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Good to know on the ANTM front. Thanks!
"Let's make food these locals will enjoy" somehow did not equal "Let's make great tasting, high quality food."
They're in Chicago, right? I mean, the challenge wasn't in fucking Mayberry circa 1962. Also, didn't these people watch previous seasons? Being condescending about the palettes of "average people" or "children" never really goes well.
You know what else never goes well? (Aside from salmon.) Hamburgers. I don't think there's ever been a successful hamburger on TC.
Anyway, all of these people need to figure out how to transport food to be eaten later.
Especially since they JUST had a challenge where they had to do that. People should have learned a lesson from the notBellini.
ETA: It seems that I'm feeling very bitchy about the current seasons of my favorite reality shows.
Oh, and thanks to you people, I watched (and introduced to friends to) Dance Crew (the history episode). I enjoyed it muchly. Yay!
Obviously they were going to put Claire (who we LOVE!) in the bottom two, to "teach her a lesson". Whatevs.
Yeah, and now she won't have to be smiley and cute until they do a commercial, and which point I assume they will be amazed at how well she does.
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
How can you say that about any food from a WHOLE NATION of people?
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
And to say that with Rick Bayless as your judge? Beyond dumb. Pretty much everybody on the red team can go bye bye (the red team was the condescending snobs, right?) Especially jaunty hat guy - what a tool.
TC: I was actually offended by the guy who said you can't make Mexican food into fine dining - so I was all "don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."
How can you say that about any food from a WHOLE NATION of people?
Oh, I was praying for this guy to go home from the moment he said that. You don't dismiss an entire country's cuisine in that way, especially not in Chicago, where you not only have Topolobompo, but several other fine-dining Mexican places (I really must get over to Flamingo Seafood near me, which was just featured on the local "Check, Please" show and looked fabulous, and is Mexican seafood fine dining).
You get ingredients fresh from the farmers market, you get tons of meat and all kinds of craziness, and you serve me hot dogs and velveeta? I don't know, people, in the midwest, this is where all your food grows! You need to learn that middle america is about fresh ingredients straight from the fields.
So very much this. God, that was so annoying! Damnit, we have just about everything here that they have in New York and San Francisco, and we have just as refined tastes, you TC snobs.
Adobo Grill in Chicago has my heart. I had the BEST guacamole I have had in my life there.
Damn.
And, what idiot doesn't know that if you are making mac and cheese that's going to sit you make it extra saucy so that it doesn't dry out. BASIC.
Also? Who brings heavy, rich mac and cheese to a block party?
Also? Who brings heavy, rich mac and cheese to a block party?
Well, that didn't bug me so much, as it serves a lot of people, but the nuclear orange version she decided to make did. Looked like Kraft out of the box (which I adore, but is also really fucking condescending in this context).
