Hello! Welcome to the Jan. 3, 2026, edition of the Saturday Wrap. Here’s everything you might of missed from The Omnicosm.
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It’s time to honor the year’s top candy, cookies, soda and fast food
Welcome to Snackology’s Best of 2025 Awards. This is the first full calendar year of Snackology, and over that time, I’ve published almost 100 reviews. With that much writing under my belt — thousands of words conveying my thoughts on fast food, candy, soda and more — it felt like the proper way to cap off all the work was by shining the spotlight on some of my favorite snacks from 2025.
For the first Snackology review of 2026, I assumed I’d be writing about a new Taco Bell item or Oreo flavor. I didn’t expect to kick things off writing about a donut bag, but the snack universe works in mysterious ways.
To cap off its “Week of Produnktivity,” Dunkin’ is not only giving everyone who buys a drink a free donut, they’re throwing in a reusable donut bag.
Yes, this is a tiny bag made of the same material as those reusable bags you buy but then never bring back to the grocery store, only sized down so that a donut can be cozily carried home.
Before switching over to CNN to see Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper crumble into an increasing state of drunkenness on New Year’s Eve, Caitlin and I did our duty as Americans and watched the Stranger Things series finale. It was a fitting end for the Netflix show that it would end as 2025 also came to a close.
Was anyone surprised by anything in the Stranger Things finale? (Spoilers ahead, folks.) The show failed to kill off one of its major characters. No, I’m not counting Kali as a major character, nor do I count Vecna’s death in that category. The finale didn’t necessarily need a major death to drive home the stakes, but everything about this final season has made the once mighty threat of the Upside Down seem ... small?
Where were the demobats? The waves of demodogs and demogorgons? The show’s immortal group of heroes was able to not only waltz right up to the Mind Flayer, but they easily tricked it into following them into that canyon they were also able to effortlessly and quickly scale. What happened to the interdimensional being that had been pulling the strings this entire time? In the end, it was taken down by some suspiciously old-looking high school kids with a few guns and some flares.
The Omnicosm founder. Snackology, Popculturology and The Cold Open writer. A Rochester, N.Y., native now living in the Washington, D.C., area. Won’t pass up a Genny Cream Ale.
‘Do we think Andor would’ve happened with Tony Gilroy had Dave Filoni been charge? ... At no point was Andor fan service. They weren’t popping in R5-D4 ...’
Bill Kuchman
Bill Kuchman
Bill Kuchman
