Huffington Post: We know to avoid dinner topics on religion, politics, and money, but what about death? This Saturday, people are gathering all over America to imbibe, indulge, and grapple with the concept of death over the dinner spread. (And the date’s intentional too: The 24th is the anniversary of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s death—remember, the five stages of grief?) Michael Hebb, a passionate defender of communal dining and the Seattle man behind the movement, hopes these nationwide dinners will change the approach we have to mortality: “Historically, it's over food where ideas have come alive." More details can be found here, and don't forget to serve death in the afternoons.—Rachel Breiwick

Eater NY (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3): Depending on your perspective, this three-part Shitshow Week list of anonymous grievances aired by New York food writers is either preachable truth or gallingly indulgent. And it's inarguably the sort of inside baseball that's irrelevant to someone who just wants to know where to go for dinner. And yet, I can't stop reading. And snickering. And nodding. Especially at items no. 2, 26, 28, 55, 56, 57, 60, and 71.—Allecia Vermillion

Seattle Weekly: A new column debuted this week called "The Bar Code," in which writer and bartender Zach Geballe focuses on everything booze from the perspective of a restaurant insider. His first topic relates to bar regulars and whether or not they deserve better treatment then the regular dude off the street. Andrew Friedman of Liberty says hell no, while Geballe begs to differ. I'd assume bar regulars everywhere hope more agree with the author.—Cassie Sawyer

Serious Eats: Hold the phone—McDonald's sells a McLobster sandwich in Canada? Sadly (fortunately?) this curiosity is only available in the maritime provinces and, more recently, Ontario. The Golden Arches reportedly does not skimp on the lobster, though this food writer notes a similar abundance of lettuce and a weird mayonnaise sauce, plus some dry, unbuttered bread. But the verdict: surprisingly okay. Which is about all you reasonably can—or should—expect from a $6.50 lobster roll served at a McDonald's.—Allecia Vermillion

New York Daily News: Turns out Oreo Double Stuf is a big cookie-sandwich lie. A high school math class in Queensbury, New York, called Nabisco’s bluff and measured and weighed Oreo Double Stuf cookies against their regular “stuf” counter parts: “The students found that Double Stuf Oreos were 1.86 times the size of regular Oreos.”—James Ross Gardner