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Big Arch (hamburger)
Big Arch is McDonald's largest hamburger: two quarter-pound beef patties, three slices of white cheddar, crispy onions, pickles, lettuce, and Big Arch sauce. First launched in Portugal in July 2024, permanent in the UK from January 2026, US launch March 3, 2026.
Big Boy Restaurants
Big Boy Restaurants is an American family-dining chain founded in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale, California, known for the original double-decker Big Boy burger and mascot; now headquartered in Warren, Michigan, with independent operators Frisch's Big Boy and Big Boy Japan.
Big Mac
The Big Mac (ビッグマック) is McDonald's double-decker hamburger, invented by franchisee Jim Delligatti in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1967 and rolled out nationally in 1968; 580 US calories, source of The Economist's Big Mac index, and basis of the Mega Mac and Chicken Big Mac variants.
Big N' Tasty
Big N' Tasty, also Big Tasty (no N), a McDonald's hamburger introduced in 1997 to compete with Burger King's Whopper; quarter-pound patty, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, ketchup, mayo; discontinued in the US January 1, 2011, but the Big Tasty with Emmental cheese and signature sauce persists internationally.
Big Red (soft drink)
Big Red is a red cream soda invented in 1937 in Waco, Texas, originally Sun Tang Red Cream Soda, renamed in 1969; sweet bubble-gum flavor, 34 mg caffeine per 12 oz, Red 40 dye, owned by Keurig Dr Pepper since 2018.
Bigos
Bigos, Polish hunter's stew, is a national dish of sauerkraut, fresh cabbage, and assorted meats, slowly cooked and improved by reheating; originally a 17th-century cabbage-free chopped-meat dish, it took its modern form in the 18th century.
Bikini barista
Bikini barista, also called sexpresso or bareista, is a drive-through coffee stand format staffed by scantily clad employees, originating near Seattle in 1999 with Natte Latte and concentrated in Washington, marked by tip-based earnings and the Everett dress-code litigation.
Billy Bob's Wonderland
Billy Bob's Wonderland, family entertainment center in Barboursville, West Virginia; opened 1986 as ShowBiz Pizza Place, independent since 1989; home of regular Rock-afire Explosion animatronic band shows and the annual BillyCon fan convention.
Billy Carter
Billy Carter (William Alton Carter, 1937-1988), Jimmy Carter's younger brother, Plains, Georgia gas station owner and peanut businessman; Billy Beer promoter; Libyan-agent "Billygate" figure cleared of influencing policy.
Biltong
Biltong, a South African salted, vinegar-cured, air-dried ready-to-eat meat made from beef or game strips; distinguished from jerky by no cooking step, vinegar curing, and typical 4–8% salt content.
Bimbo Bakeries USA
Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU) is the U.S. subsidiary of Mexico's Grupo Bimbo and the largest U.S. baking company, owning Sara Lee, Entenmann's, Thomas', Oroweat, and Arnold. It received an FDA sesame-labeling warning letter in 2024 and is moving headquarters from Horsham, PA to Dallas.
Biodynamic wine
Biodynamic wine is wine from grapes farmed by Rudolf Steiner's 1924 biodynamic system, certified mainly by Demeter (founded 1932), covering about 1% of world vineyards, with stricter cellar rules than organic wine and contested scientific evidence.
Bira 91
Bira 91 is an Indian craft beer brand launched February 2015 by Ankur Jain under B9 Beverages (91 = India's ISD code). It reached the #2 beer brand rank behind Kingfisher, then suffered a financial crisis leading to Kirin's exit and Jain's 2026 departure.
Birch beer
Birch beer, also called white birch beer, is a non-alcoholic carbonated soda flavored with birch sap, bark, or oil, chiefly methyl salicylate; a Pennsylvania and Northeast regional wintergreen-flavored cousin of root beer.
Birra Moretti
Birra Moretti, founded in 1859 in Udine by Luigi Moretti, is an Italian lager brand, also called L'Autentica; bottom-fermented 4.6% ABV beer with a 1942 moustached-man label, owned by Heineken since 1996.
Birria
Birria: slow-cooked Jalisco, Mexico stew of goat (traditionally) or beef in a dried-chile adobo, served with consomé; distinct from pit-steamed barbacoa; Tijuana beef birria and quesabirria tacos went viral in the U.S. after 2018.
Birthday cake
Birthday cake: frosted celebration cake with lit candles, one per year of life, blown out with a wish. Originated in 18th-century Germany's Kinderfest; also a vanilla-sprinkle flavor.
Biryani
Biryani (बिरयानी) is a layered South Asian rice dish of basmati rice with spiced meat or vegetables, sealed and finished by dum cooking; distinct from one-pot pulao, with kachchi and pakki schools and many regional styles.
Biscotti
Biscotti, plural of biscotto, are Italian cookies whose name means twice-baked; abroad the word means the hard Tuscan almond cookies called cantucci or biscotti di Prato, baked, sliced, and dried in a second oven pass for long shelf life.
Biscuit
Biscuit: from Latin panis biscoctus, twice-cooked ship bread. Means a crisp cookie-like item in British English and a soft scone-like quick bread in North America; biscuit products have 1–5% moisture.
Biscuit (bread)
Biscuit (bread): the North American quick bread, a chemically leavened round distinct from the British cookie-biscuit; Southern staple adopted for its buttermilk, lard, and soft wheat flour.
Biscuits and gravy
Biscuits and gravy, also called sawmill, country, or white gravy and biscuits, is an American Southern breakfast of leavened biscuits smothered in white sausage gravy made from pork drippings, flour, and milk, originating in Appalachian frontier and logging-camp cooking.
Bisleri
Bisleri is India's leading packaged drinking water brand, owned by Bisleri International (Parle/Chauhan family) since 1969, Italian in origin, RO-purified and remineralized under IS 14543, with about 36% organized market share and the Bottles for Change recycling program.
Bison hunting
Bison hunting: 13,000 years of communal Indigenous hunts (jumps, pounds) on the Great Plains, Métis horseback hunts, the 1870s–1880s hide-trade collapse from tens of millions to a few hundred, and modern Tribal restoration hunts.
Bistro
Bistro (bistrot): a small informal restaurant of French origin serving simple, inexpensive food. Parisian slang from 1884; the Russian bystro etymology is folk legend; bistronomy is its modern gastronomic offshoot.
Bitters
Bitters are concentrated botanical essences in alcohol, dosed by dash; once patent medicines (Stoughton's, 1690; Angostura, 1824; Peychaud's), they became required cocktail ingredients and remain bar staples.
BJ's Wholesale Club
BJ's Wholesale Club is an American membership warehouse club chain headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, operating 263 clubs and 199 gas stations across 21 eastern states since 1984.
Black & White (whisky)
Black & White is a blended Scotch whisky created by James Buchanan in the late 19th century, now owned by Diageo and known for its black and white terrier mascots.
Black and white cookie
Black and white cookie, also called half-moon or Amerikaner: a soft, cake-like New York City bakery cookie frosted half chocolate, half vanilla fondant; origin debated between Glaser's Bake Shop (1902) and Utica's Hemstrought's Bakery.
Black Day (블랙데이) (South Korea)
Black Day (블랙데이) is South Korea's unofficial April 14 observance for singles who received nothing on Valentine's Day or White Day, marked by eating jajangmyeon, wearing black, and drinking black coffee; it emerged in the 1990s.