Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Jesse - Jun 28, 2007 7:38:22 am PDT #381 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have to agree with Vortex. Just because she spent a few years living in the US while in MS/HS doesn't necessarily mean that she should be familiar with US comfort food.

I still think anyone should be able to make some kind of meat lump taste good. The concept is just not that complicated. It's not like she was trying to reinvision lasagna without ever having eaten it. It's meat lump! Do a version of the filling of whatever your native meat-wrapped-in-dough product is, you know?


Sean K - Jun 28, 2007 7:40:36 am PDT #382 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, even with yearbook evidence, I'm still willing to think of her as a South African who did an exchange student stint. I'd need something harder than that to write her off as a poser. If nothing else, she's shown in the yearbook as being on the soccer team and the tennis team. Two more international sports that are played in high school, I can't think of.

She was still annoying, though.


Vortex - Jun 28, 2007 7:42:52 am PDT #383 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I still think anyone should be able to make some kind of meat lump taste good. The concept is just not that complicated. It's not like she was trying to reinvision lasagna without ever having eaten it. It's meat lump! Do a version of the filling of whatever your native meat-wrapped-in-dough product is, you know?

oh, I'm not saying that her dish didn't suck and she should have been able to do better, I'm just saying that people calling her a liar about being south african because she lived in the US for a few years aren't being fair.

Not sure this is true. Wolfgang Puck put meatloaf back into vogue more than a decade ago.

Perhaps, but I meant mainstream menus, should have been clearer.


sumi - Jun 28, 2007 7:44:50 am PDT #384 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Glad has little Top Chef videos, the one with Sarah N soaking her poor-Scotch Bonnetted fingers is particularly cute.


Sean K - Jun 28, 2007 7:45:24 am PDT #385 of 23273
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Also, since I'm watching both Top Chef and Next Food Network Star, when Micah got meatloaf and was wondering what to do with it, my first thought was "DEEP FRY IT! WITH BACON ON TOP!"

That probably would not have helped her, though.


sumi - Jun 28, 2007 7:46:24 am PDT #386 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Bwah!


Jesse - Jun 28, 2007 7:48:50 am PDT #387 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I loved that on Food Network when the judges were all, "Ohhh! No wonder it was so delicious!!"

oh, I'm not saying that her dish didn't suck and she should have been able to do better, I'm just saying that people calling her a liar about being south african because she lived in the US for a few years aren't being fair.

Oh, sure. Definitely.


Vortex - Jun 28, 2007 7:50:43 am PDT #388 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

my first thought was "DEEP FRY IT! WITH BACON ON TOP!"

psst! Not low cholesterol.


kat perez - Jun 28, 2007 8:03:35 am PDT #389 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

"DEEP FRY IT! WITH BACON ON TOP!"

Bwah! And then Padma could've been proven right that anything tastes good when it's fried.


megan walker - Jun 28, 2007 8:07:58 am PDT #390 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

TC: Hard to know about the Micah thing. Certainly, plenty of people have studied abroad and not picked up sh*t about local culture and food. Also, having being raised in the US by a foreigner, I can tell you my mother never made most of those “comfort foods”. Even now, I’m not sure what is in a tuna casserole or chicken à la king—because I’ve still never had occasion to try them. We never even had peanut butter in the house because my mother couldn’t stand the smell. And, believe me, in the 70s, taking pâté sandwiches to school for lunch was not cool.

I loved that Hung wasn’t in the top group for either challenge.

SYTYCD: I’d love to see Jessi and Cedric go. I wasn’t very interested in any of the dances last night except Hok and Jamie’s (and I thought they should have been in the bottom three last week). Still don’t like Anya.