Food Tube

• The same year, it advertised its new line of Oreo pizzas (yes, really) with this ad showing a man and a teenager bantering about their respective chocolate mustaches. If the image of a man’s face covered in crap doing his best Bruce McCulloch impression won’t sell you on Domino’s, the awkward pedophilia vibe should do the trick.

• The company’s ad for its Pasta Perfecta was pulled, supposedly because it includes an obscene gesture, but more likely because (surprise!) having a giant rapping noodle dressed like Flavor Flav terrify a white upper-middle-class family in their home has some rather unsavory racial implications (and, why did nobody notice that the noodle looks like a giant penis?).
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• Domino’s concise Dutch slogan — “Man hungry, ding dong, pizza” — has a kind of  caveman flair, but this bizarre Dutch regurgitation-themed ad, in which a man disgorges the delivery man who’s just dropped off his pizza, reads less like a pizza commercial and more like an early episode of the “X-Files.”

• In a similar vein, this ad for the company’s chocolate chip cookies touts their “homebaked” taste — in the most terrifying manner possible. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if your adorable grandmother died and came back as a villain in a cookie-themed Japanese horror movie, here’s your answer.

It’s hard not to love the concept: A perfect blend of special effects, adorable babies, and general weirdness, topped with a healthy dollop of camp — a great example of the way the internet is spurring creativity in marketing. Get ready to have a conversation with your internet-illiterate grandma about those darn babies and their darn rollerskates — because this might just blow her mind.

If this delightfully-accented instructional video (which has been making the tech blog rounds) is any indication, “your inner poet” actually means  “your ability to sit around with your bored friends and drunkenly fiddle with complicated gadgetry to program spelling-mistake-riddled Shakespeare quotes onto your liquor bottle.” The future is now!

• In the wake of the NY Times’ controversial rabbit-eating trend piece, we wrote about the ecological and nutritional merits of rabbit meat. Today on the fantastic Food Curated video site, Executive Chef Sean Rembold (from Brooklyn hipster staple Marlow & Sons) demonstrates the simple process for cutting up a rabbit, in preparation for his restaurant’s rabbit cacciatore.

How to Cook a Rabbit, Part I: Butchering from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

• This long but lovely video from Michael Gebert visits the now-closed 71-year-old Healthy Food Lithuanian restaurant in Chicago, one of the city’s last Lithuanian establishments. Owner Gina Santoski shows Gebert how she makes Kugelis — a baked potato pudding — even though she worries her traditional method may attract the attention of the health department. (via Eater)

Sky Full of Bacon 14: The Last Days of Kugelis from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.

• If, like me, you’ve been baffled by the meteoric rise to fame of Guy Fieri — shorts and sunglasses-on-the-back-of-the-head enthusiast, Food Network star, and game show impresario — Forbes has a helpful primer on the undescriptively self-described “Food Dude”.

• This slow-motion video, of Food Network host Sandra Lee drinking her own vile-sounding concoction of lemonade, heavy cream and vodka, has been going viral this week. The first 55 seconds are a slow buildup, but there’s a thrilling payoff at the 1:00 mark.

• In the seemingly endless buildup to the premiere of Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” television show, another clip has found its way onto YouTube, and it’s a doozy. Apparently, in an effort to raise awareness of healthy eating, Oliver and company staged the world’s most awkward flash mob on the campus of a Southern university — a stunt involving hip-hop, portable burners, dancing, stir-frying, and Oliver clapping self-consciously from the side of a fountain.

• Ever wondered how to make sushi in zero gravity? Of course you have! In this NASA video, Japanese astronaut and sushi enthusiast Soichi Noguchi demonstrates how to make hand-rolled salmon sushi while floating around the International Space Station.

• Food Network chef Paula Deen isn’t exactly known for creating healthy recipes, but this segment from her show (which has been passed around before, but was recently featured on Food Network Humor) in which she sandwiches meat, eggs and bacon between two doughnuts to create a “lady’s brunch burger,” is such a stomach-churning nadir that I almost want to try it myself.

• Yet more proof of the extent to which drug culture managed to insinuate itself into the American mainstream in the late ’60s: This disturbing 1969 iHop commercial has been going viral over the past week. Yes, that music is really supposed to be that creepy — and no, you shouldn’t fight the urge to drop some acid and take your family out for pancakes.