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McDonald's "Legends of McRib" Video Contest Winner

Bill Sertl — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST

Filed under: Fast Food, Videos, Chain Stores / Restaurants

Gather 'round children, and ye shall here, of a quest for ribs that took many a year;
Ten grand was offered, a mighty big prize, and every last cent is now Sawyer Frye's.

Yes, folks, the grand-prize winner of McDonald's Legends of McRib Contest, a young North Carolina native, concocted a video tale about the last McRib on earth. (Apparently the sandwich's popularity resulted in all but one of the meaty marvels being eaten before the EPA had a chance to add it to the endangered-edibles list), which took him from Central America to a forest in Canada where the croque McRib in question lay buried (either frozen, we hope, or shot through with enough trans fats to keep it preserved and still tasty).

Frye also won a trip to Germany, the only country in the world where the McRib is served year-round. Try it with a side of McKartoffelsalat and a McWeisswürst. (McDonald's, we thought of it first!) See the video after the jump.

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YouTube's Most Popular Cooking Videos

Bill Sertl — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST

Filed under: Recipes, Videos

Photo: YouTube

With the release of The Most Popular YouTube Cooking Videos of 2010, your constant dinnertime dilemma -- Hamburger Helper or a scary new recipe that drives the family to McDonald's? -- may be over. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and loads of helpful hints, each of the 20 foolproof recipes can be whipped up in no time. These videos guide your hand at easy classics like pizza Margharita, a jalapeño burger (just for Dad), buttermilk biscuits, and mac and cheese. Get fancy with salmon cooked in rendered duck fat, with broccoli and tomatoes. Or go exotic with Korean kimchi and Thai samosas. We wish spring were just around the corner, but in the meantime we can still think pink (and purple) with kid-friendly bunny cakes. Nobody said you had to make them all, but, honestly, you'd be crazy not to. Start with the sculptural potato ball in a potato box, above.

Visit the Huffington Post to watch them all.

And while you're at YouTube, check out the best videos from Slashfood (including a sneak peek at country music star Zac Brown's kitchen on the road), and the best from KitchenDaily (such as The Pantry Project series of how-to videos from Gail Simmons).

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The Reinvention of Fast Food -- American Idol Style

Clare Leschin-Hoar — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Food Politics, Videos

Photo: Yoxi.tv

If the old saying, "you are what you eat" holds true, plenty of us are walking-talking chicken nuggets, a side-order of fries and an icy-cold soft drink. Yoxi.tv founder Sharon Chang is trying to change that through an internet-based competition in which teams of problem solvers tackle the most egregious issues surrounding fast food.

The challenge? To devise real solutions to our nation's fast and cheap food habits, and to spread those ideas through online videos on the Yoxi.tv (pronounced YO-see) website. Whether those solutions come by way of products, technology, ad campaigns or community programs is up to the teams themselves.

The idea is a riff off of American Idol. Instead of bestowing a singer with super-stardom, the ultimate goal of the Yoxi competition is to find and fund solutions. Just don't look for Simon Cowell's scowl or snarkiness here. Judges include Food Politics author Marion Nestle; notable chef and Wholesome Wave founder Michel Nischan, and Whole Foods Market Northeast Region president Christina Minardi.

"What I love about this is the social change bent," Nischan told Slashfood. "It's not just the most talented person wins. Whoever wins this has the opportunity to get the type of support to pursue a dream that makes life better for many people, not just one."

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Yo! English Farmers Rap it Up in Yeo Valley Organic Farm Ad

Jason Best — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST

Filed under: On the Blogs, Videos

Photo: YouTube

It may be one of the most trippy rap videos ever: no tricked-out Escalades, no writhing fly girls and nary a bottle of Cristal in sight. Instead it's just a bird and a couple of blokes rhyming about...organic dairy farming!?

Welcome to Yeo Valley (yes, it's actually pronounced "Yo!" Valley). This bucolic landscape in southwest England may seem more Lord Byron than Lil' Kim, but it seems the folks at Yeo Valley Organic didn't think sonnets were the best way to go about selling their organic diary products.

Watch the video after the jump.

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Niall Harbison Incites Food Mobs

Michael D. Ayers — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:00:00 EST

Filed under: Videos, Online

Photo: You Tube

Over the last several years, the term "flash mob" has sprung up to describe a large group of people who come together to perform public pranks -- mostly harmless, quick stunts that are then forwarded around the Internet for all to ogle at the following day.

Enter Irish chef Niall Harbison, who recently launched Food Mob, an online show that takes that concept and applies it to cooking. But instead of being a confusing mess for those engaged with the "mob," Harbison, who is also a social media expert, seeks to enlighten those who might be afraid of getting in the kitchen.

To do this, he uses simplistic terms, recipes with few ingredients and a whole lot of tech interaction -- all in under 20 minutes per episode. "The experience we want to create is doing something that's user generated," Harbison tells Slashfood. "Over the years, we've had people preach at us about how things can be done. There's very little two way communication."

After the jump, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Food Mob shot just for Slashfood.

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When Good Fruit Goes Bad

Naomi Shulman — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EST

Filed under: Videos

Photo: YouTube

If you've ever endured a long car ride with an irritating sibling, you've already experienced Annoying Orange, a YouTube phenomenon that now seeks a TV audience. Annoying Orange works his grating magic just like your little brother used to -- complete with incessant taunting and lame punchlines -- yet viewers just can't seem to get enough of him. Dane Boedigheimer, a North Dakota transplant to LA, created the character by superimposing his own mouth and eyes onto fruit, creating an effect similar to Conan O'Brien's "lip-overs" on (the late) Late Night. Annoying Orange's piercing voice is also Boedigheimer's.

The video after the jump.

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