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I think that they conflated mediterranean with Italian because the company is called Bertolli.
I thought that by doing so they were going from wide to narrow but Colicchio seemed to think that by "mediterranean" they meant Italian food from the coasts.
Sarah M and Sara N have both had dishes that did well but managed to not shine enough to get into the top whatever. (I think Sara N. had a really good dish in the barbeque challenge and Sarah M. had a good one in the Latino Lunch challenge.)
I think that they conflated mediterranean with Italian because the company is called Bertolli.
I think this was the problem too.
I thought the lower dishes were bad enough they might do a double elimination. But no.
I thought (and was sort of hoping) they might do a double elimination because they handed out a double win. That challenge was ripe for a "one team wins, one team loses," sort of thing.
But the casting. They don't want to dump someone everyone loves to hate....
Oh, and about the product placement, this has got to be the most successful yet.
100% agreement. FWIW, I had a one month trial membership at dream dinners and pretty much all the strategies employed by the successful TC team are at work here:
The place is too expensive for a family of 2 (which is what we are), but for larger families or those willing to go in as 2-3 couples, it could work.
The challenge was to produce something that would fit in with "Bertolli's Italian Mediterranean-style Meals." Bertolli's Italian is the brand, Mediteranean-style was the product line. So I can see why the contestants were confused.
I also think they're smart enough to know at this point that tasting good is more important than following the challenge to the letter, and truffle butter tastes really good. So it was a pretty safe risk to take.
I thought the same thing as Jesse about the pasta, but then I remembered the brand of pasta I buy is Barilla, not Bertolli.
Ah-ha! That explains it.
Mom's hairstylist's daughter met Cedric! She went to some kind of dance camp thing and he was there and Shane Sparks and the daughter talked with Cedric for a bit. She said he was really sweet and took a bunch of the classes/workshops offered.
There were also a bunch of choreographers and dancers from Hairspray and the some of the campers ended watching Hairspray.
I don't know exactly when this was or where it was though.
OMG. Mission: Man Band.
I saw a commercial for that the other day, after someone posted about the band in Natter. The guy from Color Me Badd looks badd.