that owns the three Bourbon Street bars that sell their beers in 32-ounce cups with the words “Huge Ass Beers” tastefully printed on the side has filed a lawsuit against three different Bourbon Street bars (and one strip club) that have started offering oversized plastic bottles of Giant Ass Beer. “Instead of using 'Huge,' 'Big' or 'Half,' defendants' mark uses 'Giant,'" the lawsuit reads. "'Giant' is synonymous with both ‘Huge’ and 'Big.'" I’m starting to reconsider my plan to move to New Orleans to sell cups of Massive Gluteal Grain Drink.
  • Yesterday, we were all reasonably enamored with Hallway Pizza Guy, the college student who was caught on camera inhaling a slice of pizza outside the Michael Cohen hearing. He has since done a Reddit AMA, which everyone has read from start-to-finish because we’re all unfulfilled at work, uncertain about our futures, and would prefer to learn about a stranger’s favorite kind of pizza crust (he likes it doughy) than to watch powerlessly as the clock tick-tick-ticks toward an increasingly dystopian future. Also, he got some gift cards!

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I’m always amazed that Kenan Thompson still looks like a teenager, mostly because he’s been part of the SNL cast since the late 1970s. (He’s actually 40.) He’s aging incredibly well, especially compared to one of his Good Burger costars.

According to Jalopnik, the Pacer that played the role of the Burgermobile is 1) being sold on Facebook marketplace and 2) rusting from the inside out like the rest of us who grew up in the late 1990s. The car’s current owner is selling it for $10,000, which is a bargain for what is clearly Kenan Thompson’s manual-transmission “Portrait of Dorian Gray.”

KIDS THESE DAYS

While some parents are frantically Googling “MOMO CHALLENGE,” others are just-as-frantically searching their kids’ jacket pockets for bottles of…vanilla extract. Grady High School in Atlanta has sent a warning to parents, advising them that their offspring may or may not be drinking coffee spiked with Trader Joe’s own-brand baking supplies. “This is not an indictment of Trader Joe’s at all, but parents please be aware that this product contains 35% alcohol and we have discovered that some students have consumed this intoxicant,” the school said. Grady officials say the students are buying $9 bottles of the stuff and pouring it into Starbucks coffee, then going to class. I’m honestly less shook about the extract than I am about the fact that high school kids can afford that and Starbucks.

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Happy Friday to everyone but Bijan Stephen!