JSngry Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Don't get me wrong, I have agood time watching them & their new Cooking Channel (which is where this particular offense occurred), but their g-d "New York" provincialism is past the point of laughably obvious. I can't scream any more every time I hear these putzes mispronounce jalapeno, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Get them out of their comfort zone and they're frighteningly incompetent, and proud of it, too! Anyway... Yesterday, this guy named Jeffrey Somebody was doing a show about the globalization of the burrito or some such. I remember this guy from a few seasons ago on Who Wants To Be The Next Food Network Star or whatever it's called, he was a NYC attorney, iirc, with a passion for food, and although he didn't win, you could tell that Susie Fogelson(?) was getting all horny-eyed towards him, and sure enough, here he is few years later with a show of his own. Harmless and harmlessly entertaining enough. Except for when he went to explain the history of the burrito. He's telling the story of how some guy invented a sandwich-like thing made from blah-blah-blah and how he kept them warm by keeping them next to the body of his burro as he went from village to village, and how people came to refer to the items as "food of the little donkey" or - and I quote - "In Spanish, 'food of the burrito'." No, dumbass. No, no, no. In Spanish, it would (most likely) be "Comida del burrito". "Food of the" are three English words, get it? Pinche pendejo! It goes on, and don't even get me started on the show after this one, some chick named Eden Somebody coming to Austin in search of "global cuisine" and acting like the worst-imaginable caricature of a naive hippy Peace Corp volunteer imaginable, but overall, I enjoy the programming. It's just that, geez, when you don't know what you don't know, don't be surprised when people who do know at least some of what you don't know just want to reach out and slap you sillier than you already are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 New York provincialism is one reason I stopped watching television a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 On the flip side, I could be completely wrong, but I think that Bobby Flay gets it. On his Throwdown shows, even though he jacks with the local recipes, I get the feeling that he knows what he's doing and why (not to make it "better", just to make it different), and when he occasionally beats the local cooks at their own game, he seems genuinely embarrassed, or at least not proud to have done so. There's humility at the root of his skill set, and as with all things, it's hard to go wrong with that. I hated Bobby Flay at first, when he came on with the original Grillin' & Chillin' with that Jack guy who only used a Weber. Jack, I thought, was the real deal, and Flay the poser. Well, Jack probably was the real deal, but he was also a....difficult little fucker and as the years went by, Bobby convinced me. I'll bet that Bobby Flay would have known that "Food of the" are not Spanish words... This Jeffrey guy acted like he never even considered the possibility. That his director and/or producer didn't even catch it (or if they di, they were dumb enough to think that nobody would notice...), hey, that's just all kinds of wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 (edited) New York provincialism is one reason I stopped watching television a long time ago. Now that's tossing the baby out with the bathwater! On the flip side, I could be completely wrong, but I think that Bobby Flay gets it. On his Throwdown shows, even though he jacks with the local recipes, I get the feeling that he knows what he's doing and why (not to make it "better", just to make it different), and when he occasionally beats the local cooks at their own game, he seems genuinely embarrassed, or at least not proud to have done so. There's humility at the root of his skill set, and as with all things, it's hard to go wrong with that. Speaking of New Yawk, one of my favorite eps of Throwdown is when Flay goes up against that NYC-based designer donut maker. I've rarely seen a bigger prick on a reality-based TV show - the donut guy, that is, not Bobby Flay. Flay's a cool cat - even though he beat the folks at L.A.'s Pink's. Edited September 13, 2011 by RDK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Bobby Flay (or, Bobby Filet, as I like to call him) has grown on me, too. First time (I think) I saw him was when my friend Joe Carter hipped me that he was going to be playing duets with a bassist on Bobby's show. They were pretty much entirely off-camera, but it was cool. This was probably 6 or 7 years ago. The big Food Network question for me is this... how long can Paula Deen continue to shove gigantic amounts of sugar, butter, cream, and fat into her face before she drops dead? I don't want that to happen... I like her, but good lord!! Maybe I shouldn't even be saying this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Pulled from Youtube, otherwise I'd embed: http://videos.nymag.com/video/Sandra-Lee-Swears-and-Gropes-He#c=RY609B305F0XP724&t=Sandra Lee Swears and Gropes Herself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted September 13, 2011 Report Share Posted September 13, 2011 Bobby Flay is a native New Yorker(Bronx) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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