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Red Lobster
Red Lobster is an American casual dining seafood chain founded by Bill Darden in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968, known for Cheddar Bay Biscuits and Endless Shrimp; it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2024 and now operates about 540 restaurants under RL Investor Holdings.
Red meat
Red meat: mammalian muscle meat (beef, pork, lamb, veal, horse, goat), classified IARC Group 2A probably carcinogenic in 2015; processed meat is Group 1; 50 g/day processed meat raises colorectal cancer risk 18%.
Red Robin
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is an American casual dining burger chain founded in Seattle in 1969, originating as Sam's Tavern in the 1940s. Known for Bottomless Steak Fries; 475 North American locations as of fiscal 2025; Nasdaq-listed as RRGB since 2002.
Red string (Kabbalah)
The red string of Kabbalah, or Kabbalah bracelet, is a red wool cord tied on the left wrist as a Jewish folk charm against the evil eye, traditionally wound around Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem.
Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake is an American layer cake with a mild cocoa flavor, slight tang from buttermilk and vinegar, and a red color from food coloring.
Red wine
Red wine: wine fermented on dark grape skins, colored by anthocyanins (about 500 mg/L in young wines) and structured by tannins; earliest evidence from Georgia ca. 6000 BC; WHO states no safe alcohol level.
Red-eye gravy
Red-eye gravy, or redeye gravy, is a thin Southern US breakfast sauce of country ham pan drippings deglazed with strong black coffee; it has no thickener, separates into a red-eyed appearance in the bowl, and contrasts with thick, flour-thickened sawmill gravy.
Red-figure pottery
Red-figure pottery: Greek vase-painting technique, invented in Athens around 530 BCE, with red figures reserved on a black gloss ground, brush-drawn details, three-stage firing, spread to South Italy and Etruria, extinct by the third century BCE.
Redbubble
Redbubble: Australian print-on-demand marketplace founded 2006 in Melbourne, owned by Articore Group (ASX: ATG), also of TeePublic. Artists upload designs printed on 70+ products; margins default 20%; tiered fees from September 2025 charge Standard accounts 50% of earnings. Not to be confused with Society6 or Etsy.
Reduced-mineral goat whey
Reduced-mineral goat whey (RMGW), a demineralized goat cheese whey powder, GRAS Notice 1211 by Crossway Foods; FDA no-questions letter Feb 4, 2025 for infant formula use up to 40% dry weight.
Ree Drummond
Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, is an American blogger, cookbook author, and Food Network personality whose 2006 blog about ranch life near Pawhuska, Oklahoma grew into cookbooks, a TV show, and Pawhuska businesses.
Reebok
Reebok, British-founded (1958, from J.W. Foster & Sons) athletic footwear and fitness brand; adidas bought it for $3.8B in 2006, sold to Authentic Brands Group for ~$2.5B in 2021; now run via licensees.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the chocolate-and-peanut-butter cup candy invented by H.B. Reese in 1928 in Hershey, Pennsylvania and made by The Hershey Company since 1963; top US Halloween candy, 25 million cups made daily, classic recipe restored for coated products in 2027.
Reese's Pieces
Reese's Pieces: bite-sized peanut butter candy in orange, yellow, and brown crunchy shells, made by The Hershey Company since 1978; contains no chocolate; famous for the 1982 E.T. product placement that tripled sales.
Refried beans
Refried beans, Spanish frijoles refritos ("well-fried beans"), are cooked pinto or black beans mashed and fried in lard or oil into a firm paste; a Mexican staple whose "refried" name is a mistranslation.
Reggae Reggae Sauce
Reggae Reggae Sauce is Levi Roots' jerk BBQ sauce with Scotch bonnet and allspice, made famous by his sung 2007 Dragons' Den pitch that won £50,000 from Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh and a Sainsbury's listing.
Regina Pilawuk Wilson
Regina Pilawuk Wilson (born 1948) is a Ngan'gikurrungurr master weaver and painter of the Marrithyel people who co-founded Peppimenarti in 1973, won the 2003 Telstra NATSIAA General Painting award, and was 2026 Darwin NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year.
Regular haircut
Regular haircut: a classic men's style also called a regular taper or businessman's cut, longest on top with scissor-cut sides and back tapering to the natural hairline; related to the military short back and sides.
Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲), born 1942 in Tokyo, is the Japanese designer who founded Comme des Garçons in 1969, debuted in Paris in 1981 with deconstructed black "anti-fashion", created the 1997 Body Meets Dress collection, and built Dover Street Market.
Reina Triendl (トリンドル 玲奈)
Reina Triendl (トリンドル 玲奈, Torindoru Reina, born 1992, Vienna) is an Austrian-born Japanese model, tarento, and actress: ViVi and with exclusive model, star of Sion Sono's Tag (2015), Keio graduate, married actor Naohiro Yamamoto in 2024.
Reinheitsgebot
Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law, originating in the 1516 Bavarian decree of Wilhelm IV limiting beer to barley, hops, and water; nationalized in 1906, codified in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz, and limited by a 1987 ECJ ruling on imports.
Reita Faria
Reita Faria Powell (born 1943 or 1945, Bombay) is an Indian physician who won Miss World 1966 at London's Lyceum Theatre, the first Indian and first Asian winner, and the only Miss World to qualify as a doctor during her reign.
Religious habit
Religious habit, or monastic habit: distinctive dress of Christian religious orders, typically tunic, scapular, cowl or veil, and belt; governed by canon 669, color-coded by order (Franciscan brown, Dominican black over white), relaxed after Vatican II.
Religious perspectives on tattooing
Religious perspectives on tattooing: Judaism and Islam prohibit it (Leviticus 19:28), Christianity suppressed yet practices Coptic and pilgrimage tattoos, while Buddhism, Hinduism, and Indigenous traditions use sacred tattoos like Sak Yant and tā moko.
Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork
Religious pork prohibitions in Judaism (Leviticus 11) and Islam (Quran 2:173), their Iron Age archaeological origins, scholarly theories from Harris to Price, and the taboo's role in marking communal boundaries.
Remoulade
Remoulade (French rémoulade) is a cold mayonnaise sauce with mustard, capers, pickles, herbs, and often anchovies; regional forms include sweet yellow Danish remoulade and red Creole remoulade of Louisiana.
Rémy Martin
Rémy Martin: French cognac house founded 1724 in Cognac; since 1927 exclusively Fine Champagne (Grande and Petite Champagne) eaux-de-vie; flagship brand of Rémy Cointreau, owner of Louis XIII; one of the four houses holding about 82% of world cognac volume.
Rendang
Rendang (randang) is a Minangkabau slow-cooked meat dish from West Sumatra, Indonesia, made with coconut milk and spices; dry Indonesian rendang differs from wetter Malaysian kalio-style versions, and CNN ranked it the world's most delicious food in 2011 and 2017.
René Redzepi
René Redzepi is a Danish chef who co-founded Noma in Copenhagen in 2003 with Claus Meyer, led New Nordic cuisine and fermentation, won five World's 50 Best titles, and stepped down in March 2026 amid abuse allegations.
Renee Alway
Renee Alway, also known as Renee Diane DeWitt, born 1986, is an American former model who placed 3rd on America's Next Top Model Cycle 8 and was Modelville runner-up; she was later sentenced to 12 years in prison for 2013 Palm Springs-area burglaries and released in 2018.