(from washingtonpost.com)

Bradley Reid had one simple question: Why did you fire my wife?

But he decided to ask her employer in an extremely public way — on Cracker Barrel‘s corporate Facebook page. He still doesn’t have an answer as to why his wife, Nanette, lost the retail-manager job she held in an Indiana Cracker Barrel for 11 years. But he does have an army of wisecracking trolls behind him. Once Internet pranksters caught wind of Reid’s inquiry, they flooded the Cracker Barrel page with comments about “Brad’s Wife,” the Internet’s new favorite meme. Pity the poor social-media manager behind the scenes, desperately trying to regain control by posting videos of mixed-berry pancakes. (MORE HERE)

Employee: Hi welcome to Cracker Barrel
Everyone: WHERE'S BRAD'S WIFE#justiceforbradswife pic.twitter.com/L8Dxkk9XYV

— Bryson Wilson (@Bryswilson) March 23, 2017

(from chicagoist.com)

Celebrity chef Rick Bayless is coming out with a new line of frozen meals under his Frontera brand. The company, known for its chips and salsas, was purchased by ConAgra Foods last year for $109 million. The frozen meals will have a health-food focus and are inspired by Mexican cuisine; three flavors, chicken fajita, barbacoa taco and veggie taco, pictured above, feature “braised beef and black beans, three-chile barbacoa sauce, fire-roasted peppers,” among other ingredients. “Foodies around the country know Rick Bayless as the premier authority on gourmet Mexican cuisine,” ConAgra CEO Sean Connolly told the Tribune of the move. (MORE HERE)

(from timeout.com)

Local musician and DePaul alum Joe Keery has been staying busy since his breakout role as douchey heartthrob Steve Harrington in Netflix’s ’80s-indebted sci-fi series Stranger Things. The well-coiffed young actor has continued performing with his psych-rock band Post Animal, poked fun at his resemblance to Parks & Recreation actor Ben Schwartz and has (presumably) reunited with the Hawkins, Indiana gang in the forthcoming second season of Stranger Things.

Keery exudes an effortless sense of ’80s cool, so it should come as no surprise that he was enlisted to recreate the the climactic chase scene from John Hughes’s suburban-Chicago-set film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. (MORE HERE)