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Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is a Danish surplus-food marketplace app founded in Copenhagen in 2015, selling Surprise Bags of unsold food at about one third of retail price; 150 million registered users, 200,000 partners, 20 countries, over 500 million meals saved.
Toothbrush moustache
The toothbrush moustache, also known as the Hitler moustache, is a narrow rectangular block of facial hair under the nose, worn by Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler.
Tootsie Roll
Tootsie Roll is a chewy, cocoa-flavored candy introduced in New York City in 1896. It is known for its melt-resistant chocolate taste and individual wax-paper wrapping.
Top Chef
Top Chef: American Bravo reality cooking competition, premiered March 8, 2006, produced by Magical Elves; hosts Katie Lee, Padma Lakshmi, Kristen Kish; head judge Tom Colicchio; 29 international versions, 42 Emmy nominations.
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.
Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. is season 17 of Bravo's Top Chef (2020), an all-returnee cast competing in Los Angeles and Tuscany, won by Melissa King, who also took Fan-Favorite.
Top Chef: Portland
Top Chef: Portland is Season 18 of Bravo's Top Chef, filmed fall 2020 in Portland, Oregon during COVID-19 with an alumni judge bubble, chef's-table Restaurant Wars, wildfire disruptions, and winner Gabe Erales; aired April 1 to July 1, 2021.
Top Chef: World All-Stars
Top Chef: World All-Stars is Bravo Top Chef's 20th season (2023), the first filmed entirely abroad, in London and Paris, with 16 winners and finalists from 11 international Top Chef versions; Buddha Lo won the $250,000 prize.
Top hat
Top hat (silk hat, stovepipe, plug, chimney-pot; French haut-de-forme, Spanish chistera): tall cylindrical men's formal hat, dominant 19th-century headwear, beaver then silk plush, now worn mainly at weddings.
Toplessness
Toplessness is the state of not covering the torso, especially female breast exposure in public or media. Covers etymology (1580–90), historical cultural norms from Egypt, Greece, and India, and US law: 34 states permit, 3 prohibit, courts mostly uphold female-only bans.
Topo Chico
Topo Chico is a carbonated mineral water bottled since 1895 at the Cerro del Topo Chico spring in Monterrey, Mexico, prized for its unusually strong carbonation.
Toque
Toque is a brimless, close-fitting hat that covers several traditions. These include the tall, pleated chef's hat, women's fashion hats, and Canadian knitted winter caps.
Toro (トロ) (sushi)
Toro (トロ), fatty tuna belly used for sushi and sashimi, divides into chutoro (medium-fat, about 15–20% fat) and otoro (fattiest belly near the head). Named from torori, "melting in the mouth"; akami is the lean contrast.
Tororo (food)
Tororo (とろろ) is Japanese grated raw mountain yam (yamaimo or nagaimo), a sticky paste served over rice (tororo gohan), soba noodles, or in okonomiyaki; eaten raw for its amylase, distinct from Tororo District, Uganda.
Torta
Torta: a Mexican sandwich on a bolillo or telera roll filled with meats, cheese, avocado, and chile; also Spanish for cake or pie, Italian for a round cake, and Portuguese for pie. Regional styles include cemitas, guacamayas, and tortas ahogadas.
Tory Burch
Tory Burch: American luxury lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by designer Tory Burch, known for the Reva ballet flat, Double T logo, accessible-luxury positioning, near-$2 billion 2023 revenue, and the Tory Burch Foundation for women entrepreneurs.
Toshiko MacAdam
Toshiko MacAdam (堀内紀子, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam), born 1940 in Tokyo, is a Japanese textile artist in Nova Scotia known for hand-crocheted nylon play structures, including Woods of Net at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, made with Charles MacAdam via Interplay.
Toshiko Taira
Toshiko Taira (平良敏子, 1921–2022) was an Okinawan weaver who revived bashofu, the traditional banana-fiber cloth of Okinawa, in her home hamlet of Kijoka after World War II.
Tostones
Tostones, also patacones or fritos verdes, are twice-fried flattened green plantain discs, a savory staple side across the Caribbean and Latin America, distinct from sweet maduros.
Tote bag
Tote bag: large open-top canvas or fabric bag with two parallel handles. Etymology: 'tote' (carry) from 1670s Virginia; 'tote bag' by 1900. Iconic example is L.L.Bean's Boat and Tote, begun as the 1944 Bean's Ice Carrier for hauling block ice.
Toukie Smith
Toukie Smith (Doris A. Smith), American model and actress; runway model for Givenchy, Chanel, Miyake, and Mugler; sister of Willi Smith; played Eva Rawley on 227 and Angie on Miami Vice; partner of Robert De Niro.
Tournament of Champions (TV series)
Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a Food Network cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri since March 2020, with a single-elimination chef bracket, the Randomizer wheel, and blind judging; women won the first five seasons, with Maneet Chauhan the only two-time champion.
Towel Day
Towel Day, held every May 25 since 2001, is a fan tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which fans carry towels, the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have, first proposed by D Clyde Williamson two weeks after Adams's death.
Toy
A toy is an object designed, manufactured, or marketed as a plaything for children, also collected and played with by adults. Covered here as product category: history, global industry, and safety regulation under ASTM F963 (US), Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC, and Regulation (EU) 2025/2509.
Tracht
Tracht (Trachten) is the traditional regional festive dress of rural populations in German-speaking Alpine Europe, including dirndl and lederhosen; revived in the 19th century via Bavarian royal patronage and Trachtenvereine, it signals regional identity today.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's, originally Pronto Markets, is an American grocery chain founded by Joe Coulombe in 1967, known for its roughly 4,000 mostly private-label products at everyday low prices.
Trader Vic's
Trader Vic's is a Polynesian-themed restaurant chain founded by Victor Bergeron, who renamed his Oakland bar Hinky Dinks in 1938. Known for claiming the 1944 Mai Tai and rivaling Don the Beachcomber.
Tradition
Tradition: transmitted practices with symbolic or ritual significance, defined by Hobsbawm; covers invented tradition (1983), UNESCO intangible heritage, Chinese custom-ritual interaction, and innovation.
Traditional African beers
Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.
Traditional dress of Portugal
The traditional dress of Portugal is festive rural folk costume, best known through the traje à vianesa of Viana do Castelo, a gold-adorned women's dress that became a national emblem.
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples is fur- and skin-based clothing of peoples such as the Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, and Sakha, among the first makers of tailored garments.