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Pfefferbao posted:So apparently there's a new show today at 10 called The Big Waste which is, coming from my TV's description, "Bobby Flay and Michael Symon team up to take on Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli in a culinary challenge that addresses the problem of food waste in America. Each team will have 48 hours to cater a multi-course gourmet banquet." gently caress, I thought this was just a one off special about how much food we waste as a society. The previews looked kind of interesting.
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Ozmaugh posted:With whom?!?! I really like her! At first it was just funny when she kept having disasters on NIC but somehow kept pulling it together but I like her now. Maybe she's just popular with the mentally ill. This episode of Rachael vs. Guy didn't feel as trainwrecky as last week's. Next week looks promising though. I'm pretty sure The Big Waste was just a special.
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Ozmaugh posted:With whom?!?! I have no idea, but she must be because she is on their primetime scheduling more than most other people at this point it seems, aside from like Flay or something. She even had that commercial with Flay!
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Jan 9, 2012 06:06
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FISHMANPET posted:gently caress, I thought this was just a one off special about how much food we waste as a society. Same here. But I guess that's not good enough for Food Network. There actually IS a documentary on Netflix about exactly this, though. It's called "Dive!: Living Off America's Waste"
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Jan 9, 2012 06:19
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Did anyone notice that when they zoomed in on the salmon salad thing in the celebrity show that you could see a bug crawling on the bread?
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PeriodCommaColon posted:Did anyone notice that when they zoomed in on the salmon salad thing in the celebrity show that you could see a bug crawling on the bread? Hahah yes! I just caught the replay and came in here to see if anybody else saw that.
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Jamesman posted:Same here. But I guess that's not good enough for Food Network. It's not a series, just a one-off special. I think.
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Jan 9, 2012 07:07
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Which is pretty annoying that they just couldn't actually be addressing the problem of our consumption and our need to have to buy the prettiest fruits and veggies at the market. Or how that food could be better put to use in a situation that wasn't just a Boys vs Girls face off that no one wanted to see. Market research must tell them that people love chopped style "work with these few items and make something good in ENTER TIME CONSTRAIN"
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Jan 9, 2012 11:31
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Lou Diamond Phillips reminds me of Coach Ben Wade on his first Survivor outing. When he went on about, "Sometimes I forget I'm famous; everybody here knows me and..." Dude, you never forget you were in movies 20 years ago. You mention it every loving confessional. "Hey I love your movies, AND you're a good chef!" 
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Jan 9, 2012 18:31
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Digital Scumbag posted:Lou Diamond Phillips reminds me of Coach Ben Wade on his first Survivor outing. His run on I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here was not too unlike Coach's last run on Survivor, in terms of tone.
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Jan 9, 2012 19:08
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The show about food waste was interesting, sorta. The amount thrown out was an eye opener. However, I bet no store would let me go into their back room to pick out that poo poo for free.
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Jan 9, 2012 20:31
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Ozmaugh posted:With whom?!?! Human/pear hybrids.
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raditts posted:Human/pear hybrids. Ha, I have no right to make fun of her body shape because I'm fat, too though!  The Big Waste sounded interesting but we flipped the channel and forgot to go back. Did I mention that I finally got around to watching the lunchlady Chopped? Wow, that was weird.
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The weird part about Alex Guarnaschelli is that I never noticed she had any extra weight on her until Next Iron Chef. My partner loves her and I've always thought she was a giant cooze on Chopped, but after Next Iron Chef, some small part of my black heart thawed for her. But she looks like one of those girls whose entire face is covered in short peachfuzz.
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Jan 11, 2012 08:53
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Paula Deen has diabetes. I was going to make a joke, but I think they're all fairly obvious at this point.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Paula Deen has diabetes. Wow. So instead of taking the high road and promote a healthy diet to counteract the disease, she's instead using it to promote a new line of medication. She's officially topped Gene Simmons in the "what will you whore out" department.
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Bonzo posted:Wow. So instead of taking the high road and promote a healthy diet to counteract the disease, she's instead using it to promote a new line of medication. Sorry, no one can out whore Simmons: 
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Jan 13, 2012 21:20
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It's really not surprising that Paula developed some sort of health issue, if you've ever looked at any of her cooking. Hell, when the jokes about her usage of butter came about, it seemed she embraced it and actually started adding MORE butter to her foods. What IS surprising is that it's diabetes and not some sort of fire monster devouring her organs. And since Food Network stars are 50% personality and 50% "culinary point of view," I think the network would sooner fire her than risk retooling her style. If they want someone cooking diabetic-friendly menus or just cooking healthy food that would encourage less diabetes going around, they'd just get someone new. They also won't do that (on Food Network) because foods that aren't absolutely disgusting are clearly not worth making TV shows about. So Paula will keep making chicken fried sticks of butter in a salt gravy y'all, while promoting diabetes medication (win/win). Oh, and be sure to watch the premiere of Fat Chef, everyone!
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axleblaze posted:Sorry, no one can out whore Simmons: I don't get Gene Simmons' shameless self-promotion. Are there really people out there that have been hardcore Kiss fans in like, the last 20 years?
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Perhaps this somewhat explains her son's new show out from nowhere called "Not my Mama's Cooking" or some such?
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ExiledTinkerer posted:Perhaps this somewhat explains her son's new show out from nowhere called "Not my Mama's Cooking" or some such? Not my Mama's Meals, and it is on the cooking channel, not food network which is now more concerned about cooking reality shows (Gently caress Sweet Geniuses) and shows about food trucks
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Jan 15, 2012 05:22
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Did somebody say Bánh mě? I have the BEST IDEA for a new pop up restaurant...wait until small town, South Dakota gets a load of my haute cuisine!
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Bonzo posted:Wow. So instead of taking the high road and promote a healthy diet to counteract the disease, she's instead using it to promote a new line of medication. I'm legitimately angry she didn't even think of going 'hey ya know maybe it's my deep fried butter balls', there's no way she's really that stupid she just wants to make sure she can sell both her Fryin With Fat cookbook AND her Down Home Insulin.
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Ozmaugh posted:Did somebody say Bánh mì? I have the BEST IDEA for a new pop up restaurant...wait until small town, South Dakota gets a load of my haute cuisine! I always thought it would be kind of (not really) funny if someone made a banh mi banme thread in GWS using the ban me tag. Sometimes I think of very stupid puns and share them with the internet. That said, do this. Banh mi is loving art.
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Man, Iron Chef America sucks. I've been watching a lot of the OG Iron Chef on that guy's Youtube Channel and this crap is not nearly as good. Add the fact that I know they only need to prepare one dish in the first hour and I'm just plain bored. Adam Richmond is one of the judges; the guy who professionally shoves poo poo in his mouth as fast as he can to get a free t-shirt is judging fine cuisine. He's got a book our or whatever but that's like having Kobayashi be one of the tasters on Iron Chef Japan. I guess he's this series' "Fortune Teller".
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explosivo posted:He's got a book our or whatever but that's like having Kobayashi be one of the tasters on Iron Chef Japan. I guess he's this series' "Fortune Teller". My understanding is that Hosoki is basically the Japanese Sylvia Browne without the psychic stuff or ghost nonsense. If she were American, she would have been on Oprah a ton. Also, she apparently can afford a Rolls. You're totally right that ICA is inferior in some ways. IC Japan is much campier, but it adds a lot to the experience. ICA kind of needs more focus on the chefs and less on the competiton aspects, really. Not that they're likely to find a heel for their chefs as good as the Ohta faction was. (Especially Kandagawa, who got immediately that he could be the recurring bad guy and hammed it up gloriously.) I also think having only one commentator hurts the commentary. They really should have had a "play-by-play" guy so AB would have someone to bounce stuff off of.
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I think Alton solo is fine but another commentator would be interesting to see. Something I am seeing a lot recently with ICA is they keep changing the little things. It really bugs me for some reason, the constant tweaking. For example, the challenger picked her chef in the interview, not on stage. After the tasting, sometimes they make the judges talk about the chefs' overall theme. A few times they judged one dish of each chef and kept going back and forth, instead of all dishes by one chef first. I also find most of the iron chefs to have no distinct style and are just boring. I think I've seen every dish Bobby Flay could possibly make and I couldn't tell you anything about the style of the newer chefs. I prefer the original's use of cuisine from different regions. The secret ingredients are also getting worse and worse. Oh wow, pre-made tortillas! Oooh, ground beef! How inspiring.
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explosivo posted:Man, Iron Chef America sucks. I've been watching a lot of the OG Iron Chef on that guy's Youtube Channel and this crap is not nearly as good. Add the fact that I know they only need to prepare one dish in the first hour and I'm just plain bored. Adam Richmond is one of the judges; the guy who professionally shoves poo poo in his mouth as fast as he can to get a free t-shirt is judging fine cuisine. He's got a book our or whatever but that's like having Kobayashi be one of the tasters on Iron Chef Japan. I guess he's this series' "Fortune Teller". No, the "Fortune Teller" character would be Mo Rocca, the guy who was the worst correspondent The Daily Show ever had and is arguably the worst enduring television personality.
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raditts posted:No, the "Fortune Teller" character would be Mo Rocca, the guy who was the worst correspondent The Daily Show ever had and is arguably the worst enduring television personality. I can get behind this. Mo Rocca is basically a Morning Show DJ as interpreted by NPR.
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axleblaze posted:I can get behind this. Mo Rocca is basically a Morning Show DJ as interpreted by NPR. I aged 7 years while watching the one special Comedy Central gave him. I don't think they even reran it.
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gyrobot posted:(Gently caress Sweet Geniuses) You can swear here you know, we won't mind 
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Jamesman posted:Don't you even hate on Nom Nom Truck. I will because that name is incredibly awful.
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Paula Deen was on the Today show this morning talking about her diabetes diagnosis. When asked by Al Roker if it was gonna change the way she eats, her answer was "I've always been about moderation, y'all." 
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iastudent posted:Paula Deen was on the Today show this morning talking about her diabetes diagnosis. When asked by Al Roker if it was gonna change the way she eats, her answer was "I've always been about moderation, y'all." She's making money from selling diabetes meds and Smithfield Ham at the same time. That's some "congressman magically gets a consulting gig 2 days after retirement" poo poo.
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Don't know if you guys know, but Coolio recently find success rapping his old songs to Insane Clown Posse fans. So much so that he got "juggalo" tattooed on his left bicep -- only the tattooist spelled it wrong. Juggallo. He's been at those horrible yearly concerts, what the gently caress were they called? Gathering of the Clowns or whatever? Yeah. Gangsta's Paradise was a good song, wasn't it?  E: Mo Rocca is lame. Michael Ian Black may be worse, though, because at times he can be legitimately funny which really sinks the whole thing when he decides to do another VH1 special. Digital Scumbag fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jan 17, 2012 |
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If doing dumb stuff for idiots means he gets paid and can keep doing funny stuff for other people he can sell out as much as he wants IMO.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:I will because that name is incredibly awful. Says forums user "gently caress SNEEP"  It's a cute and bubbly name that's easy to remember and goes with their image and works really well for them. I wish they were on the east coast because I wanna try their food so bad.
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iastudent posted:Paula Deen was on the Today show this morning talking about her diabetes diagnosis. When asked by Al Roker if it was gonna change the way she eats, her answer was "I've always been about moderation, y'all." Her recipes were merely a form of "entertainment" as well, right? I imagine her separate contract with Food Network precludes her from coming out and saying "look, I used to cook complete garbage and I'm sorry about that" but god, maybe make half an attempt to sound sincere here, Paula!
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Ozmaugh posted:I imagine her separate contract with Food Network precludes her from coming out and saying "look, I used to cook complete garbage and I'm sorry about that" but god, maybe make half an attempt to sound sincere here, Paula! I dunno about that, based solely on the fact that when she was mentioning her website/sponsorship, Al Roker said that she was a paid spokesperson for the company, her response was basically "yeah, but you get paid for your work too". Bourdain's tweet on this was the best though: "Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later."
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