So Good previously wrote about the controversy behind bacon-wrapped hot dogs in Los Angeles. In this 7 minute video for Reason.TV and the Wall Street Journal, actor Drew Cary takes a look at the reasons why the hot dogs are banned and the effect it has had on street vendors in L.A.

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Thanks to Raphael over at Serious Eats.

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H/T to the on-top-of-everything folks at Serious Eats.

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I seem to have missed episode #3, so click over to his My Damn Channel page if you really want to see it. Here’s episode #4, “Game Day Turkey.”

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This is incredibly unusual but very cool. One of those things that just must be watched to be believed. The short film is originally made by a man named Stefan Nadelman (although this version has been slightly edited by Boing Boing TV), and his website describes the film as such:
“Food [...]

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During the writer’s strike, Greg Garcia, the creator of My Name is Earl, took a job at a fast food restaurant.
Chew on That shows you how to chop an onion without crying.
Ryan Byrd reminds us that Chick-Fil-A’s founder believes he received divine inspiration for Chick-Fil-A’s signature chicken sandwich.
NYC Food Guy says Five Guys plan to [...]

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Gizmodo, Boing-Boing, Serious Eats and other bloggers are currently engaged in a massive wankfest over the “Col-Pop”, a cup that holds your chicken nuggets AND your soda simultaneously.

“Awesome, now my soda is 33% smaller than what it would normally be.”
In a video from Serious Eats, they say that with this device the “portability snack [...]

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As regular So Good readers know, I’ve taken a keen interest in Mike Huckabee’s bizarre eating habits, whether it be horse meat, or fried squirrel. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Huckabee explained how in college he and his friends would cook squirrel on a popcorn popper. Well rather than leave this statement unchallenged, [...]

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Pepsi has just released a new Pepsi Stuff ad which stars Justin Timberlake. Look closely and you’ll also catch appearances by other celebrities like Tony Romo and SNL star Andy Sandberg.

Disclosure: the company I work for is promoting this ad for Pepsi, although I personally have no involvement with, or connection to, this campaign [...]

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Wednesday, January 9th marked the one-month anniversary of the launch of the Whopper Freakout campaign. The thousands of people who have visited So Good in order to watch the full-length Whopper Freakout video know that I am a fan of the campaign, having called it “brilliant” and “genius.” But how successful has it actually [...]

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Over the past week I have been gathering data to provide a comprehensive statistical analysis of the Whopper Freakout campaign. My goal: ascertain what level of success it has had.

My original post about the Whopper Freakout campaign has been one of the most popular posts I’ve ever had, and is the number 3 result [...]

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On December 23rd, I noted that the winning video in the Kraft Happy Sandwich campaign displayed a spam comment for a porn site. On January 2nd, I once again pointed out that the spam comment was STILL there, and had been visible since November 28th:
“wat’s up guys?any one out there who want to watch SEX [...]

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I’ve had a long running interest in the recent Kraft “Happy Sandwich” campaign, particularly their MySpace page and video contest (see the “marketing” section of my archives for all the posts). Well now the Kraft Happy Sandwich campaign video contest has come to an end and Kraft has selected a winner. Chris Gianelloni from [...]

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Dewey Cox shills for Cox Sausage. Hat tip to AdFreak.

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Check out Top Chef winner Hung, showing off his “blazing blades” for Grub Street. Dude’s got some sick knife skills.

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Not sure why the picture quality is so fuzzy, but this is a pretty amusing video of a cooking show called “Dane Cooks” that stars Dane Cook and Chris Rock. The Dane Cook impersonator is dead on. Enjoy.

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Soon it will be time to write my review of Bacon Salt and share with you my tales of food during my trip to Vermont, but I just couldn’t resist one more post about the BK King.
Check out this BK King sketch posted on YouTube by the NYC based sketch group Better Than The Machine.

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