Do you have what it takes to be the next Colonel Sanders?
KFC is searching for a new face for its Kentucky Grilled Chicken (KGC) food line. The fast-food chain is calling for video submissions on its MySpace page through July 7, 2009, in an "Ultimate KGC Fan" contest.
The chicken chain wants entrants to make submissions saying why they should be the new face of the grilled chicken product, which was unveiled in April.
At stake is a lifetime supply of Kentucky Grilled Chicken, which company officials value at $13,000. Semifinalists will be selected on July 25 and the public will have the chance to weigh in on Aug. 1.
OK, let's be honest. Who hasn't thought she could do better than the people behind the Sweethearts slogans: "Call Me"? "Cloud Nine"? "Amore"? Please.
The folks at the New England Confectionery Co. have heeded your collective cry, so it's time to take to the Internet, poets, lovers and sugarcrazed civilians! In February 2010, every single one of those hearts will be named not by stuffy boardroom types, but by us commoners.
What's in it for you? Oh, you know, one lucky toothless person will win 1.6 million sweethearts that say whatever she wants them to say.
Got a killer original sweet potato recipe? Well, post it to your blog and you could bag a more-than-sweet $1,000 prize. The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission has just announced their 2009 Bloggers' Recipe Challenge. The $1,000 prize will be awarded to the creator of the winning recipe; five finalists will win $100 prizes.
Check out the instructions, directly from the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, after the jump.
I love my KitchenAid mixer more than is rational or reasonable. Several years ago, a bunch of my friends pooled their money in order to buy it for me and it hasn't left my kitchen counter since it arrived in my apartment. It's an amazingly useful tool. I know other people who are equally attached to their assortment of KitchenAid products.
Knowing just what good tools KitchenAid makes, BakeSpace has teamed up with them during February to give away one appliance a day (that's every day), all month long. If you're interested in entering the contest, the first thing you do is check out the calendar of giveaways, to figure out which prizes you want to try for. You earn the raffle tickets you need to enter by uploading recipes to BakeSpace, or by getting your friends to join the community.
For more details on the contest or to start your BakeSpace profile, click here. Good luck everyone!
Zinfandel. It's so good, it has its own festival. Want to go? The public tasting, where you can taste Zins from 275 winereries, is Saturday, Jan. 31 from 2-5 p.m. at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. I've got four tickets to give away, which I'll give away in twos. Post in the comments below and two people will win.
Since the timeframe is so short, please post by 8 p.m. Eastern tonight in order to enter, and I'll get tickets out first thing tomorrow.
Want to win a cruise for two? All you have to do is tell a good story (oh--and it has to be true--and you have to be 21 years old). Alice White, a well-known Australian wine brand, just "did her colors," as the press release puts it, and got all new, colorful labels for the line of wines. Now the brand has launched a "Live Life in Color" contest that asks you to tell the story of a colorful adventure you've had (no matter how big or small) and enter to win a Royal Caribbean cruise for two, including airfare. Ten first place winners will receive a 10-piece cookware set and a $100 American Express gift card.
The contest begins tomorrow, January 26, and runs through March 30. Some ideas that might spark your imagination: mastering a new recipe, fundraising for your favorite charity, meeting someone you've long admired, celebrating a milestone in a special way...there's nothing too big or too small to write about. And it's only 200 words or less. I'm practically there on this post already.
Every time I see a truffle in the store, I stop and ponder buying one. Then I convince myself to hold off -- rationalizing that I should have a killer recipe to use it in first, and some people to share the flavor experience with. It's just too pricey to throw into my basket all willy nilly.
Which is why I'm sharing this foodie dream: MarxFoods.com is having a contest where you can win fresh truffles -- a whopping 1/4 lb. of truffles, to be exact. Better yet, all you have to do is leave a comment on the website's blog by noon on January 26th to be eligible. This is one of those "Why the hell not?" sort of contests. How could you really miss a chance to get free truffles?
Oh yes -- I guess I should share the type of truffles they're giving away: Black Winter Truffles, which you can see in the image above. How appropriate is that!? Good luck, and if you happen to win, I'd love you forever if you invited me over for dinner. *flutters eyelashes*
*EDIT: You must comment on the MARXFOODS website. This is not a Slashfood contest.
Getting together for dinner and a movie can be one of the most prosaic (Domino's and Blockbuster) of gatherings. But it can become something significantly more special if the food and the visuals connect.
When I was a broke, just-outta-high school teen, my roommates and I would host Godfather parties, for which we'd make a lot of pasta, get some jugs of cheap wine and follow the rule of shouting "Godfather!" then clinking and drinking every time someone got whacked.
There was a "cases of champagne and little black dresses" Breakfast at Tiffany's birthday party, but the master of the art was my great friend Mr. Diva, who threw annual, movie-themed award show parties, paying homage to Picnic (fried chicken) or Blue Velvet(cherry pie and PBR).
Are you a recipe-creating whiz? Well here's your chance to make $5000 off of it.
Tuttiefoodie and Scharffen Berger have just announced a chocolate recipe contest that sounds positively delicious. The Chocolate Adventure Contest seems like a great way to express your creativity, in this case with Scharffen Berger chocolate and an "adventure ingredient" from their list.
There are three categories (sweet, savory, beverage) and the winner gets $5000 plus a collection of cookbooks and mentions in Saveur magazine, Tuttiefoodie, and Scharffen Berger's e-newsletter. All you need to do is create a recipe using Scharffen Berger chocolate and submit it between October 1, 2008 and January 4, 2009. Check here for rules and details. Get really adventurous and submit up to ten recipes!
Are you always looking for new ways to eat on the go? Well if you are, there may be something coming soon just for you.
This design for Fast Food Cutlery was submitted to DesignBoom as part of a contest called "Dining in 2015." This wasn't one of the winning designs, but that doesn't mean it won't get manufactured. Fast Food Cutlery would be a fun and interesting way to eat on the go. At least it would help keep your hands a little cleaner, and make eating in the car a little easier (I know you shouldn't eat in the car, but sometimes you have to).
One of the winning designs was cutlery that fits on a pen tip. I personally think the Fast Food Cutlery is a better idea. The pen-tip cutlery isn't much different from the plastic cutlery that's available everywhere, and we all know that's not as effective. You'd still have to remember to actually bring the product with you and then home to wash, which would rule it out for those of us with memory problems. Still, Fast Food Cutlery looks fun and easy to use, especially if you like to eat with your hands anyway. I'd get one if I saw it, if it wasn't too expensive. Would you?
As a kid, I didn't really care too much for jelly beans. The obligatory jelly beans in my Easter basket every year were some of the last candy eaten, and only because, as a kid, I just couldn't let any candy go to waste. I was initially skeptical of Jelly Belly's because of my childhood aversion to jelly beans: I just didn't think anything classified as a jelly bean could be good. Boy, was I wrong, and I'm glad someone convinced me to give them a try.
Now, you can help Jelly Belly decide on their next flavor jelly bean. Out of thousands of entries, Jelly Belly has the choices whittled down to five. The person who contributed the winning bean flavor gets $10, 000, but sadly the voters only get the satisfaction of voting. Fortunately for me that's pretty good in my book. You have five choices, all of which sound interesting, and you have until August 31 to vote. I think I'm going for the sublime chili lime, or maybe the Thai iced tea. What flavor do you think should win?
Can you imagine eating a whole, raw onion by itself, let alone polishing it off in a little over a minute?
J.R. Kuka achieved that feat in the onion eating contest that's part of the Pine Island Summer Fest. Mr. Kuka ate the eight ounce onion in a record 75 seconds, where the previous record had been 1 minute, 55 seconds. Reportedly, this year's winner was cool as a cucumber and smiling as he cut and consumed the onion. He also took his $100 prize and goody bag and left the festival before the local reporter could interview him.
Apparently, the Pine Island onions are known for being much stronger than other onions. I'm personally not a big fan of uncooked onions, so I can't really see myself doing this. For $100, I might enter the contest, but I wouldn't be able to eat it very fast. How would you do in this onion-eating contest?
NEWTREE is having the ultimate chocolate lover's contest. One winner will receive a bar of chocolate every day for a year! Not only that, but they will get the new iPhone - making it easy to brag to their friends about all the chocolate.
To enter, you need to create a text message short story that includes the names of all of their chocolate bars: PLEASURE, VIGOR, RENEW, REFRESH, FORGIVENESS, SEXY, BLUSH, TRANQUILITY, COCOON, REJOICE and CRAVE. Get the complete details and enter on NEWTREE's site.
Good thing the contest doesn't ask you to pick one of the two prizes. I'm not sure which prize I would be more excited about; it would be a close call!
You can win both, but let us know which prize you'll be more excited about - the techie or the foodie prize.
Are you a writer who also enjoys tea? There's a contest going on over at Felicitea that offers an opportunity to showcase your writing talents for free tea and other prizes. There's only about a week left, so don't waste any time if you read about the contest and want to participate!
Here's the overview, straight from Felicitea's site:
Write: We're looking for poetry, prose, whatever you like. Feel free to haiku or make up a limerick, or write out a concise little paragraph. Just write about tea and it's relationship to you, your friend, or your last cup of coffee.
We want to connect new drinkers to tea, convert a coffee drinker (or other non-tea drinking people) or two over (at least get them to try good tea!) and reconnect tea lovers with what it is they love about tea.
Tea drinkers it is your responsibility to help the coffee drinkers of the world. You are charged with helping them understand the joy of tea. If you are a convert tell your story. If you love tea, but still enjoy an occasional cup of coffee it's okay, but what about the tea keeps you coming back to the pot all day? Share with the Internets why they should kick that coffee habit. If you have a friend you're nominating, be specific.
Coffee/Non-tea drinkers this is your chance to tell us why you drink coffee (or something else) instead of tea. This is your chance to tell all us tea drinkers what it is that makes you go for the espresso instead of the Earl Grey. Did you have a bad tea bag experience? Convinced all green tea is bitter? Are you willing to give it a shot but don't know where to start?
For the detailed rules and the prizes, click to read on!
Though I do enjoy a good beer, I certainly wouldn't be able to knock it back enough to benefit from a Kegerator. If you do (no one is judging), then how would you like to win one?
Kegerators.com is holding a contest to see what you'd do to win a kegerator. All you have to do is make a "funny, shocking, cool, stupid, or impressive" video with your answer. As you can see, the field is wide open.
There's a lot of fine print and a form to fill out, so you'll have to check the website for all the rules. Other than that, though, just make the video and send it in by August 13**, and you've got a shot at a Kegerator to call your own.
We can change the way we make eggs -- scrambled, poached, fried -- but what about changing the eggs themselves? Mix up your scrambling routine with quail eggs.
Do you have what it takes to be the next Colonel Sanders?
Zinfandel. It's so good, it has its 
Can you imagine eating a whole, raw onion by itself, let alone polishing it off in a little over a minute? 
Though I do enjoy a good beer, I certainly wouldn't be able to knock it back enough to benefit from a Kegerator. If you do (no one is judging), then how would you like to win one?
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